A2 hosting is one of the best web hosting companies which has been operating with its base in Michigan. It has acquired considerable repute as a favored web host from many companies and organizations. They have won numerous awards over the years making their awards page very long. They have been designated as the Editor’s Pick for 2011 by Hosting Review, a famed independent reviewing company. Among its many awards the ones which stand out are “The Best Developer friendly host”. A2 has always tried to make their services as developer friendly as possible. They have also been termed the best Linux host. They favor Drupal over all other Content management systems and have also won recognition as the best Drupal host.

A2 hosting does it all: shared web hosting; Reseller hosting; VPS hosting and dedicated server hosting. They support MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. Python, Perl and Ruby (and Ruby on Rails of course) are allowed for programming. PHP (version 5.2.9) is used for web page designing. They provide SSH shell (secured shell) access for use by developers and webmasters. Also they allow the use of Cron Jobs which allow developers to schedule the execution of scripts at appropriate times.

Their Startup shared web hosting plan offers unlimited disk space and bandwidth and domains and a single domain ownership for $3.46 per month at a 30 %discount. Their Executive pack offers all those mentioned above with unlimited domains at $5.57 per month. But unlike most web hosts A2 doesn’t provide domain registration for free. It registers domains for its customers at an additional cost of $12.95 per year.

The reseller hosting is available for $13.96 with 50 GB space and 500GB transfer for Concept plan and the Enterprise scheme costs 120GB hard disk space and 1000GB bandwidth. Their VPS hosting is available for $9.77 per month with 256 MB RAM and 10 GB disk space. Their lowest dedicated server plan is offered at $139.30 per month. Many such cheap plans exist with them.

I Recommend A2 Hosting

Jason Oliva