Features

A2 Hosting calls themselves the developer friendly Linux web hosting company, as they offer a number of features that web developers make use of. You will receive unmetered hosting, PHP 5.3 and MYSQL 5.1 with Cloud Flare integration. Additionally, one of the best features offered by A2 Hosting is Server Rewind, which is an in-house backup solution that automatically stores backups of your hosting account at midnight. What makes this feature amazing is that it comes at no additional cost to you.

Whether you are looking for a shared, reseller, VPS, or dedicated server hosting product, you can rest assure that you will be getting some wonderful features you can play around with. With quick one click installations, script installs are seamless and quick.

Reliability

Offering the best features in the business is not the only thing a consumer should look at, as the reliability of the hosting service is far more important. A2 Hosting claims to have a total uptime of 99.9%, which is considered to be the standard in today’s market. The one thing that actually gives us assurance that you will be getting this uptime is the fact that all servers work under Cloud Linux. Whether you are a shared hosting client or VPS hosting client of A2 Hosting, you can expect to receive the highest level of uptime possible. Surely, if there is maintenance needed for the servers, it should be done, because only then will the servers be working up to par.

Support

The Guru Crew Support Team is the signature staff that A2 Hosting employs to offer support services to all its clients. The hosting company offers you with an online portal that includes both a forum and a knowledgebase with articles. For the most common problems related to hosting accounts, you will be able to find the answer in the forum or knowledgebase. If your problem is account specific, then you can give their toll free number a call, so that you can reach a live agent who can help you. Support services are provided around the clock, so there is no wrong time to call them, as they are always ready to help.

Value

The regular hosting price for the A2 Hosting shared hosting plan is $4.95 per month, but they are currently offering a thirty-three percent discount on the monthly price. The same specials are being offered for their other products such as reseller hosting, virtual private servers and dedicated servers. Just like any other web host in the business, A2 Hosting maintains an exceptional level of service with its clients, which makes them a great web hosting company.

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A content delivery network, or CDN for short, is a group of servers located worldwide that work together to automatically optimize the delivery of your website to your visitors. A CDN stores your static content (stuff like images, CSS and javascript) on these global servers. When someone visits your site, the CDN automatically decides the shortest and ultimately the fastest route to get that content to your visitor. Your content is routed through the server closest in proximity to your visitor, optimizing your site’s speed.

Still confused? Think of yourself as an international pizza delivery company with only one restaurant. I know this sounds absurd, but stay with me. If you’re located in New Jersey, how in the world are you going to deliver pizzas to your customers in Paris? This would take a few days right? Well you wouldn’t be delivering pizzas to Paris, now would you? It would take too long and who likes cold pepperoni anyway? Instead, you would set up a chain of restaurants closer to your customers. That’s essentially what a CDN does. It delivers pizza (your content) from a restaurant (server) closest to your customers.

Who can benefit from a CDN? Essentially any webmaster! If you’re a New Jersey blogger, you don’t want your website loading slow for your Paris readers. Your readers really don’t care that your site is slow because your website’s server is located on the other side of the globe. To them, your site is just plain slow and they don’t have the patience to deal with it.

Remember that you have about 6-8 seconds for your site visitors to decide if they want to stay or bounce. Don’t let those precious seconds tick way because you think that there’s no solution for accelerating your site.

1. Remember that you get what you pay for. If you are not paying for your service, is there any rush for the free blogging service to attend to your site if it is down?
2. Another disadvantage of a free blogging service is control over ads. Many free blog services will place ads on your site. They might even have policies that prevent you from monetizing your site with affiliate ads. Try to test this policy and it’s very likely that your blog will disappear without warning.
3. Perhaps the biggest disadvantage is the fact that you don’t control your blog’s URL. Your URL will likely only be a subdomain. This can certainly prevent you from ranking well in search engines and can make it difficult to move your blog if you want to try a different blog hosting service.

I whole-heartedly suggest that you spend a few dollars per month on the quality blog hosting service available at A2 Hosting to avoid these drawbacks. A2 Hosting customers receive a 99.9% uptime guarantee, 24/7/365 support and have control over their site’s advertisements and domains.

A2 Hosting Web Hosting packages offer the award winning cPanel control panel with Softaculous. Softaculous is a program that gives you the ability to install a number of blog software solutions to your hosting account with just one click. One of these blog software options is WordPress. WordPress is a very easy to use blogging solution. Once you install WordPress to your hosting account, just log in, write your first post and click the publish button! When a new version of WordPress is available, you’ll receive an email. Use Softaculous to update WordPress with 1-click of your mouse.

