HostPapa - Coupons & Deals, October 2020

HostPapa isn’t going to win any races, that’s for sure. It’s a middle-of-the-road kind of service that doesn’t stand out in terms of features, performance, or pricing. If might be okay for a small business site (with no e-commerce), but that’s it. You can do much better with a provider like Hostinger, which also offers much cheaper plans.

For more options we recommend, check out our list of the best web hosting services.

HostPapa’s servers are best used in North America, with the data centers actually being located in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Amsterdam. You could use a CDN (Content Delivery Network) to speed up your website in the rest of the world, but you may still run into a performance wall.

If you’re looking for a host with a much wider choice of server locations, I recommend FastComet.

Since WordPress is very flexible, yes. WordPress runs just fine on HostPapa. Again, you’re going to run into some potential server performance issues, but that will happen no matter what CMS you install on your hosting.

There are some much better options on our list of the best managed WordPress hosting services.

The short version is that you have to open a support ticket, and send it to the billing department with an explanation of why you want to be gone from the platform. And then, if our own experience is anything to go by, you have to keep hounding the support team, until they finally refund your hosting, but not your domain name.

It’s not a great experience.

Before you sign up for a new hosting service, be sure to take a look at our web hosting coupon page so you can see the best deals available right now.