Hostinger Pros & Cons

How A2Hosting Works

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Overview

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With turbo-powered servers and extensive features, A2 Hosting offers reliable performance, 99.9% uptime, and super-fast speeds to meet your website hosting needs. Whether you’re a beginner or a tech expert, you’ll experience a user-friendly platform with an intuitive cPanel control panel to help manage your site seamlessly.

A2’s competitively-priced eco-friendly hosting types offer adequate options to find the best solution for your website or e-commerce business. There’s also a 30-day money-back guarantee in case you change your mind. Plus, A2’s customer support is always available if you need assistance. If you’re looking for a hosting solution you can count on, A2 Hosting should be on your list.

Best Suited For

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While A2 Hosting has many website hosting options for different customers, it attracts individuals and developers who need fast, reliable speeds and are concerned with environmental impact.

Hosting Types

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A2 Hosting offers several hosting options: Shared, Reseller, Unmanaged and Managed Dedicated Server hosting, Managed and Unmanaged Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting, and managed WordPress hosting.

Shared hosting is the lowest-tier offering. Its starter plans get your website/s online, and the turbo plans make your server 20 times faster while providing additional features and resources for your website.

The Reseller hosting plan—A2’s second-tier offering—enables you to host and manage your own customers. It also has a Turbo Reseller hosting version. Both versions offer control over all aspects of hosting, and you and your customers will experience top speeds and performance.

Managed WordPress hosting is the third-tier option. It only has turbo plans, with faster websites, data backups, optimized speed and security, and free expert site migration. It has unlimited websites and Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solid-state drives (SSDs), which transfer data faster than older drives.

The fourth-tier option is VPS hosting. Managed VPS provides a worry-free hosting solution with resources and feature dedicated to your website only, and updates handled by experts, while the unmanaged VPS hosting plan enables you to run the system independently. Both these options have only one turbo plan each, and it uses NVMe SSD drives, while other plans use the older SSD drives.

A2 Hosting also offers unmanaged and managed dedicated server hosting, enabling you to configure your own server or leave it to the experts to manage on your behalf.

Hosting Features

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Here are five top A2 Hosting features.

• cPanel Control Panel

CPanel is an intuitive and well-known control panel for managing your site, domains, email accounts, security settings, and databases.

• A2 Site Builder

With any subscription, you’ll get A2’s drag-and-drop site builder for designing, customizing, and publishing your website. It comes with themes, templates, an easy-to-use text editor, images, and the ability to add picture galleries.

• Carbon-Neutral Hosting

A2 Hosting is 100% carbon neutral, and the company recycles old servers, reduces waste, manages its carbon footprint, and supports renewable energy.

• Turbo Plans

A2 Hosting offers turbo subscription plans to deliver 20 times faster speeds and handle nine times more traffic to your website. You’ll get upgraded server software, optimized configurations, unlimited NVMe storage, automatic backups, and other performance-enhancing features.

• Email Accounts

Most of A2’s hosting packages provide unlimited email addresses, spam protection, management, address migration, sufficient storage, and security tools.

Plans & Pricing

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A2 Hosting has various price tiers for each hosting category, with monthly, annual, two-year, or three-year subscription deals.

Shared web hosting plans—from Starter to Turbo Max, the highest tier—range from $10.99-$25.99 per month for the monthly subscription, with an initial three-year subscription plan discounted to $2.99-$12.99.The Turbo uses the LiteSpeed Enhanced web server that gives it atleast 20X more speed than the Starter.

The Reseller hosting plans begin with Kickstart and move up to the highest tier, Scale, from $18.99-$44.99 per month for the monthly subscription. A2’s Turbo Reseller hosting version costs $24.99-$52.99 monthly.

Managed WordPress turbo-powered hosting plans are Run, Jump, Fly, and Sell, and they range from $23.99-$49.99 per month for the monthly subscription. Three-year subscription plans range from $11.99-$41.99 per month.

For managed VPS hosting, plans go from Lift4 to the higher-tier Mach 32 plan, with monthly prices from $49.99-$145.99. Three-year plans cost $33.99-$98.88 per month. Unmanaged VPS hosting offers Runway 1 to Supersonic 32 plans ranging from $6.99-$114.99 per month for the monthly subscription and three-year plans at $4.99-$74.99 per month.

For unmanaged dedicated hosting, plans range from Hyper 1 to the highest-tier Hyper 3 Turbo AMD plan, from $149.99-$579.99 per month. Its two-year subscriptions cost $105.99-$455.99 per month. Managed dedicated server hosting offers the Warp 1 plan to Warp 3 Turbo AMD plan, which range from $199.99-$629.99 per month for the monthly subscription and $155.99-$505.99 per month for a two-year subscription.

Free Offerings

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Several options that may be charged by other web hosts are included free when you subscribe to an A2 Hosting plan. These include SSL certificates, email addresses, the Cloudflare Content Distribution Network (CDN), SSD Drives speed boost, HackScan, and site migration.

• Uptime and Performance

A2 Hosting matches the web-hosting industry’s 99.9% uptime guarantee using its well-maintained, fast, and reliable servers. Performance is high because A2 uses NVMe SSD drives on some plans, which have enhanced processing power and fast data transfer speeds. SSD drives also offer a speed boost to enable your web pages to load quickly.

A2 security measures are top-notch, from protecting the physical servers to providing security tools for your website and your data. It offers virus scanning tools, hacking scans, distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) protection, two-factor authentication (2FA), automated backups, and more.

• Technology

Besides fast and modern drives, A2 Hosting uses high-powered, reliable, expert-monitored Linux servers stored in top-end data centers worldwide. The data centers have UPS and generators to provide a consistent power supply. The data centers also have redundant network connectivity, and the servers are stored in climate-controlled environments.

• Ease of Use

A2 Hosting is a user- and beginner-friendly web host with an easy-to-navigate platform. Features and tools such as the A2 Site Builder will help you set up a new website or migrate your existing site for free to A2’s hosting service. You can easily install a content management system (CMS) like WordPress with the one-click installer after you’ve paid for a subscription.

A2’s control panel helps you manage your site and install apps using the Softaculous plugin. Plus, if you prefer someone else to handle your website concerns, you can pay for managed hosting services.

Support Services

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A2 Hosting customer support is available free, 24/7/365. Support involves ticket submissions, phone calls, a knowledge base, instructional videos, and live chat. We tested the live chat and got quick responses in less than 10 minutes, though tickets can take a couple of hours to resolve. Email is available once a ticket is created.

Bottom Line

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A2 Hosting is an eco-friendly web host offering competitively priced hosting solutions, fast server speeds, security features, and reliable performance. It has turbo-powered state-of-the-art servers, automatic backups, and redundant measures to keep your website running seamlessly with 99.9% uptime. Its interface is user-friendly, and the company provides extensive features to suit your needs.

If you encounter any issues, A2’s customer support team is available 24/7/365 to guide you and solve your problems. Overall, with its great features, speed, and reliability, A2 Hosting is worth considering if you’re looking for a web host.