A2hosting.com - Hosting overview

Overview

A2 is a full package provider, meaning they offer customers shared, VPS, dedicated server hosting solutions as well as a domain registration service.

But let’s not jump ahead yet, A2 also offers nice variations of hosting solutions, such as personal, blog, WordPress, eCommerce, business, and agency hostings. They strongly advertise their turbo hosting solution, running on powerful NVMe SSD drives. The company provides both managed and unmanaged servers, which is a nice touch.

As stated on their site, the support department is ready to help round the clock 24/7/365 and you can contact them by opening a ticket, phone, or a live chat. The first response was after 2 minutes and it took a whole 11 minutes to deal with my questions.

The site features a knowledge base that covers just about any question or issues that you can run into while using the service, along with useful tutorials.

Although the NVMe SSDs are used only in turbo plans, A2 servers stay still as powerful and reliable. Turbo service achieves its “turbo” features by running on an up to date high-tier hardware as well as supporting LiteSpeed, HTTP3, ESI, and QUIC, making the server performance skyrocket.

Their server is running on RAID 10 technology, and use numerous security and performance measures, for example, support for CloudFlare, Different firewalls, DDoS, and Bruteforce protection.

A free SSL certificate is included with every plan.

A2 promises an uptime of 99.9%.

A2 offers its own website builder in some of its plans.
You can choose between managed and unmanaged servers, so you could save as much as 50% of the server cost if you know what you’re doing or have a specialist in your team.  You can choose between various locations for your server.

Hosting is also versatile due to its easy scalability, full root access.

cPanel comes with Softaculous, a one-click install package allowing you to add popular addons, CMS, and much more. Also, tech support personnel will transfer your site to A2 platform free of charge.

A2 hosting offers reseller and affiliate programs, so you could either resell or advertise A2 services, gaining some profit.

• Almost everything can be customized;
• A2 CDP backups;
• You can choose between managed and unmanaged;
• Turbo plans.

The prices are in the margin of the market average, but still could be considered high by someone. They start from 10.99 for shared or WordPress hostings.
There’s a 30 days refund policy for most of the services.

The payment can be made in multiple different currencies, like BRL, CAD, EUR, GBP, INR, MXN, SGD, and USD. A2 accepts PayPal, bank cards, American Express, union pay, and Skrill.