Web Hosting Comparison

Also known as disk space, this is the amount of storage allocated to your account.

Your choice of web host has a direct impact on your sites' speed and can be the key reason why your site ultimately succeeds or fails. We want to see you succeed! That's why we designed our high speed Turbo Servers. After all, at A2 Hosting, it's "Our Speed, Your Success". What makes our Turbo Servers so fast?

• 40% Faster AMD EPYC CPU Performance
• 2X Faster To First Byte
• Can Handle 9X More Traffic
• 3X Faster Read/Write Speeds with NVMe Drives
• LiteSpeed Performance Enhanced Web Server
• A2 Optimized - Powered By APC/OPcache & Turbo Cache

See how we tested our Turbo Servers' performance against competing solutions.

Whether you want to develop with MySQL, MariaDB or both, rest assured that your databases come fine tuned for the best performance at A2 Hosting.

The amount of information delivered from your account's server to your website visitors.

Provide enhanced processing power with unbelievable I/O capacity to help vastly reduce bottlenecks. Our EPYC hardware also uses non-volatile memory express (NVMe) giving our Solid State Drives (SSDs) the ability to reach their full performance potential with ultra-fast read/write speeds.

Freedom from accidental deletion, mistakes & data corruption! Server Rewind is our free file recovery program. Easily restore your data from saved snapshots when recovery is necessary.

• Automatic - Account backup snapshots are taken regularly.
• Convenient - Access Server Rewind from your control panel.
• Exclusive – You can only get your hands on it at A2 Hosting!
• Free - Yes, it's actually 100% free. We promise.

_{Data backup and restoration is performed on a "best effort" basis. Please be sure to create your own backups of your data. You never know when our datacenter will be hit by a meteor. We will not be responsible for damage or loss as the result of a failed file restore.}

While standard hard drives can only perform hundreds of input/output operations per second, our SSDs perform thousands every second! With no moving parts and no bottlenecks, our SSDs can help your site really fly!

Some hosts claim to offer Solid State Drive Hosting but only host your OS or databases, not your files.  We use SSD for everything so you get the biggest speed boost possible That's why our SSD Hosting loads pages faster than our competition and why even we host our site on SSDs.

A2 Hosting provides you with free and automated SSL Certificates for enhanced website security and protection. Your websites get a trusted HTTPS for an encrypted connection. Best of all, our SSL Certificates are setup automatically for your domains by default! It's a no click SSL Certificate configuration!

Our proactive protection against malicious hackers and security threats! Our Perpetual Security is unrelenting and constant hosting protection, squashing threats before they potentially develop into something larger. Main Perpetual Security features:

• KernelCare - Daily, Automatic & Rebootless Kernel Updates
• Reinforced DDoS Protection
• Dual Web Hosting Firewall
• Brute Force Defense
• Virus Scanning
• Server Hardening
• 24/7/365 Security Monitoring

Risk-Free. Hassle-Free. Worry-Free.

We've got a lot of cool features we want you to try. So do it! Try us risk-free! If you decide we're not the right host for you, just cancel your account and we'll give you a full refund within 30-days or a prorated refund for your unused service after 30-days rounded up to the next full month of service . It's that easy! That's unlike other hosts where once you've tried their service and want a refund, you're out of luck.

REAL Hosting Support! REAL Smart. REAL Fast. REAL Experience.

Submit a ticket. Email us. Call us. Chat with us. Wherever you are. Whenever you need us, 24/7/365.

We’re here for you! We're here for you at 3:00 AM, when the ball drops on New Years Eve or even on February 29th.

We’ve hand-selected our support technicians. The Guru Crew is here to track down the solution to your hosting questions. Whether you need advanced PHP Hosting support or have a question about how to get your blog set up, the Guru Crew is here.

Our customers love us, and we feel the same about them. Read what our customers have to say about A2!

Ready to love your host? It doesn't have to be a headache to move your site. We'll be able to migrate your site for you for free in most cases! Just contact our Guru Crew Support team! We actually have an expert migration team dedicated to website transfers. Day in and day out they transfer websites to our servers. They're pros at what they do so you have nothing to worry about!

A2 Optimized ends the guesswork of how to get the fastest page loads for your software. Thanks to testing, testing and more testing, our team has created A2 Optimized.

