Get rid of it

I’m new to A2 Hosting. I did my research and compared hosting companies for a new client in the UK. I’ve used SiteGround’s SG Optimizer and found it to be very useful. I’ve used Bluehosts’s optimization plugin – meh. Anyway I expected good things from A2’s plugin (a revamped WTC.)

I develop with DIVI. I know it’s resource-intensive but it works on a budget hosting environment like o2switch (France) – a bit sluggish but no big deal. I had NOTHING but problems with what I was developing on the A2 host. I couldn’t understand it and and thought maybe that I had really made a bad choice. I went through all their stuff and did implement some minor changes (change heartbeat frequency, move to manual, hourly cron, etc.).

But when I got rid of A2 Optimized and went back to WP Super Cache, the difference was night and day. Now A2 seems like a FAST host and all the resource limits I had before are gone. I’m not typically cynical but it does make you wonder how they could bork up something so badly, unless somehow they really WERE trying to upsell you with this.

So don’t necessarily get rid of A2 but stay away from A2 Optimized.