# hosting.com > Shared hosting from the former A2 Hosting, with an API and MCP server hosting.com is the new name of A2 Hosting, merged with World Host Group under one brand. It sells shared hosting in Starter, Pro and Max plans on LiteSpeed servers with NVMe storage, plus its own cloud servers and dedicated hardware. Every shared plan includes daily backups, malware removal, a free first-year domain and an AI assistant called Orbi. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** hosting.com (since 2003) - **Website:** https://hosting.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing hosting.com's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **LiteSpeed, NVMe and AMD EPYC on every plan:** All shared plans run on LiteSpeed web servers with NVMe storage and AMD EPYC processors, with published RAM, vCPU and IOPS limits for each plan. - **Malware removal and firewall:** Monarx scans continuously and removes malicious code itself. Every plan also has a web application firewall and brute-force protection. - **Daily backups with self-restore:** Backups run every day with 30 days of restore points, and you can restore a single file, database or mailbox without opening a ticket. - **API, MCP server and Claude skills:** Shared plans come with an OpenAPI interface and an MCP server for managing hosting from scripts and AI tools. Pro adds a Claude skills pack. - **Orbi AI assistant:** An AI assistant on every plan answers setup, DNS, WordPress and billing questions, and passes you to the in-house support team when needed. - **Free managed migration:** The support team moves an existing site to hosting.com at no charge. ## Good for - Existing A2 Hosting customers weighing the renamed plans - Developers who want to manage hosting through an API or an AI agent - Small business sites that want backups and malware removal built in ## Worth knowing - Plan prices are filled in by the checkout and could not be read, so they are not listed here; promotional prices cover the first term and plans renew at regular rates. - Staging sites, preview URLs and Node.js need Pro or higher; priority support, a premium SSL and a service level agreement need Max. - The free domain is for the first year only and then renews at the standard rate. - A2 Hosting's old plan names are retired: Startup became Starter, Turbo Boost became Pro and Turbo Max became Max. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. hosting.com, the new name for A2 Hosting, puts a lot into every shared plan: daily backups kept for 30 days, malware removal, a firewall, and an API plus an MCP server so you can manage it from scripts or an AI tool. What we can't tell you is the price. The checkout fills it in, and our reader couldn't see it. - **Value for money: C.** No price on record: plan prices are filled in by the checkout and couldn't be read, so no two-year figure can be worked out. With nothing to compare, it sits at C, the grade for no stated price. First-term prices renew at regular rates. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free on record: no free plan and no trial, so you pay before you can try it. - **Features: B.** Daily backups with 30 days of restore points you can use yourself, Monarx malware removal, a firewall, a first-year domain and free managed migration on every plan. Staging needs Pro, but nothing in the core job is missing on Starter. - **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. The Orbi assistant answers setup and DNS questions and passes you to people when needed, but you're still setting up a site. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** A web dashboard with no app on record, but shared plans come with an OpenAPI interface and an MCP server, and it works with Claude. Pro adds a Claude skills pack. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from hosting.com's own pages on 17 October 2026. Its plan comparison page showed no prices to our reader when we checked it again that day. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - hosting.com's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 7 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 7. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 12 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace hosting.com you would be making an engine that recognises new malware as it appears. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress and Claude among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, Claude **Tags:** AI features, Public API, Malware protection ## Alternatives - [SiteGround](https://toolgpa.com/tools/siteground): Shared and WordPress hosting on Google Cloud with its own Site Tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/a2-hosting-vs-siteground) - [Hostinger](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostinger): Shared, WordPress and cloud hosting run from its own hPanel dashboard. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/a2-hosting-vs-hostinger) - [DreamHost](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dreamhost): Independent shared and WordPress host with monthly or multi-year terms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/a2-hosting-vs-dreamhost) - [Namecheap](https://toolgpa.com/tools/namecheap): Domain registrar's cPanel shared hosting, billed monthly or yearly. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/a2-hosting-vs-namecheap) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://hosting.com/ - https://hosting.com/a2-vs-hosting-com/ - https://hosting.com/package-comparison/ - https://hosting.com/about/renewal-pricing/ - https://hosting.com/about/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/a2-hosting Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).