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A2 Hosting vs. Digital Ocean 2020
Find out which one is the best for your needs
| Pricing | ||
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| Starting price | CA$5.47 / month | CA$6.98 / month |
| Free domain | No | No |
| Coupons |
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| User Ratings | ||
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| Reliability | 9.3 / 10 | 5.7 / 10 |
| Pricing | 9 / 10 | 6.6 / 10 |
| User Friendly | 9.3 / 10 | 5.8 / 10 |
| Support | 9.3 / 10 | 5 / 10 |
| Features | 9.3 / 10 | 5.9 / 10 |
| Summary |
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A2 Hosting is one of those companies that just performs well in all categories, and they do so very consistently. DigitalOcean is a good hosting company, and most of their customers are very satisfied. The fact remains, however, that A2 Hosting is ranked higher in every measured category, and in many cases, significantly higher. When you opt for A2 Hosting, you’ll have access to skilled support staff, great prices, excellent features, and much more, which is why they are the winner in this matchup.
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| User Reviews | ||
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| Latest positive review |
A2 Hosting -honest opi...
Apr. 27, 2020
Good side,
1-Reliable hosting. 2-Really fast this is true. 3-prompt respond 4-really helpful you find those feature no matter... More
what your plan is. This is what I like most about A2 hosting
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Bad side, 1 little expensive- but with some chances you can get real discount which makes it reasonable price. 2- some time get some mails to solve the issue. 3-automatic pay. I don't like it. but it could be good or bad. |
Excellent Reliable Ser...
Nov. 11, 2019
I have been hosting with Digital ocean for the past two years after trying godaddy, hostgator, namecheap, etc. By far this ha...
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s been the best and more reliable service. If you don't know how to do something, digital ocean has very good documentation from the community to help you out how to do something.
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| Latest negative review |
Now I understand why t...
Apr. 2, 2020
I move to A2Hosting because for me Other which was expensive, but now I see that it worthed every penny i paid for it, unfort...
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unately my income is not big enough to continue use it.
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I had no problems with downtime on A2Hosting and thanks to them for this, but there are many cons which makes me nervous. 1.When I add domain, it starts to run AutoSSL and until it does not assign SSL to your domain you can't do nothing with it. but it may take up to 24-72 hours and from their opinion it is normal, fortunately in my cases it did not take more then 6 hours. Another Problem is if you use gmail address for example for sending mails from your site it will send SPF error message to your mail and will not send email. I had same problem and asked for help via chat and Support guy told me that he fixed it but problem still existed and then after a while ago I again contacted support and now I was told that I need to add spf record for all domains separately by myself. I am sure that after some time I will find some other stupid things on this hosting, but I need to get used to it until my service ends :( When I told that it only takes few minutes on other hostings to assign ssl this is what I got as answer: "I cannot comment other hosting, it is like you ask Volkswagen why Mercedes have something different, yet they are both just cars." But from my oppinion other hostings sell cars which only need keys in it and it will take you anywhere, while A2Hosting sell you just car parts and you need first to build a car and only after you will be able to drive, but nowone tells you this when you pay for it, you only find out it later. I would understand this on Dedicated servers, but shared servers mostly are purchased by non-tech people for their blogs or small business and they need some ready to go solutions, but they are forced to learn Cpanel features to make everything work and this is terrible. |
Supporting criminals, ...
