A2 Hosting VPS 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
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| 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 |
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 | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | No |
Pros and Cons
Weaknesses
- Predatory pricing (requires very long term contracts to get advertised prices)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 90s | 60s | 120s | 2 |
Control Panel Screenshots
A2 Hosting Instance Types and Plans
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