Optimized WordPress Hosting

  • Enjoy hassle-free, pre-installed WordPress hosting - ready when you are!
  • Get enhanced speed and performance with our WordPress optimized servers.
  • Stay protected from threats with built-in WordPress security and monitoring.
  • Access live WordPress expert support when you need it, around the clock.
  • Free one‑on‑one training session

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$2.95/month

$13.99/mo

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WP Start

Ideal for beginners building a single website

Original price: $13.99/mo
Discounted price: $2.95/mo

Opie Affiliates price: $2.95/monthper month*
$3.25/month inc. GST
$3.22/month inc. GST
Excludes 20% VAT Save 79%
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  • Top Features
    • 1 WordPress website 
    • 10 email addresses
    • 100GB SSD storage
    • Free domain registration 
  • Additional Features
    • Standard SSL Certificate 
    • WordPress staging 
    • Core WP features
    • Jetpack Free pre-installed

WP Plus

Perfect for owners of multiple websites

Original price: $18.99/mo
Discounted price: $5.95/mo

Opie Affiliates price: $5.95/monthper month*
$6.55/month inc. GST
$6.49/month inc. GST
Excludes 20% VAT Save 69%
with 3-year discounted term renews at regular rate
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  • Top Features
    • 10 WordPress websites 
    • 100 email addresses
    • 100GB SSD storage
    • Free domain registration 
  • Additional Features
    • Standard SSL Certificate 
    • WordPress staging 
    • Core WP features
    • Jetpack Free pre-installed
    • WP Plus features
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WP Ultra

Built for high performance websites with enhanced power, speed and security

Original price: $34.99/mo
Discounted price: $12.95/mo

Opie Affiliates price: $12.95/monthper month*
$14.25/month inc. GST
$14.12/month inc. GST
Excludes 20% VAT Save 63%
with 3-year discounted term renews at regular rate
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  • Top Features
    • Unlimited WordPress websites 
    • Unlimited email addresses
    • Unlimited SSD storage
    • Free domain registration 
  • Additional Features
    • Wildcard SSL Certificate 
    • WordPress staging 
    • Core WP features
    • Jetpack Premium pre-installed
    • WP Ultra features
  • WP Ultra Suite $199.00/yr VALUE
    • Automated Backups 10GB
      (free for the full duration) 
    • Domain Privacy
      (free for the full duration) 
    • Daily Malware Scan with Removal Assistance
      (free for the full duration) 
    • Fully Managed Web Application Firewall 

Superior WordPress hosting, with expert support

You can't go wrong with HostPapa's award-winning WordPress hosting!
Get everything you need to build your website on WordPress the right way.

Get Started Building Fast

Zero-click WordPress installation! Start building your website right away with the latest optimized version of WordPress.
Included with all plans

Lightning Fast WordPress Caching

Google loves fast loading websites. With our enhanced content caching, your website will load faster than ever.
Included with all plans

Global Speed and Performance

The free Cloudflare Content Delivery Network makes your website load even faster by caching your content locally around the globe.
Included with all plans

Get More Website Visitors

Get more visitors with Jetpack's marketing features: automated social media posting and scheduling. Plan in advance and reach your audience at a time that works best for them.
Included with all plans

Free Standard SSL Certificate

Keep your website visitors safe. Your WordPress plan comes with a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate.
Included with all plans

Auto-Detect and Remove Malware

State-of-the-art security software crawls our servers and your website, keeping you safe from threats.
Included with WP Ultra

Stay Protected - Advanced Firewall

The ultimate in security - add an optional Web Application Firewall and stop malicious traffic before it reaches you!
Available with all plans

Jetpack Security Features

With Jetpack you get the ultimate security toolkit for your WordPress site. It prevents unwanted intrusions with effective brute force attack protection, malware scanning, and spam filtering.
Included with all plans

Stay protected from hackers

Inspire confidence with a trust seal from Protection Power and automatically scan your website daily for potential malware and threats from hackers.
Included with Ultra plan

Keep your information safe

Keep your important information safe from hackers and identity thieves with a Premium Wildcard SSL certificate and domain privacy protection.
Included with Pro & Ultra plans

Avoid a potential disaster

Restore previous versions of your website with our automated backup and restore service in case of mistakes or unforeseen events.
Included with Pro & Ultra plans

99.9% Uptime Guarantee

Ensure your website is available when it matters most - we guarantee 99.9% uptime on all of our plans.
Included with WP Ultra

FREE and painless website migration by HostPapa!

