A2 Hosting was founded in 2001.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers Shared, Wordpress, VPS and Dedicated hosting products.
A2 Hosting plans specs and prices | Plans |
Review A2 Hosting plan grades in the Screener | Screener |
Review CPU models found in A2 Hosting trials | CPUs |
Performance variations of A2 Hosting VPS over the long term | Consistency |
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Feature | Value | Comment |
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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 | |
Firewall | No | |
Shelving | No |
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 |
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 |
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5460s | 120s | 10800s | 2 |
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URL | https://www.a2hosting.com/vps-hosting/unmanaged |
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Price per month | $12.99 |
Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
Discount Discounted monthly price: $11.99 Minimum continuous use for discount: 1 year |
Disk GB | 250 |
Num Cores | 2 |
Memory GB | 2 |
Hourly Billing | No |
Virtualization | Parallels |
Data Transfer GB | 3000 |
Burstable CPU | No |
Dedicated CPU | No |
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 43
Web Performance | Raw CPU Power | Performance Stability | Disk IO Performance | Network Performance |
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C | D | C | E | C |
Note: A low grade on a low price VPS does not necessarily mean the VPS is underperforming, the server may still perform better than other servers at the same price. Use the Price Weighted Grades or the Best VPS 2022 rankings to find the best VPS in each price range.
We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for A2 Hosting - Runway 2. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
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Review | Review | Review | Review |
Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Runway 2 plan with its grade and CPU type.
Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
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Jan 17 2021 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v4 @ 2.10GHz | Michigan, USA | D |
URL | https://www.a2hosting.com/vps-hosting/unmanaged |
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Price per month | $16.99 |
Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
Disk GB | 450 |
Num Cores | 4 |
Memory GB | 4 |
Hourly Billing | No |
Virtualization | Parallels |
Data Transfer GB | 4000 |
Burstable CPU | No |
Dedicated CPU | No |
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 63
Web Performance | Raw CPU Power | Performance Stability | Disk IO Performance | Network Performance |
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B | B | C | C | D |
Note: A low grade on a low price VPS does not necessarily mean the VPS is underperforming, the server may still perform better than other servers at the same price. Use the Price Weighted Grades or the Best VPS 2022 rankings to find the best VPS in each price range.
We conducted 4 different types of tests during the latest trial for A2 Hosting - Runway 4. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Web Runs | Network Transfers | Sysbench | Endurance |
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Review | Review | Review | Review |
Compare | Compare | Compare | Compare |
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the Runway 4 plan with its grade and CPU type.
Start of Trial | CPU | Datacenter | Overall Grade |
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Feb 11 2022 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4210R CPU @ 2.40GHz | Arizona, USA | C |