I see mostly very negative reviews for APlus. They seem to be mostly from novice users who want wordpress like sites to geeks who want bleeding edge tech. We have been using APlus and the predecessors for some 20 years. We ha... More ve had maybe 5 hours downtime and no major issues. APlus may not be great, but for us it has proven to be 99.9% reliable and extremely cheap ($9.00 month legacy plan for 8 active websites). The only issue is that they offer premium Comodo SSL certificates, which makes it more expensive for https (typically $90 a year). The good part to the Comodo certs is that they include lots of extras not available with plain vanilla ssl. Less
aPlus.net vs Hostwinds

Compared options | Visit aPlus.net | Visit Hostwinds |
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Pricing | 3 hosting plans | 37 hosting plans |
Starting price | $9.95 / month | $4.99 / month |
Free domain | No | Yes |
Coupons | No | 2 coupons |
User Ratings | 1.5 | 4.7 |
Reliability | 1.5 | 4.5 |
Pricing | 2.0 | 4.5 |
User Friendly | 1.5 | 4.5 |
Support | 1.5 | 4.5 |
Features | 1.5 | 4.5 |
User Reviews | 31 reviews | 1155 reviews |
Latest positive review | | I've used Hostwinds for nearly 2 years and they have been excellent during my stay. However, I am looking at leaving because they have IP issues, mainly, some of the major (Gmail, Outlook, MSN, etc) ISP's block email traffic,... More claiming it's SPAM. Apparently, they have some SPAMMERS on their servers and some IP blocks are blacklisted. I have been forced to get a Gmail account so I can send outbound emails, which is a major pain. I've raised this issue with tech support too many times to count but the problem persists. I'd love to stay with them but I have to move on. Less |
Latest negative review | Probably the WORST host around. Stay away from these guys. Their support team doesn't know. They don't learn. They don't care. Every single time I have a support issue with them, the first thing I hear is - oh, your site isn'... More t hosted with us! Why? Because I have SiteLock for my security (their partner, by the way) and so SiteLock's IP is in the A record. It's a redirection. But no - no one in their team has figured this out in the last two years. So then we go through the same nonsense every time - back and forth emails, back and forth phone calls, manager, senior tech person whatever. This is before they can ever GET to the actual support issue! If you value your sanity even slightly - STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY! Less | Terrible hosting. Even one Wordpress site does not work on the "Ultimate Business" tariff plan!!! The support service does not solve the problem! When I don't use the site, the RAM is not used. As soon as I work with the site... More , I do elementary things: creating a new Wordpress page, adding a product, then the RAM is working at maximum and the site gives a 503 error. This can't be on a simple Wordpress site. Your hosting works disgusting! Less |
Shared Hosting | 3 plans from $9.95 to $29.95 | 9 plans from $4.99 to $328.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | Basic
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Over $10 | ||
VPS | No | 17 plans from $4.99 to $328.99 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | Unmanaged Linux VPS Hosting 1
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Over $10 | No | Fully Managed Linux VPS Hosting 1
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Dedicated Server | No | 1 plan from $4.99 to $328.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
Cloud Hosting | No | 4 plans from $4.99 to $328.99 |
Under $4 | No | |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
Resellers | No | 4 plans from $4.99 to $328.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | |
Over $10 | No | |
SSL | No | 2 plans from $4.99 to $328.99 |
Under $4 | No | No |
Under $8 | No | No |
Over $10 | No | |
Data Centers | 2 of 6 | 2 of 6 |
North America | Yes | Yes |
Europe | Yes | Yes |
Asia | No | No |
Oceânia | No | No |
South America | No | No |
Africa & Middle East | No | No |
Support Services | 5 of 6 | 4 of 6 |
Live Chat | Yes | Yes |
Phone Support | Yes | Yes |
Email Support | Yes | Yes |
Forum Support | Yes | No |
Video guides | No | No |
Knowledgebase | Yes | Yes |
CMS support | 3 of 6 | 4 of 6 |
WordPress | Yes | Yes |
Joomla | Yes | Yes |
Drupal | Yes | Yes |
Magento | No | Yes |
Softaculous | No | No |
PrestaShop | No | No |
OS Support | 1 of 2 | 2 of 2 |
Windows/ASP.NET | No | Yes |
Linux | Yes | Yes |
Language Support | 4 of 8 | 4 of 8 |
PHP | Yes | Yes |
Java | No | No |
Python | Yes | Yes |
Node.js | No | No |
Django | No | Yes |
Perl | Yes | No |
Ruby on Rails | Yes | No |
ASP.NET | No | Yes |
Database Support | 1 of 3 | 3 of 3 |
MongoDB | No | Yes |
MySQL | Yes | Yes |
PostgreSQL | No | Yes |
Payment Types Support | 1 of 6 | 3 of 6 |
PayPal | No | Yes |
Credit Card | Yes | Yes |
Moneybookers | No | Yes |
Wire Transfer | No | No |
Webmoney | No | No |
Bitcoin | No | No |
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