A2 Hosting Review
A2 Hosting was founded as a VPS provider 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 |
| A2 Hosting instance types | Instance Types |
| List of A2 Hosting yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Managed VPS
A2 Hosting offers Managed VPS products. Review A2 Hosting Managed VPS Features.
A2 Hosting VPS Features
Features not included in VPS prices are marked as missing in the table 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 sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
Control Panel Screenshots
A2 Hosting Yabs.sh Runs
VPSBenchmarks and its community have run yabs.sh on A2 Hosting servers.
Here are the most recent results.
Yabs.sh inscludes Geekbench, Fio and Iperf3 tests.
Review all A2 Hosting Yabs
The scale in the charts between 0 and 100 represents the performance of this server for each metric relative to the performance of all other servers tested recently at VPSBenchmarks for that same metric.
- 100 means the server is the fastest for this metric.
- 50 means the server has exactly median performance for this metric.
- 0 means the server is the slowest for this metric.
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.
Cloud Server Plans
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
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| Family: Unmanaged VPS Instance Type: Launch |
Entry level unmanaged VPS plans.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.a2hosting.com/vps-hosting/unmanaged/?aid=dbfd04fd&bid=3b8941fc
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| Family: Managed VPS Instance Type: Takeoff |
Affordable and fast managed VPS.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.a2hosting.com/vps-hosting/managed/?aid=dbfd04fd&bid=3b8941fc
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| Takeoff 4 | 2 | 4.0GB | 150GB |
$76.99 / month
First month only: $46.95 / month |
| Takeoff 8 | 6 | 8.0GB | 250GB |
$104.99 / month
First month only: $66.95 / month |
| Family: Managed VPS Instance Type: Soar |
Up To 20X FASTER Turbo VPS
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.a2hosting.com/vps-hosting/managed/?aid=dbfd04fd&bid=3b8941fc
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| Soar 8 | 2 | 8.0GB | 150GB |
$139.99 / month
First month only: $70.95 / month |
| Soar 16 | 6 | 16.0GB | 250GB |
$189.99 / month
First month only: $100.95 / month |