A2Hosting web hosting company also offers Developer Friendly Hosting. Actually it is not a separate web hosting plan for Developers but all their web hosting plans like Shared, Reseller, VPS, Cloud, Dedicated Server web hosting plans come with Developer Friendly hosting features. The low priced web hosting solutions like Shared hosting plan “Lite” (from $3.92 per month, was $7.99, use the Discount coupon code “QUICK51” to get 51% off on your first invoice payment) may have less developer friendly features and the high priced web hosting services like Dedicated Servers may offer you more developer friendly hosting features. Some of the developer friendly hosting features offered with A2Hosting.com web hosting company hosting plans are Turbo Option – Up To 20X Faster, A2 Optimized – Site Boost Option, US, European & Asian Server Locations, Unlimited Storage & Transfer, 24/7/365 Guru Crew Support, 1-Click Software Installs, 99.9% Uptime Guarantee, Anytime Money Back Guarantee. Some of the Scripting Language Hosting Options included are PHP 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 or 7.0 (PHP is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language), PHPng (PHP Next Generation – PHPng is a new brand of PHP development), IonCube (IonCube helps developers protect their software by encrypting PHP scripts from being viewed and changed), Python 2.4, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1 or 3.2 (Python is a popular, general-purpose and high-level programming language), Ruby 1.8 (Ruby is a dynamic programming language designed for simplicity and productivity), Node.js (Node.js is a cross platform environment designed for networking and server-side applications).
Some of the other features of A2Hosting Developer Friendly Hosting (the general web hosting services offered by A2Hosting.com) are Server Software Hosting Options: Apache 2.2 (Apache is the world’s most used web server software); Nginx (Nginx is a free HTTP server and reverse proxy. It is focused on performance, stability and low resource use); Tomcat (Tomcat is an application server that executes Java servlets for web pages that have Java Server Page coding). Operating System Hosting Options: Linux (Linux is a Unix-like operating system); CentOS (CentOS, short for Community ENTerprise Operating System, is a community supported Linux distribution offered to the public by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux); Debian (Debian’s close attention to detail means you can expect a distribution of top quality, reliability, and scalability); Ubuntu (Evolved from Debian, Ubuntu is one of the most stable and customizable Linux distributions). Version Control Hosting Options: SVN (SVN (or Subversion) manages the changes to your files and directories over time); CVS (Short for Concurrent Versions System, CVS keeps track of the work and all changes to a set of files); Git (Git is designed to handle both small and large projects); Mercurial (Mercurial is a Python-based content management tool). Again we want to remind you that all types of web hosting plans offered by A2Hosting.com (like Shared, Reseller, VPS, Cloud and Dedicated Servers) may not have all of the above and following features listed in this article. High priced web hosting solutions like Dedicated Servers may have more of these features and low priced web hosting solutions like Shared Hosting Lite Plan may have less of these developer friendly features.
Some of the other features of A2Hosting Developer Friendly Hosting (general web hosting services like Shared, Reseller, VPS, Cloud and Dedicated Servers) are Developer Tools Hosting Options: SSH (Secure Shell (SSH) is a program allowing you to to log into another computer over a network, perform commands in a remote machine and to transfer your files among machines.); Cron (A cron schedules a command or script to run automatically on your server at a specified time); Mantis (Mantis is a PHP-based bug tracking system); Redmine (Redmine is a issue tracking and project management solution); cURL (cURL is an abbreviation for Client for URLs); WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning – WebDAV is allows for editing sites over HTTP and HTTPS connections); Asterisk (Asterisk is a software implementation of a telephone PBX); Apache CloudStack (Apache CloudStack is a software solution used for the deployment and management of large virtual machines networks). Performance Hosting Options: Edge Side Include (ESI) (With ESI, you no longer have to designate an entire page as non-cacheable just because one portion cannot be cached); HTTP/2 (HTTP/2 provides significantly faster page load times than HTTP because of its ability to deliver more HTTP requests at once); WebSocket (Creates two-way interaction between a browser and a website possible for a realtime web experience); SPDY (SPDY is a Google developed protocol designed to deliver website content both faster and more securely); CloudFlare CDN (CloudFlare is a content delivery network that protects and accelerates websites); APC (APC is a PHP accelerator short for Alternative PHP Cache); Railgun (Railgun is a CloudFlare product. WhileCloudFlare can cache about 65% of the resources for a web page, 35% of this content cannot be cached because resources are dynamically generated or marked as “do not cache”. Railgun is able to cache the remaining 35%); HHVM (HIP Hop Virtual Machine, HHVM is a virtual machine designed to increase the performance of programs written in PHP and Hack. Using a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach, HHVM is able to increase performance while maintaining the development flexibility provided by PHP) etc.
So far you have seen the features, prices and development tools offered by A2Hosting Developer Friendly Hosting (the general web hosting plans offered by A2Hosting.com). But before you choose any of the web hosting solutions offered by the company for your Developer Hosting needs you need to do some research about the quality of the web hosting services offered by the company and make sure you are choosing the right company for your developer hosting needs. First you need to check if the company offers any money back guarantee like 30 day money back guarantee on their web hosting plans (the company offers Any time money back guarantee). With the money back guarantee you will feel safe and get the ability to test the quality of the web hosting services offered by the company within the money back guarantee period and then choose whether to continue using the services or cancel and search for a new web hosting company. Second you need to check if the company offers any uptime guarantee like 99.9% uptime guarantee (the company offers 99.9% uptime guarantee on their web hosting plans). The 99.9% uptime guarantee has become a standard for the quality of the web hosting services offered by companies. If you want your websites to be online and available to your visitors or customers, then you will have to choose a web host which offers and delivers 99.9% uptime guarantee. Third you need to check if the page loading speeds of the websites hosted by A2hosting.com web hosting plans are good. Your websites should have fast page loading speeds (like 2 to 3 second loading times) for your customers convenience and for better usability of the websites. According to a study a one second drop in page loading speeds results in some % of loss in revenue. That’s why your websites should have fast page loading speeds. And fourth and final step is to check the reviews of A2Hosting Developer Friendly Hosting Services in search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing with search terms like “A2Hosting Developer Friendly Hosting Reviews”, “A2Hosting.com Developer Friendly Hosting Reviews”, “A2Hosting Developer Friendly Web Hosting Reviews”, “A2Hosting.com Developer Friendly Web Hosting Reviews”, “A2Hosting Developer Friendly Hosting Plans Reviews”, “A2Hosting.com Developer Friendly Hosting Plans Reviews”, “A2Hosting Developer Hosting Reviews”, “A2Hosting.com Developer Hosting Reviews” etc and go through each and every search result and see what they are saying about the quality of the Developer Friendly Hosting Services offered by A2Hosting.com web hosting company.