I first met the folks from A2 Hosting at WordCamp Ann Arbor a few years ago. They were handing out pint glasses, mine’s still in my kitchen cabinet. I didn’t have time at that WordCamp to get to know them well, but I began to hear more and more about them from places I didn’t expect. Ann Arbor is quite close to me so it felt surprising to see my friend Jeff from far away post this:
Switching to @a2hosting alone will put jet engines on your site. Lightspeed + their own performance tuning rocks my socks.
— Jeff Matson 👾 (@TheJeffMatson) December 18, 2016
That piqued my interest. So at the next WordCamp Ann Arbor I tracked down some of the engineers and had a nice long talk with them over a few beers.
I’ve been a web developer for a long time and, while I’m not a systems engineer, I do have a handle on how the web works. The folks at A2 told me some things they built for speed that blew my mind. Things that had never occurred to me as possible.
This year A2 Hosting is sponsoring WordCamp Grand Rapids and it’s an honor to have them.