A2 Hosting has an overall score of 4.0 out of 5 stars, giving it a ranking of 4 of 429 web hosting providers.

To calculate A2 Hosting's score, we look at a range of factors and compare them with other brands in the website hosting space. We look at overall brand popularity, A2 Hosting's price point compared to other web hosting service, as well as reviews they've received from customers. We look at performance in key product criteria such as price point, speed, uptime, Wordpress support and free trials. We also look at e-commerce features such as payment options accepted, discount policies, shipping and returns policies, and other customer service features.

A2 Hosting is significantly less expensive than competitive brands. We looked at A2 Hosting's pricing for one or more popular products within its industry, then compared A2 Hosting's prices vs. other similar hosting platforms. Based on this analysis, A2 Hosting turned out to be significantly less expensive than other brands in the web hosting industry.

Here's how A2 Hosting's prices compare with its competitors:

• Basic Shared Web Hosting: $3.92 (vs. average industry price of $8.16)
• Basic Cloud Hosting: $5.00 (vs. average industry price of $32.02)
• Basic Dedicated Hosting: $99.59 (vs. average industry price of $148.38)

Please refer to A2 Hosting's website for more details on their products and pricing, or review our updated price comparison grid to compare A2 Hosting's prices with competitor brands in more detail.

— Knoji Staff reviewed A2 Hosting on December 13, 2018, Read 1 price point review.

This new website hosting site talks a big game, and it turns out it can put its money where its mouth is. A2 Hosting's web hosting speed is the highest this review site has ever seen at 376ms over a period of 10 months. How do they do it? HostingFacts knows: 

"A2 Hosting is taking extra precautions to limit the number of people on ‘shared’ hosting servers and implementing additional functionality like caching which stores information in people’s browsers (thereby limiting the number of times they have to go back and request information from your website over and over and over again)."

Digital reported that A2's website speeds are 20x faster with its powerful Turbo Drive. 

It's worth noting that A2 Hosting is also working to be environmentally friendly and they've had neutral carbon emissions since 2007. Your speed won't come at a cost.

— Rachel Auerbach reviewed A2 Hosting on November 13, 2018, Read 1 speed review.

Very few web hosting platforms can reach the 100% uptime promise, and unfortunately, A2 Hosting is one of them. The platform once had a higher uptime, but from December 2017 to September 2018, the average uptime dropped to 99.91%. While this might seem like a "good enough" type of deal, website downtime can cost you $7,900 per minute if you're running a high-traffic site.

Another review website explained that while A2 Hosting does promise 99.9% uptime, there are certain circumstances where they won't honor it:

• During routine maintenance and upgrade periods that are scheduled ahead of time
• During outages that result from circumstances beyond the control of A2 Hosting

Overall, it looks like A2 Hosting might be promising more than it performs in uptime, but it is still a solid choice due to its other benefits.

— Rachel Auerbach reviewed A2 Hosting on November 13, 2018, Read 1 uptime review.