Price definitely should not be the only reason to make a hosting choice on the internet, but I would like to illustrate the high rates being charged by IPower in contrast with the lower rates charged by GoDaddy.

Note, I do not recommend either host despite their wide spread popularity.

GoDaddy simply put, charges $3.99 for Protection Privacy versus IPower’s $8.99.

If you have multiple domains, that is a marginal difference of $5 per year per domain.  For site owners with a single domain, that probably isn’t too much to pay, but for many small businesses selling products online or even small to large publishers with multiple domains the charge is not scalable.  Multiple domains are commonly purchased by many small businesses looking to help their customers find the right web url even if they type in the wrong address.

For example if you are looking for travel guides and you type in shermanstravel.com you will go to the correct site for travel guides, but if you type in shermantravel.com and drop the s, then you will not.  So it can be common for a company to buy both domains and redirect the mis-spelled version to the proper destination.

What makes it worse is that IPower is basically suckering in long time existing customers making them pay these automatic higher rates without as the default, forcing them to opt out manually. 

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