Apr. 22, 2020
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| Server Locations | ||
|---|---|---|
| North America | Yes | Yes |
| Europe | Yes | Yes |
| Asia | Yes | Yes |
| Oceania | No | No |
| South America | No | No |
| Africa & Middle East | No | No |
| Shared Hosting Plans | ||
|---|---|---|
| Plan Name | Lite | – |
| Space | Unlimited | – |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | – |
| Panel | cpanel | – |
| Number of Sites | N/A | N/A |
| Features | – | |
| Price | CA$5.47 | – |
| Plan Name | Lite - Windows | – |
| Space | Unlimited | – |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | – |
| Panel | other | – |
| Number of Sites | N/A | N/A |
| Features | – | |
| Price | CA$6.84 | – |
| Plan Name | Swift | – |
| Space | Unlimited | – |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | – |
| Panel | cpanel | – |
| Number of Sites | N/A | N/A |
| Features | – | |
| Price | CA$6.84 | – |
| Plan Name | Swift - Windows | – |
| Space | Unlimited | – |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | – |
| Panel | other | – |
| Number of Sites | N/A | N/A |
| Features | – | |
| Price | CA$8.20 | – |
| Plan Name | Turbo | – |
| Space | Unlimited | – |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | – |
| Panel | cpanel | – |
| Number of Sites | N/A | N/A |
| Features | – | |
| Price | CA$12.99 | – |
| Plan Name | Turbo - Windows | – |
| Space | Unlimited | – |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | – |
| Panel | other | – |
| Number of Sites | N/A | N/A |
| Features | – | |
| Price | CA$15.04 | – |
| See all Shared Hosting plans | ||
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| VPS Plans | ||
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| Plan Name | Entry - Unmanaged | – |
| Space | 20 GB | – |
| CPU | 1 core | – |
| RAM | 512 MB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$6.98 | – |
| Plan Name | Mid - Unmanaged | – |
| Space | 30 GB | – |
| CPU | 1 core | – |
| RAM | 1 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$13.95 | – |
| Plan Name | Top - Unmanaged | – |
| Space | 50 GB | – |
| CPU | 4 cores | – |
| RAM | 1 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$20.93 | – |
| Plan Name | Power+ | – |
| Space | 75 GB | – |
| CPU | 4 cores | – |
| RAM | 4 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$34.88 | – |
| Plan Name | Prestige+ | – |
| Space | 100 GB | – |
| CPU | 6 cores | – |
| RAM | 6 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$48.84 | – |
| Plan Name | Pinnacle+ | – |
| Space | 150 GB | – |
| CPU | 8 cores | – |
| RAM | 8 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$69.77 | – |
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| Dedicated Server Plans | ||
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| Plan Name | Sprint - Unmanaged | – |
| Space | 1000 GB | – |
| CPU | 2 x 3.10GHz | – |
| RAM | 8 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$138.96 | – |
| Plan Name | Exceed - Unmanaged | – |
| Space | 1000 GB | – |
| CPU | 4 x 2.40GHz | – |
| RAM | 8 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$231.61 | – |
| Plan Name | Mach - Unmanaged | – |
| Space | 1.95 TB | – |
| CPU | 12 x 2.10GHz | – |
| RAM | 16 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$347.43 | – |
| Plan Name | Sprint - Managed | – |
| Space | 1000 GB | – |
| CPU | 2 x 3.10GHz | – |
| RAM | 8 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$196.87 | – |
| Plan Name | Exceed - Managed | – |
| Space | 1000 GB | – |
| CPU | 4 x 2.40GHz | – |
| RAM | 8 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$289.52 | – |
| Plan Name | Mach - Managed | – |
| Space | 1.95 TB | – |
| CPU | 12 x 2.10GHz | – |
| RAM | 16 GB | – |
| OS | Linux | – |
| Price | CA$405.34 | – |
| See all Dedicated Server plans | ||
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| Cloud Hosting Plans | ||
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| Plan Name | Start | $5 |
| Space | 10 GB | 20 GB |
| CPU | 2 x 0.60GHz | 1 core |
| RAM | 512 MB | 512 MB |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | 1 TB |
| Price | CA$20.93 | CA$6.98 |
| Plan Name | Median | $10 |
| Space | 10 GB | 30 GB |
| CPU | 2 x 0.60GHz | 1 core |
| RAM | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | 2 TB |
| Price | CA$27.91 | CA$13.95 |
| Plan Name | Ace | $20 |
| Space | 25 GB | 40 GB |