Your A2 Optimized install, exclusive to A2 Hosting customers, provides auto-configuration for the most popular software including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, PrestaShop and more so you get the best performance and most secure settings. With auto-optimizations like compression and caching, you can turn your focus to building your site, writing content and promotion.

While standard hard drives can only perform hundreds of input/output operations per second, our SSDs perform thousands every second! With no moving parts and no bottlenecks, our SSDs can help your site really fly!

Some hosts claim to offer Solid State Drive Hosting but only host your OS or databases, not your files.  We use SSD for everything so you get the biggest speed boost possible That's why our SSD Hosting loads pages faster than our competition and why even we host our site on SSDs.

Want to use our hosting service with a server located close to you? You can! Get the same award winning A2 Hosting service while hosting on a server located closer to you and your visitors. Just select your hosting location from our order form.

Maintaining site performance during traffic spikes is a concern of the past with more power and additional account resources!

LiteSpeed Web Server is a high speed, drop-in server replacement for Apache. Get up to 11X FASTER performance compared to Apache and up to 6X FASTER performance than NGINX with LiteSpeed at A2 Hosting!

With our Anycast DNS solution, DNS records are duplicated across A2 Hosting's global network ultimately bringing them closer to your visitors. Anycast DNS increases performance when your site is visited by offering quicker response times, lowering latency and increasing redundancy.

Our exclusive A2 Optimized Site Accelerator is a cPanel plugin providing pre-configured caching for your applications from a single interface for even faster page loads. Caching options include:

• Turbo Cache - The entire HTML contents of a page is stored by Turbo Cache and served without running PHP for up to 20X faster page loads.
• Memcached - Increases the speed of your MySQL databases by keeping your most important data in memory for quicker retrieval.
• OPcache - Dramatically improves PHP performance by storing scripts in shared memory instead of requiring PHP to load and parse scripts for each request.

HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are major revisions to the HTTP network protocol and are included with all Turbo plans. HTTP/3 provides significantly faster page load times than HTTP because of its ability to deliver more HTTP requests at once and prioritize those requests. HTTP/3 delivers files 20%-30% faster than HTTP.

With ESI, you no longer have to designate an entire page as non-cacheable just because one portion cannot be cached. Instead you can easily designate portions of your page to be cached (or not cached) with ESI. This is significant especially for sites created by applications like Magento or WordPress.

QUIC is an internet transportation protocol that makes HTTP traffic more efficient and faster by reducing connection establishment times.

A2 Hosting uses the best hardware, fined-tuned by our Guru Crew experts! You'll be hosted on a server with:

• 12 Core Server Minimum
• 64 GB RAM Server Mimimum

A staging site generates an exact copy of your production site allowing you to test features or make changes without the risk of breaking something.

Our servers are fast. They're also reliable. We understand if your site is down, your visitors can’t purchase from you. They can’t find your contact information. They can’t read your new blog post. The bottom line is downtime means lost opportunity. We get it.

Our 24/7/365 support staff includes expert system admins hard at work ensuring your server runs at its peak. We employ our industry's best practices, feature servers in the best data centers and make sure your server includes the latest security patches. That's why we can commit to your site being up over 99.9% of the time.

REAL Hosting Support! REAL Smart. REAL Fast. REAL Experience.

Submit a ticket. Email us. Call us. Chat with us. Wherever you are. Whenever you need us, 24/7/365.

We’re here for you! We're here for you at 3:00 AM, when the ball drops on New Years Eve or even on February 29th.

We’ve hand-selected our support technicians. The Guru Crew is here to track down the solution to your hosting questions. Whether you need advanced PHP Hosting support or have a question about how to get your blog set up, the Guru Crew is here.

Our proactive protection against malicious hackers and security threats! Our Perpetual Security is unrelenting and constant hosting protection, squashing threats before they potentially develop into something larger. Main Perpetual Security features:

• KernelCare - Daily, Automatic & Rebootless Kernel Updates
• Reinforced DDoS Protection
• Dual Web Hosting Firewall
• Brute Force Defense
• Virus Scanning
• Server Hardening
• 24/7/365 Security Monitoring

Our customers love us, and we feel the same about them. Read what our customers have to say about A2!

At A2 Hosting, we have extremely high satisfaction levels with the Better Business Bureau!

