HostPapa

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HostPapa
Company type Private company [1]
Industry Web hosting, SSL certificates, small businesses, Information Technology
Founded2006
FounderJamie Opalchuk
Headquarters Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Website hostpapa.com

HostPapa is a Canadian-based privately owned web hosting company that provides shared, reseller, and virtual private server (VPS) hosting. It operates in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, New Zealand, Mexico, Singapore, India, Hong Kong, European Union, France, Ireland, Belgium and Spain. In 2023, the company provided hosting services to more than 500,000 websites. [2]

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History

HostPapa entered the dedicated and hosted applications' market in 2002, and began offering web hosting services to customers in 2005, through its first registered domain.

It was officially founded in Canada by Jamie Opalchuk in 2006. In 2010, HostPapa was accredited by the Better Business Bureau. [3]

The previous company logo, including the "Papa" character, was the result of a 2012 "Who's Your Papa?" logo design contest. The current logo was designed and launched in 2022.

In June 2012, HostPapa partnered with Cloudflare, a website performance optimization company. [4] [5] Also in 2012, HostPapa announced a partnership with SiteLock Website Security. [6]

HostPapa appeared on the PROFIT 500 ranking of Canada’s fastest-growing companies based on five-year revenue growth for 5 consecutive years, from 2013-2017. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] On February 9, 2015, Dropmysite announced multi-language partnership with HostPapa.

HostPapa has received several awards since the company was founded, including Uptime Awards from NCM Online and WHTop. [12] [13] In 2021 [14] and 2022, [15] HostPapa placed #329 and #348, respectively, on Globe and Mail’s list of Canada’s top growing companies.

Acquisitions

Infrastructure

HostPapa has web hosting infrastructure, including Hewlett-Packard hardware and servers, networked by Cisco equipment, in various tier one data centers in Canada and around the world. The company operates North American-based call centers for customer support in English, French, German, and Spanish. Its hosting services use Sucuri server software and CloudProxy. [29]

The company uses MailChannels SMTP relay anti-spam technology to analyze outbound email behaviour in order to limit unwanted emails and ensure email delivery to its customers. Customers use cPanel control panel to access HostPapa's web hosting software. [30]

In July 2017 CEO Jamie Opalchuk said the company plans to broaden its data center coverage with servers in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia. [31] In 2020, the company launched two new data centers, [32] in Amsterdam and California respectively.

Services

HostPapa offers several shared website hosting plans [33] which provide unlimited domains and subdomains, with 500 to 1000MB limited individual email, [34] MySQL, cPanel access, and private name services. [35] [36] They also offer VPS hosting, reseller hosting, and Managed WordPress hosting. [37]

Incidents

On May 7, 2015, Fergal Gallagher from Tech Times reported a worldwide hacking issue that endangered millions of websites. [38] WordPress software (content management system) vulnerabilities could have allowed hackers to gain control of websites using the default theme and plug-in if the website owner or administrator clicked on a malicious link. At the time of publication, major web hosts, including HostPapa, had already fixed the vulnerability. [39]

Philanthropy

In 2011, through the Love Trees charity, HostPapa donated 10,000 trees in Africa for Earth Day. [40] [41] HostPapa was given the Love Trees Partnership award of Merit. [42] That year, HostPapa held a promotion in which it donated $5 to Save the Elephants for every GoDaddy customer who transferred to HostPapa. [43] [44] In 2016, HostPapa began supporting Kiva.org, [45] a microfinance crowdfunding platform.

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