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A2 Hosting
Pros:
Anytime Moneyback Guarantee
Turbo Servers, Up to 20x Faster
Windows (Plesk) or Linux (cPanel) Servers
High Uptime: 99.9%
Huge Inode Files
Cloudlinux + Custom php.ini
FREE SSL
Unlimited Email + Unlimited Storage Per Email
Auto Installer
4 Location in 3 Countries
Cons:
Lot of Extra Charge
Expensive Renewal Rates
Outdated cPanel Version
Not Free Cloudflare, Not Free Adwords, Not Free Domain
A2 Hosting
1. Offering Linux (cPanel) and Windows (Plesk Panel) Hosting
A2 Hosting offering you Linux servers (cPanel), and Windows servers (Plesk), based on your needs, you can choose Linux or windows, both cPanel and Plesk are powerful, Windows Hosting packages a little bit expensive more than Linux because of Windows License, Linux and Windows servers are completely different than each other, whether choosing Linux or windows you will get a lot of features in A2 Hosting in both versions.
2. Good in Download & Upload Speed
Download and Upload speed in FTP, cPanel, Direct is so good, we tested a lot of files with a dedicated server (1Gpbs port), all files more than 1GB, A2 Hosting speeds are impressive, you definitely need speed in your web hosting, because of if you want to put files for download or upload big files you realized how much it's important to have a good web hosting, whenever your business grow up you will have more customers, more customers need more speed, so take it all from first place until you have a good web hosting at all.
3. Free Migration
In A2 Hosting you don't need to worry how can transfer your websites to A2 Hosting, in Shared web hosting, VPS hosting, Cloud hosting, Dedicated hosting, A2 Hosting team will transfer your websites easily, the Migration process is free, this process is manual, must do from your side, you must request from A2 Hosting support to do it for you, it's easy.
4. Cloudlinux + CageFs
What is Cloud Linux?
CloudLinux OS is the leading platform for multitenancy. It improves server stability, density, and security by isolating each tenant and giving them allocated server resources. This creates an environment that feels more like a virtual server than a shared hosting account. By doing so, CloudLinux OS reduces operating costs and churn rates and increases profitability.
Now in A2 Hosting, you can have Cloudlinux and CageFs together in your Web Hosting, this is allowing you to make PHP very own, in many things you will need to tune your PHP.
Cloudlinux very popular and huge benefit for you if using Shared Hosting.
5. Commitment for 99.9% Uptime
A2 Hosting 24/7/365 support staff with expert system admins keep your server running at its peak. They use industry best practices, the best data centers and ensure your server has the latest security patches. That's why they can commit to your site being up over 99.9% of the time.
This commitment is applicable for any unscheduled downtime of your website for more than 0.1% of the total time per month. A2 Hosting will provide a service credit in the amount of 5% of paid fee for the month, for every hour that your website is unreachable due to an internal network or equipment failure. Downtime must be confirmed by a staff member of our support team. Maximum service credit given will be for the full amount paid for the month of outage, excluding any paid fees for additional services. Submit a ticket to request a credit.
6. Fast Server, SSD Storage
SSD Storage has 10x speed than Normal Storage, please don't forget people hate to waiting load websites, in A2 Hosting you will experince blazing fast SSD Storage and this is huge benefit for you and your busniess, of course some other Web Hosting Like FastComet, Siteground, Hostinger, InMotion Hosting and more offering to you SSD Storage, we recommend to you buy one Web Hosting offer to you SSD Storage, today Speed is very Important and people Love speedy websites, when you can have speedy website why don't have it?
7. Turbo Server, Up to 20x faster (Only Turbo Plan)
A2 Hsoting Turbo servers provide a drop-in Apache replacement that load pages up to 20X faster page loads compared to standard hosting. What makes A2 Hosting Turbo servers so fast?
- Fewer users per server
- A2 Optimized - Powered By APC/OPcache & Turbo Cache
- Uses less CPU and memory than Apache
- Handles connections faster and more efficiently
- Provides enhanced stability
8. Free SSL
SSL Security very important and these days browser especially Google Chrome will warn your customers if you don't have SSL Security, so it's not optional and It's Important for your website, First Install SSL Security on your website then Force it to open any url of your website with https instead http, (Click Here to learn how can force it), In A2 Hosting you can have Free SSL Security with Lets Encrypt, in Lets Encrypt you will have 90 Days SSL Security and don't worry it's Unlimited Free Renewal, if your 90 days is over it will automatically Renew for New one, Sounds Good it's Free and A2 Hosting will let you have it for non-charge and Free, please don't forget to activate your Free SSL Security on your Panel.
9. Free Local Backup
Worst Nightmare for everyone is Hacked, deleted files or doing something wrong in your websites, of course at that moment you wish undo button, Yes in A2 Hosting you will have Free local backup on Swift and Turbo Plans, You can restore the backup by your self.
In Lite plan you don't have Free Local Backup, but you can buy it as add-on service.
10. A2 Hosting Optimized Site Accelerator (Only Turbo Plan)
A2 Hosting exclusive A2 Optimized Site Acccelerator is a cPanel plugin providing pre-configured caching for your applications from a single interface for even faster page loads. Caching options include:
- Turbo Cache - The entire HTML contents of a page is stored by Turbo Cache and served without running PHP for up to 20X faster page loads.
