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HostPapa – Shared Web Hosting Review

HostPapa Company Background

HostPapa Is a privately held, shared web hosting provider that was started in 2004, It is headquartered in Niagra Falls, New York, USA and Oakville, Ontario, Canada. HostPapa's data center is in Canada at one of North America's leading data centers (this is where the actual web server hardware is that your shared web hosting account and website[s] are on). Hosting tens of thousands of websites over the years has provided HostPapa the opportunity to refine their service offerings in the shared web hosting market, With excellent customer service that is followed up with their commitment to customer satisfaction and reliable web hosting that can be counted on, Host Papa easily makes it to the top of our list of excellent shared web hosting providers.

With over 50,000 shared web hosting sites, HostPapa has simplified their product offering to one hosting plan that works, nice and easy. They call it the HostPapa Plan and it is well worth the money. In fact they offer more features than hosting companies that charge five times as much.

Screen shot of HostPapa's front page showing their 4.95 shared web hosting plan

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Pricing and Value

HosPapa‘s shared hosting plan (the HostPapa Plan) is an great value for someone who wants a hosting account that has all the features you would find in an expensive hosting plan for the price of a basic plan their HostPapa plan is such competitive price that you can't say no to it.

What you get for your $4.95 monthly fee:

Free domain for life
Host unlimited domains
unlimited sub-domains
100 MySQL databases
FTP access
Secure and reliable backups

Free website design software (Soholaunch)
Web-mail (access your mail while traveling)
Unlimited email accounts
Web statistics
PHP 5, MySQL 5, Perl
Spam filter
Video tutorials & Online help

cPanel Control panel
phpMyAdmin (manage and backup your MySQL databases easily)
Private .htaccess
Server Side Includes (SSI)
Custom Error pages
Money back guarantee

Free software for your website(s) and super easy software installation
With your account you get the Fantastico Installer the gives you over 40 scripts to install very easily. Software such as WordPress (blog software), phpBB (bulletin/forum), Drupal (content management), OS Commerce (E-Commerce), Image gallery programs, Mailing list software, Polls & survey plugins and many other Free Software tools that are easily installed with the Fantastico installer.

Reliability

As a customer you get two services guarantees, a 99.9% uptime guarantee and a 99.9% network uptime guarantee, Your data is safer on their RAID 1 protected storage which they use for their shared web hosting plans, while their network is run on name-brand network equipment (Cisco). They have backup power generation, redundant (dual or better) cooling systems for the data center, dual fire suppressor systems and of course multiple (redundant) upstream bandwidth suppliers.
Full time security staff 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year are on site to make sure everything is safe at all times.

Sustainability - Shared Web Hosting Goes Green

These days people are doing their part to help reduce the demand on the environment and so is HostPapa, they have gone green with green web hosting. When sign up for an account with HostPapa you can rest assured that the energy that it takes to power their data center, network and web servers is done so through the purchase of 100% certified green renewable energy such as wind and solar-powered energy. Visit Site

screen shot of HostPapa's Green hosting section

Control Panel – (the tool you use to administer your hosting account)

You get the use of the award winning cPanel control panel. cPanel is one of the most widely used commercial control panels, using large icon buttons and easy to read menus, so chances are once you have learned how to use it (it is very easy with its intuitive point and click interface) you will be able to control your websites even if you want to change web hosts years down the road, because chances are they will be using cPAnel as well.

Sample screen of HostPapa's control panel (cPanel)

Sample view of a typical cPanel shared web hosting control panel

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