Overview
How A2 Hosting Works
Visitor Capacity and Scalability Options
The company offers a ton of sweet hosting packages—unmanaged and managed. They’ve got Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, Cloud Hosting, Reseller Hosting and even Dedicated Hosting for sites that require some heavier duty hardware. All of their hosting packages are pricier than many other top-name web hosting providers, but with a 99.9% uptime guarantee and plenty of features at your fingertips, it’s hard to complain.
With the amount of hosting options available, A2 Hosting makes it insanely easy to scale your site. If you’re just starting, you can begin with a small Shared Hosting plan and eventually make your way up to a Dedicated Hosting plan. They make it seamless to upgrade a Shared Hosting or Reseller Hosting plan without any interruption, but if you opt for their VPS Hosting package, you’ll have to order it as a new service and migrate your data over.
Return on Investment
The neat thing about A2 Hosting is that, while on the pricey side, they give you high quality tools to give you opportunities to make your money back. Now, your return on investment will depend highly on what you do with your site. Your margins do get a bit thinner because of the pricier hosting plans, but between ad network opportunities, high quality blogging software and a plethora of Ecommerce tools, getting a return on your money won’t be a problem.
And, if you decide you don’t like A2 Hosting within your first 30 days of using it, the company has a great money-back guarantee policy. As long as you cancel within that 30-day window, you’ll get a full refund. Most companies offer a refund policy like this, sometimes with a bit of a longer or even shorter window. But, A2 Hosting takes things a step further. If you cancel after your first 30 days, you’ll get a prorated refund, as in you only pay for what you already used.
Ease of Use
For the average user, figuring things out can be a bit difficult at first. There’s a lot of different hosting packages, and depending on what you end up with, there’s a ton of different features available to you. Suffice it to say, it could get confusing. But, once you figure out your hosting package and what tools you have at your disposal, it gets easier to find your way around.
If you’re looking to make a WordPress site, it’s never been easier to grasp. You can order it pre-installed with your hosting package or you can go through the steps of the easy-to-use 1-click install tool. It’s just as easy for many other content management systems (CMS) on A2 Hosting as well.
A2 Hosting Customer Support
A2 Hosting’s customer support team, dubbed the Guru Crew, is some of the best you’ll get in the business. We contacted them on multiple occasions during our test run with A2 Hosting, and they’re nothing but helpful.
They offer 24/7 customer support by way of phone or live chat. When contacting them, we never waited more than a few seconds for someone to respond. Like we said, they’re nothing but helpful. Whether you have simple WordPress questions or are running into more complex issues, the Guru Crew is there to help.
A2 Hosting packages are packed with features. Some of the features you get are dependent upon the hosting package you get, but for the most part, you have a lot available to you. For example, there’s quite a large number of features for setting up an online store. There’s things like PrestaShop available to you, but also a large number of other tools, including drag-and-drop solutions.
The company also supports Let’s Encrypt, meaning you'll get a free SSL. You can get other add-ons as well, such as offsite backups, a spam firewall and even a content delivery network (CDN) like CloudFare.
A2 Hosting Pricing
Pricing & Special Offers
A2 Hosting has 4 different types of hosting packages available: Shared, VPS, Reseller and Dedicated.
A2 Hosting Pricing and Plans:
Bottom Line
All in all, A2 Hosting has a lot to offer for a wide range of people. If you’re someone wanting to start a small blog, A2 has a hosting plan for you. Or, maybe you’re someone wanting to move a high-traffic Ecommerce site over to a web host. Well, A2 has excellent plans for you to choose from as well. A2 Hosting leans on the pricey side, but with the quality you get, you can’t go wrong with entrusting your site to them.
