Comments on: HostPapa Vs GoDaddy

By: Rusia

Rusia — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:41:29 +0000

Hola,

Thank you for all the information. I am mexican and as you know I speak spanish. I was lucking for others hosting servers, because Godaddy make me crazy and is in english.

I will buy the host from hostpapa and see who is work.

Thank you again.

Rus

By: Alastair Murray

Alastair Murray — Wed, 11 May 2011 20:11:10 +0000

After Bob Parsons from GoDaddy recently shot and killed that defenceless innocent Elephant as a “Trophy” I cancelled all of my GoDaddy accounts.
Now with HostPapa – Green, Clean and Animal Friendly!
Bob Parsons is a disgrace to humankind!

By: Louise Ingram

Louise Ingram — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 11:30:08 +0000

Thank you! I found someone who agrees with us!
I also reviewed these two companies and would choose HostPapa every time.

We’ve had a horrific time with GoDaddy and continue to because it’s a client’s site and they have certain things ‘locked in’. As you say their control panel is really confusing (even for someone who’s familiar with hosting companies), and they charge extra for things like ‘premium email addresses’ (never heard of one of them ’til we dealt with GoDaddy. We got a refund of over $60 for our client who had been duped into adding extra features that they did not need or use.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:30:33 +0000

@Milan: while I think it should have been HostPapa’s responsability to make a backup before they performed an upgrade, it’s up to the customers to make backup copies regularly.

Most of the people assume their web host makes backup everyday and it’s not the case. Read “I Bet You Don’t Have Any Backups of Your Website”:

http://www.thewebhostinghero.com/articles/backup-your-website.html

The other thing is that if you have a business website, then get a real Business Hosting plan like those offered by InMotion Hosting. You’ll get daily backups, business-class hardware, faster network, etc.

By: Milan

Milan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:21:28 +0000

My client lost a database on hostpappa during the server upgrade hostpappa did. Their response was to the extent of “tough luck, we don’t make backups”

By: Finn

Finn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:02:41 +0000

I’ve been hosting a fixed gear / single speed bike blog – http://www.urbancyclechic.com on hostpapa for the last few months and am extremely happy with their prices, speed and reliability. Feel no reason to look anywhere else.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:54:01 +0000

Hi Android,

I’ve already had an account for testing HostPapa.com and everything went great so I got another account with HostPapa.ca for a production website this time (I needed a host in Canada).

Their servers and network are very fast and I’m very satisfied. I’ll post the website I’m developing when it’s done.

HostGator has been good too but the server I was hosted on wasn’t as fast that’s for sure.

By: Android

Android — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:53:30 +0000

Very good review thank you. Now I just need to choose between hostgator and hostpapa. Maybe I’ll take both and write a review

By: Douglas Lovin

Douglas Lovin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:16:35 +0000

I myself love hostgator.com The company I work for has all of their stuff on godaddy.com and it is the most confusing account management I have ever seen. The control panel is slow just like you mentioned! It took over 15 minutes to install Joomla, where my hostgator.com fantastic installs within seconds.

dodaddy.com = bad