Plan options vary by computational speed, RAM allocation, and storage performance. Notably, all dedicated server plans are automatically deployed upon purchase–eliminating provisioning delays sometimes encountered when acquiring such solutions from other web hosting partners. These dedicated servers will first be available out of the company’s Michigan (U.S.) data center and will subsequently roll out to its remaining data centers worldwide.

Unmatched Performance

Benchmark performance tests run on the new bare metal servers indicate a considerable performance advantage over competitive options. Two scenarios were analyzed: single-threaded and multi-threaded (250) loads, testing A2 Hosting’s solution against four top, comparable competitor solutions. The benchmark tools used were NGINX (single-threaded applications) and Apache Siege (multi-threaded applications).

In the single-threaded NGINX tests, which show performance levels for customers who need the fastest load times for ecommerce websites, A2 Hosting’s dedicated servers performed anywhere from 54% to 309% better depending on the competitor. Whereas in the multi-threaded Apache Siege 250 tests for database-intensive websites/applications, A2 Hosting’s solutions outpaced the competition by 22% to 670%. Collectively, regardless of load, A2 Hosting’s BMD plans deliver an average of 242% better performance versus the five tested competitors’ similar offerings.

SMB’s looking to speed up their tools and to make employees more efficient are upgrading to A2 Hosting’s multi-threaded workload BMDs to increase productivity and speed of both internal and external applications for their workforce. A2 Hosting’s increase in dedicated server performance over the five tested competitor offerings can potentially save companies thousands of dollars in lost productivity each month.

“Today’s data-driven business use cases are introducing heavier application workloads, putting greater demand on web hosting solutions. Customers turn to dedicated server plans to maximize website performance accordingly and to eliminate any risk of noisy neighbor effects,” said Bryan Muthig, CEO, A2 Hosting. “SMBs should be able to benefit from inherent bare metal server advantages regardless of whether they have robust IT departments. We’ve made that achievable through our new dedicated web hosting service, ensuring the greatest ROI possible.”

Plan Features

The new dedicated hosting plans include benefits designed to support small- to medium-sized businesses. Performance optimization and various customization options are available, several of which are automatically managed by A2 Hosting such as speed optimization and security scans. Other key features include:

• • Single-tenant machines
  • Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
  • No hypervisor/virtualization layer
  • State of the Art Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC servers
  • DDR4 RAM with error correcting code (ECC)
  • Four (4) Linux distribution options: CentOS, Debian, CloudLinux, Ubuntu
  • Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSDs (available on Turbo plans)
  • Advanced LightSpeed Server Caching (available on Turbo plans)
  • Auto-deployment upon purchase

Plan Options

Packaged in Standard and Turbo Tiers, the dedicated servers are accessible via Managed and Unmanaged Dedicated Hosting plans designed to the needs of two distinct user types.

Managed Dedicated Server Hosting: Designed for businesses and agencies with limited IT staffing to ensure they can focus on the business needs not the infrastructure and semi-experienced developers. The intuitive cPanel control panel is used for hardware access. Managed plans are packaged with a LiteSpeed web server software license and either CentOS or CloudLinux distributions. Root access is available as an option at checkout.

Unmanaged Dedicated Server Hosting: Designed for experienced developers who are comfortable working directly on the hardware itself. The plans are not packaged with cPanel or web server software, providing a true blank slate to be customized as preferred. Linux distribution choices include CentOS, Debian, and Ubuntu. Root access is available as an option at checkout.

Plan Selection Guidance

Determining how much storage and performance is needed to support website objectives can be a challenge. For customers seeking assistance, A2 Hosting has created a guide to help customers make more informed decisions when selecting a dedicated server plan. Access that guide here.

About A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting, Inc. is a high-performance hosting services provider located in Ann Arbor, MI. The company delivers ultra-reliable solutions and 24/7/365 US-based support from its Guru Crew team. Since 2003, A2 Hosting has offered innovative, affordable, and developer-friendly hosting for small- and medium-sized businesses as well as web development agencies worldwide. Customers seeking the fastest hosting options in the industry can host websites of any size on A2’s Turbo Performance server platform featuring page load speeds up to 20X faster compared to competing solutions. To learn more, visit https://www.a2hosting.com.

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Original Press Release

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ANN ARBOR, MICH. (PRWEB) APRIL 14, 2021

A2 Hosting, a provider of high-speed hosting solutions, today announced a new promotion commemorating Earth Week 2021. From April 17 to April 25, new customers will receive an up to 77 percent discount on any web hosting package purchase. Additionally, with each purchase, A2 Hosting will plant two trees through Carbonfund.org.

