A2 Hosting vs MacHighway 2020

us professional that could not get it up an running again. In a last ditch effort we called the tech department of A2 Hosting as the site was on their servers.
Here is where it gets good...
Within minutes of providing our support pin, we got technician Scott W. on the line to assist. He completely fixed the issue that crippled our site in about 15 minutes. The very issue that had us offline for over a week while paid technicians failed over and over. I was and still am utterly amazed and in awe. The value of his services was worth more from a financial standpoint comparatively than the cost of hosting a site on A2 for the next century.
...and it was all free simply because we placed our data on A2.
I could never thank this company enough. I could never thank Scott enough.
Sincerely,
William, client for life.

d, if you are looking for the High Quality support.

scheinbar wird dort nicht ausschließlich geschlampt und geschummelt - ein Lichtblick also? In unserem Fall gab es allerdings mit dem Shared Hosting Paket "Lite" von Anfang an nur Probleme: Die Performance (Wordpress-Installation) war unterirdisch und noch vor dem "GoLive" erschien des öfteren eine White Page mit der Meldung "Error 508 - Limit reached". Welches Limit? Das konnte uns der Support leider auch nur nebulös erklären ("PHP-Prozesse") und auf die nächstgrößeren Abos verweisen. Da wir fast identische Installationen in mehreren Ländern, bei zahlreichen Hostern betreiben und nie von Anbeginn solche grundsätzlichen Probleme hatten, scheint dieser Anbieter eher von der Fraktion "Abzocke" mit völlig überlasteten Servern zu sein. So erscheint dann auch das weitere Angebot in einem fragwürdigen Licht, wenn man erst einiges an Arbeitsspeicher, durch größere Paketangebote, upgraden muß, um eine stinknormale WP-Installation zum Laufen zu bringen. Daraus ergibt sich dann ein Gesamtpreis, bei dem man nur noch mit den "Ohren schlackern" kann. Auch die Erstattung entsprach nicht unserer Erwartung: $77 statt den ehemals bezahlten $118 nach 34 Tagen Mitgliedschaft..... Nicht ohne, oder? Am Ende wird man dann einerseits durch einen automatisierten Kündigungsprozess geführt, aber andererseits mehrfach detailliert nach den Kündigungsgründen gefragt. Gibt man darauf die entsprechenden Antworten, bleibt jede Art von Stellungnahme aus. Warum stellt das Unternehmen dann solche Fragen? Auch in der abschließenden Kündigungsbestätigung fand sich nicht ein einziges Wort des Bedauerns. Auch an dieser Stelle könnte man also sicherlich noch einiges optimieren...

Deluxe Corp a few years ago. After the buyout, is when things started to go downhill.
Privacy concerns are multi fold. After the buyout, Deluxe Corp automatically shared your private information with their “affiliates”. Your info is sold “For our affiliated companies to market to you” and “ For reputable third parties to market to you on their behalf“.
Additionally, Deluxe Corp added to MacHighway added the weebly site builder. On the surface it seems like a convenient way to build a website using drag and drop elements. It can be helpful for many people. What is not disclosed by Deluxe Corp is that weebly injects tracking code into your website. The website that you paid money to Deluxe Corp/MacHighway to host has non-removable tracking code. You, the website creator doesn’t even have access to the analytics from this tracking; only weebly does. If you are okay with a webhost tracking every visitor of yours, then just go to Weebly directly and save yourself some money.
The name Machighway was based on the idea that the company was “Mac friendly”. Any semblance of Mac-centrism is gone. The control panel for domain registration and web host is just as inconsistently non-intuitive as most other web hosts. Nothing especially user friendly for Mac users who think they are getting something simpler than traditional web hosting companies. Don’t let the folksy About page fool you.
And finally, billing. Autorenewal is strongly discouraged. 1. The price of domain auto renewal is higher than the price of manually renewing. You are charged extra for the benefit of them keeping your credit card on file. No other registrar that I am aware does this. 2. Your card will be charged a month before domain expires. This is not indicated on the reminder email, the Machighway invoice, or in the domain control panel. 3. They still have a “privacy protection” upsell, when ICAAN now does essentially the same thing automatically.
Take it from a customer of over a decade, MacHighway is nothing special. It filled a niche at one time a couple decades ago, but now it’s just Deluxe Corp, another webhost with overpriced domain registration.