HostPapa Review

HostPapa is one of the very few reputable hosting companies that offers 100% Green Energy Web Hosting, which I find very interesting. For only $5.95 customers can enjoy unlimited disk space, domain hosting, and bandwidth.


Hostpapa Overall rating

HostPapa Inc.
Website: http://www.hostpapa.com
Features :*****
Support :****
Pricing :****
Reliability :*****
Overall Rating : B+ *Recommended!
What’s good about HostPapa Hosting?

Unlimited Resources

Unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth and parked domains etc make it very attractive. It’s same as leading web hosting companies like Bluehost, Hostmonster, and Hostgator etc do.

Multimedia Support

Audio and video streaming capabilities, MIDI support, Flash and Shockwave are included in their plan that makes the package very attractive.

Variety of Available Scripts

A good number of ready made scripts are available with HostPapa as they’re with any other good host.
What’s not-so-good about HostPapa Hosting?

Is Cost Effective Only If You Subscribe For Longer Period

HostPapa hosting cost effective only if you subscribe for 3 years or so, and hence the domain name of which they offer lifetime registration is also not for lifetime. It’s for three years and for that you’ll have to subscribe for three years.

Not So Good Support

Though they offer a variety of options for support, i.e. video tutorial, knowledgebase, online chat, Email and phone etc, but support is not ass it’s claimed. For instance chat support as its required should be 24/7, but it’s not, same in case of phone call when you’ve to face a little longer hold time.

HostPapa Hosting Features
Pricing Details
12 months plan (Prepaid) $7.95/mo
24 months plan (Prepaid) $6.95/mo
Hosting Features Details
Disk Space Unlimited
Monthly Bandwidth Unlimited
Free Domain Name Yes, forever!
Free Site Builder (SohoLaunch) Yes
CGI-BIN Yes
SSI (Server Side Includes) Yes
Frontpage Extensions Yes
FTP Access Yes
Domain Features Details
Host additional Domains Unlimited
Parked Domains Unlimited
Subdomains Unlimited
CGI/Database Features Details
Perl 5 Yes
PHP 5 Yes
mySQL Databases 100
Ruby/Ruby on Rails Yes
Java script/DHTML Yes
Multimedia Features Details
Flash & Shockwave Support Yes
Support Streaming Video Yes
Support Streaming Audio Yes
Other Web Hosting Features Details
Log Files + Site Stats Yes
Customizable Error Pages Yes
Web File Manager Yes
Spam Assassin Protection Yes