by Adam Preiser updated Feb 23, 2024
A2Hosting is a US based hosting company that specializes in WordPress website hosting. They offer affordable prices, a stable hosting environment, and execelent support.
Hostgator is one of the oldest web hosting providers that offer lower price hosting plans and is owned by EIG.
This is going to be an easy comparison because A2 Hosting is far superior hosting in every way.
You will have a faster load time, less downtime, better support, and the list goes on and on.
Hostgator is by far one of the worst web hosting companies out there.
Also, A2 Hosting is less expensive and it comes with free SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, wherewith Hostgator you will have to pay extra for every SSL certificate you need.
A2Hosting is slightly more expensive than other shared hosting, but they more than makeup for it with higher quality hosting.
Hostgator has been around a long time and is owned by the largest website hosting conglomerate which means you can expect less than acceptable access to support and the support itself.
1 thought on “A2Hosting Vs Hostgator”
This great review about A2Hosting and Hostgator. I have recently been trying out Hostgator and I think if you are starting out in the blogging world perhaps they are okay and their cpanel interface looks fine. I moved two of my sites (small ones) over and no problems with doing it myself and they load fine and fast.
However, the cPanel loading speed is really slow and navigating around doing certain tasks is quite frustrating because of the slow loading times within the cPanel.
I did give Hostgator a negative review about my experiences in the past but decided to review them again. To be fair to Hostgator they do provide free SSL certificates via Let’s Encrypt and it seems to happen automatically once your domain name has been updated to point to their DNS.
I have been with SiteGround and they have been excellent but with the price hike for renewal I have decided look at other options. I think A2Hosting is a great option and will be giving them a try.
Thanks for the review and comparison.