VPS Hosting

Take control of your website with VPS Hosting!

Grow your business on a Virtual Private Server plan from HostPapa! Elevate your hosting experience with speed, flexibility, cPanel, and root-level access VPS manager.
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Increased Server Environment & Security Control

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Dedicated Resources Provide Scalability for Growth

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Flexible Self & Fully-Managed Optional Add-ons

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Select Your VPS Hosting Plan

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If for any reason you’re not satisfied with our services, you can cancel at anytime in the first 30 days of signup to receive a full refund for the service.

Domain fees are non-refundable.

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We stand behind our services with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Our commitment is to assist and support you throughout your online journey.
included with all plans.

Mercury

  • 4 core CPU
  • 2GB memory
  • 60GB NVMe storage
  • 1TB transfer
  • Essential features
    Essential features
    • Root level access
    • 2 IP addresses
    • Enhanced NVMe servers
    • Host unlimited domains
    • SolusVM VPS panel
    • Free VPS migration
    • 99.9% uptime guarantee
    • Standard SSL certificate
    • Softaculous 400+ Free apps
    • Private nameservers
    • Wholesale domains

Earth

  • 8 core CPU
  • 8GB memory
  • 250GB NVMe storage
  • 2TB transfer
  • Essential features
    Essential features
    • Root level access
    • 2 IP addresses
    • Enhanced NVMe servers
    • Host unlimited domains
    • SolusVM VPS panel
    • Free VPS migration
    • 99.9% uptime guarantee
    • Standard SSL certificate
    • Softaculous 400+ Free apps
    • Private nameservers
    • Wholesale domains

Mars

  • 8 core CPU
  • 16GB memory
  • 500GB NVMe storage
  • 4TB transfer
  • Essential features
    Essential features
    • Root level access
    • 2 IP addresses
    • Enhanced NVMe servers
    • Host unlimited domains
    • SolusVM VPS panel
    • Free VPS migration
    • 99.9% uptime guarantee
    • Standard SSL certificate
    • Softaculous 400+ Free apps
    • Private nameservers
    • Wholesale domains

Jupiter

  • 12 core CPU
  • 32GB memory
  • 1TB NVMe storage
  • 8TB transfer
  • Essential features
    Essential features
    • Root level access
    • 2 IP addresses
    • Enhanced NVMe servers
    • Host unlimited domains
    • SolusVM VPS panel
    • Free VPS migration
    • 99.9% uptime guarantee
    • Standard SSL certificate
    • Softaculous 400+ Free apps
    • Private nameservers
    • Wholesale domains

VPS Features Tailor-Made for Your Business

Our VPS hosting provides scalable computing power and a more controllable environment compared to shared Web Hosting plans.

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Guaranteed Dedicated Resources

By using only high-performance components, your websites and apps will always perform optimally, and your computing resources are guaranteed to be available at all times.
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Keep Visitors Happy With Lightning Fast Server Speeds

Run your website or app at blazing-fast speeds. Our plans have up to 12 cores, 32GB of RAM, 1TB of NVMe storage, and the freedom to upgrade your VPS when you need it.
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Instant Provisioning⁠ - Never Wait for Your Server

The server you need right when you need it. With fully automated provisioning, your VPS will be ready to use in a matter of minutes.
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Maintain Your Professional Reputation With Blacklist-Free IPs

Your VPS will be provisioned on blacklist-free IPs. We regularly scan our IPs to ensure blacklisted ones are removed and cleaned before being provisioned.
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Manage Multiple Servers

Need more than one server? No problem. Easily launch additional VPS servers on any plan level from your HostPapa Dashboard.
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Host Unlimited Domains & Websites

Host as many domains and sites as you like on your VPS. This is perfect for designers and developers who build sites and apps for their clients.
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Let Us Manage Your IT

Let us manage your VPS for you with our optional managed or fully managed support services. We take the headache out of keeping current on security monitoring, patches, backups, and more.

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"Best Hosting Company"
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4.7/5
"Award-winning web hosting"
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"Growing My Digital Marketing Business With HostPapa"

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"The best hosting company"

So far you guys are the best hosting company among others I have been dealing with in the past 20 years, Hostpapa is the best.

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"In 2 Days I Had My Website Up & Running"

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"Why Nonprofits Choose HostPapa's Web Hosting"

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"Everything works well"

Don't change anything. Everything works well for me the way it is. Any issues or problems I have had with my site have been dealt with in a quick and competent manner. Employees are very courteous and helpful.

