Price (1 year): $52.13/mo ($625.6)
Renewal: $947.9/year ($78.99/mo)
Type: VPS Hosting
Location: Asia or EU or USA
Features: cPanel, HTTP/2, Managed, Memcached, OPcache, SSD Storage, SSL Certificate, Website Migration
CPU: 6 vCPU
RAM: 6 GB
Storage: 100 GB
Bandwidth: 3 TB
Optional extras: Domain Whois Privacy, LiteSpeed Web Server, Priority Support, Railgun.
Guarantees: 30 Day Money Back
Initial discount
The A2 Hosting host has lots of different VPS plans available, including Linux, Windows, managed and unmanaged options. Currently, though, I will only add the managed Linux hosting to this website as that is by far the most popular option and makes it all easier to compare. If you go with an A2 Hosting managed VPS you can benefit from the huge coupon code discount on your initial period. The coupon codes are currently easily available on the VPS page on the A2 Hosting website. They should even apply automatically, but I found that it sometimes would need to be added manually when going back and forth a lot between the order pages.
Web server features
Managed A2 Hosting VPS plans comes with HTTP/2.
Data center locations
Choose between 2 data centers in the USA and 1 in EU and 1 in Asia. The prices stays the same no matter which location you want for your server.
24/7 live support
The A2 Hosting support team is based in the USA but with some agents around the globe, all hired by the US organization which should ensure high quality of their support. They offer 24/7 live chat support which is great. You can even add priority support if you have really important websites.
Similarly priced options
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Price (1 year): $55.54/mo ($666.5)
Price (1 month): $55.76/mo
Renewal: $55.54/mo - $55.76/mo
Type: VPS Hosting
Location: USA
Features: cPanel, FREE Domain, Managed, RAID 10, SSD Storage, Website Migration
CPU: 4 Cores
RAM: 6 GB
Space: 120 GB
Bandwidth: 3 TB
Guarantees: 30 Day Money Back
The VPS plans by Namecheap is no exception when it comes to their offerings of cheap and high-value services. However, they charge a pretty high price for upgrading the VPS plans to be managed.
Level of management
There are three levels of management you can choose for this VPS. User-responsible, Basic, and Complete.
All three of these include free customer support advice and initial VPS setup.
The price we listed here includes Complete server management.
You can save $25/mo if you go with User-responsible and $10/mo if you go with Basic. You would instead have to pay for work relating to core software changes, fixing server failures and restoring the server if it fails.
Free domain
The free domain is not .com but a .website domain, and it is only free for the first year. After that, the standard Namecheap rates apply.
cPanel and Softaculous
cPanel is required when selecting the Basic or Complete server management plan.
Softaculous is optional extra and costs $1.5/mo.
Off-site backups
With Complete management, you’ll get 50 GB of off-site backups storage.
Price (1 year): $50.00/mo ($600)
Price (1 month): $60.00/mo
Type: Cloud Hosting, WordPress Hosting
Location: Asia, Australia, EU, India, UK, USA
Features: CDN, Daily Backups, Expert WP Support, HTTP/2, Managed, Nginx Web Server, Resource Scaling, Site Cloning, SSD Storage, SSL Certificate, Staging Site, Website Migration
Space: 6 GB
Max Websites: 2
Optional Extras: Cloudflare Railgun, Elasticsearch, Nginx Reverse Proxy, Redis.
Pricing
You need to select yearly billing to get the listed price which includes 2 months for free.
Plan limits
This plan is limited to up to 40.000 monthly visitors and 2 WP installations. The included CDN is limited to 100 GB/mo. These are not hard limits, and your sites will continue to function if you exceed these numbers, it will cost extra though. $1 per 1.000 visit and $0.1 per GB CDN usage. You can also easily change into a more powerful plan, or a less powerful plan, with 1 click in your hosting dashboard.
WordPress hosted on the Google Cloud
With Kinsta you can host your WP site on lightning-fast Google data centers, all connected on their private global fiber network.
Data center location
Choose between the following 15 data centers: USA – Iowa, Oregon, South Carolina, Northern Virginia or Europe – Belgium, Germany, England, Netherlands or Asia – Singapore, India, Japan, Taiwan or Australia – Sydney or South America – Brazil or Canada.
Hosting plan features
With expert WordPress support, fast SSD storage, HTTP/2, Nginx and free CDN this plan is one of the absolute best choices for WordPress hosting. Maybe the fastest hosting of them all. The CDN is delivered by KeyCDN. Kinsta also does server-level caching and offers a custom-developed caching plugin for WordPress with auto purging when changes are made to your site.
Daily backups included is also really nice and adds even more value to this plan. With the staging area feature, you can easily create a copy of your site and test out new changes and plugins then push them to your live site with a click.
Price (1 year): $49.00/mo ($588)
Renewal: $84.99/mo
Type: VPS Hosting
Location: USA
Features: 1 Gbps, cPanel, Dedicated IP, Managed, SSD Storage, USA Based Support
CPU: 4 Cores
RAM: 8 GB
Space: 150 GB
Bandwidth: 3 TB
Optional Extras: Basic Server Monitoring, C-class IP addresses, cPanel, Daily Backups, DDOS protected IP addresses, IP addresses, Softaculous, SSD Storage, Windshield, WindSpeed.
Guarantees: 60 Day Money Back, 99.999% Uptime
Same price whether you pay monthly or yearly. Price is currently on sale by 25% - 33% off which means you get a decent discount for your first order. You can lock in a long billing cycle for maximum discount. Note that the longer you lock in the cheaper your renewal prices will be as well. I believe these web hosting plans will renew for the same period length as your initial order, but without the discount.
All Hostwinds plans with cPanel have auto SSL which give all your websites https for free and automatically. The cost of upgrading to SSD drives depends on which VPS plan you choose. SSD is optional, but we included the cost for that feature in our price. cPanel VPS license costs $13/mo, and that is also included in our listed price to make it easier to compare with the other plans. cPanel is an optional extra. Softaculous is another $2/mo. $2/mo per extra standard IP address. Hostwinds also offer DDoS protected IP addresses, as well as C-Class IP addresses. Basic server monitoring is another $5/mo. Cloud backups make sure your data is safe and accessible and costs only $1/mo and is performed daily. WindSpeed is a one time service offered by Hostwinds which claims to be able to provide information which can be used to significantly speed up a website. Windshield is a security extra which adds a shield to your site.
Data center location
Choose between Seattle and Dallas in the USA to be your server's location.
24/7 USA based support team
I have mostly had great interactions with the Hostwinds technical support team. For technical support requests, you need to submit a ticket. They have been amazing to me and always helped out fixing anything I've asked them. Sometimes though they can be pretty slow with their responses and fixing server issues. This is why I would think twice about using this web host for very important websites. If you are not that reliant on fast support, then you could save a bit by hosting with this host. They do have 24/7 live chat sales support on their website (popup in the bottom right when visiting their website from a desktop computer).
Conclusion
If you need web hosting on a server in the USA then I would strongly suggest to consider a Hostwinds plan. They get good scores from me for having lots of payment options, USA based support team, long money back guarantees and the best uptime guarantees. They also allow adult content to be hosted with them on all of their plans.
I would have liked to see SSD storage as in included feature at no extra cost. The possibility to scale up or down your plan (except disk space, that can't be scaled down) like in the cloud is neat. With a huge selection of 10 different VPS plans you are sure to find a plan that suits your needs.