A-Z Host Review

A-Z Hosting or A-Z Host is a company that has been online and in the hosting business since 1997 which makes them one of the older hosting companies that are still around on the World Wide Web today. They claim some pretty awesome stats saying they are the #1 managed web host in their class and to have 100% customer satisfaction, and the longest customer retention in the industry, 100% Uptime and they guarantee it, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee and 24x7x365 support.

They currently offer web hosting accounts, managed dedicated hosting solutions, server collocation, a broad range of e-commerce solutions, networking solutions, application hosting, SSL certificates, web development, and the online marketing of your website.  A-Z Hosting Software Engineering currently works with (at the time of this writing) the W3C, PHP, AJAX, jQuery, Python, Ruby, MySQL, Exim, Apache, Spamassassin, Dovecot, FreeBSD, PrestaShop, osCommerce, ZenCart, Viart Cart, CRE Loaded, Joomla, Moodle, and Drupal opensource communities; not to mention about many more you may not have ever heard of.

The company as far as I can tell is from Stockton, California they were also known as hyperconx, because of this I am finding it a little hard to find online reviews about A-ZHost to see that what they say above is true about the 100% customer satisfaction at any rate lets go ahead and believe them until any customer would like to contest this, we would love to hear from their customers.

Let’s talk about their services, All their plans include the following robust features: WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, cPanel web hosting control panel, loads of free web software, antivirus/antispam filters, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, Webmail, unlimited email forwarders, unlimited autoresponders, your own CGI directory, PHP 5.6-7.3, Perl, statistics programs, 30-day money-back guarantee, 24-hour network port monitoring, secure facilities, intrusion detection, ultimate security firewall, 24/7 technical support, and Guru level customer care center based right here in the USA.

Their pricing starts out at a reasonable $4.89 and from what I can tell it is all shared at least what they offer on their site even though they say in parts of their site that they offer colocation, semi-dedicated and dedicated servers on top of their share cloud hosting services, what I notice in their offer is they don’t talk about SSD or NVMe which leads me to be they have outdated drives and they talk of PHP up to 7.3 which is also outdated, they do have cost that many companies offer for free for example they charge for SSL certificates, they don’t talk about MariaDB, LiteSpeed, LSCache, IPv6, IPv4, HTTP3, CDN Support, etc. which are what any host that is up to date on their Hardware and Software should offer in today’s market especially if you claim speed, security and 100% customer satisfaction.

I am not saying they don’t offer these services I am only saying that if they do it would be smart on their part to list them since any tech-savvy person or business will be looking for these minimums from hosting companies and if they don’t ask for these options they should.

Examples of pricing and services are offered below.

BASIC

$4.89/mo
regularly $6.99/mo.

• 10GB Storage Space
• 50GB Bandwidth
• 50 E-mail Accounts
• FREE SSL w/No Warranty
• 2 SQL Databases
• 1 TRUE Domain

PROFESSIONAL

$9.09/mo
regularly $12.99/mo.

• 20GB Storage Space
• 100GB Bandwidth
• UNLIMITED E-mail Accounts
• FREE SSL w/No Warranty
• 10 SQL Databases
• 1 TRUE Domain

PREMIER

$12.59/mo
regularly $17.99/mo.

• 50GB Storage Space
• UNLIMITED Bandwidth
• UNLIMITED E-mail Accounts
• FREE SSL w/No Warranty
• UNLIMITED SQL Databases
• 3 TRUE Domain

Some other Stats provided by SemRush that might interest you about A-Z Hosting they have 45.6K backlinks from 310 different referring domains, They have an Authority Score of 17 which is quite low, 93% of their organic search traffic comes from The United States while 7.1% comes from Spain 0.1% from Thailand, 0.1% from Poland and 0.1% from other countries. The majority of their search engine traffic comes from the word cPanel Accelerated 2.

Other keywords used to get to A-Z Hosting are listed below.

1. AZ Hosting
2. Merchant Web Hosting
3. Slow Launch Time mysql 5.6
4. MySQL Connector Net x64

Some details about the speed of the host, now these may not be the same speeds you’ll get since first it will depend on the services you buy, your website design, size of images/videos, etc.. also the host may or may not be using a faster server to host their hosting sales page at any rate here is the speed information tested on there front page.

GTmetrix – gives them a C grade with 71% Performance and 89% Structure tested from Vancouver, Canada.

Pingdom – gives A-Z Hosting a C grade of 73 tested from London, United Kingdom.

Page Speed Insights – gives their Cell phone page speed a 44 so an E here and a 86 for Desktops.

Dotcom Tools gives the following –

Location	Performance	Full Page Load	DOM Complete	Page Size
Tel-Aviv	Slow	5.27 s	5.20 s	1.3 MB
Amsterdam	Slow	3.83 s	3.74 s	1.3 MB
Montreal	Average	2.74 s	2.66 s	1.3 MB
Hong Kong	Slow	11.88 s	11.69 s	1.3 MB
Miami	Average	2.18 s	2.09 s	1.3 MB
Average Duration	PRETTY SLOW	5.18s	5.07 s

Site Checker – gives them 48 out of a100 with a load time of 6.89 seconds tested from Phoenix, Arizona.

They have a Facebook account here.

If you are a current or past client of A-Z Hosting please add a review to help others decide if it is worth their time to check out A-Z Hosting.

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