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Customers furious over days-long outage at A2 Hosting

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I have some non critical stuff hosted with these people and it’s the push I need to move everything over to netlify. I trust them more and philosophically, with static hosting I can nimbly move house when I need to.

As long as you have short DNS TTL and don't use the same provider for DNS and hosting.

Absolutely. These things I have.

"But I'm pretty sure about what happened. I was in a meeting with a customer, and we saw (yes, I've got witness) all my files (from my ftp area) were renamed to .lock and a message stating the area was attacked and encrypted."

Interesting. I assume it's managed Windows hosting? Wouldn't really be A2's problem if not.

This is pure speculation on my part but there was a serious windows hypervisor bug patched in January, CVE-2019-0551

> That's why they didn't call themselves 'A1' Hosting

Ha!.. the Register's readers have some good banter!

After 8 days of offline server. Now just server online. Still i am facing problems with a2 hosting. More than 1 month of data is lost. What a bad service. My friend recommended me to move to asphostportal. Is it good decision?

It's hard to tell with cheapo shared hosting providers. Whoever you pick make sure:

1. You pay month to month (unless you want to take the risk of wasting money if they go down) 2. You register your domain with someone else who is reputable, and set up DNS with a small TTL e.g. 5 minutes so you can switch out quickly if you need to to another hosting provider. 3. Backup all your databases and files after each change.

Yes, Asphostportal is good option to use. I have few clients that using their service. Maybe they are not big like Godaddy or EIG providers, but they really focus on their customers. Very good and offer reliable windows hosting solution. Price is also cheap

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