A Small Orange

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Established: 2005 in USA

Shared Hosting Pricing: $5 - $30 / month (There’s also a tiny $25 / year plan)
VPS Hosting Pricing: $25 - $125 / month

Burst RAM on VPS: No
Cpanel Included: Yes

A Small Orange is only a blip on the hosting stage in terms of the length of time they’ve been around but they have a niche following of developers & happy customers.

Positive Comments we Found:

• The VPS Service is solid
• Good for Developers & ROR (Ruby on Rails)
• 5 - 15 minute ticket reply time

Customer Problems we Found:

• Complaints of excessive downtime more recently
• Overselling of nodes which cripples sites during peak times
• No Backups provided when data was lost

Uptime

Current Uptime for A Small orange

Our Opinion of A Small Orange

Judging by recent reviews A Small Orange appears to have gone downhill over the past 12 months, whether this is possibly overselling nodes or not scaling resources properly with demand there’s obviously a few issues here that need closer scrutiny before deciding to host with them.