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"Launching Your Creative Media Studio"

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"Double Thumbs Up From a Wellness Practitioner"

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"Couldn't have had a better experience"

Your staff were so responsive and sympathetic, thank you so much – couldn't have had a better experience.

Our IT Experts are Ready to Support You

Let our PapaSquad experts handle your server management so you can focus on excelling at what you do best—running your business. Select from three levels of IT support during the checkout process, depending on the assistance you may need.

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Self-Managed VPS

Geared towards individuals with advanced IT skills who can manage their own VPS, including experience with root or command line access. You do not require a control panel such as cPanel and prefer to manage your own. You will also spin up your own VPS instances where required and self-manage our upgrades, patches, etc.

Managed VPS

This plan offers some support for patching, backups, etc. (see Terms of Service for more information). You will require a hosting/email control panel on top of your VPS, such as cPanel, which is provided at no extra cost.

Fully-Managed VPS

This plan offers full system administrator support for your server, so you can concentrate on running your business.

Level of Customer Control

Server Maintenance Responsibility

Software Management Responsibility

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If you want HostPapa to handle the bulk of server management tasks.

Manage Your Server

Choose Your Favourite Control Panel

Enhance your VPS with the control panel of your choice. Install a super easy dashboard such as cPanel to provide the best user experience while staying in total control of all your virtual machines. Or, opt to manage it yourself!
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Fully Managed Options

Get Access to Our IT Experts With Managed Services

With us as your tech partner, you get to choose from three IT support levels for your VPS Hosting—from no support if you manage it all on your own, to partially managed support offering some assistance when needed, and fully managed support where the vast majority of actions are handled by our team of professionals.

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Powerful Server Protection

We Worry About Web Security, So You Don't

With our VPS hosting, both you and your clients can rest assured that your server architecture is protected by the most powerful security solutions on the market.

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Server firewall
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DDoS protection
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RAID redundancy
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Consistently Awesome

We're not trying to brag (okay, maybe just a little), but with a 97% support satisfaction rate, we're basically the MVP of web hosting.

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Need help?

The PapaSquad is here!

Can’t decide on the perfect domain name? Want to build an awesome website without breaking a sweat? Or maybe you need a hand configuring your business email? Whatever it is, our PapaSquad is always ready to save the day. So hit us up, and let us show you what we're made of!

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Live Chat

Join a chat help session in seconds.

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Email

Prefer emails and tickets? Works for us.

Send us an email.
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Give us a call day or night.

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Everything you need for success!

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Super Quick Access

Once your order has been verified, your VPS will be available and ready to use in less than 60 seconds.
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Full Root Access

Enjoy the flexibility and control of managing your own server. You will be in complete control of accessing and installing PHP, modules, a server-level proxy, and much more.
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VPS Management Portal

Control all aspects of your VPS through our proprietary VPS management portal, which simplifies this process.
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eCommerce Optimized

With premium servers, heightened security, and the best eCommerce apps, a VPS from HostPapa is the perfect architecture to power your online store.
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Install Hundreds of Powerful Apps with 1-Click

With Softaculous, you can easily install over 400 apps, including WordPress, Joomla!, and more.
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Premium Root-Level Access Capabilities

We offer command line root-level SSH access for advanced users who require complete control.

100% Satisfaction Guarantee

At HostPapa, we're so confident you'll love our services that we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you're not satisfied within your first 30 days with us, we'll make things right by giving you a full refund.1

Web Hosting (Shared) vs. VPS Hosting

Trying to decide between our shared Web Hosting and our powerful, Managed VPS Hosting?

Web Hosting (Shared)

Managed VPS Hosting

Control

Resources

Security

Applications

Traffic

Server resources may be capped, and you may be unable to install the necessary scripts, apps, or plugins on your website.

If another customer's website starts using too many computing resources, your website's performance will be negatively impacted.

If another customer's website on your shared server gets hacked, your website could also be compromised, and remediation would be beyond your control.

You may not be able to install important applications in your shared hosting environment due to excessive resource requirements.

With shared hosting, you can receive low to moderate amounts of traffic. Traffic surges may require additional computing resources.

VPS gives you the freedom to install any script or app you need, reboot the server, and even allocate resources where required.

With a VPS, the resources on your server are yours alone, so another customer's usage will never harm your website or application performance.

A dedicated IP address keeps your VPS account isolated from others, and you have the freedom to implement any additional security measures you see fit.

You can install applications and other intensive scripts requiring custom server configurations and enhanced computing resources on your VPS.

A VPS can handle heavy traffic surges, and you can upgrade your account at any time if you need additional computing resources.

Want to move your existing VPS server to HostPapa?

We've made it easier than ever!