Wondering how to move from your current web host without any issues?

Free domain transfer

Already have your domain name? Transfer it over to HostPapa for free and set up your website on our powerful servers with 99.9% uptime, guaranteed.

Free WordPress migration

Your dedicated PapaSquad expert will assist you in moving your website, ensuring that your WordPress website gets started the right way, without any data loss or downtime.

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HostPapa offers award‑winning hosting

  • Domain name registration
  • Domains/websites hosted
  • Automatically installed WordPress
  • Traffic allowance
  • Disk space
  • Free Standard SSL Certificate
  • Free website transfer
  • 24/7 Multilingual live WP support
  • Jetpack pre-installed
  • Free
  • 1
  • Unlimited
  • Unlimited

Chart provided for comparison purposes only and is subject to change without notice.
Comparison based on equivalent WordPress plans where applicable and information available in the public domain.

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"Couldn't have had a better experience"

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Don't just take our word for it!

Customers from all over the world have reviewed our shared web hosting for its superior performance, rock-solid security, unparalleled reliability, and ease of use. Not to mention our award-winning customer support!

So why just take our word for it? Check out some of the industry leading hosting review websites and get an even better idea of how HostPapa offers the more feature-packed hosting plans at extremely competitive prices.

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Need help? The PapaSquad is here when you need it.

Whether it's walking you through our website builder, helping you configure your website security, or finding the right email solution for your business, our PapaSquad experts are here to help. Please don't hesitate to contact us with your questions!

Live Chat

Always around for a chat help session.

Email

Prefer emails and tickets? Works for us.

Phone

Call us anytime!

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Frequently Asked Questions

WordPress is not just a simple platform to run a blog anymore; over the years, WordPress has evolved in one of the Best Deal Content Management Systems (CMS) available to users today. 28% of websites around the world currently run on WordPress: companies of all sizes use it to create their online presence, major news outlets, large businesses, and small businesses alike.

It means that we've carefully crafted our hosting platform and architecture, from the ground up, specifically for hosting WordPress websites.

Most companies charge much more for WordPress hosting than shared web hosting, but not HostPapa! Our WordPress hosting is exactly the same price as our shared web hosting plans, even with all the added WordPress features included. We take care of everything: your WordPress website is optimized, fast, and always up to date and protected with the latest security patches, letting you focus on what matters most - creating content and building your business!

Not at all! We auto-install the latest version of WordPress, the very same one you'd download from WordPress.org, along with advanced caching and host it on our lightning fast servers for the very best in WordPress website hosting. You also get around the clock support from our PapaSquad WordPress experts - available whenever you need them!

None whatsoever. Our team of trained WordPress experts handle all of the setup for you. After your purchase is complete, you really just have to login and begin filling your new website with content.

Absolutely. You can transfer your existing WordPress website over to HostPapa's optimized WordPress hosting platform. Better yet, we'll transfer it for you at no extra cost. Once your purchase is complete, just open a support ticket from your HostPapa Dashboard letting our PapaSquad team know that you'd like to move an existing website over to us!

Go ahead. Take a peek under the hood!

Let's get technical! At HostPapa, we pride ourselves on the power, security and reliability of our Optimized WordPress Hosting - feel free to dig even deeper into our detailed specs.

To get back to the plan comparison overview, click here.

