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HostPapa

Web hosting and email services

Overview

HostPapa is a web technology and hosting company. It provides website hosting, domains, email, servers, website tools, and related support for small and growing businesses. Its services help business owners and organizations operate websites, communications, and online services. The company combines data-center infrastructure and site reliability with software, product, billing, integrations, customer support, marketing, sales, and account management. Work spans infrastructure, software engineering, site reliability, product, billing, technical support, marketing, and customer success.

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About HostPapa

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Why HostPapa is rated
C+
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Enterprise SoftwareCybersecurity

Company Size

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Company Stage

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Total Funding

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Headquarters

Oakville, Canada

Founded

2006

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What believers are saying

  • A 2025 $130 million credit facility funds continued tuck-in acquisitions and infrastructure expansion.
  • HostPapa reported about 420 employees in March 2026, indicating continued hiring despite consolidation.
  • Recent hosted-product updates on September 2, 2026 support premium pricing and cross-sell into WordPress customers.

What critics are saying

  • April 2026 cPanel lockdowns exposed HostPapa’s operational fragility during security emergencies.
  • Trustpilot and BBB complaints still cite billing disputes, upselling pressure, and unresolved downtime.
  • Aggressive acquisitions invite integration failures; one bad migration or support outage damages renewals and churn.
  • upsides it benefits from
  • 2025 credit facility and 2026 acquisitions show capital access and a still-expanding deal pipeline.
  • HostPapa reported about 420 employees in March 2026, indicating continued hiring despite consolidation.
  • Recent hosted-product updates on September 2, 2026 support premium pricing and cross-sell into WordPress customers.

What makes HostPapa unique

  • HostPapa built a multi-brand roll-up, adding Hostwinds and Tailor Made Servers in April 2026.
  • CloudBlue’s August 2025 acquisition gives HostPapa automation, marketplace, and subscription-billing infrastructure.
  • Managed WordPress launched with Cloudflare Enterprise, daily backups, and 24/7 phone, chat, email support.

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Benefits

  • Remote Work Options
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Professional Development Budget

Company News

PR Newswire
Oct 9th, 2026
HostPapa, a Managed.com company, ranks No. 92 on The Globe and Mail's Canada's Top Growing Companies 2026.

HostPapa, a Managed.com company, ranks No. 92 on The Globe and Mail's Canada's Top Growing Companies 2026. HostPapa, Inc. Oct 09, 2026, 10:00 ET Managed.com's founding brand posts 298% three-year revenue growth; earns sixth consecutive year on the Globe and Mail list and 11th appearance on Canada's national growth rankings. BURLINGTON, ON, Oct. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - HostPapa, a Managed.com company, has ranked No. 92 on the 2026 Report on Business magazine ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies, in the Technology and Telecom category. Canada's Top Growing Companies ranks independent Canadian companies by revenue growth over three years. HostPapa earned its place with three-year revenue growth of 298% from 2022 to 2025, This is the company's sixth consecutive year on the Globe and Mail list (2021 to 2026) and its 11th appearance on Canada's national growth rankings, counting five years on the PROFIT 500 (2013 to 2017). It follows placing No. 115 in 2025 and No. 189 in 2024. "HostPapa first made this national growth ranking in 2013," said Jamie Opalchuk, founder and CEO of Managed.com. "Eleven appearances later, how we grow has not changed: we build brands, and we acquire, operate, integrate, and improve the ones we bring in. In September we gave that work one home, Managed.com, the platform for the brands businesses run on in the AI era. This recognition belongs to our team of 750+ people, and to the business owners, developers, and channel partners who run on our platform every day." The ranking covers a period of significant expansion. In 2025, the company launched new product lines including dedicated server hosting, closed a USD $130 million senior secured credit facility led by BMO, and completed its acquisition of the CloudBlue business from Ingram Micro. On September 17, 2026, Managed.com launched as the platform for brands such as HostPapa, ColoCrossing, Hostopia, CloudBlue, and LogoMaker, to help businesses build, operate, and grow in the AI era. "Our annual ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies celebrates the innovation, ambition and resilience of businesses across the country, and we're always excited to share as many of these standout stories as we can - including insight from the entrepreneurs themselves on how other companies can succeed, too," says Dawn Calleja, editor of Report on Business magazine. "The Globe and Mail congratulates the winners of Canada's Top Growing Companies 2026 on this exceptional achievement," says Andrew Saunders, president and CEO of The Globe and Mail. "Each of these organizations has shown an extraordinary ability to adapt, innovate and grow amid ongoing change. Their achievements reflect the ingenuity and determination of Canadian entrepreneurs and business leaders who are helping shape the future of our economy." About HostPapa HostPapa (www.hostpapa.com), a Managed.com company, is where businesses get online and build their brand. It offers websites, domains, email, and AI-first tools that do the heavy lifting, with award-winning customer service only one step away. Founded in Burlington, Ontario, in 2006, HostPapa is trusted by millions of small and medium-sized business owners. About Managed.com Managed.com (managed.com) is the platform for brands such as HostPapa, ColoCrossing, Hostopia, CloudBlue, and LogoMaker: technology brands helping businesses build, operate, and grow in the AI era. Managed.com provides AI-enablement services for small and medium-sized businesses, including website hosting, a website builder, and AI-first brand-building tools; infrastructure for the AI economy; white-label services for telcos and service providers; and channel commerce for the world's largest telcos and distributors. Managed.com operates data centers across North America and Europe, with 750+ people in 40 countries. About The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail is Canada's foremost news media company, leading the national discussion and causing policy change through brave and independent journalism since 1844. With its award-winning coverage of business, politics and national affairs, The Globe and Mail newspaper reaches 6.1 million readers every week in its print or digital formats, and Report on Business magazine reaches 2.7 million readers in print and digital every issue. Its investment in innovative data science means that as the world continues to change, so does The Globe. The Globe and Mail is owned by Woodbridge, the investment arm of the Thomson family. Media Contact Corey Hammond, HostPapa, Inc., 1 888-959-7272, [email protected], managed.com SOURCE HostPapa, Inc.

