HostPapa Review

5 Reasons Why You Should Host at Hostpapa

reviewer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:44:11 +0000

1: Their Commitment to Customer Satisfaction
Their Customer Service is second to none. We are very proud of their customers and want to do whatever we can to service them. Their growing base of individuals and small-to medium-sized businesses rely on both their services to be reliable and their team to be knowledgeable.

2: Reliable Web Hosting You Can Count On
There are numerous web hosting companies to choose from in today’s marketplace. We want to provide you a safe and reliable platform that you can depend on. their servers are monitored 24/7/365 and we are always looking for ways to improve on their day-to-day operations. Suggestions? Send us an email; we love to hear from their customers.

3: their State-of-the-Art Data Centre
their servers are housed in North America’s leading data centre. We also have backup data facilities in a number of other data centers in North America. With back-up power generation, a dedicated diesel generator for power redundancy, redundant climate control systems, dual pre-action fire suppression systems, Cisco powered network, and multiple bandwidth providers, you can live with the comfort of knowing ytheir site will be available.

4: The Leading Edge Control Panel and Site Builder
We are using the best web-based control panel (cPanel) for web hosting. cPanel is a one-stop-shop for creating e-mail accounts, web statistics, managing ytheir web hosting environment, and more. If you are interested in using a web builder tool and templates, we also work with Soholaunch Pro, which allows you to create a web site even with no previous experience or knowledge in HTML/web design. Soholaunch Pro is provided free to their clients and comes equipped with thousands of templates and add-ons.

5: An Award-Winning Company.
HostPapa has won numerous awards and is consistently being ranked as one of the Top 10 web hosting companies. We take great pride in servicing their customers and continually out performing even their own expectations.

Better Let Papa Host Your Site

reviewer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:06:34 +0000

Why you should trust Hostpapa? The answer is because they are much more better than the competition in the series. In fact, their top executives have over 70 years of combined experience in web hosting services. They combined expertise has allowed them to build a superior web hosting company.

Their customer services director has built one of the best support centers in the web hosting business allowing them to maintain a 24-7-365 customer support experience with live phone and chat help starting at 6am EST until 10pm EST, and email support running all day, everyday.
Their system engineers and administrators have constructed one of the most stable web hosting environments on the internet using best of breed hardware and software, along with huge bandwidth pipelines, and award winning tier-1 co-location datacenters. Their 99.9% uptime service standard is as important to them as it is to their clients.

Their business development department has been able to increase the value of each customer’s service package so that we may offer everyone a free domain name, a free web site builder, free online marketing plus tons of free blogs, shopping carts, forums, and other web site supported services.

Their quality assurance team helps to hold together all of the departments ensuring that customer needs are communicated efficiently throughout the respective departments and to the management team.

We’d gladly say that HostPapa is one of the best web hosting choice and you may rely on their hard work to continue to earn your business in the future.

Applications and scripts on Hostpapa

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:28:43 +0000

Content Management

Joomla!

Joomla! is one of the most powerful open source content management systems available for your with the HostPapa hosting account. It is used all over the world for everything from simple Web sites to complex corporate applications. By keeping things as simple as possible without sacrificing features, Joomla! allows non-technical people to have complete control over their Web sites without having to pay exorbitant amounts for closed, proprietary software.

Weblogs

WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards and usability. Simply put, WordPress is industry-leading, easy-to-use blogging software.

Image Galleries

Coppermine

Coppermine Photo Gallery is an advanced, user-friendly, picture gallery script with built-in support for other multi-media and data files. The gallery can be private, accessible to registered users only, and/or open to all visitors to your site. Users, if permitted, can upload pictures with their Web browser (thumbnail and intermediate sized images are created on the fly), rate pictures, add comments and even send e-cards.
Gallery2

Gallery2 is the next generation of open-source photo-sharing Web applications, giving you an intuitive way to blend photo management seamlessly into your Web site, whether you’re running a small personal site or a large community site. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using the application to create personalized photo albums on their Web sites and you can too at Hostpapa.

Discussion Boards

phpBB

phpBB is a high-powered, fully scalable and highly customizable open-source bulletin board package available on your Hostpapa account. Based on the powerful PHP server language and MySQL database server, phpBB’s user-friendly interface, straightforward administration panel and helpful FAQs make it the ideal free community solution for your Web site.

Guest Books

GBook

GBook is a superior guestbook solution from PHPJunkYard. This PHP-based script doesn’t require a MySQL database to run but you can use MySQL database on your Hostpapa account for other applications. You can set it up to process smileys, it can send you an e-mail notification when someone signs your guestbook, and you can delete inappropriate messages. Visitors can even post private guestbook messages that only you can read!

Groupware

WebCalendar

WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured on your Hostpapa account as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors.

E-commerce

AgoraCart

AgoraCart is a powerful online shopping and e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of “out-of-the-box” features. AgoraCart caters to abilities of all levels–from beginners to even expert Web designers. Start with a simple template-based store or take advantage of AgoraCart’s flexibility to integrate a complex visual design concept–it’s up to you.
osCommerce

osCommerce is an open-source e-commerce solution that offers an out-of-the-box, feature-rich online shopping cart so that store owners can set up, run and maintain their online stores quickly and easily, with no costs, fees or limitations involved. With over 6 years of operation, osCommerce currently powers more than 11,400 registered live shops around the world.

Chat

X7Chat

Chat with your site visitors–or have them chat with each other–when you install X7 Chat! Communicating directly with your customers or friends through your site has never been easier. Plus, you’ll have full control to oversee any conversations going on between visitors.

RSS

Gregarius

Gregarius is a Web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator, designed to run on your Hostpapa Web server, allowing You to access your news sources from wherever you want. Features: Completely Web-based (runs on your Web server), simple, password-protected, administration and configuration, AJAX powered item tagging, full-text search. Committed to Web standards: renders XHTML/CSS, supports OPML. Gregarius is FREE software and is released under the GPL.