Avoid downtime while moving!

We take away worries about downtime. One of our migration experts will take care of you throughout the entire process, completely Free of charge.3 This is what we do every day! Transfer Now
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Compare Our VPS Hosting Plans

Do you want to get technical? At HostPapa, we pride ourselves on our VPS architecture's power, security, and reliability, which means we love it when customers want to dig even deeper into our detailed specs.

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

RAM (Random Access Memory) stores data the server accesses frequently, improving performance. The more RAM a server has, the less time it will take to access resources, ultimately reducing wait time.

Processor

The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the brains of your server and is where most calculations happen. More cores mean the CPU can process more calculations in faster times than traditional single-core processors.

NVMe storage

Disk space is the physical amount of storage area you have in which to keep vital files. For example, the more space you have, the less you need to worry about finding room for a growing website.

Bandwidth transfer

Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transferred from one point to another over a certain period of time.

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Monthly price (3-month term)

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4

60GB

1TB

$59.99

$49.99

$44.99

$39.99

$34.99

$29.99

4GB

4

125GB

2TB

$89.99

$84.99

$82.99

$79.99

$74.99

$69.99

8GB

8

250GB

2TB

$159.99

$149.99

$144.99

$139.99

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16GB

8

500GB

4TB

$209.99

$199.99

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$184.99

$179.99

32GB

12

1TB

8TB

$319.99

$299.99

$289.99

$279.99

$269.99

$259.99

Your choice of management level: self-managed, managed, or fully managed

Your choice of operating system: CentOS, Ubuntu, or Debian

Root access SSH

SolusVM VPS panel

Websites hosted

Enhanced NVMe drives

NVMe is three times faster than traditional Hard Disk Drives. For your website hosting, this means a much faster loading speed. If your server can display your website at lightning speed, this will contribute to the user experience on your site.

FTP accounts

Dreamweaver compatible

Adobe GoLive compatible

Cron jobs

DDoS attack responses

Secured entrance/exit

Redundant carriers

Network monitoring

Business-grade email - Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Advanced Email

24/7 live telephone support

24/7 email support

24/7 live chat support

Knowledge Base

99.9% uptime guarantee

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Softaculous script installer (400+ Scripts Free)

Domain aliases

Websites hosted

Subdomains

Server & control panel updates, patches & monitoring

Private nameservers

LAMP stack

HTML editor

File MIME types

Custom error pages

Page redirects manager

Web disk (WebDAV)

Web-based file manager

Password protected directories

Free website transfer1

One Free transfer (website files, databases, scripts) for new accounts within 30 days of sign-up and to newly upgraded accounts. We will migrate your current VPS hosting account from any provider, and you will experience no website downtime during the process.

Disaster recovery restore

KernelCare (fully managed VPS only)

A dedicated team of server admins (fully managed VPS only)

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Firewall

Brute force detection

Regular security updates

PCI DSS compliant

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MySQL 5.7 databases

phpMyAdmin access

PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 (choose your version)

Perl

Python version 2.7.5

Perl module installer

SSL supported (eCommerce)

Standard SSL

Ruby on Rails

Image Magick, NetPRM, GD

CURL, DomXML, mod-rewrite

Zend optimizer

IonCube PHP loader

Git

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Mailboxes (POP & IMAP)

Autoresponders

Forwarders

Mailman mailing lists

Secure IMAP & POP3

Squirrelmail webmail

Horde webmail

Roundcube webmail

BoxTrapper spam blocker

ClamAV

SpamAssassin spam blocker

Catch-all email addresses

Manual email filtering

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Webalizer software

Error & referral logs

Raw access logs

Subdomain stats

Domain keys and SPF

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Self-Managed VPS

Managed VPS

Fully-Managed VPS

Scale & upgrade

Monitoring

Network: Our network management will mitigate any threats and DDoS attacks while the host server is active and running. Your Managed VPS is constantly monitored to make sure your server successfully responds to requests.

Patches & updates

Server leverages patching tools available through its operating system, including KernalCare and CloudLinux or uses SolusVM control panel to patch OS and LAMP.

Root access

Access to the root level at the VPS container level, including command line or other administrator-level tasks.

Control panel

Automated install/updates of your choice of a third-party control panel, including cPanel/WHM.

App installations & updates

Automated install/updates of your choice of select third-party apps, including WordPress, Joomla!, and more.

Migration assistance

Website, email, and database migrations from internal or external hosting servers.

Access to expert support

A dedicated team of server admins, control panel, KernelCare, patching, security, monitoring, backups, website backup, website security, and SSL certificates for all your websites.

