Account suspended

I've been with Host Papa for over 4 years now. They've been quite bad at the beginnings, lots of downtime, etc. but then they improved.

I had my account suspended 1st time about 2 years ago due to excessive use of resources. Ok, I created DATABASE with 20GB size, guess their servers can't handle it. So I found out that UNLIMITED as they claim is NOT at all Unlimited! Took me several days of hassling with them to get my account back.

After this incident everything was fine for another 2 years. The speed increased and the uptime was fine. Until today!

I saw another message from them: "Your account has been suspended for overloading mysql server with heavy query."

Are you kidding me?! I've checked the SQL query responsible for this but it was a simple query I've been running the whole time.
I'm really upset since they just decide to suspend your account without any notice. I'm running e-commerce sites there and now they are all down.

I had enough! I'm switching to proper hosting - most likely Amazon Cloud.

Guess Host Papa is good only for very small sites with almost no traffic, so if you need something more, find a better solution.

Biggest Pro: Cheap and relatively fast.
Biggest Con: Poor customer support. Bad for larger scale websites. Very fast in suspending your account.

£84.cancelled .got£60. back

im a newbie to web host etc,chose hostpapa for all the good reviews .i found..took 3 year deal for £84 [uk]
first thing i ticked box fo hp to transfer my domain from 1&1.got a link on how to do it my self.i ,i had now idear as im new to this .ask them to do as it says in add .told to follow instructions in email ..did i get fed up trying yes .[polite way of putting it] after hours of messing around i sorted it out.now on to the web builder ...night mare for me ,easy if you now the xyz's...i ended up with to home pages after trying to delete one i deleted more than i shud and lost the web build program no gallerys .could not even see my home page...told hp .thay said no problem we will reset it and i can start over .got another link to install the build program?.so thy did not reset anything....so gave up cancelled my account before the 30 full refund past.
got email a few hours after telling a email as been sent for me to reset my details and start over ,still not got it .its in my spam acording to them ....anyway got a email saying i will get refund for £60...i paid £84..still in my 30 day full refund....i have my own domain...not hp's....so wares the full refund gone ,do thay keep the vat aswell .it cost £70+vat so if thay do im still £10 down on the cost...£24..for doing nothing but post links for me to sort out myself....
ok im new and dont understand all things teck ..with web building....but not to do as thay say and give me links how to do it myself ...its of putting .and have left before i get to stressed with any future problems...
just the refund thing now i have got back to them about it .......stay away ....to stressfull...

Biggest Pro: none for me .will look elseware
Biggest Con: custermer service shud be renamed do it your self .we carnt be bothered..

Want to waste your time and get stressed out...?

...then sign up to Hostpapa!

I switched to Hostpapa appx. 2 weeks ago. Incredibly unhelpful and on one occasion rude customer service.
Hopefully they'll make good on their "30 day money back guarantee" but I'm not placing money on it.

Avoid at all costs.

poor service

I have not got satisfaction and trouble free e-mail service.
Most of the communications are form posts.
Phone followup does not happen. They promise to look after matters but nothing happens.

Biggest Con: Promises, promises but nothing happens.

HOST PAPA SCAMMERS - DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY

I wished I was one of the lucky ones who read all this jargon before signing up with Host Papa.

AUSSIES BEWARE!!!!!

I signed up. I didn't even get as far as receiving my pass codes to get online and start my website with Host Papa becasuse they stuffed up.

After weeks of trying to rectify the problem - WHICH HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT IMPOSSIBLE

DONT EXPECT TO FIND ONE PERSON TO SPEAK TO. YOU CAN LEAVE A THOUSAND MESSAGES ON THE PHONE BUT NOT GET ONE RETURN.

DONT EXPECT TO GET NOTHING BUT EMAILS SAYING SOMEONE WILL BE IN CONTACT SHORTLY - BUT NEVER EVER DOES.

NOW I HAVE TRIED REQUESTING CANCELLING, BUT NOW THEY ARE CHARGING ME ANYWAY!

DONT RISK IT AND TELL ALL YOUR MATES ABOUT HOST PAPA.

DONT RISK IT.

Biggest Pro: ABSOLUTELY NO PRO'S WITH THIS COMPANY
Biggest Con: NOTHNG BUT RIP OFF MERCHANTS WHO WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND RUN!

