HostPapa is a pretty young, privately owned company and was founded in 2006. They provide service to more than 50,000 web site projects at the moment and are one of the fastest growing web hosting providers of the US.
2. HostPapa is a pretty young, privately
owned company and was founded in
2006. They provide service to more than
50,000 web site projects at the moment
and are one of the fastest growing web
hosting providers of the US.
Their web hosting offer is aimed at
environmentally concious individuals and
small-to-medium sized businesses.
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3. HostPapa offers a one-plan-fits-all
hosting package, offering a free domain
for life with unlimited disk space and
unlimited bandwidth starting at $4.95.
Host Papa provides "Green Web Hosting"
to their customers. That means, their
data center, office buildings, computers
and everything else is powered by 100%
renewable, green energy - such as solar
or wind energy.
4. Despite being environmentally concious,
the people at HostPapa pride themselves
to be "a leader in low-cost, high-value
hosting" as their website states. We
tested them to see, how good their
services and prices really are.
5. HostPapa gives a 30-day-money-back
guarantee and provides 24/7 customer
support. They host in several state-ofthe-art data centers.
Their hosting plan includes more than
$500 in bonuses for external programs,
like Google Adwords, search engine
optimisation tools (SEO), Yahoo and
much more.
6. Price Value
HostPapa does what many other hosting
companies did in the last years: instead
of offering confusing price schemes and
many different web hosting plans, they
offer only one single this-plan-fits-all
package. These packages are usually of
very high quality and so is HostPapa's
hosting plan.
7. Their package starts at $4.95 /month. It
provides a free-for-life domain, unlimited
storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited
email accounts, unlimited databases and
unlimited add-on-domains, parkeddomains and sub-domains.
Geeks will be happy to hear, that the
feature-packed hosting plan includes
PHP5, Perl, CGI, SSI, mySQL, private
.htaccess, FrontPage Extensions, Web
Stats and many more features.
8. HostPapa gives $500 in marketing
bonuses for useful external programs like
Google Adwords, Yahoo, SEO-Tools, etc.
with their hosting plan. Rich ecommerce
features make it easy to build a web
shop, even with SSL for secure check out
section and PayPal connection.
Multimedia features enable the hosting
package to stream RealAudio and
RealVideo and provide support for Flash
and Shockwave.
9. We consider this to be a very
professional, feature packed and
complete web hosting package. The
price is good and in comparison to
other hosts clearly better than the
middle field. HostPapa provides
Green Hosting and a high quality
service - bearing this in mind, we say
it is a strong price value.
10. Reliability and Performance
HostPapa's data centers are connected to
the internet with several OC48 / Gigabit
optical fiber connections via different
providers for total network redundancy.
They are protected by a triple-redundant
firewall, UPS power backup and dieselpowered emergency generators in case
of an electricity outage.
11. Their data centers are staffed 24/7 with
highly trained experts and all servers,
routers and connections are monitored
permanently by machines and by
humans. Additionally a fire suppression
system and a redundand climate control
system is deployed for a high security.
Data centers are highly controled by
uniformed security, magnetic card
readers and cameras 24/7.
12. HostPapa uses high performance Intel
servers (running on Linux) with Cisco
Systems routers and switches and
mirrored RAID arrays, that hold all the
files and the customers' data. All files are
backuped on additional RAID devices and
transferred to other data center locations
on a regular basis. Host papa guarantees
for both, 99.9% uptime and 99.9%
network uptime.
This setup provides the highest
reliability and the highest
performance currently possible.
13. Control Panel
HostPapa uses the industry-leading
cPanel to manage web hosting accounts.
All administrative jobs are performed
from within this great software. cPanel is
intuitive and easy to understand, with its
large icon buttons and orderly arranged
functions. At the main menu, statistics
about the current status of the customers
web hosting account are displayed: the
amount of used disk space, bandwidth
and other data.
14. cPanel is a professional and
complete software, that makes
administration of web hosting
accounts easy.
15. Support
HostPapa provides their customers with
24/7/365 email support. There is a
telephone number, a live chat and of
course a help desk email ticket system.
Support is given in english and french.
Additionally, HostPapa provides an
extensive amount of information to
empower the customer to help himself.
This includes video tutorials and a
knowledgebase.
16. In our opinion HostPapa's support is
good. There are other providers with
even higher support promises,
though - like a guaranteed time until
taking a phone call.
17. Conclusion
HostPapa is a realtively young, but fastly
growing web hosting company. Their
commitment to 100% Green Energy is
something, we wished more businesses
would do nowadays. Besides being
green, they offer a high value and
professional web hosting services to
individuals and small-to-medium sized
businesses.
18. The price value of HotPapa's single
hosting plan is quiet high. Starting at
$4.95 /month, the feature packed plan,
including $500 in bonuses and a free
domain for life, ranks well among the
competition.
19. HostPapa's technical performance,
reliability and security is one of the
highes standards possible nowadays.
Using the professional and mature cPanel
as a control panel for all hosting
accounts, HostPapa adds another good
point to the long list of features their
package provides.
20. A good support with telephone, live chat
and a large knowledgebase completes an
overall strong web hosting plan.
We see HostPapa as a strong web host
with a good, solid offer. Although
there are cheaper hosting plans on
today's market, HostPapa's high
quality level and to support green
energy is worth the price. We found
out that indeed, HostPapa is a highquality, low-cost web hosting
provider, as they state on their web
site.