A2Hosting review and guide to buying hosting at A2Hosting

What is a prerequisite for a successful website?

A relatively open question and can have many different answers, right?

But there is one fact you will probably agree with me:

You need to have a stable hosting service when it comes to creating a successful website. 

Imagine you have invested a lot in website content. You can pat your chest proud that your website content is extremely engaging and valuable.

What about advertising? You also work hard to carry out a promotion campaign for the website and attract many people to the website.

But everything seems to pour down the river into the pool. Why?

Simply your hosting is too slow. I mean constant downtime. There is nothing more frustrating than constantly receiving mail from Pingdom:

Note : If you need more website monitoring tools, read this article . ​

But choosing a good hosting service is not an easy task. Simply because you have so many options out there.

Read more : The best foreign hosting providers

Are you in need of suggestions for a good hosting service?

Continue reading….

… because today I will evaluate A2Hosting , one of my favorite hosting services out of the 8 hosting providers that I have used over the years.

Note : Currently a lot of A2Hosting reviews from 2014, 2015. So the information is out of date. This review of mine always updates the latest information about A2Hosting

Overall, A2Hosting has the following highlights:

Besides, A2 Hosting offers many hosting packages to suit all your hosting needs:

In particular, A2Hosting offers a shared host service package called Turbo for nearly $10 a month. This package has the following attractive features:

Turbo package includes many website performance optimization features including Turbo server, A2 Optimized, HTTP/2. A2 Hosting claims that with hosting features here it is 20 times faster than the competition!

Turbo server

Turbo server for better page load speed thanks to:

A2 Optimized Site Accelerator

A2 Optimized Site Accelerator is a great feature included in the Turbo Plan. It is a cPanel plugin that provides preconfigured caching for your website. You can find the following cache options:

HTTP/2

Turbo server supports HTTP/2. HTTP/2 is an important update to HTTP/1.1

In fact, HTTP/2 offers faster page load times than HTTP/1.1 because it is capable of handling multiple HTTP requests at a time.

Server Rewind

A2 Hosting’s cPanel provides you with the Server Rewind tool. Server Rewind protects your website from loss of important data due to accidental deletion, for example. You can easily restore your website when needed. 

Good security

Another highlight of A2Hosting is its very good security. Your website is very difficult to be hacked when using A2 Hosting’s hosting service. This is due to A2 Hosting’s 24/7/365 security monitoring system.

In addition, A2 Hosting is also integrated into the Patchman cPanel service. Patchman automatically detects malware and security holes in your website.

As soon as they are detected, Patchman will email you a notification. You can handle it manually or let patchman automatically patch the security of your website.

Strong support

With a highly stable hosting service like A2 Hosting, you probably rarely need support. But if you have any problem with the hosting service here, Guru Crew, professional support team of A2 Hosting, will be ready to help you solve your problem quickly.

A2Hosting offers many forms of support for you to choose from:

Anytime refund policy

A2Hosting is very confident in its hosting service. Therefore, the company offers a full refund policy within 30 days. After 30 days if you cancel the service you will be refunded the remaining service time that you have not used.

In general, using a hosting service is not risky at all.

High uptime always remains at 99.9%

A2Hosting commits to uptime always maintaining at 99.9%. This provides the best user experience for your website.

Through practical experience, I found that A2Hosting’s uptime is much better than that of HawkHost and Stable , two other popular foreign hosting services in Vietnam. 

It can be concluded that: A2Hosting is still the most stable shared host service today. To visualize the correlation between percentage uptime and downtime (time users can’t access your website), here are the numbers that I mentioned in this post:

A few tips for using hosting services at A2 Hosting

Register for hosting at A2Hosting

Signing up for hosting here is relatively simple. All you need is an international credit card or PayPal account. Your account is activated immediately after you complete the payment. 

Go to hosting for WordPress . Choose a hosting package that suits your needs.

Note : 51% discount code is automatically applied when you sign up for hosting.

WordPress version with A2 Optimized pre-installed

You have many options to install WordPress on A2Hosting

By default, A2Hosting installs and activates a few important plugins for you. You will have A2 Optimized WP, ​​EWWW Image Optimizer, Rename wp-login.php, W3 Total Cache , WP Form Lite, Akismet.

The W3 Tocal Cache version is the version that A2Hosting has customized (you notice the word fixed in the image below) to help your website achieve the best performance on A2Hosting’s server. Very convenient, isn’t it?

Very few hosting companies out there have a WordPress version installed through Softaculous as good as A2Hosting. WordPress newbies will greatly benefit from this. For example, if they forget to implement security WordPress , the default site when installed is also a bit difficult to hack. ​

Change PHP version

By default, your website runs with PHP 5.5. You should switch to PHP 7 so you get the best website performance.

Go to cPanel. Scroll down to the Software section. Click on the link Select PHP version.

On the next screen, select version 7.0 from the drop-down menu. And click the Set as cure button.

Next, you choose opcache and memcached. Remember to click the Save button to save your settings.

Enable Memcached and TurboCache

By default, Memcached and TurboCache are not enabled. To enable it, go to cPanel. Scroll down to the Advanced section, and click on A2 Optimized.

Next, click on Memcached in the left menu. Then click Enable.

Finally, click on Turbo Cache and click on Enable similar to Memcached. ‘

Below are the speed test results for an English website of mine (location in the US). If your website is in Vietnamese, you should choose the location as Singapore for the best speed to Vietnam.

Speed ​​test results for a site for US location

Currently, our team has a website using A2Hosting’s hosting, location Singapore. You can check HERE . 

Last words

The hosting industry is one of the fields that witness fierce competition. There are many hosting providers out there for you to choose from. 

But when it comes to brands, A2Hosting is still the best choice. 

With decades of experience in providing hosting services, A2Hosting has become a trusted hosting brand.

It’s no surprise that hostingfacts.com rates the hosting service at A2Hosting very highly.

On my own blog, A2Hosting is still the hosting service that many people buy through the referral link. ​

The biggest advantage that I feel in A2Hosting’s hosting service: very high stability.

Especially in the season of cable break while connecting a series of foreign hosting providers are intermittent, A2Hosting is still stable when accessing from within the country. ​

Overall, I have no complaints about the overall service quality of A2 Hosting.

If you need hosting with good security, high stability and good speed, I recommend A2 Hosting in your hosting selection list.