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
Illegal immigrants can not use 1&1 internet
I was browsing through 1&1 internet reviews, and came across a post in one of the forums suggests that you need to provide your passport copy and very very personal information in order to sign up for their services, sounds like 1and1 has become the online police department.
So out of curiosity I had a look in 1&1 internet privacy policy, where I found no mentions regarding to passports. That's why it is time for us to focus on the problems, pros and cons.
Problems
Not receiving validation email, You should get it right after you sign up, otherwise check your spam filter first, if still not, well, wait for a while and contact their support, for vps and dedicated may take up to 5 days to set up.
other problems are not really problems, such as how to set up joomla, wordpress, all you need to do is to use an ftp client such as filezilla, if you don't know how to do it, let me know, I will make a video on that.
Pros
Good variety of hosting plans, shared hosting, vps, dedicated servers etc. The starting price is surprisingly low for dedicated server, only $49/month, as for shared hosting and vps are pretty much the same as many other hosting providers.
I like the sound of green hosting, it feels like that we are helping to protect the environment as we are building our sites.
90 day money back guarantee (does not apply to dedicated), while most of the hosting companies offer only 30 days.
24/7 support which is pretty standard with all the big hosting companies, although I am a big fan (my surname is Fan too, and I am big) of live chat support, which is not available.
Cons
The account cancellation in 1&1 internet can be tricky, many customers had complaints on that issue, so read through their policies before you purchase 1&1 internet hosting plans (that applies to any other hosting companies)
Even though 1and1 and many other hosting companies provide a free domain when you sign up, but unless you are just testing it out and don't care about the site much, don't use the free domain provided for your site. I think we can all afford $10 for a domain name.
Conclusion
Don’t decide whether to register for a hosting account with 1&1 internet or not based on what I have just said, as I always suggest do more researches before buying any hosting service, and that will save you a lot of headaches and nightmares in the future. Watch my video “how to find a reliable hosting serviceâ€, and don’t forget to order hosting services through my links, because you will get a nice gift, actually a few. Click to see what you will get