HostPapa with Papa Problems?
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Nov 18,2008
hostpapa.com Web Hosting is a problem hosting. They are are a big problem because they don’t have any bad reviews about them when we searched for “hostpapa hosting sucks” or “HostPapa complaints” on Google today… yeah big problem for their competitors is what we meant. We also tried “HostPapas sucks”, “hostpapa sux”, “Hostpappa sucks”, “HostPapa complains” and other variation of misspells, just incase some smart ass cannot even spell the host name right or try to avoid being sued by HostPapa. Sorry not that many.
If you are considering any hosting company, you should do a search for keywords “X Hosting Sucks” on Google. Perhaps you have already read tons of good stuff and rave reviews about hosting X but doing the “X sucks” search may reveal the true side of the hosting provider. You can also try other keywords such as “hostpapa problems”, “hostpapa issues” or “hostpapa scam”.
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Lately they’ve been starting to suck quite a bit. 2 years ago when I researched them, I could find absolutely no complaints. Now there are a few popping up every day.
My brother-in-law’s email gives him issues all the time as well his site goes down randomly (and often now). It gets worse, they told him it was because he is on an old server and they would move him to a newer one for $25. That’s just part of his issues.
My own site has been down for over 30 minutes now, I cannot reach their technical support and I’m apparently on a new server.
I have a HostPapa account i’ve never had any issues like you speak of John, Most of the time its my fault because I enter the wrong password too many times and there servers firewall blocks me, Which I used to think means my site was down which it isn’t.
I would recommend HostPapa to anyone!
I did a similar research and ended up moving all my sites to Hostpapa. And this is my fourth webhost in a span of two years. I was happy until every sites of mine is down, now! It has been 3-4 hrs and still non operational.
I started to question myself – is this normal or just a case of bad luck. And I don’t want to hassle finding and moving to another hosting again..
Are they down during the transfer process? If so, it could be because of the DNS propagation.
If you change your DNS servers, it will take between 24-48 hours for your domain to appear as normal again.
Yes they suck big time. A client of mines has a domain that his former web master bought through them, the web master disappear with the monies paid and now our domain is down and hostpap refuses ot give us our files or domain name, saying we have to buy another domain even though we provide proof we are the legit owners of the domain and even offer to pay the necessary fees that the former webmaster owed them
They suck!
If you hired the wrong webmaster, let him/her register your domain and hosting account, then he/she ran away with your money… isn’t that mostly your fault? You should have at least registered the domain yourself.
It would be hard for domains registrars to reassign a domain to somebody else. It most cases, it is just not possible if your name or company name never appeared during registration in the administrative, technical or billing information.
If you plan to register a new domain name for new business and you want to delegate this task to somebody else, please take note: make sure your name or your company name is in the Administrative Contact.
STAY AWAY FROM HOSTPAPA!!
May be this is the first “hostpapa sux”.
- Mysql server is very very slow
- Mysql max limit connections is 10 and not 25 (15 after all my email and tickets!) like they said in the faq
- Moneyback is a fraud!! On the subscription the setup is free. If you wanna left them, they will refund only a part of your cost ( total – setup ).
- The online support is fast to answer, but near ZERO to fix the problems.
STAY AWAY!!
HOSTPAPA (SUX!) STOLEN MONEY AND WROTE THE FALSE!
You have more than 10 concurrent MySQL connections at one time. I assume you have thousands of page view every day. Sound like you have too many visits per day that any cheap shared hosts will be comfortable with.
Maybe it is time to move to dedicated server? Read the recommendation about which plan to use at https://www.hostingsthatsuck.com/how-to-estimate-for-shared-vps-dedicated-hosting/
Sorry but hostpapa don’t give more 10 connections! I have make a lame script to open 10 or more connections at the same time. Less 10 connections all is ok. But if you try to open 11 connections the last is refuse. Anyway i have forums on different shared hosting ( lizzy-hosting,servage and s-h-com) and i not have any problems about the mysql connections , using my script and real users.
DON’T USE HOSTPAPA FOR YOUR HOSTING!!
No, what you said is wrong.
10 users open 10 connections. If you think it is a shared host, where is possible to host several domains. For example 5 sites, with just only 2 visitors each, more connections will be refused.
To explain better what i’m saying, here few screenshot on their faq:
HostSuckPapa said to have 25 connections: img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hostpapafaqmysqlbeforefe6.png
My script open 10 connections on HostSuckPapa: img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hostpapatest1mysql10conts3.jpg
My script open 11 connections on HostSuckPapa: img513.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hostpapatest1mysql11conty0.jpg
After tons of emails they change the faq and said to have just only 15 connections: img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hostpapafaqmysqlafterux3.png
Again my script open 10 connections on HostSuckPapa: img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hostpapatest2mysql10conbm2.png
Again my script open 11 connections on HostSuckPapa: img13.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hostpapatest2mysql11conjj8.png
I have also the screenshot about how they steal the money with the NOT garantee money back!!
DON’T USE HOSTPAPA FOR YOUR HOSTING!!
Quit the whining. Go to Hostgator or InMotion hosting, like what other smart people have done.
I agree i switched to hostgator instead, good customer service and half of the price.
