I recently found a Youtube video called “How to Green Your PC” created by CarbonFund.org, the carbon offset company that A2 Hosting supports. This is an interesting video that teaches very simple everyday ways to conserve energy, a lot of energy, when using your computer. One of the methods it suggests is to put the computer into sleep mode. Check out the video for additional tips, as well as information on how to put your computer to sleep after a comfortable amount of time.
You might have noticed A2 Hosting’s new McAfee Secure seal on the left-hand side of our page between our 99.9% uptime seal and CarbonFund.org seal. The McAfee Secure seal is an upgrade over our previous Hacker Safe seal. Not only does A2 Hosting have to pass a daily rigorous daily security check to be deemed McAfee Secure (which we had to do to be Hack Safe), but we now also have to be a green-level company through McAfee SiteAdvisor.
After working so hard on our new site, A2 Hosting thought a site launch celebration was in order. Anyone who loves quality Linux Hosting is invited. Visiting the new site, you’re bound to see tons of new packages with loads of innovative features like Server Rewind and Host-Guard server monitoring. We figured it would probably be very tempting to get a hold of these sparkly new hosting goodies, so why not offer a discount to help everyone save some cash along the way?
Participate in our Site Launch Celebration by saving 15% on your new orders by using the code a2launch at the checkout. This coupon expires
A2 Hosting has just released their brand new load balancing service for dedicated hosting customers. For those unfamiliar with load balancing, this is a method of spreading server work load over two or more servers in an effort to increase website availability and website performance. Based on the number of servers you choose, the load balancer selects the server best able to handle the work load at the precise moment that a request is made. For further details, make sure to visit the load balancing page.
Yesterday, A2 Hosting unveiled their brand new Linux Hosting page. With A2 Hosting’s commitment to offering quality Linux Hosting, a page overhaul was definitely in order. The new page includes explanations of what Linux is, what Linux hosting is, the many advantages of Linux Hosting at A2 Hosting and much more. Make sure to check it out!
I just wanted to give you a heads up that I uploaded 3 new banners with the new A2 Hosting logo into your affiliate administration account. The banners are sized 88×31, 120×40 and 120×60 with more on the way. Notice the 120×60 banner on the left-hand side. I also added a VPS marketing material section with banners and text links pointing to our VPS page. In addition to those links, the ads also link to our homepage, shared hosting page and reseller page.
You are able to set up custom affiliate links to any other page on A2 Hosting’s site with the “Build & Track Your Own Links” feature. If you need any help with this feature or have any other questions at all, please let me know!
Since the launch of the new A2 Hosting site, I had a bunch of our old links to A2 Hosting on this blog in older posts because we have changed our link structure. Though all of our old links re-direct to our new links, we still figured it would be best to update the links to reflect our current links. Going through every post and individually changing links would be annoying and time consuming. Luckily I found this easy to use Search and Replace WordPress plugin. After installing the plugin and activating it, there is an option to input old content and having it replaced with new content of your choice across all posts. This is easy to use and a great time saver! Most of the old A2 Hosting links on this blog in past posts should now be updated with new links and it hardly took anytime at all.
A2 Hosting is happy to announce the unveiling of FutureServe Green Hosting. The goal of FutureServe is to take appropriate actions today, to positively impact the environment for current and future generations. FutureServe has three main divisions. They are offsetting carbon emissions in partnership with Carbonfund.org, company policies to reduce carbon emissions in everyday practices and the focus on using energy efficient equipment. Read more about FutureServe here and what A2 Hosting is specifically doing to protect our planet Earth.
I learned some interesting information about the A2 Web Hosting Affiliate Program. It actually uses a technology called “triple redundancy affiliate tracking”. This means that our affiliate program doesn’t just track based on cookies, but by IP and sessions as well. This means that even if someone clicks your affiliate link and deletes their cookies sometime before purchasing from A2 Hosting, you will still receive credit based on the other two tracking methods. With affiliate tracking sometimes under scrutiny, you never have to worry about your affiliate sales not tracking with the A2 Hosting Affiliate Program.
A2 Hosting CEO Bryan Muthig commented on the website launch: “It was clear that our existing website was not effectively communicating what sets us apart from our competition. We are excited about our new site because it allows us to prominently exhibit these features.”
Among the significant advancements found on the innovative new site includes introducing an unmetered Executive shared hosting package as well as A2 Hosting’s impressive new Server Rewind backup software . Server Rewind is offered free to all current and new shared and reseller customers. Their new site also includes an introduction to the A2 Hosting Difference which is an array of web hosting services that can only be found at A2 Hosting. Among the services found with the A2 Hosting Difference is access to A2 Hosting’s support staff known as the Guru Crew.
About A2 Hosting:
A2 Hosting, Inc is a Linux based web hosting company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan focused on satisfying our customers’ needs. A2 Hosting’s range of services include affordable, developer friendly website hosting for personal homepages up to full service solutions for businesses of all sizes. A2 Hosting supports a wide range of internet technologies including PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, and many more.
