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Free domain transfer†
Already have your domain name? Transfer it over to HostPapa for free and set up your website on our powerful servers with 99.9% uptime guaranteed.
Avoid downtime while moving!
We take downtime worries away, as one of our migration experts will take care of you through the entire process, completely FREE of charge. This is what we do every day!
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Skyrocket your online business with our powerful Shared Hosting
Shared Hosting from HostPapa is suited for all your business needs!
No‑risk 30‑day money‑back guarantee. 99.9% uptime guarantee. 24/7 support.
Free setup & domain name†
Find the template that fits your business
HostPapa’s easy-to-use Website Builder helps even the most novice users create stunning, high-quality websites. Choose from professionally designed templates, use the intuitive Website Builder to add copy and make it your own, and get your new website online today!
Let the PapaSquad take care of you
Don't just take our word for it!
Customers from all over the world have reviewed our shared web hosting for its superior performance, rock‑solid security, unparalleled reliability, and ease of use. Not to mention our award‑winning customer support!
So why just take our word for it? Check out some of the industry‑leading hosting review websites and get an even better idea of how HostPapa offers the more feature‑packed hosting plans at extremely competitive prices.
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Need help? The PapaSquad is here when you need it.
Whether it's helping you choose a domain name, walking you through our website builder, or configuring your cloud email system for your business, our PapaSquad experts are here to help. Please don't hesitate to contact us with your questions!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why should I use HostPapa over the competition?+−
HostPapa’s top executives have over 70 years of combined experience in web hosting services, allowing us to build and offer products high above the competition. Our award-winning Customer Services Director has built one of the best support centers in the web hosting business, allowing us to maintain a 24/7/365 customer support experience. Also, HostPapa is the only web hosting company offering dedicated one-on-one sessions with web hosting specialists to help you get started.
How does web hosting work?+−
Think of web hosting as renting a piece of land to build an online presence. When you buy web hosting, you’re buying space and resources on a server needed to build and present a website. HostPapa’s web hosting plan gives you the space and a ton of support features, tools, and expert support so you can have the website of your dreams.
What tools or software can I use to build my website?+−
HostPapa offers many great tools that can help you make a professional website. Our favourite is the HostPapa Website Builder, which is included free with all shared web hosting plans. HostPapa’s Website Builder will help you get a professional-looking website off the ground in minutes. You can also use WordPress, Joomla!, or any of the many website building tools offered for free with our 1-click script installer, Softaculous.
What is cPanel and how will it help me?+−
cPanel is an industry-leading, web-based control panel for web hosting control. It’s a one-stop-shop for easily creating email accounts, installing applications such as WordPress or Joomla!, analyzing web and visitor statistics, and managing your overall web hosting environment. cPanel also allows you to manage your files, databases and domains.
What does free domain registration mean?+−
HostPapa is pleased to offer our clients a free domain registration when they sign up for a minimum one‑year term. The free domain registration offer is valid with all annual plans for the first year you’re a HostPapa client. If you cancel your hosting account in the first term, a non‑refundable domain fee will be applied.
Go ahead. Take a peek under the hood!
So, you want to get technical? At HostPapa, we pride ourselves on the power, security and reliability of our server architecture which means we love it when customers want to dig even deeper into our detailed specs.
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All the hosting basics you need to succeed:
- Number of websites
- SSD web space
SSD Web Space
SSD or Solid State Drives are state-of-the-art technology that dramatically improves the time between a visitor asking for a file and the server delivering that file. It's one of the advancements that adds up to lightning-fast page loads. Unlimited SSD storage allows you to use and grow your web hosting account with HostPapa without incurring any additional storage fees. Our storage is available for you to use for your website files only and not for data archiving including email, computer files, backup, etc. - Free domain registration†
Free domain registration†
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Create the website of your dreams with builders and apps:
- Website Builder edition
- Mobile-friendly responsive design templates
- One-click app install (WordPress, Joomla!, Drupal)
- Website staging
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Stay connected with robust email features:
- Email addresses
- Email forwarding accounts
- Email autoresponders
- IMAP/IMAP-SSL connections
- POP3/POP3-SSL connections
- SMTP/SMTP-SSL connections
- Email aliases
- Email virus scanning
- SpamAssassin spam protection
- Outgoing filtering
- Webmail
- Business-grade email available
- Individual mailbox storage
- Overall mailbox storage
- Email sends per hour
- Email attachment size
