A2hosting vs Bluehost

 A2 hosting VS Bluehost

Bluehost

 

Bluehost is an officially recommended hosting provider for WordPress. Founded in 2003 Bluehost is one of 20 largest web host, collectively hosting over 2 million domains. for every purchase of a hosting plan Bluehost provide a free domain name and a free SSL Certificate, with 30-day money back guarantee on any quote.

A2 Hosting

A2hosting is a leading developer friendly hosting company that provides all the features you need to get your business website up and running. Allowing you to choose your preferred data center when signing up for their service, while also providing money back guarantee if you’re not fully satisfied.

 

 Page Speed

 

Speed and up time are one of the vital factors when considering a choice for website hosting. It determines the smoothness and ease of transition for yourself and your customers when navigating through the website. for the purpose of this article we decided to compare the speed and up time of A2hosting and bluehost to provide our readers with a greater insight. We did this by setting up a test sites using both website hosts, then we ran two different types of speed test using:

 

·         Load impact

·         Pingdom

 

We used a website called load impact to help us determine the durability of our website of it was to encounter a traffic surge. We set up 100 people to visit the website to visit the website at the same time to determine the strength of the servers, these are the results:

 

 

A2hosting preformed consistently well until it reached a threshold of 40 visitors, the website then tend to slow down and took a bit of time for it to recover.

 

In comparison, Bluehost preformed significantly well throughout the whole test, the website didn’t slowdown at all even at a 100 visitors.

 

 Furthermore, we also conducted a Pingdom test to see the exact metrics of the websites load time and performance grade, here are the results:

As can be seen above Bluehost had a load time of 689ms were as A2hosting had a time of 1.2s. The metrics have shown blue host to be faster than 94% of websites, in comparison to A2hosting being faster than 84% of websites, illustrating a 10% difference. Hence through these metrics it’s evident to see Bluehost is the clear winner when it comes to website speed and load time.

 

 

 

Beneficial features:

 

A2hosting has the basic and more when it comes to hosting your site, users are able to:

-          24/7 sever monitoring and Malware scanning : protected by “Hackscan” 24/7 monitoring service to have you secured

-          Free site migrations (1-25 according to your plan): are able to move existing websites to their server without charge

-          Content manager system: easily install WordPress, Opencast, Drupal, Joomla, or Magneto site with just  a few clicks

-          30 day money back guarantee:  users are able to requesting their money back within 30 days of signing up

-          Exceptionally fast customer support: 24/7 support or users through live chat , emails, ticketing and phones

 

 

Similarly Bluehost has a range of glorious features for their users, some of which include:

-          Seamless WordPress integration: allow user to easily WordPress site

-          A free domain name for the First year: enabling users to save cost on domain expenses

-          Free SSL certificate: provide strong security protection to users

-          Generous storage : blue host provides an abundance of storage for users and unmetered bandwidth 

 

 

 

 

 

Features they have in common include:

-          Ease of use: Both A2 and Blue hosting are easy websites to manoeuvre for firs time users. They both provide a Cpanel access and one click installer for many popular websites.

-          24/7 support: users of both websites are lucky as they have 24/7 hour support for any troubles they are experiencing. They can contact the support team through live chat, email, ticketing and phone.

 

Between the two hosting websites A2hosting offers better and more features, however both sites have the basic and significant extra features for their users.

 

 

Pricing:

As can be seen above Bluehost is a much cheaper option overall compared to A2hosting, however A2hosting has a cheaper managed WordPress option then Bluehost. Also a worthy note that these prices are in US dollars.

 

 In conclusion, I personally believe  believe that Bluehost is the better option , as it provides more ease of use for new users and is more affordable. However. New users should choose according to their business needs and goals. To all new hosting site users, may you all succeed in your endeavors.

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I hope you found this article useful.