PROS
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>Free Domain
>30-day money-back guarantee.
>Control Panel and Dashboard Experience
> Reasonable pricing
>Installation of Apps and CMSs
CONS
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>A few upsells.
> Activation can take a while.
HostPapa is a less-known hosting company offering services for site building, and web hosting. It doesn’t offer dedicated server hosting, where customers have control over their own hardware. Instead, the company offers the more popular shared and virtual private server (VPS) hosting, as well as offering a reseller service.
To be honest HostPapa bills itself as a web host for small businesses. The reality, however, is that its shared hosting prices are low enough that they are open to anyone who needs to build a website. Let's have a look at its features, hosting plans, and prices.
Installing WordPress with HostPapa is very simple with few clicks and does not taek much more time. You can see the Softaculous App Installer section at the bottom of cPanel and click on the “WordPress” icon.
This will automatically redirect you to the Softaculous installation page. . Simply click “Install.”And now, fill in all the information fields for your website to be fully ready. I find it more accurate if I do it manually, rather than choosing the “Quick install” option, which fills out the fields for you.
HostPapa offers a free domain when you pay for a full year of web hosting. We all know that not all web hosts offer a free domain, so this is a great offer to see from HostPapa. Interestingly there don’t seem to be any hidden fees for that free domain as there are with other hosts. They provide you with a completely free domain free of cost.
If your site does get insanely large, HostPapa will eventually put constraints on your site performance so as not to impact other customers. Still, you’d have to get pretty big before worrying about that.
HostPapa also offers unmetered bandwidth, though you can be penalized for excessive use. As HostPapa describes it, the company’s policy is to deliver all the hardware resources a typical website needs, even at times of increased traffic, without costing you extra. Seems reasonable.
The good news is that they do throw in a lot of value for this initial pricing. You get one website, compared to just one that most other hosts offer. You also get free domain registration, 100 GB SSD storage, 100 email accounts, and unmetered bandwidth.
You’ll also get their “Essential Features” which include a free website migration, Cloudflare CDN, SSL certificate, and access to their 400+ apps and website builder.
HostPapa’s uptime is fairly standard at 99.97 percent. It’s impossible to expect a company to have 100 percent uptime, because problems happen, especially on the internet.
A 99.97 percent uptime amounts to less than three hours of downtime per year. If you want automatic backups, HostPapa charges you $19.95 for the first year, all in all, It provides more than some providers in terms of security measures, but some important features like automatic backups are paid.
When it comes o pricing Hostpapa offers 3 pricing plans Starter, Business,Business Pro.
Starter: $3.95 a month
Business: $3.95 a month
Business Pro: $12.95 a month
With the dedicated Optimized WordPress Hosting plan with better performance and specialized support for WordPress blogs, comes at $3.95 per month with a three-year commitment to $12.95 per month for the Pro level.
HostPapa additionally operates a Managed WordPress Hosting service, that comes with a range of better features plus has your very own dedicated maintenance and stronger security for your site. These plans are more expensive, however, with the Launch plan beginning at $19.95 and the Pro level reaching to $69.95!
If you’re interested in VPS hosting, there are five different pricing tiers ranging from $19.99 to $249.99 per month .
HostPapa hosting provides you the good security level It adds all essentials such as SSL certificate, server-level firewall, and DDoS protection for free in cheaper plans while more advanced features are paid, or you need to buy the most expensive plan.
DDoS attack prevention protects the server from being taken down by third parties. HostPapa has multiple layers of protection, and you can add one yourself by enabling the free Cloudflare CDN that’s included in all plans.
ModSecurity is a web application firewall that filters traffic. Simply put it's a brute force detection that prevents common malicious attacks on your website.