Beauregard News
Oct 9th, 2026
HostPapa, a Managed.com company, ranks No. 92 on The Globe and Mail's Canada's Top Growing Companies 2026.

HostPapa, a Managed.com company, ranks No. 92 on The Globe and Mail's Canada's Top Growing Companies 2026. PR Newswire Today at 7:00am PDT Managed.com's founding brand posts 298% three-year revenue growth; earns sixth consecutive year on the Globe and Mail list and 11th appearance on Canada's national growth rankings. BURLINGTON, ON, Oct. 9, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ - HostPapa, a Managed.com company, has ranked No. 92 on the 2026 Report on Business magazine ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies, in the Technology and Telecom category. Eleven appearances later, how Beauregard News grow has not changed: Beauregard News build brands, and Beauregard News acquire, operate, integrate, and improve the ones Beauregard News bring in. Canada's Top Growing Companies ranks independent Canadian companies by revenue growth over three years. HostPapa earned its place with three-year revenue growth of 298% from 2022 to 2025, This is the company's sixth consecutive year on the Globe and Mail list (2021 to 2026) and its 11th appearance on Canada's national growth rankings, counting five years on the PROFIT 500 (2013 to 2017). It follows placing No. 115 in 2025 and No. 189 in 2024. "HostPapa first made this national growth ranking in 2013," said Jamie Opalchuk, founder and CEO of Managed.com. "Eleven appearances later, how we grow has not changed: we build brands, and we acquire, operate, integrate, and improve the ones we bring in. In September we gave that work one home, Managed.com, the platform for the brands businesses run on in the AI era. This recognition belongs to our team of 750+ people, and to the business owners, developers, and channel partners who run on our platform every day." The ranking covers a period of significant expansion. In 2025, the company launched new product lines including dedicated server hosting, closed a USD $130 million senior secured credit facility led by BMO, and completed its acquisition of the CloudBlue business from Ingram Micro. On September 17, 2026, Managed.com launched as the platform for brands such as HostPapa, ColoCrossing, Hostopia, CloudBlue, and LogoMaker, to help businesses build, operate, and grow in the AI era. "Our annual ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies celebrates the innovation, ambition and resilience of businesses across the country, and we're always excited to share as many of these standout stories as we can - including insight from the entrepreneurs themselves on how other companies can succeed, too," says Dawn Calleja, editor of Report on Business magazine. "The Globe and Mail congratulates the winners of Canada's Top Growing Companies 2026 on this exceptional achievement," says Andrew Saunders, president and CEO of The Globe and Mail. "Each of these organizations has shown an extraordinary ability to adapt, innovate and grow amid ongoing change. Their achievements reflect the ingenuity and determination of Canadian entrepreneurs and business leaders who are helping shape the future of our economy." About HostPapa HostPapa (www.hostpapa.com), a Managed.com company, is where businesses get online and build their brand. It offers websites, domains, email, and AI-first tools that do the heavy lifting, with award-winning customer service only one step away. Founded in Burlington, Ontario, in 2006, HostPapa is trusted by millions of small and medium-sized business owners. About Managed.com Managed.com (managed.com) is the platform for brands such as HostPapa, ColoCrossing, Hostopia, CloudBlue, and LogoMaker: technology brands helping businesses build, operate, and grow in the AI era. Managed.com provides AI-enablement services for small and medium-sized businesses, including website hosting, a website builder, and AI-first brand-building tools; infrastructure for the AI economy; white-label services for telcos and service providers; and channel commerce for the world's largest telcos and distributors. Managed.com operates data centers across North America and Europe, with 750+ people in 40 countries. About The Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail is Canada's foremost news media company, leading the national discussion and causing policy change through brave and independent journalism since 1844. With its award-winning coverage of business, politics and national affairs, The Globe and Mail newspaper reaches 6.1 million readers every week in its print or digital formats, and Report on Business magazine reaches 2.7 million readers in print and digital every issue. Its investment in innovative data science means that as the world continues to change, so does The Globe. The Globe and Mail is owned by Woodbridge, the investment arm of the Thomson family. Media Contact Corey Hammond, HostPapa, Inc., 1 888-959-7272, [email protected], managed.com SOURCE HostPapa, Inc. This is a paid placement. For further inquiries, please contact PR Newswire directly.

