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According to an Aberdeen Group study, just a 1-second page load delay can cause a 7% decrease in your conversion rate, 16% decrease in visitor satisfaction and 11% fewer page views. Don't fall victim to a slow host.

Our Turbo servers provide a drop-in Apache replacement that load pages up to 20X faster page loads compared to competing hosts. What makes our Turbo servers so fast?

• Uses less CPU and memory than Apache
• Handles connections faster and more efficiently
• Provides enhanced stability

Learn more about how Turbo Boost makes your server fast.

While standard hard drives can only perform hundreds of input/output operations per second, our SSDs perform thousands every second! With no moving parts and no bottlenecks, our SSDs can help your site really fly!

Some hosts claim to offer Solid State Drive Hosting but only host your OS or databases, not your files.  We use SSD for everything so you get the biggest speed boost possible That's why our SSD Hosting loads pages faster than our competition and why even we host our site on SSDs.

Ready to love your host? It doesn't have to be a headache to move your site. We'll be able to migrate your site for you for free in most cases! Just contact our Guru Crew Support team! We actually have an expert migration team dedicated to website transfers. Day in and day out they transfer websites to our servers. They're pros at what they do so you have nothing to worry about!

Increases the speed of your MySQL databases by keeping your most important data in memory for quicker retrieval.

Boost your site's performance and security for free! Our CDN is a group of servers connected worldwide that automatically determines the fastest route to deliver your site to your visitors. Our CDN Benefits

• Increased Site Speed - Pretty cool, right?
• Enhanced Security – CloudFlare CDN recognizes and blocks many malicious threats before they can even reach your site.
• Free Universal SSL - Help keep your visitors safer with free SSL!
• Easy Setup - Simple 5-minute CDN setup.
• Increased Uptime - If one CDN server is unavailable, your site's traffic is automatically routed through the next nearest server.
• Free – Other hosts charge for CDN access. Go figure!

Not only will you get up to 143% faster HTML load times with Railgun, our SSDs load pages up to 300% faster than standard hard drives! With Railgun turned on, you'll also get the added benefit of Cloudflare's content delivery network! With Cloudflare, your website loads up to 200% faster for your visitors.

SPDY is a Google developed protocol designed to deliver website content both faster and more securely. While SPDY is available with your A2 Hosting account, Google has announced SPDY will be replaced by HTTP/2.

WebSocket's create two-way interaction between a browser and a website possible for a realtime web experience. This is instead of the server needing to be called intermittently to access new information. Websockets are ideal for developing live content and realtime games. Not only do our Turbo Servers make it easier to setup a WebSocket, Turbo allows you to better handle incoming connections and provides enhanced security.

mod_pagespeed speed benefits include:

• Improves web page latency and bandwidth
• Adds custom optimization strategies
• Safely optimizes site content and images without affecting site's behavior
• Offers advanced filters to further improve performance

Request your free mod_pagespeed setup now!

Our proactive protection against malicious hackers and security threats! Our Perpetual Security is unrelenting and constant hosting protection, squashing threats before they potentially develop into something larger. Main Perpetual Security features:

• KernelCare - Daily, Automatic & Rebootless Kernel Updates
• Reinforced DDoS Protection
• Dual Web Hosting Firewall
• Brute Force Defense
• Virus Scanning
• Server Hardening
• 24/7/365 Security Monitoring

The "A2" in our name stands for Ann Arbor, the city where we're headquartered? Nicknamed named Tree Town, Ann Arbor is home to over 150,000 trees! This is a big reason we protect the environment for future generations:

• 100% Carbon Neutral - Since 2007 we have worked with Carbonfund.org to help in their creation of clean, renewable energy and CO2 reductions on a global scale.
• Telcommuting – Prevents unnecessary CO2 emmissions from daily commutes to an office.
• Recycling Older Servers – Instead of piling up in a landfill, we re-use them as internal servers, dedicated servers for clients with lower resource requirements & resell public.
• Planting Trees – We've run promotions like planting 3-trees for each package sold.
• Reducing Trash – We reduce our waste with practices like using coffee mugs instead of disposable coffee cups when in the office.

At A2 Hosting, we are all about fast hosting. That doesn't just mean quick page loads though. It also means fast support responses to your questions. Want even faster responses? Priority Support is for you! Your support ticket questions get answered with the highest urgency by our dedicated Guru Crew Support team with the technical resources to help you more quickly. Sign up for Priority Support to get unsurpassed ticket response times!

Read what our customers have to say about us before you purchase!

Our servers are fast. They're also reliable. We understand if your site is down, your visitors can’t purchase from you. They can’t find your contact information. They can’t read your new blog post. The bottom line is downtime means lost opportunity. We get it.

