Web hosting services are widely in demand because it’s the easiest way to create and publish your website online. Whatever it is that you are looking for your business or personal blog, web hosting has many features and various packages you can choose from to get what you want for your website. There are several notable web hosting providers you can use but the only tricky thing is finding the right one that fits your budget and standards.

At a price of $1.99 per month for the first three months, you can already get these basic inclusions in your iPage web hosting package:

iPage also has add-on features you can get for your website. These extra services are only optional and will only be added if you want or need it and for a minimal fee. Its pricing depends on the kind of extra service you want added. Here are some add-on features you can choose from:

• Premium SSL Certificates – An SSL or Secure Socket Layer is a protocol used in protecting sensitive information passing through unprotected networks. The internet is a perfect example of unprotected network because it is exposes your website to much considerable vulnerability. SSL-protected websites processes information through an advanced encryption systems. You can get this add-on service for pricing that ranges between $59.95 (one-year term) and $89.95 (two-year terms).
• Automatic Site Backup and Recovery – its function is to automatically run regular backups for your website. It usually focuses on your databases, files and its settings. This will allow you to recover any compromised data or information lost like a System Restore function making it more reliable. Pricing on this extra service costs between $12.95 per year and $16.95 per year.
• Directory Listing and SEO Services – iPage Community Directory will benefit you by increasing your site traffic and ranking. iPage also has its own SEO services that you can use in order to boost your ranking and foot traffic just as well. Pricing depends on which of these two you pick, iPage Community Directory is at $29.95 per year covering one listing or $118.95 per year covering 5 listings while the iPage SEO services is at $99.00 per month.
• Domain Privacy – Although iPage already offers Domain Central as its free domain service and domain management tool, you still have the option to get an add-on feature for your website.

You can protect your domain information and keep them private using Private Whois service with iPage. Activation of this service can be done through your Domain Central at $9.99 per year.

You can also get extra domains with iPage. You can start by information about iPage’s domain pricing from its table of domain pricing by simply clicking on: http://www.ipage.com/product/domainRegistration.bml. Two sample domains that are widely used are .net and .com TLD. The .net TLD costs $9.99 per year while .com TLD costs 14.99 per year. Note that the iPage domain pricing are at fixed rates so it will be easier to set your desired budget.