Dedicated IP addresses

Dedicated IPv4 addresses for your own use.

Scale your computing resources when necessary

Proactive monitoring, including our network and host

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Frequently Asked Questions

All your questions in one place! Whether it’s helping you choose a domain name, walking you through our website builder, or configuring your cloud email system for your business, we’re here to help!

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A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is an independent, virtual partition on a physical server. Think of a server with different "containers" within it. When you sign up for HostPapa VPS hosting, you get one of these containers to manage as you wish⁠–install applications or scripts and arrange your web files the way you want. It's private, secure, and flexible.

While you will share some hardware resources with other VPS customers on your server, nothing your neighbours do will affect your container and vice versa. You get many benefits from your dedicated server at a fraction of the cost. On a shared server, you rely on the performance of the platform provided. By choosing VPS, you can select a configuration best suited for your applications, requirements, and growth.

VPS hosting is an affordable option when your business requirements outgrow the capacity of shared hosting. The next logical step is substantially more capacity and control for just a bit more money. Users on a shared web hosting server share the computing resources for the websites, email, and databases. There is no guarantee of CPU or RAM on shared web hosting. VPS hosting provides dedicated computing resources for your websites, files, email, databases, etc., keeping you in complete control. In addition, you get more control with root-level access to perform configurations which are not possible in shared hosting.

A Virtual Private Server (VPS) allows you to easily host sites (storefronts, eCommerce, content, media) and software applications (primarily web: portal, extranet, collaborative solutions, wiki, CRM). Unlike shared hosting, VPS hosting allows you to isolate multiple applications within the same container. VPS offers several advantages over shared hosting. As a VPS user, you can:

  • Run specific applications that are not allowed in shared plans, such as custom forums.
  • Access additional capacity⁠—fewer customers share each server.
  • Enjoy the reduced risk that your business will be disrupted due to a co-hosted site on the server.
  • Be independent. If another customer compromises their VPS, yours won't be affected.

Users are guaranteed the resources on their VPS server for their web hosting accounts. This means that your account will always be allocated the set amount of RAM, CPU, and disk space you've chosen, regardless of what other users on the server are doing. This allows for greater stability and performance of your website, applications, and email. You also do not share the operating system with any other users, providing better security for your website files.

Two words: cost and maintenance. Running your own dedicated server is possible but comes at a higher cost and is self-managed. You must keep up with patches, hardware upgrades, server maintenance, and storage. You can also rent dedicated servers, but the price is substantially more than that of a VPS.

A VPS offers the perfect compromise between the constraints of a shared hosting plan and the commitment of a dedicated server. You'll have much more flexibility, capacity, and control at an affordable price.

Managed VPS hosting means that we will handle just about anything to do with your server: nuts, bolts, wires, drives, connectivity, racking, storage, security, and so on. All you have to manage is your own container, which you can do using the provided control panel software or through root access. You can install, manage, and operate software/scripts of your choice. Customers who acquire either managed or fully managed service for VPS hosting will receive cPanel/WHM licenses. Installation of non-cPanel supported applications will not be supported by our customer service.

Managed support services include, but are not limited to:

  • Server boot failures
  • Email configuration
  • Package manager installations
  • Google Apps setup
  • Firewall setup/troubleshooting
  • Hardware failures
  • Network issues
  • Software upgrades and migrations
  • Custom Apache configurations
  • DNS configuration
  • Security audits
  • Troubleshooting script configurations/website errors
  • Perl/PECL module/extension installations
  • And more

For further information on the differences between managed and fully managed VPS services, please click here.

With HostPapa, you have a choice to either self-manage your VPS or acquire a managed or fully managed service. HostPapa's Managed VPS service includes updating and patching the core operating system, backing up content and data on the server, installing SSL, and more. Fully Managed VPS is a white-glove service that includes a dedicated team of server admins, server setup, DNS setup, content migration, custom firewall rules, and more. For more details about this and other managed VPS services, please click here.

Using VPS hosting is not more complicated than using a shared hosting service, but some prior experience in hosting will be an asset. Remember, a VPS lets you take control of your server space. It's a logical step if you require more computing resources or flexibility than a shared hosting environment can provide.

You must register and use private nameservers with a VPS Hosting plan. If you already have private nameservers, you must update them with your new VPS account's IP addresses. Click here to learn more about setting up private nameservers.

HostPapa has been in the web hosting business since 2006 and has developed a solid reputation as a reliable hosting provider. We also have 24/7 support to help with any issues you may encounter along the way. Our experience, exemplary support, and proven reliable track record will all serve you well as a HostPapa VPS customer.
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