Not as Bad as Above But Don't Host Mission Critical

Host Papa is reasonable - I don't know if it deserves all of the extreme negative reviews here
Reliability seems fine
Tech support - inconsistent
The main problem is that twice they have had major upgrades that did not go as planned
Basically they turned off tech support and ran away for 2 weeks
I had on the first time - as i recall - went to the European affiliate of the company with Skype and had to scream
Then somehow it became catch 22 as i recall - all of the sudden i got action - but it was to the switchboard of the company in Canada - that had a recording
Very few firms offer low priced Canadian based ip hosting
Host Papa does do that - if you want the Canadian ip for Google.ca better search engine rankings
Yet if you are hosting a major website that is mission or income critical you might be better elsewhere
A number of graphic artists i know use it as first line hosting
This would seem strange to me

Biggest Pro: Canadian IP
Biggest Con: Erratic Clueless tech support when have major upgrade issues

Beware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay away from these thieves.
I was a customer since March 2008 and had pre-paid for a hosting plan that was paid in full until March 4 2011.
In December 2010 for reliability reasons, I needed to move my domain name off the host papa servers to my own servers but I needed to keep my corporate domain name.
They would not do it unless I canceled my hosting plan, which I did. They still would not release the domain name until I paid an additional $29.95 for the rights to the name and then after I paid them they released the domain name and pointed it to my servers.
I assumed I had complete ownership to the name for which paid for and I thought that I would be notified when it was going to expire by the registrar, at which time I would be responsible to renew the domain.
On March 4 2011 with no warning I lost access to my corporate website and all email addresses I had associated with my domain name.
I did a who is on the name and Hostpapa was listed as primary owner with me as secondary owner. It turn out that Hostpapa charged me $29.95 for the domain name (even though it was paid in full until March), but didn’t actually honor the agreement of the sale by listing me as the exclusive owner as they indicated they would.
This was their smoke and mirrors to rape an honest customer from my hard earned cash. When the domain renewal came around they renewed it (as shown in the current who is) and now will not release my domain name property until I pay them again.
To compound things, I have been leaving them multiple voice messages and emails but for several days now, and the only response I got was that for security purposes they will not discuss anything with me unless I send them an email from the email address I had registered with them. This is ridiculous since they have me locked out of my own emails and I cannot send or receive email from that domain.
Since this domain name is associated with a corporate website, I have sent this to my legal department for assessment.
These people are bad news, do yourself a favor and stay far away from them.

Biggest Pro: None
Biggest Con: Frauds and no honor

Bad experience!

Was affordable and tought i would be a good place since based in Canada.
First bas surprise ..... in the first month, someone hacked my site ..... and
i got an auto email that "lickmyballs@mysite.com was created" ....... and the hacker
created many YAHOO FANTASY sports teams with names like: i_ripped_my_kids .... etc ......... wow great security on HostPapa.

After 14 months ..... i decided to close my account, so i expected to have a part of my money for the 10 months prepaid plan. Instead of that i just got a dry email telling that they closed my site and my subcribtion will end in 10 months ...... if you don't want to refund ..... why close my account right away?

And best to all .......... I never complained on Hostpapa ...... and they blocked my IP address ............. Well what a bunch of dirty monkeys !!!!!
They people are pure ass/$$"les in my book.
If you leave ......... they treath you like a garbage.

HOSTPAPA RIP-OFF ARTISTS..

Biggest Pro: Compared to Ben Ladin, they make him look like a good guy.
Biggest Con: Rip Off Artists. No respect to honest customers. Only want your money.

A Hellish Ordeal

I'm with everyone else here. Hostpapa is the worst hosting I have ever had the mispleasure to experience. Nonexistent customer service, terrible uptime, and good luck moving to real hosting if you ever want to move, because it will be a hellish ordeal the likes of which you can't even imagine.

I am not a violent man, but I would seriously and gladly pay somebody $1,000 per instance of physical harm inflicted on any HostPapa executive, support person, or billing department person, and consider it money well spent and a service to the community.

Sign up today, and you too can enjoy impressive downtime, nonexistent phone support where you have to leave messages that are never responded to, opening "tickets" for your issues that don't get responded to for weeks, and online chat personnel who will hang up on you multiple times!

Biggest Pro: makes you appreciate any other host
Biggest Con: nonexistent support at every level

Host Papa Rip off... Now refuse to release my domain.

Stay Away from Host Papa.
If you choose not to renew with them they ignore all emails and block your domain. They are a complete rip off. Also impossible to move around their control panel. Useless customer service. Bad experience with them.