A2 Hosting Review

A2 Hosting is a popular web hosting services company that provides hosting “by developers, for developers.” Its original name was Iniquinet and it was founded in 2001. In 2003, the company was renamed A2 Hosting after Ann Arbor, MI, where it is based. The company’s datacenter is near this town.

A2 offers a wide spectrum of services, among which shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated hosting, and reseller hosting; with the possibility to choose a management level and establish enterprise-grade control within each of them. A2 Hosting also supports all of your favorite content management platforms, meaning that it will fully optimize the power of your WordPress, Drupal, or Joomla website, as well as the capacity of your Open Cart or Magento store. In such way, A2 Hosting meets the needs of individual website and blog owners just as well as it meets the requirements of online businesses.

How is A2 Hosting different from its competitors? The A2-powered packages will supply you with free account migration for your current websites, a completely risk-free solution with permanent money-back guarantees, commitment to 99.9% uptime, and a 20x faster Turbo Server. A variety of domain names and features are also available to first-time users, and come with a surprisingly affordable price tag. As expected, A2 Hosting also offers expert support 24/7/365.

• A2 Hosting offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee. All types of servers–shared, resellers, VPS and dedicated–have their own uptime stats which are updated in real time. Figures are provided for the last 30 days, and each individual server’s uptime is revealed.
• A2 Hosting’s clients get free access to Server Rewind which is a custom backup tool that is accessible via Cpanel and offers restore points for databases and files.
• A2 Hosting’s servers are privately owned and are accessed only by its own technical team. The company’s data center is in Michigan and has SSAE16 security, uninterrupted power supply, diesel generators, and key-operated access to the servers and premises.

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A2 Hosting’s shared hosting customers get access to Cpanel 11 as standard. Resellers can use the standard combination of Cpanel and WHM. Customers using managed VPS and dedicated plans get Cpanel free. Unmanaged servers do not have any software installed.

Pros

• Good features, functionality, uptime and customer support
• Clear and simple pricing
• Offers lots of services and features

Cons

• Some of the products are too technical
• A few clients have complained about customer support

A2 Hosting’s technical support unit is based in the US, and all its employees are developers. That is why they are called the ‘Guru Crew’. The team is available round the clock on all 365 days of the year. They work from home as part of A2 Hosting’s green strategy.

Support is offered via a toll-free phone line for US customers, as well as tickets, and live chat. International customers can call a regular US phone number. The company is active on Twitter which it uses for service updates. Customers who need support are asked to use the ticketing system.