For the Earth Week promotion, three types of hosting will be on sale: Shared Hosting, Managed VPS Hosting and Unmanaged VPS Hosting. Each hosting service is available in four different packages customized to various customer requirements.

It’s Easy Being Green

2021 is a banner year for A2 hosting as it marks the company’s 15th anniversary as a Carbonfund.org Foundation partner. Carbonfund.org leads the fight against climate change, making it easy for businesses to reduce their climate impact, hastening the transition to a clean energy future. The initiative enables A2 Hosting to offset its carbon footprint made by operating web servers in its four data centers in Michigan, Arizona, Singapore, and Netherlands.

“Being a green company is important to us,” said Bryan Muthig, CEO, A2 Hosting. “We made a promise early on to our customers and to ourselves to operate with purpose, to do what we can to affect positive change in our communities. Working with Carbonfund.org is one way we do that, and one we’re very proud of as it directly relates to our customer engagement. It’s a way for us to say thank you for making us your web hosting partner of choice while contributing to forest and clean air preservation.”

In honor of Earth Day, A2 Hosting also reviewed and quantified its prior year’s environmental impact in other areas. Research suggests that the company saved:

• 705 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2)
• 960,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy
• 1.3 million gallons of water
• 1.15 million cubic feet (cu ft) of natural gas

Notably, these achievements are direct results of the company’s decision to operate as a virtual company since its inception.

“Our business mission has always aligned with our environmental mission. It made sense to not have a brick-and-mortar headquarters. Being fully remote is a major benefit to a services company like ours,” continued Bryan. “It enables us to recruit the best IT talent from anywhere in the world. And it allows us to maintain our best-in-class, 24/7 support for our 24/7 hosting services with our knowledgeable internal Guru Crew support team.”

A2 Hosting’s Earth Day promotion can be accessed directly from the company’s website.

About A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting, Inc. is a high-performance hosting services provider located in Ann Arbor, MI. The company delivers ultra-reliable solutions and 24/7/365 US-based support from its Guru Crew team. Since 2003, A2 Hosting has offered innovative, affordable, and developer-friendly hosting for small- and medium-sized businesses as well as web development agencies worldwide. Customers seeking the fastest hosting options in the industry can host websites of any size on A2’s Turbo Performance server platform featuring page load speeds up to 20X faster compared to competing solutions. To learn more, visit https://www.a2hosting.com.

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Press Contact:
Heather Ailara
211 Communications
+1.973.567.6040
heather@211comms.com

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Save up to 59% on these new VPS plans for a limited time!

Why Our VPS Hosting Is Better

Each performance VPS now comes hosted on our premium AMD EPYC hardware. EPYC servers provide a number of advantages including:

• Enhanced processing power with unheralded I/O capacity designed to reduce bottlenecks that could slow down a website.
• Use of non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage. NVMe drives’ read/write speeds are 3X faster compared to standard SSDs. This has helped A2 Hosting build our fastest hosting platform to date.
• 2X faster first-byte performance and 40% faster CPU performance compared to our previous Turbo plans.

Our performance VPS packages offer our customers a clear cut advantage because the choice of web host is a key factor in how fast a website performs. Studies have shown time and again that faster websites have higher SEO rankings, better conversion rates and lower bounce rates. This all leads to a better bottom line for your site and business!

VPS Management Options

We offer both Managed and Unmanaged VPS options. These options are designed to fit the needs of two distinctly different types of users.

• Managed VPS – Provides the perfect user-experience for customers comfortable in a Shared Hosting environment using the intuitive control panel cPanel. Our Managed VPS plans also feature free site migration providing a seamless transition if you have an existing hosting package.
• Unmanaged VPS – Designed for experienced developers who are comfortable working with the command line. Unmanaged VPS plans also allow you to fully customize your server settings to your exact needs.

Why Choose A VPS?

Each A2 Hosting individual VPS includes its own operating system and runs independently of each other on the server. They also have their own allocation of resources like RAM, CPU and disk space. This provides you with an environment that closely mimics that of a Dedicated Server, without the costs associated with it.

