A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting rebranded to Hosting.com (following a January 2025 acquisition by World Host Group), and a2hosting.com now redirects there — if you're comparing old A2 reviews (including ours), map the names first. The shared lineup as published in October 2026 is three tiers on a four-year term: Starter at $1.99/mo ($95.49 at checkout; 5 sites, 15 GB NVMe), Pro at $3.79/mo (10 sites, 50 GB, staging) and Max at $7.79/mo (50 sites, 100 GB, 40 mailboxes) — down from the $3.99 one-year Starter we recorded in September, with four tiers consolidated into three — on AMD EPYC/NVMe infrastructure with LiteSpeed caching, cPanel, free migration, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The developer-friendly DNA survived the rebrand: SSH access, Git, and multiple PHP versions on shared plans — still unusual at this price.

The renewal rate is back on the plan card as of our October 2026 pass: 'Pay $95.49 today, then $13.99/mo on renewal' for Starter — a 7× step against the $1.99 four-year intro, second only to IONOS in our index — with Pro renewing at $19.99 and Max at $27.99. In September the figure was not published and we could only cite third-party estimates; the vendor now prints it, which we credit. The old A2 'Turbo' branding has been folded into the new lineup (LiteSpeed and NVMe are now standard on all shared tiers), so verify plan specifics rather than assuming the old plan names.

Renewal figures come from our Hosting Renewal Price Index — intro vs renewal pricing for every provider we cover, verified on vendor sites and dated.

Choose A2 Hosting if

• +Developers who want SSH/Git on cheap shared hosting
• +Sites that benefit from LiteSpeed caching without a managed-host bill
• +cPanel loyalists — this is one of the budget hosts that kept it

Look elsewhere if

• −You want a brand with a long stable identity — the rebrand makes old reviews and old plan names unreliable
• −You need guaranteed support depth — response quality has always varied here
• −Top-tier performance matters enough to pay for managed hosting

Inbound: free site migration is included per the published plans. Outbound: cPanel full backups restore cleanly at any other cPanel host, which makes this one of the lower-friction budget hosts to leave — worth something, given the rebrand churn.

A rebrand of this size (new domain, new plan names, consolidated product lines) is exactly when documentation, billing edge cases, and support scripts wobble — approach with that expectation. A2's historical 'anytime' pro-rated refund policy is not what the current pages advertise; the published guarantee is 30 days. We've updated our records to match, and we'd verify refund terms at checkout.

Alternatives to consider

• NetArt — loaded plans with a published sla
• Hostinger — budget-friendly first sites

Deeper comparisons

• A2 Hosting Review: The Rebrand, the Speed Claim, and the Missing Renewal Price