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HostPapa Reviews: 4.3/5 — Solid Choice

HostPapa Overview
What is HostPapa?

HostPapa is a one-stop shop for businesses that want to bring their business online with an online store builder. The platform is affordable which makes it very popular among smaller businesses. HostPapa servers are notably fast and reliable, with data centers located in very strategic locations. As expected, the entire platform is user-friendly with access to 24/7 support.

Company HostPapa Inc.
Year founded 2006
Company size 51-200 employees
Headquarters Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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HostPapa Product Details
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Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
HostPapa Pros and Cons
Pros
  • Servers are fast and reliable
  • Data centers are located in strategic locations
  • Excellent customer service support
  • User-friendly, especially for new users
Cons
  • Doesn’t offer a speed enhancing software
  • Doesn’t offer free automatic backups
  • Confusing and unreliable checkout process
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1-click installs / app installer
Automatic price locking beyond promotional period
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Bandwidth / Traffic limits
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CDN Integration
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Control panel / GUI for management
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143 HostPapa Reviews
4.3 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 31, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
SS
Sazzad Hossain S.
Chief Operating Officer (C.O.O.)
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"Better hosting company for Service uptime"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

HostPapa's service up-time is very much good. Although, less down time of the website as we been using the hosting for our clients. Pricing are good and customer support are also quite good. Provides money back guaranty. Support latest cPanel. One click installer with e-commerce supports. Knowledgebase, Video Tutorials etc available. Websites are quite faster then other hosting providers. Although, WordPress pages also load faster. Included Solid State Drives (SSD) for Accelerated Performance.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Bandwidth says Unlimited but it is limited to 200 GB per month for accounts. Customer supports needed time to solve the issues. Technical supports are not quite instant, it needs time to solve the issues.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not provided

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 24, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Great service"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

Overall Lunar pages provides good quality and little downtime

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Occasional issues with email blacklisting which gets a quick response from technical support

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

Good presence on web for clients to find my company

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 15, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Not bad"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

Good selection of reliable products. The customer service is pretty good and responsive. They provide lots of details when instructing on how to fix problems.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Not the best products and service. They're a reputable company though and trustworthy.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web hosting and email. Good customer support with fast response times.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 15, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Solid economical hosting solution"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

The flexibility of plan to set up sub-domains. System is up most of the time.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Support is sometimes not consistently knowledgeable about issues , especially those pertaining to wordpress sites. My site was hacked several times and sometimes it took weeks for LP to help me get it back up.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

I now only host html sites on LP as other options are better for wordpress hosting.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 10, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"My 10 year relationship with Lunarpages"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

I think the tech support is top notch. They know when someone is a complete novice and need some hand holding or when a cutomer know what their talking about and they don't have to dumb it down or be condecending. I always get right through to a real person, no call backs or long wait times.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

I think some of the prices for registering domains and hosting are too high.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have had all my web based needs under one roof.It's very easy to control and even troubleshoot from the control panel. I can set up my email system anyway I like it. I can set up auto response when I'm away.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 15, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Webpage hosting"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

Everything that you need to see in a menu is one place.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

A new window opens up from each different application.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it for our organizations website. It helps keep all of our members up to date and information all in one place.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 15, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"inconsistency of reliability and tech support quality over the past 8 years"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

Price, flexibility, ease of use through WHM control panel

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

There have been too many ups and downs over the years with Lunarpages hosting. As a reseller, I have had concerns regarding their network security, their ability to recover from attacks quickly and efficiently.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am reselling hosting space through LunarPages

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 09, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Good for years, recent trouble."
What do you like best about HostPapa?

The product of lunarpages hosting I find is Reliable. I feel that the lunarpages hosting solution is easy to use for my company's needs at this time.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Handling updates, sending passwords through unsecure email, asking for personal information through unsecure email. security concerns, not keeping servers up to date.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

Many sites for promotion.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 13, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Call for Managed Shared Hosting Support"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

Gentleman was knowledgeable and helpful and support was effective

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Waiting 20 minutes on hold for a paid support service is absurd.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

Website and email hosting

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 28, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"reasonable service, but the salesperson tries to upsell aggressively"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

Good service, with a very accessible support team. Super easy to speak to a human.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

The sales team tries to sell expensive plans very aggressively. They offer plans worth 100$ for new WordPress websites!

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

The VPS service is very reasonable. Most of the hostings have the same service / technology these days. For novice users, HostPapa hasn't the best user interface, but they balance it by keeping the human touch.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 25, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Frustrated and disappointed"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

No Comment. Only had one experience that I was involved in and it was not a good one.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

It was very disappointing to have our account cancelled over $110 after being such a loyal customer. Trying to get it up and running again was frustrating and extremely lengthy - this impacted our business for multiple days which is really unacceptable. One would think an internet company would be able to get the web page and email working within minutes instead of days. Multiple people from our company had to make numerous calls in order to get our company up and working again. That is extremely frustrating and disappointing.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

N/A

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 15, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.5
JS
J. S.
Founder
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"Service OK - Bad ending"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

The site was fairly static but seemed to always be available.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

It took me a couple years to cancel the service. I wasn't able to successfully stop the service until the credit card they had on file expired and Lunarpages cancelled me.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provided an internet presence for our small company.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 16, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
Katrina B. avatar
Katrina B.
Training And Workshop Facilitator
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"Lunarpages webhosting and support has gone down considerably and I would not recommend them."
What do you like best about HostPapa?

