A2 Hosting

A2 Hosting is now Hosting.com. World Host Group acquired the company in January 2025 and retired the A2 name that April. The affiliate program carried over, but any A2-branded creatives and links you're still running should be replaced.

What changed, and what didn't

The hosting itself continues: the same Turbo plans built on LiteSpeed, the same anytime money-back guarantee, the same data centres plus new ones added under the new owner. What changed is the brand, the domain and the marketing.

For affiliates the practical impact is search. People still search "A2 Hosting review" in large numbers, and that traffic now needs a page that explains the rename rather than one pretending it never happened. Being early and clear on this is worth more than the commission rate.

The commission tiers

Payouts are flat per sale and scale with monthly volume, from around $55 at one to ten sales up to roughly $125 above twenty. There's also a second-tier commission of $5 per sale on affiliates you recruit, which almost nobody uses but costs nothing to set up.

The cookie is a generous 90 days. Sales sit through a 45-day approval window, then pay on the 15th of the month once you're past $100, via PayPal.

Who converts

Developers and performance-minded WordPress users. The Turbo plans and LiteSpeed caching give you something concrete to write about, which is rare in shared hosting where every host claims to be fast. Page-speed comparisons and migration guides convert well.

Absolute beginners generally pick a cheaper, better-known name. And right now, anyone confused about whether the company still exists will bounce, which is exactly why the rebrand needs to be the first thing your page addresses.

Hosting.com vs SiteGround

The 90-day cookie is the best thing about this program and beats SiteGround comfortably. Against that, the brand is mid-transition and readers who don't recognise the name convert worse. SiteGround is the safer recommendation today; Hosting.com is the better bet if you want to own the rebrand story before competitors catch up.

Getting approved

Applications go through the affiliate portal on hosting.com. Approval is straightforward. Check your existing links: old A2-branded creatives and any hardcoded a2hosting.com URLs should be updated to the new domain.

Verdict

A decent tiered program with an unusually long cookie, sitting on top of a brand transition that most affiliate sites haven't updated for. That gap is the opportunity. Write the rebrand explainer, capture the "what happened to A2 Hosting" searches, and the 90-day window gives those readers plenty of time to convert.