August 6, 2009
A Fair Look Of HostPapa
With their let dad look after you motto, every buyer with HostPapa is thought to be one of the family. They offer solid, reliable, and truthful service with dedicated customer support, quality appliances and secure backups. HostPapa is one of the few credible hosting firms that offers 100 percent Green Energy web hosting, which I find very fascinating. For only $4.95 / month, you’ll find top class hosting solutions with all of the web necessary features including unlimited disk space, unlimited domain names, one free site name for life, unlimited bandwidth, personal internet site tools, free setup, and free Soholaunch site builder software. Additionally, all HostPapa plans are backed by a thirty Day refund.
My initial impression is that HostPapa is an excellent choice for web hosting. When I tested their consumer service, they were very responsive, and my fast research discovered that their claims of utilizing the best quality equipment are correct. HostPapa is based in Canada but has clients in Canada, the US, and the U.K. HostPapa does a way better job of explaining the way the energy they use is green energy much better than I’ll, but the quick answer is that purchase their energy through green tags from certified green energy providers. Green Tags, i.e. Renewable energy certificates, are given when wind energy or other renewable energy are used rather than conventional power. They represent the real savings in carbon dioxide and other pollutants that happen when green power replaces burning fossil fuel. Since 2006, HostPapa estimates that its use of green energy has removed about forty thousand kg of CO2 emissions and other greenhouse gases.
HostPapa is a very trustworthy web hosting company which tries to supply uninterrupted web service so that their clients can count on them. Customers are valued by HostPapa above everything else, and staff of HostPapa go out of the way to help their customers in every imaginable way. HostPapa customer support is available twenty four hours per day, seven days every week, and that is’s precisely what I really like to see. However, unlike HostGator, ThinkHost, etc, live client support is only available twenty-four / seven Monday-Friday. On the weekends realtime support closes at approximately seven p.m. ( Personally, this isn’t a great deal, but if your internet site craps out at 2 a.m. On a Sun. morning, it becomes an enormous deal ). For customers who sign up for HostPapa 3 years upfront, they’ll get unlimited storage, data transfer, and add-on domain capacity plus a free website name for life at the price of $4.95 / mo.
If you do a Google search for HostPapa beefs you will get many results that talk about non responsive customer service and lower than average uptime. However, my tests of the live buyer support team found the opposite. The real-time support ( I suspect his name was Nelson ) was awfully patient, although I was admittedly asking dumb questions. I was impressed with HostPapa’s dedication to dependability and reliability. At first sight, green energy web hosting at just $4.95 / month sounds like an impressive deal. However, in order to get the $4.95 a month, you must join up to a 3 year contract. There are many other web hosting options out there that don’t make you commit to a contract to get a fair deal. In addition, while the offer sounds great, I must point out that they limit the use of MySQL databases so that users can’t add more than 100 databases for a single account.
Overall, I highly advocate HostPapa. I love the idea of legit green energy webhosting, and the shopper support appears to truly care how you feel. Having asserted this, I will continue to run my internet sites on HostGator. Green energy aside, the differences between them aren’t major, and the indisputable fact that I am able to leave HostGator at anytime gives them a slight edge.
Filed under Web Hosting by Roddy Jones