Paul Cottey
Oct 13th, 2025
We interrupt the list of apps to talk hosting...

Paul T. Cottey interrupt the list of apps to talk hosting... I was with Jumpline for the hosting of this website since September 2000. That is more than 25 years for you people keeping score at home. Jumpline went through some ups and downs along the way, as a lot of companies do, but they generally provided reasonable service at a reasonable price. A year or two ago, Jumpline got acquired by HostPapa. The silly mascot aside, HostPapa started off fine. They kept my price the same, and if my site was up and down a little, well I was only paying for best effort service. Last week I got a charge on my credit card from HostPapa, having never received a renewal invoice. The charge was for 77% MORE than last year's hosting. I got an invoice later that day and it showed that the invoice was not due for another two weeks. * HostPapa raised my price 77%. * HostPapa processed that charge prior to even sending an invoice. * HostPapa charged my card two weeks before the invoice was even due. Back to my story. I contacted HostPapa to say "WTF?" and got this, "Please note that our system automatically processes renewals 15 days before the due date to prevent any disruption to your services. This ensures your website remains active without interruption." Ah, I should have known that the "system" does that automatically. Paul T. Cottey wouldn't want to leave humans in charge of anything. One agent admitted there was a plan that was even cheaper than what I had been paying, but that the Level 2 tech team would have to approve because my current resources may need to be "optimized" before that would work. (Most days, by the way, my website never breaks a sweat, so I discredit that they were really going to let me download my plan and figure they were just trying to freeze me from moving hosters.) I asked if there is refund if I found the new plan did not work for me and was told that, "If you decide to cancel during the middle of your current term, a refund would unfortunately not be possible, as our 30-day money-back guarantee applies only to new purchases." After signing up for another hoster and telling HostPapa that I was cancelling, they really kicked into gear. Another agent offered a "one-time courtesy" of 10% off, making my new cost only 47% higher than last year. But, then the price would go back up, and probably then some. The other agent wanted to make sure that I didn't want to try the cheaper plan anyway. I moved forward with a new hoster. Then I was just waiting for my credit card reversal. This came about three business days later. * HostPapa has a cheaper plan, but they were not really seroius about offering it up. * They were not willing to let me try the new plan with a refund of any unused months. * HostPapa, once faced with cancellation, tried to jump in and fix things, but I had moved on. * They did reverse the charge on my credit card. The migration actually has gone pretty well, based on the fact that you are reading this. The non-blog part of the website came over in just a couple hours since it is just html files. The blog part of the site needed some tweaking to the WordPress database. The cron jobs had some issues with sending emails. THIS is why I have documentation of my site, by the way. The new hoster is Hostinger, and they do some other of my sites. They are about 50% cheaper than the original cost with HostPapa, thus about 70% cheaper than the new, proposed price. Their tech support has been fantastic, both the AI version and the people who step in for the really hard questions. * 25 years of history wrapped up over highly-preventable customer service errors. * The attempt at the diving catch to save me failed as too little, too late. * On to the next chapter. Coming up next: More apps I can and can't live without. Thanks for reading.

PR Newswire
Aug 25th, 2025
HostPapa Acquires CloudBlue, Announces Executives

HostPapa has completed the acquisition of CloudBlue from Ingram Micro and is optimistic about CloudBlue's future under its leadership. The announcement also includes new executive appointments.

HostingJournalist
Jun 5th, 2025
HostPapa Acquires Cloudblue Business from Ingram Micro

HostPapa acquires cloudblue business from Ingram Micro.

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