 

WP Start

$2.95/monthper month*
$3.25/mo inc. GST
$3.22/mo inc. GST
Excludes 20% VAT Save 79%
with 3-year discounted term renews at regular rate
Get Started

WP Plus

$5.95/monthper month*
$6.55/mo inc. GST
$6.49/mo inc. GST
Excludes 20% VAT Save 69%
with 3-year discounted term renews at regular rate
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WP Ultra

$12.95/monthper month*
$14.25/mo inc. GST
$14.12/mo inc. GST
Excludes 20% VAT Save 63%
with 3-year discounted term renews at regular rate
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WordPress websites
1
10
Unlimited
Unlimited
SSD storage
100GB
100GB
Unlimited
Unlimited
Free domain registration

Website Builder edition
Free Jetpack installation
Free WordPress migration
Enhanced WordPress caching
WPForms
SEO optimized WordPress plugin
Free WordPress backup

Unlimited image CDN (Photon)
Lazy Loading Images
Brute force attack protection
Downtime monitoring
Stats and related content
Automated social media posting
Unlimited video CDN
Daily automated backup
30-day archive
Automated spam filtering
Automated malware scanning
Automatic security fixes
Scheduled social media posting
SEO preview tools
Google Analytics integration
Ad network approval
Accept PayPal payments

Email addresses
10
100
Unlimited
Unlimited
Email forwarding accounts
10
100
Unlimited
Unlimited
Email autoresponders
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
IMAP/IMAP-SSL connections
25
25
25
25
POP3/POP3-SSL connections
SMTP/SMTP-SSL connections
Email aliases
Email virus scanning
SpamAssassin spam protection
Outbound filtering
Webmail
Business grade email available
Individual mailbox storage
500MB
500MB
1000MB
2000MB
Overall mailbox storage
5000MB
5000MB
10000MB
20000MB
Email sends per hour
200
200
300
600
Email attachment size
20MB
20MB
20MB
20MB

Free Let's Encrypt SSL
Enhanced SSL certificates
Available
Available
PayPal merchant compatible

24/7 FTP access
FTPS (SSL/TLS)
phpMyAdmin
MySQL 5.7 databases
10
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 (choose your version)
Softaculous script installer (400+ scripts FREE)
Custom cron jobs
Custom cron jobs run interval
30
30
20
10
Custom error pages

state‑of‑the‑art performance servers and equipment
Enhanced SSD drives
Unlimited
Unlimited
Cloudflare Content Delivery Network - faster page load speeds
Rocket-fast premium servers
More resources allocated per account
Fewer accounts on server
400% performance boost

Hosted domains
1
10
Unlimited
Unlimited
Subdomains
10
100
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited add-on domains
Unlimited parked domains
International domains
Domain forwarding
Free registrar transfers

HostPapa Dashboard
cPanel control panel
Domain manager
Softaculous (1‑Click Drupal, WordPress, & Joomla! install)
Cloudflare free CDN (faster page loads)
DNS management
Easy web‑based file manager
Account statistics
Graphical web stats (AWstats)
Access to raw log files
Multiple FTP accounts

Server firewall, monitoring, and intrusion detection
DDoS attack prevention and responses
Multi-Factor Biometric Access Datacenter
RAID-10 redundancy
Redundant network carriers
Network monitoring
Brute force detection
CloudLinux O/S protection
Imunify360
ModSecurity
Let's Encrypt SSL
Advanced security features
Available
Available
Domain privacy protection
Available
Available
Security Suite
Available
Available
Protection Power Basic included
Jetpack Premium included
Premium Wildcard SSL certificate
Available
Available
Automated Website Backup (1GB)
Available
Available
1GB
10GB
Dedicated IP address
Available
Available
Available
Available
Server resources
128GB RAM storage per server minimum
40 core minimum per server

Award-winning PapaSquad support team available 24/7
Free 30-minute training session
Free website migrations - handsfree
24/7 live telephone support
Multilingual support (English, French, Spanish, & German)
24/7 email support
24/7 live chat support
Knowledge base
30‑day money‑back guarantee
99.9% uptime guarantee