Not only does WordPress make it easy to blog, there is a ton of additional functionality available within the WordPress control panel. Search through the 100′s of themes to customize your blog’s appearance. Need additional functionality like SEO tools or SPAM comment prevention? Search the available WordPress plugins and install the ones that fit your needs.

What happens if you just can’t afford a dedicated server right now? Don’t you wish there was another alternative? Try VPS Hosting! You might have heard that virtual private servers (VPS) are intended primarily for serious webmasters with years and years of web development experience. This is not true! Do not get caught in the myth that a VPS is difficult to use.

What is virtual private server (VPS) hosting? It is a hosting environment created by taking a full server and dividing it into multiple, smaller segments called virtual private servers. Each VPS segment behaves much like a dedicated server. VPS offer a unique combination of privacy and stability found with dedicated servers, while at the same time offering the affordable characteristics of a shared hosting account. Still sound complicated? Stay with me! Let’s just say for arguments sake that a VPS behaves much like a miniature dedicated server at a fraction of the cost.

Let’s move past the dull VPS details and instead dispel the myth that a VPS is difficult to manage. In fact, the opposite is true, especially in the case when you purchase a VPS managed with the cPanel control panel. You might have even used cPanel with your shared hosting account. If this is in fact the case, your VPS user experience will be 100% seamless when upgrading from your shared account.

cPanel is an award winning hosting control panel. Use cPanel to manage your domains, email, files, databases and much more from within its user-friendly interface. The truth is, you won’t even worry about the fact that you are hosting your site on a VPS with cPanel. Unless you want to pinch yourself once in a while to remind yourself that your popular site is enjoying the resources of dedicated server hosting, but your pocket book is experiencing the affordability found with shared hosting accounts.

Are you ready to get started with an affordable and easy to use cPanel VPS account? Visit A2 Hosting today!

PHP is an open source scripting language that when used with MySQL creates dynamic web pages, or ones that alters based upon the site visitor. PHP scripts are used to select, import, edit and delete information within your MySQL database.

Do you want to host a dynamic website? Does MySQL Hosting and managing MySQL databases sound complex? It doesn’t need to be thanks to the cPanel control panel included with every Web Hosting account at A2 Hosting. cPanel is a user-friendly control panel that simplifies the process of hosting a website. Some of the tools found in this control panel include those that help you manage your domains, files and your MySQL databases.

cPanel resources for managing your MySQL databases include:

• MySQL Database Wizard: Walks you through the processes of setting up user privileges for MySQL.
• phpMyAdmin: phpMyAdmin is the ultimate tool for managing your MySQL databases. Create, modify, search and delete your MySQL tables and fields thanks to phpMyAdmin.
• *Remote MySQL: Permits external web servers entry to your MySQL databases.

Want to really simplify your administration of MySQL? A2 Hosting also offers Softaculous. Softaculous is a program that you use to install programs like Drupal, WordPress and Joomla with one click of your mouse. That way you don’t even have to concern yourself with MySQL at all.

Web hosting plans at A2 Hosting start at under $4/month. They don’t skimp on quality either. Every web hosting plan includes their 99.9% uptime guarantee and 24/7 support. This ensures that you will experience ultimate reliability and be able to reach a support staff member when necessary.

A2 Hosting plans also come with a ton of features. Each web hosting package includes their easy to use A2 SiteBuilder for free. A2 SiteBuilder is a program that walks users through a few simple website creation steps like choosing a template and writing content for the site. The final step is publishing the user’s completed website to the web. The A2 SiteBuilder is found directly within the award winning cPanel control panel for convenient access.

Not only is the A2 SiteBuilder offered free, it is loaded with features that some solutions charge $100′s for. These features include:

• Selection of over 600 web page templates
• Library containing over 3,000 images
• WISYWIG and HTML web page editing options
• Easy meta tag creation
• View site edits in preview mode before publishing

Perhaps the best thing of all about A2 Hosting’s A2 SiteBuilder is that even users with 0 website experience can use it to create an attractive website. Creating a site with the A2 SiteBuilder is very similar to just editing a text document. No longer is it necessary to hire a web designer to create your site! You have your own vision. Now it’s time to bring it to life to share with the world.