I have been a Liquid Web customer for 15 years. I have two (2) servers with them and they have always provided excellent products and services at good prices. Also, there support is always friendly, knowledgeable and timely.
Liquid Web vs A2 Hosting

Compared options | Visit Liquid Web | Visit A2 Hosting |
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Pricing | 14 hosting plans | 61 hosting plans |
Starting price | $15.00 / month | $2.99 / month |
Free domain | Yes | No |
Coupons | No | 1 coupon |
User Ratings | 4.6 | 4.7 |
Reliability | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Pricing | 4.5 | 4.5 |
User Friendly | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Support | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Features | 4.5 | 4.5 |
User Reviews | 197 reviews | 1831 reviews |
Latest positive review | | OUTSTANDING SUPPORT! As a complete novice I struggled to understand what was required and my frustration was getting the better of me. Evanjaline, worked her 'magic' and got everything sorted for me. Very few companies provid... More e this level of support. It is so refreshing to see this level of customer focus from A2 support . My renewal with A2 is not in question ! Many thanks A2 support team Less |
Latest negative review | Long story short. I spun up a few VMs in an attempt to get sequential IP addresses. The next day I found they limited my account to only allow 1 IP address per VM and didn't tell me why. I tried contacting support, billing... More and then sales but nobody could tell me why I was on a "limited" account. They insisted that I provide my drivers license before they would speak to me. I don't give out my DL to anyone especially when I did nothing wrong. I then complained on another website and they asked me to contact them directly. Then they went silent, so when I complained again they sent me a message stating I had violated their acceptable use policy and then terminated my account. Their policy is vague and can be used to terminate anyone for any reason. I still have no idea what my original "infraction" was and was told by several employees in my phone calls I had done nothing wrong. It's my person opinion I am being punished because I complained publicly. I was treated unfairly throughout this entire process and YES I will go somewhere else. But, not before I let everyone know how I was treated. I have given support 1 star for their unwillingness to communicate and reliability 1 star because it took ME making phone calls and tracking down what was happening when they limited my account. They didn't other sending me the email to let me know there was an issue until AFTER I complained online. Less | HostAdvice note: A2 Hosting never claimed to be a one that doesn't respect DMCA notices, and they acted appropriately. One DMCA complaint and they'll ban your entire account no matter how many domains are hosted on it. They c... More laimed one of my websites offers illegal services, but they didn't mention which one, which was absolutely a false claim. It was a DMCA notification from Corsearch that made them ban my entire account of 30+ domains without any notification and a "Thanks!" at the end of the email! Less |
Shared Hosting | 1 plan from $15.00 to $219.00 | 10 plans from $2.99 to $505.99 |
Under $4 | Startup
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Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
VPS | 7 plans from $15.00 to $219.00 | 13 plans from $2.99 to $505.99 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | ||
Dedicated Server | 3 plans from $15.00 to $219.00 | 12 plans from $2.99 to $505.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | ||
Cloud Hosting | 3 plans from $15.00 to $219.00 | 6 plans from $2.99 to $505.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | ||
Website Builder | No | 4 plans from $2.99 to $505.99 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
CDN | No | 4 plans from $2.99 to $505.99 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
Resellers | No | 8 plans from $2.99 to $505.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
SSL | No | 4 plans from $2.99 to $505.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
Data Centers | 2 of 6 | 3 of 6 |
North America | Yes | Yes |
Europe | Yes | Yes |
Asia | No | Yes |
Oceânia | No | No |
South America | No | No |
Africa & Middle East | No | No |
Support Services | 5 of 6 | 6 of 6 |
Live Chat | Yes | Yes |
Phone Support | Yes | Yes |
Email Support | Yes | Yes |
Forum Support | No | Yes |
Video guides | Yes | Yes |
Knowledgebase | Yes | Yes |
CMS support | 3 of 6 | 5 of 6 |
WordPress | Yes | Yes |
Joomla | Yes | Yes |
Drupal | Yes | Yes |
Magento | No | Yes |
Softaculous | No | No |
PrestaShop | No | Yes |
OS Support | 2 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
Windows/ASP.NET | Yes | Yes |
Linux | Yes | Yes |
Language Support | 7 of 8 | 7 of 8 |
PHP | Yes | Yes |
Java | Yes | Yes |
Python | Yes | Yes |
Node.js | Yes | Yes |
Django | Yes | Yes |
Perl | Yes | Yes |
Ruby on Rails | Yes | Yes |
ASP.NET | No | No |
Database Support | 3 of 3 | 3 of 3 |
MongoDB | Yes | Yes |
MySQL | Yes | Yes |
PostgreSQL | Yes | Yes |
Payment Types Support | 2 of 6 | 4 of 6 |
PayPal | Yes | Yes |
Credit Card | No | Yes |
Moneybookers | No | Yes |
Wire Transfer | Yes | Yes |
Webmoney | No | No |
Bitcoin | No | No |
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