Our 24/7/365 support staff includes expert system admins hard at work ensuring your server runs at its peak. We employ our industry's best practices, feature servers in the best data centers and make sure your server includes the latest security patches. That's why we can commit to your site being up over 99.9% of the time.

Fully Managed means we maintain your server and monitor its performance. We take it another step further because HostGuard means you don't worry about your server. That's our job!

• Managed Hardware & Network - We maintain and update all hardware for top performance. Our quadruple redundant network and RAID storage ensures ultimate reliability. 
• Managed Software - Our team keeps the software installed on each server up-to-date including your cPanel control panel and your LAMP stack (Linux OS, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
• Managed Security - Even when you’re away from your computer, your server is protected by our 24/7/365 monitoring and Smart System Notifier. We’ll make sure you have the latest OS security updates and you get unrivaled server hardening.

Our 24/7/365 monitoring solution that notifies our team if there's an issue with your server. Even if it's 4 AM, you know the Guru Crew will swoop into action to correct it. That way you can stay sound asleep. In most cases our team will resolve the issue before you're even aware of it!

Our automated cPanel and OS updates will make sure that you get the best version of both. Our Guru Crew Support staff will also be happy to upgrade or install the version of your core software (Apache, MySQL and PHP) by request!

Offers an intuitive interface and makes it easy to manage your:

• Domains
• Software
• Databases
• Email

Click the Softaculous icon in your cPanel control panel to choose from over 50 software solutions to install to your account with 1-click. It couldn't be easier to use! Install blogs, CMSes, eCommerce solutions and so much more. You'll also be notified when a new version of your software is available, so you can update it with 1-click at well. Just some of the available solutions include PrestaShop, SMF and DokuWiki.

Even if one, two or even three of our US data center links were to go down, you would remain connected! Our multiple global transit carriers include:

• 10G Level 3
• 10G CenturyLink/Saavis
• 10G Cogent
• 2.5G Comcast

Our servers are fast. They're also reliable. We understand if your site is down, your visitors can’t purchase from you. They can’t find your contact information. They can’t read your new blog post. The bottom line is downtime means lost opportunity. We get it.

Our 24/7/365 support staff includes expert system admins hard at work ensuring your server runs at its peak. We employ our industry's best practices, feature servers in the best data centers and make sure your server includes the latest security patches. That's why we can commit to your site being up over 99.9% of the time.

You can always depend on A2 Hosting to keep MySQL up-to-date for maximum performance. Use SSH (included free) or phpMyAdmin (pre-installed) to manage your MySQL databases.

At A2 Hosting, your account includes the latest cPanel compatible version of Perl. Your server comes finely tuned to ensure ultimate performance for your Perl scripts.

Ready for maximum performance? At A2 Hosting, you always get the best version of Ruby! You can even manage your Ruby Gems directly from your control panel.

Boost your site's performance and security for free! Our CDN is a group of servers connected worldwide that automatically determines the fastest route to deliver your site to your visitors. Our CDN Benefits

• Increased Site Speed - Pretty cool, right?
• Enhanced Security – CloudFlare CDN recognizes and blocks many malicious threats before they can even reach your site.
• Free Universal SSL - Help keep your visitors safer with free SSL!
• Easy Setup - Simple 5-minute CDN setup.
• Increased Uptime - If one CDN server is unavailable, your site's traffic is automatically routed through the next nearest server.
• Free – Other hosts charge for CDN access. Go figure!

LiteMage is a caching solution designed to help you get the fastest Magento page load speeds. LiteMage uses Edge Sides Includes (ESI) on your pages that were previously unable to be cached. ESI "punches holes" where the unique, non-cacheable content on your pages is. This allows the rest of your page to be served from cache so it can load faster for each of your site visitors.

Communicates directly with your server to save and serve static copies of your dynamic PrestaShop pages to greatly reduce your store’s page-load time.

When you need an SSL Certificate, A2 Hosting is your host. We've got you covered whether you need to secure a single site, require a Wild Card SSL or an advanced option. Choose from our selection of affordable SSL Certificates in addition to our free Let's Encrypt SSL option. Our around-the-clock support staff will be happy to help you with the install of your SSL Certificate.

Use PayPal to accept money on your website! Sign up now for your PayPal merchant account!

Want your site to be listed in Google within 24-hours? Just log into your cPanel account and click the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools menu to get started with Attracta! Attracta includes: 

• An easy to use SEO dashboard
• An XML sitemap
• Immediate submission to Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask.
• Submission to Google, Yahoo! and Bing's local search engines.
• Broken links report (Because search engines hate broken link

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