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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 MySQL 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.

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.

We've ended the guesswork of how to get the fastest OpenCart page loads. Thanks to testing, testing and more testing, our team has created A2 Optimized. There's no more guesswork! A2 Optimized provides auto-configuration for your site so you get the best OpenCart performance and security. With auto-optimizations like compression and caching, you can turn your focus to building your site and selling your products.

We've ended the guesswork of how to get the fastest WordPress page loads. Thanks to testing, testing and more testing, our team has created A2 Optimized.

A2 Optimized is a WordPress plugin, exclusive to A2 Hosting customers, providing auto-configuration for your site so you get the best WordPress performance and security. With auto-optimizations like compression and caching, you can turn your focus to building your site and writing content.

We offer 2 easy options to get A2 Optimized WordPress up and running:

• WordPress auto-installed right from our order form! Once you purchase your hosting account, you'll receive an email detailing where to log in. It couldn't be faster or easier!

• Use the 1-click Softaculous installer found in your cPanel control panel.

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.

Want to use our hosting service with a server located close to you? You can! Get the same award winning A2 Hosting service while hosting on a server located closer to you and your visitors. Just select your hosting location from our order form.

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:

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

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

Auto-Configured – No control panels to log into or buttons to click to get started. CloudFlare Basic comes pre-Installed.

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.

HTTP/2 provides significantly faster page load times than HTTP because of its ability to deliver more HTTP requests at once and prioritize those requests. HTTP/2 delivers files 20%-30% faster than HTTP. Based on Google's SPDY project, HTTP/2 actually marks the first major HTTP update since 1999!

With ESI, you no longer have to designate an entire page as non-cacheable just because one portion cannot be cached. Instead you can easily designate portions of your page to be cached (or not cached) with ESI. This is significant especially for sites created by applications like Magento or WordPress.

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 guarantee your site will be 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 from RoundCube, Squirrelmail or Horde? Do it all from within your cPanel 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.

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