Hosting.com vs Google Cloud

Hosting.com is strongest for developers wanting fast Turbo/NVMe shared hosting. Google Cloud is strongest for enterprises. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting)	Google Cloud
Starting price	$2.99/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Developers wanting fast Turbo/NVMe shared hosting Small businesses needing cPanel VPS Agencies needing reseller hosting	Enterprises Data & AI/ML workloads Kubernetes-native teams BigQuery/analytics-heavy stacks
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.99%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	4	40
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Live chat, Phone, Docs/Knowledge base	Ticket, Docs, Community, Phone (paid support tiers)
Compliance	Not published	SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA (BAA available), GDPR, FedRAMP (select services)
Hidden costs to watch for	Renewal rates are reported at 2-3x the introductory rate across shared hosting tiers Dedicated server and reseller pricing is not published; requires a sales call to obtain a quote Free domain and some promotional pricing require longer-term (12/24/36-month) prepay commitments	Network egress to internet billed per-GB and rises past free tier (200 GiB/month egress to certain destinations) Sustained-use and committed-use discounts are separate mechanisms and easy to miss when comparing to flat-rate competitors Custom machine types carry a 5% premium over predefined machine type pricing GKE charges a $0.10/hour cluster management fee per cluster (Standard and Autopilot alike) Cloud SQL high-availability configuration doubles vCPU, memory, and persistent disk costs Nearline/Coldline/Archive storage classes carry early-deletion minimum storage durations (30/90/365 days) and per-GB retrieval fees
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18