Our VPS plans provide you with a number of advantages including:

• Improved Performance & Isolation – You don’t share resources with other users. That means both you and your audience will enjoy enhanced website performance with a VPS.
• More Control & Customization – Root access (available on both our Managed and Unmanaged VPS options) allow you to configure server settings to fit your exact needs.
• Cost Effectiveness – Experience many of the considerable benefits you would of a Dedicated Server, without the cost.
• Highly Scalable – As your site becomes more popular, you’ll easily be able to ramp up your VPS’ resources to keep up with your growth.
• Resource Intensive Software – Some software solutions aren’t compatible in a Shared Hosting environment because they require too many resources to run properly. A VPS can offer you those additional resources.

Getting Started With VPS Hosting

Try our VPS Hosting risk-free with our Money-Back Guarantee. Have any questions? Just contact our 24/7/365 Guru Crew Support team via live chat, email or phone. We’ll be happy to help. We’re looking forward to working with you!

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What is ModSecurity?

The vast majority of website attacks occur because vulnerabilities found in certain web applications (i.e. CMS software, blogs, eCommerce carts, forums etc.) are exploited. ModSecurity is a web-based firewall application (WAF) security solution that adds an additional layer of protection to protect against this sort of attack. ModSecurity detects and blocks these types of attacks before they can reach your web application.

What Do I Need To Know About False Positives?

ModSecurity works in the background checking every page request your site receives against a number of security rules. Requests that are deemed malicious are blocked in an attempt to keep your site safe. ModSecurity, like any other WAF, can produce false positives.  This means ModSecurity may occasionally incorrectly block a legitimate request. This can occur if the application is poorly coded and appears to be malicious.

If a false positive occurs, you may receive a 403 Forbidden, 404 Not Found or 406 Not Acceptable Error. This can easily be corrected by contacting our Support team. We will be happy to help you solve this issue!

What Are The Advantages Of ModSecurity?

The bottom line is that ModSecurity will be a free service, automatically configured on our Shared and Reseller accounts. The intent is to keep your websites even safer! ModSecurity provides us with improved protection against a number of different attacks including:

• SQL Injections
• Trojans
• Cross Website Scripting
• Session Hijacks
• Bad User Agents
• Additional Exploits

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What Is Turbo Reseller Hosting?

When you choose our Turbo Reseller solutions, you and your users will be hosted on our next generation AMD EPYC servers featuring NVMe storage. These servers offer a number of advantages compared to standard hosting including:

• Up to 40% faster CPU performance
• The ability to handle up to 9X more users
• Up to 2X faster to first byte performance

Ultimately, sites hosted on our Turbo Reseller solutions perform up to 20X FASTER compared to competing Reseller Hosting options.

Why Is Fast Reseller Hosting Important?

As an A2 Reseller Hosting customer, you get the advantage of selling our high-speed functionality to your own customers. This is important because your choice of web host plays a key factor in how fast your customers’ sites perform. Choose A2 Hosting! Website studies have proven time and again that faster websites have:

• Higher SEO rankings
• Better conversion rates
• Lower bounce rates
• Increased visitor satisfaction levels

Is Reseller Hosting Right For Me?

Do you host, build or support websites for your customers? If yes, then our Reseller Hosting would be a great service to offer your users! Our Reseller Hosting is a turnkey solution designed for hosting your own customers. This an excellent alternative to launching your own hosting company, which can involve significant upfront costs, expertise and time commitments. Lean on our expertise instead!

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We won’t mince words; we are wholeheartedly against CISPA! We highly recommend that you contact your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative to let them now how you feel about CISPA.

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In addition to providing enhanced site performance, A2 Hosting’s Iceland data center is one of the most eco-friendly data-centers in the world. This 100% green data center uses a natural free cooling technology that pulls in outside air into its cooling unit so no carbon footprint is made!

Our Web Hosting, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting and Managed VPS Hosting products are each available in the European data center. Just select Reykjavik Iceland as your server location from our order form. If you’re a current A2 Hosting customer interested in moving your site to our European data center, just submit a Sales Ticket. We can provide more details on how to move your account to our new European data center.

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Your feedback to date has been positive regarding the Notification Center. We have received a number of suggestions to enhance this tool. After listening to your feedback, we’ve added two additional options:

• Network Issue Update – Sent when a Service Bulletin is posted with updated information about an existing issue.
• Network Issue Resolved – Sent when a Service Bulletin is posted informing you that the issue has been resolved.

Please note that all three of the Notification Center options are opt in, so you’ll need to log into your My A2 Hosting account to select which of the notifications you would like to receive in the future. You can log into one, two or all three of the options and opt out at any time.

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