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Sell products and generate revenue right from your website:
- Free Let's Encrypt SSL
- Enhanced SSL certificates
- PayPal merchant compatible
- OS Commerce Cart (1-click setup)
- Open Cart (1-click setup)
- Prestashop (1-click setup)
- AbanteCart
- CubeCart (1-click setup)
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Increase website functionality with the latest software:
- 24/7 FTP access
- FTPS (SSL/TLS)
- phpMyAdmin
- MySQL 5.7 databases
- PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 (choose your version)
- Blogs (WordPress, b2evolution +)
- HostPapa Website Builder
- WordPress (1-click setup)
- Joomla! (1-click setup)
- Drupal (1-click setup)
- QuickStart wizard
- Softaculous script installer (400+ scripts FREE)
- Image galleries (Gallery2, Coppermine, & more)
- Content management systems (PHPNuke, Mambo, Joomla!, Moodle, & more)
- Wiki (Tiki Wiki & more)
- Custom cron jobs
- Custom cron jobs run interval
- Custom error pages
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Improve customer experience and search rankings with fast load speeds:
- State-of-the-art performance servers and equipment
- Enhanced SSD drives
Enhanced SSD drives
Our platform uses LSI’s CacheCade Pro 2.0 to provide SSD caching for our drives’ data. It uses two SSD’s, allowing us to cache writes. This ultimately means that your applications writing data to disk or databases will respond at SSD speeds. - Cloudflare Content Delivery Network - faster page load speeds
- Rocket-fast premium servers
- More resources allocated per account
- Fewer accounts on server
- 400% performance boost
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Grow your brand with added domains:
- Hosted domains
- Subdomains
- Unlimited add-on domains
- Unlimited parked domains
- International domains
- Domain forwarding
- Free registrar transfers
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Easy account management and user-friendly control panel:
- HostPapa Dashboard
- cPanel control panel
- Domain manager
- Softaculous (1-Click Drupal, WordPress, & Joomla! install)
- Cloudflare free CDN (faster page loads)
- DNS management
- Easy web-based file manager
- Account statistics
- Graphical web stats (AWstats)
- Access to raw log files
- Multiple FTP accounts
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Keep your data and customer information safe and secure:
- Server firewall, monitoring, and intrusion detection
- DDoS attack prevention and responses
- Multi-Factor Biometric Access Datacenter
- RAID-10 redundancy
- Redundant network carriers
- Network monitoring
- Brute force detection
- CloudLinux O/S protection
- Imunify360
- ModSecurity
- Let's Encrypt SSL
- Advanced security features
- Domain privacy protection
- Protection Power Basic
- Protection Power Pro
Protection Power Pro
● Enhanced content delivery network
● Daily malware scan
● Free website vulnerability scan
● Free website trust seal
● Malware removal assistance included
● Advanced DDoS protection
● Website application firewall (WAF) - Premium Wildcard SSL certificate
- Automated Website Backup
- Dedicated IP address
- Server resources
Server resources
Resources allocations related to the memory, CPU and storage usage of the shared web hosting server. Hover over each plan’s star rating to view its specific server resource allocations. - 128GB RAM per server minimum
- 40 core minimum per server
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Award-winning customer support in four languages:
- Award-winning PapaSquad support team available 24/7
- Free 30-minute training session
- Free website migrations - handsfree
- 24/7 live telephone support
- Multilingual support (English, French, Spanish, & German)
- 24/7 email support
- 24/7 live chat support
- Knowledge base
- 30-day money-back guarantee†
- 99.9% uptime guarantee
- 1
- 100GB
- Starter (2 pages)
- 10
- 10
- Unlimited
- 25
- 500MB
- 5000MB
- 200
- 20MB
- Available
- 10
- Starter (2 pages)
- 30
- 1
- 10
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Server resources
- Entry points: 10
- CPU cores: 1 core
- MySQL usage: 1 core MySQL
- Memory per process: 1024MB
- Inodes: 150,000
- Minimum Cron Job Interval: 30 minutes
- Database size: 500MB
- Table size: 250MB
- 10
- 100GB
- Starter (2 pages)
- 100
- 100
- Unlimited
- 25
- 500MB
- 5000MB
- 200
- 20MB
- Available
- Unlimited
- Starter (2 pages)
- 30
- 10
- 100
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Available
- Server resources
- Entry points: 20
- CPU cores: 2 core
- MySQL usage: 2 cores MySQL
- Memory per process: 1024MB
- Inodes: 300,000
- Minimum Cron Job Interval: 30 minutes
- Database size: 1000MB
- Table size: 500MB
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- Business (1000 pages)
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- 25
- 1000MB
- 10000MB
- 300
- 20MB
- Unlimited
- Business (1000 pages)
- 20
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- Available
- 1GB
- Available
- Server resources
- Entry points: 40
- CPU cores: 4 core
- MySQL usage: 4 cores MySQL
- Memory per process: 1024MB
- Inodes: 450,000
- Minimum Cron Job Interval: 20 minutes
- Database size: 2000MB
- Table size: 1000MB
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- Business (1000 pages)
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- 25
- 2000MB
- 20000MB
- 600
- 20MB
- Unlimited
- Business (1000 pages)
- 10
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- Unlimited
- 5GB
- Available
- Server resources
- Entry points: 80
- CPU cores: 8 core
- MySQL usage: 8 cores MySQL
- Memory per process: 2048MB
- Inodes: 600,000
- Minimum Cron Job Interval: 10 minutes
- Database size: 4000MB
- Table size: 2000MB
