A2 Hosting Review
A2 Hosting was founded in 2001.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers Shared, Wordpress, VPS and Dedicated hosting products.
- Netherlands
- Singapore
- United States
Quick Links
| A2 Hosting plans specs and prices | Plans |
| How fast are A2 Hosting servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of A2 Hosting trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in A2 Hosting trials | CPUs |
| List of A2 Hosting yabs.sh results | Yabs |
A2 Hosting VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | No | |
| DDOS Protection | No |
Available from Cloudflare for $16/month. |
| Backups | No |
A2 Hosting only provides instructions to create your own backup to your own backup server. |
| Control Panel | Builtin | |
| SSH Keys Setup | No | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 4 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 3 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes |
Network traffic, Load and Memory usage. |
| Admin REST API | No | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | No | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Reverse DNS | No |
Theoretically possible from Solus but "Reverse DNS is disabled for this ipaddress. Please contact support" |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards, Paypal, Bank transfers | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| IPv6 support | No | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | No |
Pros and Cons
Weaknesses
- Predatory pricing (requires 3 year term contracts to get advertised prices)
- Price displayed on public website are for first month only. Real prices can be found at https://www.a2hosting.com/about/renewal-pricing.
A2 Hosting Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, A2 Hosting also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each A2 Hosting VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 75s | 60s | 90s | 2 |
Control Panel Screenshots
A2 Hosting Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.