A2hosting – Low Price = Poor Quality ?
A2hosting offers $8.97/month VPS hosting plan, no set fee, the promotion ends on the 31st of Dec.
The cPanel installation assistance service is reasonally priced, it costs $50 one time fee, as many other vps hosting companies would ask you sign up for their managed service which is usually more expensive.
30 Day money back guarantee, it is neccessery to know what the refund policy is before sigining up with any hosting companies, for a2hosting, only the month fee is refunable, one time fees such, ssl, cpanel set up assistance will not be refunded. Payment made by cheques and dedicated servers will not be refunded either.
Hardware
The a2hosting basic vps plan includes 128 Guaranteed Ram with 256 burstable ram, so your website will still be accessible even if it has exceed it ram limit. 10 GB storage and 100 GB Bandwidth / Data Transfer, unless you are hosting a huge ecommerce site (not as huge as eBay tho) with huge amount of page views per day, this should do you.
Software
Many Linux based OS to choose from,to name a few, Gentoo, Debian, Centos etc
2 virtualization systems, xen & openvz, in case you don't know the difference is, xen allows you to have multiple OS/operating system installation, as OpenVZ has 4 times less CPU consumption, less overhead, and more stable. They all have their advantages but if you only need vps for standard websites, then OpenVZ is the choice.
A2hosting offers 2 cPanel templates for vps customers, standard and advanced. basically advanced template is the same as the one in shared hosting, this is great for any one who is new to vps and would like to use cPanel.
Customers Service
99.9% Uptime policy, a2hosting has good reputation for their server uptime, although like many other companies, scheduled maintainances are not included in the uptime gurantee. Toll free phone support for US and Canada. Live support, Feedback button shows that a2hosting is continually working on their customers experiences and it is definitely a sign of good customer support.
Conclusion
A2hosting is an affordable vps hosting provider that has good customer support and plans that are suitable for absolute beginners in vps. Click here to visist A2hosting