| CPU | 2 x 0.60GHz | 2 cores |
| RAM | 1 GB | 2 GB |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited | 3 TB |
| Price | CA$34.88 | CA$27.91 |
| Plan Name | – | $40 |
| Space | – | 60 GB |
| CPU | – | 2 cores |
| RAM | – | 4 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 4 TB |
| Price | – | CA$55.81 |
| Plan Name | – | $80 |
| Space | – | 80 GB |
| CPU | – | 4 cores |
| RAM | – | 8 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 5 TB |
| Price | – | CA$111.63 |
| Plan Name | – | $160 |
| Space | – | 160 GB |
| CPU | – | 8 cores |
| RAM | – | 16 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 6 TB |
| Price | – | CA$223.26 |
| Plan Name | – | $320 |
| Space | – | 320 GB |
| CPU | – | 12 cores |
| RAM | – | 32 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 7 TB |
| Price | – | CA$446.51 |
| Plan Name | – | $480 |
| Space | – | 480 GB |
| CPU | – | 16 cores |
| RAM | – | 48 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 8 TB |
| Price | – | CA$669.77 |
| Plan Name | – | $640 |
| Space | – | 640 GB |
| CPU | – | 20 cores |
| RAM | – | 64 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 9 TB |
| Price | – | CA$893.02 |
| Plan Name | – | $120 |
| Space | – | 30 GB |
| CPU | – | 2 cores |
| RAM | – | 16 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 6 TB |
| Price | – | CA$167.44 |
| Plan Name | – | $240 |
| Space | – | 90 GB |
| CPU | – | 4 cores |
| RAM | – | 32 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 7 TB |
| Price | – | CA$334.88 |
| Plan Name | – | $480 |
| Space | – | 200 GB |
| CPU | – | 8 cores |
| RAM | – | 64 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 8 TB |
| Price | – | CA$669.77 |
| Plan Name | – | $960 |
| Space | – | 340 GB |
| CPU | – | 16 cores |
| RAM | – | 128 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 9 TB |
| Price | – | CA$1,339.54 |
| Plan Name | – | $1680 |
| Space | – | 500 GB |
| CPU | – | 32 cores |
| RAM | – | 224 GB |
| Bandwidth | – | 10 TB |
| Price | – | CA$2,344.19 |
| See all Cloud Hosting plans | ||
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| Resellers Plans | ||
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| Plan Name | Bronze | – |
| Space | 30 GB | – |
| Bandwidth | 409.6 GB | – |
| Panel | whm | – |
| Price | CA$13.67 | – |
| Plan Name | Silver | – |
| Space | 75 GB | – |
| Bandwidth | 614.4 GB | – |
| Panel | whm | – |
| Price | CA$19.14 | – |
| Plan Name | Gold | – |
| Space | 150 GB | – |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB | – |
| Panel | whm | – |
| Price | CA$25.30 | – |
| Plan Name | Platinum | – |
| Space | 200 GB | – |
| Bandwidth | 2 TB | – |
| Panel | whm | – |
| Price | CA$42.39 | – |
| See all Resellers plans | ||
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| Features | ||
|---|---|---|
| Support Services | ||
| Live Chat | Yes | Yes |
| Phone Support | Yes | No |
| Email Support | Yes | Yes |
| Forum Support | Yes | Yes |
| Video guides | Yes | Yes |
| Knowledgebase | Yes | Yes |
| CMS Support | ||
| Wordpress | Yes | Yes |
| Managed Wordpress | Yes | No |
| Joomla | Yes | Yes |
| Drupal | Yes | Yes |
| Magento | Yes | Yes |
| Fantastico | Yes | No |
| Presta Shop | Yes | No |
| ZenCart | Yes | No |
| OS Support | ||
| Windows | No | No |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Language Support | ||
| PHP | Yes | Yes |
| Java | Yes | No |
| Python | Yes | No |
| NodeJS | Yes | Yes |
| Django | Yes | No |
| Perl | Yes | No |
| Ruby on Rails | Yes | No |
| Database Support | ||
| MongoDB | Yes | No |
| MySQL | Yes | Yes |
| PostgreSQL | Yes | No |
| Payment Types Support | ||
| PayPal | Yes | Yes |
| Credit Card | Yes | Yes |
| MoneyBookers | Yes | No |
| Wire Transfer | Yes | No |
| Webmoney | No | No |
| Bitcoin | No | No |
| Bottom Line |
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A2 Hosting is one of those companies that just performs well in all categories, and they do so very consistently. DigitalOcean is a good hosting company, and most of their customers are very satisfied. The fact remains, however, that A2 Hosting is ranked higher in every measured category, and in many cases, significantly higher. When you opt for A2 Hosting, you’ll have access to skilled support staff, great prices, excellent features, and much more, which is why they are the winner in this matchup.
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