- OPcache/APC – Tests show OPcache can cut PHP page response time in half. OPcache comes pre-configured with PHP 5.5 and later version. APC is available on earlier PHP versions.
- Memcached - Increases the speed of your MySQL databases by keeping your most important data in memory for quicker retrieval.
11. Unlimited Email Storage & Unlimited Email Accounts
If you want use your domain email on your hosting Service A2 Hosting is a great choice, in A2 Hosting you will have huge storage compare than other competitors, in Lite plan you will get 25 Email Accounts with unlimited email storage/per email, on the Swift and Trubo plans you will get unlimited email storage Per Email and Unlimited Email Accounts, this is pretty good, This is good for business or individual, you can create emails simple and fast.
12. Multiple Server Location
A2 Hosting will provide you with multiple worldwide locations, If you live in America you will need America Server, if you live in Europe you will get Europe Server instead American Server, if you live in Asia you will need Asia Server, A2 Hosting will cover you in The Worldwide with servers located in the USA-Michigan, USA-Arizona, Netherlands, and Singapore,you can choose by your self which server you want to have, When you want to signup at A2 Hosting you can change the server if you want, all servers are powerful and same, so don't worry about the which location is better than others.
13. High Performance Servers
When you want to Get a VPS, Shared Hosting, Cloud Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, the most important factors is powerful server, Fortunately in A2 Hosting servers are powerful, shared well between customers, the servers in every plan are powerful and differences for you when show up to use eCommerce or applications in your Web hosting plans, of course if you use a lot of applications and have many visitors during a day you must upgrade your plan to higher level even Cloud Hosting and VPS Hosting, The Servers in A2 Hosting carefully monitoring, check performances by experts and before something bad happened they will fix it, it's very important your web hosting server using high-performance hardware because high-performance hardware make your websites work smoothly and hassle-free.
14. Auto Installer for CMS
If you want to install Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Prestashop, Magento and more, you can do it with just one click without any hassle, you can do it by your self without need any coding or technical, It's easy and good, The Auto Installer (Easy Installer) using on the A2 Hosting, You can easily install any CMS you want it fast and with a few Clicks.
15. Drag & Drop Builder (FREE)
If you don't want buy or download a Free Theme, Such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal and more, You can use Free Drag & Drop Builder on A2 Hosting, in Free Version of the Drag & Drop Builder you can't have features like Wordpress and other CMS or even customized websites, but still good for startup business, If you want to have more Features must be upgrade your Drag & Drop Builder on A2 Hosting, the price is starting from 6.00$/Month with your hosting Terms.
Sitebuilder Basic: 6.00$/Mo,
Sitebuilder Business: 12.00$/Mo,
Sitebuilder Enterprise: 16.00$/Mo,
The Prices in Drag & Drop Builder is high, very small features included, we Recommend Use Wordpress Theme, Joomla Theme, Drupal Theme, and More CMS Themes, Especially Recommend Using MotoCMS Builder.
16. Huge Inodes
An inode is a data structure used to keep information about a file on your hosting account. The number of inodes indicates the number of files and folders you have. This includes everything on your account, emails, files, folders, anything you store on the server.
In A2 Hosting you can have huge number of files, in all shared plans you can have 600,000 Inodes, this is so good,
1. Lot of Extra Charge
Everyone wants a good hosting at a good price, the web hosting prices in A2 Hosting is good, but a lot of extra charges at high price during checkout, Priority Support, Railgun, Cloudflare (Cloudflare is Free and I can't understand why must pay for something free), Baracuda Spam Firewall, all of these need to extra charge.
2. No Free Domain or Free Adwords
Everyone loves Freebies, Specially Google Adwords, Bing Adwords, Facebook Adwords and more, Most Web Hosting prvoide you Free Domains and FastComet Provide you lifetime FREE Domain (Mean until renew FastComet Service), Unfortunately in A2 Hosting you don't get any Freebies Like FREE Domain and Google Adwords Credtis, etc.
3. Expensive Renewal Rates
In A2 Hosting you will signup at a good price, but when your period is over you must pay almost 2x price you signed up before, the Good news is A2 Hosting sale team will give you discount if ask them, or better renew at holidays like Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, etc, because at those time you will get good discount, The renew prices in Siteground is High and I suggest to you when you want to signup choose long terms until avoid expensive renewal rates and before expiring date renew at good price.
If the renewal rates still bother you, you can choose another web hosting with flat renewal rates here.
4. Old cPanel version
I want to ask A2 Hosting why using almost 10 Months ago cPanel and I did it, they answered me we will update soon, when I don't know?!!
Today the Latest Version of cPanel is 76, A2 Hosting cPanel Version is 68 for Apr 09, 2018, this is a huge problem from my sight, maybe you ask your self what's differences between cPanel 68 and 76, you can see lot of differences here. It's right A2 Hosting has own rules and own security updates, Monitoring servers 24/7, keeping up to date Security softwares, but what about cPanel update?
A2 Hosting staff should work a little harder to always keeping up to date Softwares, Is true good hardwares are very important but Software very important too, I hope as soon as possible A2 Hosting update cPanel version and always keeping up to date.
