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Whether you want to develop with MySQL, MSSQL or both, rest assured that you data bases come fine tuned for the best performance at A2 Hosting.

An Aberdeen Group study shows a 1-second page load delay causes a 7% decrease in conversion rates, 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 standard hosting. What makes our Turbo servers so fast?

• Fewer users per server
• A2 Optimized - Powered By APC/OPcache & Turbo Cache
• Uses less CPU and memory than Apache
• Handles connections faster and more efficiently
• Provides enhanced stability

Learn more about how our Turbo Servers can make your site fly!

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
• Dual Web Hosting Firewall
• Brute Force Defense
• Virus Scanning
• Server Hardening
• 24/7/365 Security Monitoring

REAL Hosting Support! REAL Smart. REAL Fast. REAL Experience.

Submit a ticket. Email us. Call us. Chat with us. Wherever you are. Whenever you need us, 24/7/365.

We’re here for you! We're here for you at 3:00 AM, when the ball drops on New Years Eve or even on February 29th.

We’ve hand-selected our support technicians. The Guru Crew is here to track down the solution to your hosting questions. Whether you need advanced PHP Hosting support or have a question about how to get your blog set up, the Guru Crew is here.

At A2 Hosting, we have the highest possible rating with the Better Business Bureau!

A2 Optimized ends the guesswork of how to get the fastest page loads for your software. Thanks to testing, testing and more testing, our team has created A2 Optimized.

Your A2 Optimized install, exclusive to A2 Hosting customers, provides auto-configuration for the most popular software including WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, PrestaShop and more so you get the best performance and most secure settings. With auto-optimizations like compression and caching, you can turn your focus to building your site, writing content and promotion.

Performance Plus doubles your CPU cores and adds an additional GB of RAM to your account so you’ll be able to maintain your site’s speed during traffic spikes.

Did you know over 10 million sites are hacked each year? 1 in 6 are powered by WordPress. We don't want your site to become another statistic. That's why we've created A2 Optimized! This plugin auto-hardens your WordPress sites to help prevent hacks. With A2 Optimized, you automatically get:

• Unique WordPress Login URL
• Automatic WordPress Updates
• ReCaptcha on WordPress Login Page

WP-CLI is a set of command-line tools to help you manage your WordPress installations. Update plugins, set up multisite WordPress installs and more without the use of your web browser.

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 1-click 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!

Add all the features of our free CDN including increased site speed, enhanced security and increased uptime as well as the following benefits to your account:

Free Universal SSL - Help keep your visitors safer with free SSL!

Mobile Optimization with Mirage & Polish - Quickly produces a usable page for mobile devices by displaying a full page for to start interacting, then fills in the rest of the page without disrupting the visitor's experience.

Auto-Configured – No control panels to log into or buttons to click. CloudFlare  comes pre-installed.

SPDY Support – According to Google, web pages load up to 64% faster with SPDY protocol than with HTTP alone.

With our Anycast DNS solution, DNS records are duplicated across A2 Hosting's global network ultimately bringing them closer to your visitors. Anycast DNS increases performance when your site is visited by offering quicker response times, lowering latency and increasing redundancy.

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.

Freedom from accidental deletion, mistakes & data corruption! Server Rewind is our free file recovery program. Easily restore your data from saved snapshots when recovery is necessary.

• Automatic - Account backup snapshots are taken regularly.
• Convenient - Access Server Rewind from your control panel.
• Exclusive – You can only get your hands on it at A2 Hosting!
• Free - Yes, it's actually 100% free. We promise.

_{Data backup and restoration is performed on a "best effort" basis. Please be sure to create your own backups of your data. You never know when our datacenter will be hit by a meteor. We will not be responsible for damage or loss as the result of a failed file restore.}

Fixing a hacked site is a major headache. We want to make your life easier so we include free HackScan protection to help block hacks before they can do damage your site. HackScan is just one feature of Perpetual Security; our proactive protection against malicious hackers and security threats! Additional Perpetual Security features:

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

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.

At A2 Hosting, we have the highest possible rating with the Better Business Bureau!

The "A2" in our name stands for Ann Arbor, the city where we're heardquartered? 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!

Our supercharged version of the CentOS operating system is specifically designed to meet a site's growing needs. With its unheralded ability to isolate and control resource spikes, CloudLinux provides superior site availability. 

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

At A2 Hosting, we got our start by offering the best PHP Hosting. Even today, you still get the best versions of PHP. You can even toggle between PHP versions by clicking the PHP icon in your control panel.

You can always depend on A2 Hosting to keep MySQL up-to-date for maximum performance. Your account comes loaded with plenty of space so you won't have to worry whether there's enough space to install another application. Use SSH (included free) or phpMyAdmin (pre-installed) to manage your MySQL databases. Need to recover a database? Just use our Server Rewind Backups solution!

While most hosts only allow it in a VPS environment, we've optimized our servers for Node.js. We've even documented how easy it is to install Node.js on your account.

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.

Access your e-mail the way you want. Want POP3 or IMAP? You got it! Prefer to use webmail? You can use that as well from your hosting control panel!

All incoming mail will be processed through the Barracuda server and scanned for potential SPAM and viruses. Messages meeting the SPAM criteria or those potentially with viruses are kept on the Barracuda server for retrieval if necessary. Messages that pass the Barracuda filters are sent through.

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 1-click 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!

A2 Hosting, Inc. and e-onlinedata have partnered to offer you the highest quality Credit Card Processing and Payment Gateway services. E-onlinedata specializes in Merchant Accounts for Internet, Mail Order/Phone Order, Retail and Auction businesses.

E-onlinedata features instant activation of your Merchant ID - as soon as you submit your account to them via their user friendly Online Application, they issue your live Merchant ID instantly and your search is over! Learn more.

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