Hostgator is similar to Hostpapa, they have basically the same software (but more updated) , comparing to the speed hostpapa provide , Hostgator is about 5- 8 times faster. although brower speed is about the same. but if u run mysql on ur web site, must chose hostgator. they are better !!! and cheaper and well setup up to go!!!
they really suck. Our email is down regularly, you can NEVER speak with any of their customer support team but they do give you a very handy bit of advise: SEND US AN EMAIL…. yeah, if only that was possible. I have ended up phoning hostpapa in Canada as at least they answer the phone. They have never ever given us any support or answer and I’m moving away from them. DON’T USE THEM, MOST AWFUL COMPANY I HAVE EVER DEALT WITH so they might use ‘green energy’ Perhaps it’s the windmills not turning as there is no wind that day that makes their servers crash……. Freek
From bitter experience I can tell you that they do suck, I hosted with them for a year and a half, my contract ended when the sites I had on one of their servers were wiped out by some kind of haywire script.
I lost 2.6gb of files.
They took over 3 days to reply to urgent support tickets and were totally unhelpful, with one line replies, not even a word of apology for the dataloss, I took my business elsewhere.
I would not reccommend them to anyone, do not trust this company with your data, they put far more effort into covering up bad reviews of themselves than looking after their customers. and Andry is correct about the lame SQL service. I experienced weekly downtime, they blamed my scripts, but guess what, my sites run perfectly on my new (shared) hosting provider.
Steer clear of Hostpapa.
As a parting warning, here is the cancellation letter I sent them three days ago (true to form they have not replied).
RE: www.******.com
Dear Hostpapa,
I really loved the idea of your brand, the idea to let Papa take care of everything, the Green energy, the 99% uptime you promised, the unlimited storage space, unlimited databases. I was so impressed with all these marvellous things that you offered me that I was happy to hand over my money and also to trust you with my precious websites which had taken several years to build up.
Sure, they were not commercial websites, they were merely communities that were free of charge for everyone where new programmers could get a helping hand, I even told the members of the sites how great, helpful, fast and reliable our spiffy new green hosting was and how the lag we had experienced before on our old server was a thing of the past.
Everyone was so grateful towards you, nobody even seemed to mind when SQL crashed so often on your site, I did point this out to you of course and you told me that it was my scripts that were maxing out 15 simultanious connections, I wondered how difficult that must be to do and I estimated that I’d probably need several hundred people browsing my forums at once to cause the problem but Papa knows best of course and who knows, maybe my complete memberlist logged on to the site whenever I turned my back on it.
Even recently after all the downtime some of my members told me to give you a last chance and I did. That was before someone on the same server as me allegedly ran a script which went haywire and completely wiped out my websites.
I would like to congratulate you on the timely manner that you answered my politely worded support tickets, it was perfectly reasonable of you to make me wait 3 days for a response to such trifling requests as “my site is offline and I can’t access anything, cpanel is showing no files”, why would I be concerned anyway, my communities only took years to establish, it speaks volumes of your service that the directory structure was wiped out and I could not even put up a place holder page to reassure my visitors.. In fact, several weeks later the directory structure is still wiped out.
Your online chat needs a mention too, I’ve been on this planet for 37 years and I have never met such an inept bunch of technicians and I just wonder if there is actually a question that they know the right answer to. They fobbed me off at every opportunity, as did the feckless idiot that I spoke to on the phone.
You should be commended that at no point has anyone in your organisation offered an apology for the dataloss, nobody has offered me any help.
So, I am left to sum things up, I know that a refund is out of the question, I have google and I’ve read how you treat your customers so I will tell you what you have already been told no doubt a few thousand times by your customers.
Your service is terrible, your tech support people are stupid and do not care, you couldn’t care less about your customers data, your servers are oversold, slow and uptime I would say is less than 90% (and you cant argue with this point because it is my true experience).
Thankfully I have taken my business elsewhere now so I invite you to take your environmentally friendly hosting, stick it on the end of a (green) pole and shove it so far up your asshole that you can clean your teeth with it.
You can take this as a request to cancel my plan (www.*******.com) and take this as an assurance that myself and at least some of the 1200 members of my two communities have a great opinion of your utterly unprofessional rabble and will be writing appropriate reviews to warn other unsuspectiong people away from you.
Yours Sincerely,
I am finding hostpapa a complete nightmare. The service for me has ground to a near halt for me. For hours now i cannot get access to my site. All i get are ‘time out’ errors. Even my ftp program got kicked because of there lousy servers. To allow there service to decline to this is incredible. They clearly don’t invest anything into improving there service whatsoever. I wouldn’t be surprised if most [if not all] positive feedback about them are written by Hostpapa staff. There online forum delete any negative postings. Thanks god sites like this get the true message out.
I cannot even check my site to edit out problems/bugs because the whole domain is non responsive. Clearly there own websites are ran on different servers to clients, because they load 99.9% faster. My site loads like a flick-book… watch the site appear and be assembled before your very eyes =/ why advert in the uk when ther sites are hosted in canada on a servers with 600+ sites on it? no wonder it loads like a pig. Avoid like the plague!
I’ve had a good experience with them, for the most part. No down time and the few times I needed help, mostly in moving my pre-existing site, they were good.
My email doesn’t work properly. I have 7 people who email me regularly who can’t email me at all. Comes back to them as undeliverable. Who knows how many emails I missed from potential clients. Tech support had some non-sense that the emails contained viruses. Not true, the emails are from trusted sources – from work computers. I was moving over to Gmail anyway as web based emai I can access from anywhere works better for me.
I get a problem with hostpapa.com. I never got problem with them until now.
I decided to not renew my contract with them and in despite of that, they want a keep my domain name guarded for 25$. If I dont pay it, the let the domain name go and I lose it.
I told them I contract another company that I pay hosting + domain name, but they dont want to unlock. What Can I do to force then to release my domain name.?
Please help me
Regards