HostPapa Review
Analysis
of the web hosting services provided by HostPapa
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About HostPapa
With their “let papa take care of you” motto, every customer with HostPapa are considered to be one of the family. They can offer solid, reliable and honest service with dedicated customer services, quality equipment and secure backups.
Plans and Features
You can opt for a 3, 2 or 1 year plan with HostPapa depending on your needs. The HostPapa plan, regardless of which yearly plan you opt for include, unlimited storage, bandwidth and domains, free domain name for life, personal web site tools and free soholaunch web site builder software.
Features on offer also include, unlimited email, control panel, online billing, easy set-up, fantastico (scripts) and B2evolution. Plus free unlimited sub domains, domain parking, domain transfer, if required and ecommerce. HostPapa provide many features in their package, which makes it a good web hosting facility for small businesses.
Pricing
HostPapa are among the cheapest web host providers around and offer a fantastic 3 year plan which will only cost you a mere $5.95 a month, the 2 year plan is $6.95 a month and the 1 year plan is more moderately priced at $7.95 a month. There are no set-up fees with HostPapa which will save you $29.95 from the outset and you’ll also get $125 worth of free ad credits with Yahoo, MSN and Promo people.
Reliability
HostPapa guarantee you a 99.9% uptime rate, otherwise known as bandwidth. Their on site datacenter has many security features in order to ensure system security, so that you can feel safe and secure in the knowledge that HostPapa take your business very seriously. Security features include, climate and temperature control, uninterruptible power supply, diesel back-up generators and much, much more. Believe me, HostPapa take the security of their equipment seriously, with 24/7 manned security on site, highly controlled on site access, CCTV and more.
HostPapa use a Cisco based network along with Intel server products in order to maintain their guaranteed 99.9% uptime rate.
Their unconditional 30 day money back guarantee does not include the $24.95 domain registration fee; however HostPapa, unlike many other web hosting providers ensures that once purchased, you will own your domain name even if you chose to change web hosting providers. This is a good deal folks, as not many providers allow you this option, which can make domain transfers a tricky business.
With 24/7 email, phone and live chat support as well as a knowledge base, trouble-shooter, useful with all the latest company news, HostPapa are most certainly dedicated to providing the best service they can.
Summary
HostPapa tend to target the small to medium business end of the market as well as individuals. They offer a reliable, easy to use, low cost, customer service orientated, dedicated, safe and secure service. HostPapa also stand out among their fellow web hosting providers by providing Green web hosting for all their clients, along with eco-friendly business supplies. So if you want to help save the planet the join the HostPapa family.
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