A Small Orange Review

A Small Orange Review is based on our experience with the company and customer reviews towards it. In detail, this review has 5 parts, including hosting features review, pricing review, uptime and speed review, customer support review and usability review.

A Small Orange (www.asmallorange.com) differentiates it from other web hosts by not offering unlimited plans. Since 2003, the company has touted thousands of clients throughout the world. It products include shared hosting, business hosting, reseller hosting, cloud VPS, dedicated servers as well as other web services. Moreover, A Small Orange offers 90 day money back guarantee and utilizes two data centers in USA.

A Small Orange Review on Hosting Pricing

The Tiny shared hosting plan of A Small Orange is $35/yr, including 500 MB storage, 5 GB bandwidth and 1 domain. If people like above cloud VPS hosting, then they have to pay from $20/mo. More than that, the company provides 2-month free hosting and 1 free domain based on annual terms, except Tiny shared hosting and dedicated server.

A Small Orange accepts PayPal and credit card payment.   Additionally, the company also has long money back guarantee lasting to the 90^th days for the shared hosting, reseller hosting, cloud VPS and semi-dedicated plans.

A Small Orange Review on Hosting Features

A Small Orange shared hosting has 4 plans: Tin, Small, Medium and Large. From the most popular Small plan, people will receive:

• 5 GB storage
• SSD drive
• 50 GB traffic
• Unlimited domains
• One free domain on the annual plan
• Email access allows IMAP, POP3 and webmail

If people need more resources, they could consider the cloud VPS and dedicated servers. Taking the cloud VPS as an example, we check that it offers a minimum of 1 core, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB storage and 500 GB bandwidth. Furthermore, the company offers VPS customers free backups, free assistance on migration and one free domain name.

A Small Orange Review on Uptime and Speed

A Small Orange has 99.9% uptime guarantee, which is not eligible to its VPS and dedicated servers. But because of advanced technology and rock-solid hosting infrastructure, the reliability of the VPS and dedicated server is also outstanding.

The Dallas data center and the Dearborn data center make up of A Small Orange hosting basic facilities. Both of them are spacious and the previous one even has 68,000 square feet along with SSAE SOC 1 certification. Moreover, 4 power plants, 6 standby diesel generators and more than 500 thousand gallons fuel supply power to the Dallas data center.   Another important hardware for hosting is the server. The company uses servers configured with Intel Xeon processors, SSD drives and RAID 10 arrays. Besides, Kernel Virtual Machine virtualization technology is applied to the cloud virtual private server.

In terms of speed, we have to review the network. The company partners with multiple network providers to create diverse BGP network. The providers are Level 3, Cogent, Abovenet, etc. In addition, Arbor Networks PeakFlow DDoS is beneficial to data security.

A Small Orange Review on Customer Support

Customer support is essential to every user, no matter who are newbies or experienced developers. As for A Small Orange, it supports its customers around the clock via email and live chat. Both ways are easy to access. On top of that, people can browse knowledgebase and blog to search solutions and acquire new information.

Most importantly, this company has 90 day money back guarantee. Even semi-dedicated server customer will benefit from it to try the hosting for 90 days. If they are not satisfied, just go to ask for a refund.

A Small Orange Review on Usability

cPanel is the control panel that people will get from A Small Orange to manage servers, websites, emails, traffic, domains, etc. And they do not need to pay extra money on the use of cPanel except that they purchase level 1 cloud VPS plan. What’s more, the company also supports people to install Pleak or other control panels at additional expense.

For more information about A Small Orange, please visit www.asmallorange.com.