The "A2" in our name stands for Ann Arbor, the city where we're headquartered. Nicknamed named Tree Town, Ann Arbor is home to over 150,000 trees! This is a big reason we protect the environment for future generations:

• 100% Carbon Neutral - Since 2007 we have worked with Carbonfund.org to help in their creation of clean, renewable energy and CO2 reductions on a global scale.
• Telcommuting – Prevents unnecessary CO2 emissions from daily commutes to an office.
• Recycling Older Servers – Instead of piling up in a landfill, we re-use them as internal servers, dedicated servers for clients with lower resource requirements & resell them to the public.
• Reducing Trash – We reduce our waste with practices like using coffee mugs instead of disposable coffee cups when in the office.

REAL Hosting Support! REAL Smart. REAL Fast. REAL Experience.

Submit a ticket. Email us. Call us. Chat with us. Wherever you are. Whenever you need us, 24/7/365.

We’re here for you! We're here for you at 3:00 AM, when the ball drops on New Years Eve or even on February 29th.

We’ve hand-selected our support technicians. The Guru Crew is here to track down the solution to your hosting questions. Whether you need advanced PHP Hosting support or have a question about how to get your blog set up, the Guru Crew is here.

Ready to love your host? It doesn't have to be a headache to move your site. We'll be able to migrate your site for you for free in most cases! Just contact our Guru Crew Support team! We actually have an expert migration team dedicated to website transfers. Day in and day out they transfer websites to our servers. They're pros at what they do so you have nothing to worry about!

Fixing a hacked site is a major headache. We want to make your life easier so we include free HackScan protection to help block hacks before they can do damage your site. HackScan is just one feature of Perpetual Security; our proactive protection against malicious hackers and security threats! Additional Perpetual Security features:

• KernelCare - Daily, Automatic & Rebootless Kernel Updates
• Reinforced DDoS Protection
• Dual Web Hosting Firewall
• Brute Force Defense
• Auto-Heal Hosting Protection
• Virus Scanning
• Server Hardening
• 24/7/365 Security Monitoring

Our multi-function security tool providing free account protection.

1.) Out of date version detection

A hacker can compromise your site is if you’re using insecure, outdated software. You'll receive notification if you have out of date software installed.

2.) Infected file quarantine

Receive a warning if an infected file on your account is detected. Infected files are auto-quarantined 24 hours later for your protection.

3.) WordPress, Joomla & Drupal Software Patching

A notification will be sent when files are found that can be patched. Patches are back-ports of bug fixes found in updated versions of your isoftware meaning the latest version will likely resolve the issue. After 2-days, the patch will be applied automatically, but will not update the version of your software.

Optional feature that makes your A2 Hosting account more secure by requiring an additional, uniquely generated piece of information each time you log in. Just follow these easy instructions to setup 2FA for your account.

Don't fall victim to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a malicious attempt to disrupt a site or network with a flood of Internet traffic from multiple compromised computer systems. Our expert Reinforced DDoS defense solution provides high scale capacity, instant attack detection and fast mitigation. While DDoS attacks can be complicated and difficult to mitigate, our solution improves the likelihood that your site will remain online during even the most sophisticated DDoS attacks.

Our servers are fast. They're also reliable. We understand if your site is down, your visitors can’t purchase from you. They can’t find your contact information. They can’t read your new blog post. The bottom line is downtime means lost opportunity. We get it.

Our 24/7/365 support staff includes expert system admins hard at work ensuring your server runs at its peak. We employ our industry's best practices, feature servers in the best data centers and make sure your server includes the latest security patches. That's why we can commit to your site being up over 99.9% of the time.

Our supercharged version of the CentOS operating system is specifically designed to meet a site's growing needs. With its unheralded ability to isolate and control resource spikes, CloudLinux provides superior site availability. 

Our network is redundant with multiple 10GB carriers in all data center locations!

Access your e-mail the way you want. Want POP3 or IMAP? You got it! Prefer to use webmail? You can use that as well from your hosting control panel!

At A2 Hosting, we got our start by offering the best PHP Hosting. Even today, you still get the best versions of PHP. You can even toggle between PHP versions by clicking the PHP icon in your control panel.

Whether you want to develop with MySQL, MariaDB or both, rest assured that your databases come fine tuned for the best performance at A2 Hosting.

