Hosting Review: A Small Orange
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Perishable Press switched to A Small Orange [ASO] in March of 2007. At the time, I was looking for highly recommended shared hosting with several key features:
- Solid customer service and extremely reliable server uptime
- Unlimited domains with plenty of disk space and bandwidth
- Unlimited Email accounts, MySQL databases and everything else
Hosting Plans
A Small Orange delivers all of the above in every shared hosting plan. ASO provides hosting plans perfect for any size operation:
| Plan | Space | Bandwidth | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiny | 75 MB | 3 GB | $25/year |
| Small | 400 MB | 10 GB | $5/month |
| Medium | 1000 MB | 25 GB | $10/month |
| Large | 2500 MB | 60 GB | $20/month |
| Super | 4500 MB | 100 GB | $30/month |
Plus, ASO will give you 2 free months of service with any 12-month purchase.
Excellent Service
Without a doubt, A Small Orange provides the best customer service I have ever experienced. Update: not so much anymore, so I left ASO</update>. Regardless of severity or complexity of the issue, the professional ASO support team deftly deals with all requests and quickly resolves every concern. ASO provides five excellent avenues of support:
- Live chat support
- Support ticket system
- Active Community Forums
- ASO Community Wiki
- ASO Knowledgebase
Combine all of that with ASO’s shared hosting packages, and you you’ve got everything you need to take your online empire to the next level.
Excellent Reliability
A Small Orange delivers consistent, reliable uptime. As shown below, ASO provides an average uptime of 99.95% for my sites. As we all know, reliable server uptime is of the utmost importance. Plenty of hosts promise 99% uptime, but few actually deliver it. Using BasicState.com, I have been monitoring Monzilla Media on an ASO server for many months. Here is what I mean by “excellent reliability”..
DAILY UPTIME AND PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
monzillamedia.com
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date uptime dns connect request ttfb ttlb
2007-07-18 100.00 0.000 0.030 0.030 0.151 0.153
2007-07-17 100.00 0.000 0.015 0.015 0.066 0.067
2007-07-16 100.00 0.000 0.015 0.015 0.072 0.073
2007-07-15 100.00 0.000 0.015 0.015 0.078 0.078
2007-07-14 100.00 0.000 0.015 0.015 0.070 0.071
2007-07-13 100.00 0.000 0.036 0.036 0.121 0.126
2007-07-12 100.00 0.000 0.080 0.080 0.152 0.161
2007-07-11 100.00 0.000 0.018 0.019 0.188 0.199
2007-07-10 100.00 0.000 0.017 0.018 0.108 0.116
2007-07-09 100.00 0.000 0.017 0.017 0.106 0.115
2007-07-08 100.00 0.000 0.036 0.036 0.093 0.094
2007-07-07 100.00 0.000 0.015 0.015 0.072 0.073
2007-07-06 99.35 0.001 0.078 0.078 0.224 0.228
2007-07-05 100.00 0.000 0.099 0.100 0.278 0.280
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minimum 99.35 0.000 0.015 0.015 0.066 0.067
maximum 100.00 0.001 0.099 0.100 0.278 0.280
average 99.95 0.000 0.035 0.035 0.127 0.131
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source: http://basicstate.com/
------------------------------Overall, A Small Orange truly delivers superior service. I have been working online since 1999 and have experienced countless web hosts. None of them provide the level of care, support, and service that I have experienced while here at ASO. I can honestly say that, for my needs, they are the best that I have been able to find. I highly DO NOT recommend A Small Orange for your next web hosting provider.
2 responses to “Hosting Review: A Small Orange”
Thanks for the mention of basicstate.com.
I especially liked seeing the email report reproduced.
Just in case other readers don’t know, the basicstate.com uptime monitoring service is FREE.
Sure! I highly recommend basicstate.com. I have tried a few of the others out there, but basicstate.com is the easiest and most consistent of them all. And yes, they are 100% FREE!!