A2Hosting WordPress Hosting Review

A2Hosting has been started nearly one decade since 2001. It offers customer with an excellent WordPress hosting service and provides a rich environment for what WordPress hosting needs basically.

Throughout this A2Hosting review, we have discussed the WordPress compatibility, speed, uptime, features, price, support based on our real hosting test, and feedbacks from verified customers

Price

A2Hosting offers a very cheap price – namely Prime, which is starting at $3.92/mo, up to 51% off the original from $5.99/mo. Customers can enjoy this discount by going through the exclusive promotion link. Check out the details in below:

What’s more, A2Hosting guarantee of no hidden fees and 30 days money back. And for customers, A2Hosting offers:

• $25 free credits on Yahoo! Ads
• MIVA PPC
• Google Adwords
• $100 free credits on Text Link Ads
• $20 free credits on Bidvertiser
• Free 2 images from Pixmac Stock Images
• Free 30 days on SubmitNet SEO Software
• Free 60 days on Constant Contact Email Marketing

WordPress Compatibility in A2Hosting

WordPress compatibility is the most basic ingredient for any WordPress hosting service. Therefore, in order to make sure of the proper installation and running for WordPress, A2hosting offers a 100% WordPress compatible hosting service and technological support as follows:

• The latest versions of Apache, MySQL, and PHP, which play an important part for running WordPress successfully
• 1-click WordPress installer, with which even beginners can install and run WordPress within minutes, and powerful cPanel control panel, which allows customers to manage website easily
• 128MB PHP memory, higher than the common requirement, is large enough for complex site featuring a lot of images and plugins
• PHP run as suPHP for increased level of WordPress security
• The mod_rewrite Apache module

Above all, A2Hosting provides customers with a secure and reliable WordPress hosting environment.

Hosting Speed

A2Hosting is a quality WordPress hosting company and has built their excellent industry reputation on offering reliable web hosting with super-fast speed. As tested, A2hosting hosted site consumes 397ms averagely during the past 30 days as below:

A2Hosting provides unique SwiftServer platform with SSD (Solid State Drive), CloudFlare CDN and Railgun Optimizer to increase the websites’ speed. By utilizing SSDs, webpages load no less than to 300% faster than a common drive; with HTML, and Railgun loads up to 143% faster; and by using CloudFlare CDN, a website loads no less than 200% faster at all. That’s why A2Hosting websites hosting is always run smoothly and speedily.

For data centers, A2 Hosting has redundant network for fast and stable network connection, redundant power supply with 300KVA UPS uninterrupted power, SSAE16 certified to ensure security, and closely regulated environment with 24/7 monitoring.
All of these make A2Hosting reliable in speed.

Excellent Server Uptime

A good uptime track record is a significant factor that customers will consider about. In order to check out the uptime as A2Hosting guaranteed, our editor did a specific test in the real world.

According to the result, A2Hosting offers excellent and stable uptime, which is almost 100%. It’s means that any host website can be accessed day and night.

Besides, if there is any unscheduled downtime of the website for more than 0.1% of the total time per month, A2Hosting company will provide a refund in the amount of 5% of paid fee for the month, for every hour that the website is unreachable due to an internal network or equipment failure.

Feature

In order to guarantee quality WordPress hosting, A2Hosting offers very rich-featured hosting package for customers with followings:

• The latest version of PHP
• Unlimited MySQL 5.5 databases, disk space, email accounts, and domains
• The most popular scripts like PHP, Python, Ruby and Perl
• Free advanced server rewind backups, and site transfer
• Free cPanel and 1-Click WordPress installer
• PostgreSQL 9.1
• SSH access

Besides, A2Hosting supports a large set of technology which is nearly all the latest cutting-based.

Customer Support

A2Hosting provides 24/7/365 Guru Crew support to solve the problems raised by customers as soon as possible. The support team is 100% US based via phone, live chat and email, composed by professional experts and well-trained support staffs who have more than 5 years experience in the field. They have rich experience and knowledge of WordPress which can help customers immediately and effectively.

It is worth noting that A2Hosting support via email and telephone are responsive and professional. The waiting time for email and ticket system is less than 15 min, and the hold times for phone call is no more than 30 seconds averagely.

Summary

As we reviewed that A2Hosting is an excellent WordPress company with affordable price, at least 99.9% uptime, excellent speed, great customer service and a good variety of rich features. It’s worthy to choose!