Studies have shown MariaDB databases perform up to 5% better than MySQL as well as have more transparent and faster security releases.

While most hosts only allow it in a VPS environment, we've optimized our servers for Node.js. We've even documented how easy it is to install Node.js on your account.

PostgreSQL is up-to-date on your server, tuned for maximum security and performance. Manage your PostgreSQL databases with SSH (included free) or phpPgAdmin (pre-installed).

Serious web development requires serious web hosting. Your account includes 100% free, instant SSH access on sign up. No need to even turn it on.

LiteSpeed Web Server is a high speed, drop-in server replacement for Apache. Get up to 11X FASTER performance compared to Apache and up to 6X FASTER performance than NGINX with LiteSpeed at A2 Hosting!

Regardless of whether you're looking to install an application or develop one from scratch at A2 Hosting, you'll know Apache is tuned for high performance and ultimate reliability.

Deploy your repositories to cPanel automatically with a few easy steps! No more manual repository downloads and uploads!

Thanks to our developer friendly hosting, you can always rely on A2 Hosting to offer current versions of Python. You can even select your version of Python you want to use!

Ready for maximum performance? At A2 Hosting, you always get the best version of Ruby! You can even manage your Ruby Gems directly from your control panel.

Our free shared SSL certificate is great for securing a connection to your server not seen by the public. It features an A2 Hosting domain name in place of your domain name. The URL format for our shared SSL looks similar to:

yourusername.wwwsr1.supercp.com

We've ended the guesswork of how to get the fastest, most secure WordPress setup. Thanks to testing, testing and more testing, our team has created A2 Optimized.

A2 Optimized is an A2 Hosting exclusive WordPress plugin providing auto-configuration for your sites! With auto-optimizations like compression, caching, site security hardening and  more, you can turn your focus to building your site and promoting it!

Did you know over 10 million sites are hacked each year? 1 in 6 are powered by WordPress. We don't want your site to become another statistic. That's why we've created A2 Optimized! This plugin auto-hardens your WordPress sites to help prevent hacks. With A2 Optimized, you automatically get:

• Unique WordPress Login URL
• Automatic WordPress Updates
• ReCaptcha on WordPress Login Page

We offer 2 easy options to get A2 Optimized WordPress up and running:

• WordPress auto-installed right from our order form! Once you purchase your hosting account, you'll receive an email detailing where to log in. It couldn't be faster or easier!

• Use the 1-click Softaculous installer found in your cPanel control panel.

WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools to help you manage your WordPress installations. Update plugins, set up multisite WordPress installs and more without the use of your web browser.

LiteSpeed Cache quickly serves stored static snapshots of your site for the fastest performance, instead of making your visitors wait for PHP and WordPress to generate your pages for each visit.

Don't fall victim to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a malicious attempt to disrupt a site or network with a flood of Internet traffic from multiple compromised computer systems. Our expert Reinforced DDoS defense solution provides high scale capacity, instant attack detection and fast mitigation. While DDoS attacks can be complicated and difficult to mitigate, our solution improves the likelihood that your site will remain online during even the most sophisticated DDoS attacks.

Activate, deactivate, uninstall and update each of your sites' plugins from a single interface. Uninstall and update your sites' themes as well!

Create an exact copy of your current WordPress website. This is perfect for backing up your site as well as for site development and testing!

Generate an exact copy of your production site to test new features or changes without the risk of breaking your live, production site.

Scans your new and existing sites for potentially vulnerable settings. Simply click the settings you want hardened to secure your site!

Scan all of your sites for vulnerable settings and secure each site with a single click!

Quickly execute updates for each of your sites' WordPress core, themes and plugins from a single interface.

In some rare instances, security updates can cause incompatability issues on your site. Security rollback allows you to easily undo security updates to correct site issues.

Automatically tests your theme, plugin and WordPress core updates before you push them live to determine if they'll cause any site errors. Make corrections before your updates are published live!

Add a new WordPress install and select custom settings beforehand. Choose auto-updates, debug mode, search engine visibility, your admin username and password, WordPress version, which plugins to use and more!

Manage plugins, themes, security settings and more for each of your WordPress sites from a single dashboard.

Easily manage, secure and update your WordPress sites from a single dashboard!