They had a decent Control Panel, but that's it.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

The lack of service, lack of support, and even to the point that their support personnel try to tell you the issue you're having is with YOU, not them. The issue was definitely with Lunarpages and their servers, but they refused to investigate, until I finally decided to move my websites to a new host. Then they all of a sudden discovered the problem, and admitted it was their issue, not mine or anything I had done.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

None - they're terrible. I spent MONTHS working on an issue, to no avail, and was told repeatedly by their support department that I was the problem, when I wasn't; very upsetting.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 16, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Terrible Service"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

There is really nothing to like about this company.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Very poor customer service. Chat feature was very slow and could not answer questions. they told me to call customer service so I called. They didn't answer. I left a message and they didn't call me back.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting for a client. I would not use this company ever again.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 20, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
Chris H. avatar
Chris H.
Managing Director
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"Great Support but business threatening issues remain"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

The support staff (like James Carr) who are helpful and dedicated to solving the problem immediately.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

OMG my email form keeps on quitting for NO REASON AT ALL. This is the LIFEBLOOD of our business and suddenly our simple email form completely quits sending us leads with NO WARNING. Our business will FAIL if this happens and this is the second time it has happened within a month. Completely and totally unacceptable.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

Your company is creating the greatest threat and problems to our business and not helping by allowing the problem to re-occur.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 11, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
CC
Cristian C.
President
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"They made changes to my website, busted it, 24 hours later it has not been restored"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

There is very little to like. After they changed or updated server, website started going down 3-4 times a day. They blamed this on "excessive CPU". After 5 years of this exact website without "excessive CPU".

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

They talked me into purchasing Managed Hosting for $40 a month. I did. Now the site is down. 24 hours ago and on 3 phone calls I asked that the site be restored. I am still waiting, site is still non-functional.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am trying to have a simple website hosted. That is all. But LunarPages does not seem capable of hosting reliably.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 18, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Server was down for 4 days"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

I only used it for email. They have good support, they answer the phone right away.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

When stuff goes wrong, it takes forever to fix it and they don't seem to care.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

None

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 17, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Mixed bag - steady state was mostly good, upgrades and transitions were terrible"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

Current service is quick response time and no issues. Sufficient memory, disk space, email hosting.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

I recently migrated from Basic service to Business service. At almost every step along the way, the technicians implementing the transition caused unnecessary outages and I had to spend a lot of time trying to guess what had happened and alert Lunar Pages support to it.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have a WooCommerce store with both a retail and wholesale websites.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 15, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Bad Support"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

The best thing about Lunarpages is that I no longer use them

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Their dismissive technical support. They came up with every excuse in the book about why an issue that I was having was not their problem even though it was fairly easy to prove that it was happening on hardware under their control, not mine.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

None anymore

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 09, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Time to move on"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

I have been a Lunarpages customer for over 10 years. I am a website designer and have recommended Lunarpages to many clients. The customer support is generally very good and the uptime is excellent.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Basic Hosting is now a waste of money for content management systems (e.g. Wordpress). I moved two clients to a different hosts after trying to work with Lunarpages to resolve so-called "high resouce management" usage for both Wordpress sites. The sites are now operating incredibly well and loading very fast on another website hosting server. I will never use Lunarpages for WordPress sites again.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

Used to be good value for basic webhosting for small businesses and non-profits. It's still okay for static sites but that's about it.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 09, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
PC
Paul C.
Founder
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"It used to be great but I'm now looking for an alternative"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

It still offers a good price and disk and bandwidth capacities.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Over the year or so, without my changing my sites, Lunarpages has started throttling my sites so they often go offline for several minutes at a time. Pingdom reports 20 outages for a total of 20 minutes for my personal website over the last 30 days.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

It used to be great for me to host three or four different websites, none of which have a lot of traffic.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 26, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Time to ditch LunarPages!"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

Not much that I like about them at this point. I think they were better a few years ago, when my webmaster recommended them.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

I had Lunarpages for my site, but when I went to upload new images, I found I could no longer upload basic images. The tech said that shouldn't be an issue, but he couldn't fix it. So he bumped it up to their admins. What a disaster! They just sent generic emails that made my (very experienced) webmaster laugh... and advise me to ditch Lunarpages asap!

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

none!

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 31, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.0
CF
Cory F.
Owner, Software Engineer
Share
"Lunar Nightmare"
What do you like best about HostPapa?

Cheap solution, however you can find equal or cheaper solutions elsewhere.

What do you dislike about HostPapa?

Everything. I've been using them for over 10 years and: 1) Terrible service 2) The move you around to new servers and downgrade you without reducing price 3) Super slow servers 4) Highly unprofessional. I get threatening emails (we will shut you down) because my WordPress site went over 2% CPU. Yes, 2%. I checked that timeframe and that was 3 concurrent users according to GA. 5) They store your account password in a reversible encryption, not an irreversible hash.

What problems is HostPapa solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not provided