Easily log into each of your WordPress sites from a single admin.

It's recommended that you change your WordPress password every 60-90 days to keep your site secure. Easily change each of your WordPress sites' passwords from a single interface!

Quickly update your databases' username and password from an intuitive interface.

Access your WordPress database's within phpMyAdmin's intuitive interface. Use phpMyAdmin to create, update, drop, edit, delete, import, and export your databases.

Use the Backup Manager to backup your site, download a backup and restore from a previously created backup.

Easily update your sites' themes, plugin and core WordPress software!

Get the most secure settings and best features with automatic WordPress version updates. Save time by choosing specific sites you'd like to have auto-updated in the future to the latest WordPress version.

Is your website not quite ready for public viewing yet? Hide it from search engines with 1-click!

Keeps your site safe from vulnerabilities by auto-applying the industry's best security practices!

Is your site not ready to be viewed? Require a password so only specific users can visit it.

Create a custom, temporary page Informing site visitors that your site is currently being worked on and is currently unavailable.

Fix errors faster! Turn on logging to help you track down any site errors.

Install and upload plugins and themes for each of your sites from a single interface!

When you need an SSL Certificate, A2 Hosting is your host. We've got you covered whether you need to secure a single site, require a Wild Card SSL or an advanced option. Choose from our selection of affordable SSL Certificates in addition to our free SSL option. Our around-the-clock support staff will be happy to help you with the install of your SSL Certificate.

Use PayPal to accept money on your website! Sign up now for your PayPal merchant account!

Offers an intuitive interface and makes it easy to manage your:

• Domains
• Software
• Databases
• Email

Just click the Softaculous icon in your cPanel control panel to install the most popular software to your account with 1-click. It couldn't be easier to use! Install blogs, CMSes, eCommerce solutions and so much more. You'll automatically be notified when a new version of your software is available, so you can update it with 1-click.

There are 100's of software applications to choose from including WordPress, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, OpenCart and more!

The amount of files, folders and emails you’re able to store on your account.

Makes editing and updating your sites' plugins, themes, WordPress Core & security settings a breeze!

LiteSpeed Cache quickly serves stored static snapshots of your site for the fastest performance, instead of making your visitors wait for PHP and WordPress to generate your pages for each visit.

LiteMage is a caching solution designed to help you get the fastest Magento page load speeds. LiteMage uses Edge Sides Includes (ESI) on your pages that were previously unable to be cached. ESI "punches holes" where the unique, non-cacheable content on your pages is. This allows the rest of your page to be served from cache so it can load faster for each of your site visitors.

Uses the LSCache for WordPress plugin to give your WooCommerce store an extra speed boost.

Communicates directly with your server to save and serve static copies of your dynamic PrestaShop pages to greatly reduce your store’s page-load time.

A full page caching add-on that communicates with your server and LSCache to statically cache your dynamic XenForo site to greatly reduce your page load times.

Accurately cache both logged-in and logged-out users to dramatically increase the performance of your Drupal site.

Boost the peformance of your Joomla site by serving static snapshots of dynamic content. Page load times are drastically reduced by skipping unnecessary PHP transactions.

Cache your private and public content on the same page with Edge Side Includes (ESI).

LiteSpeed Cache allows your MediaWiki site to completely bypass PHP and deliver faster results for both your logged-in and non-logged-in users.

Provides performance boosting caching for all visitors to your OpenCart site, whether they're logged in, logged out, have a cart full of products or have an empty cart!

Increase your store's performance with LiteSpeed's server-level full-page caching. The flexible and sophisticated tag-based structure offers targeted cache purging, triggered as product data is updated.

LiteMage is a caching solution designed to help you get the fastest Magento page load speeds. LiteMage uses Edge Sides Includes (ESI) on your pages that were previously unable to be cached. ESI "punches holes" where the unique, non-cacheable content on your pages is. This allows the rest of your page to be served from cache so it can load faster for each of your site visitors.

We've ended the guesswork of how to get the fastest Magento page loads. Thanks to testing, testing and more testing, our team has created A2 Optimized. There's no more guesswork! A2 Optimized provides auto-configuration for your site so you get the best Magento performance and security. With auto-optimizations like compression and cron optimizations, you can turn your focus to building your site and selling your products!