Hosting

What Happened to A Small Orange? Status and Where to Move in 2026

BY JASON — UPDATED

A Small Orange’s old website now leads to a customer login rather than a public hosting storefront. If you are deciding whether to stay, compare your renewal bill and support experience with the alternatives below before moving.

The A Small Orange customer login page with A Small Orange and Network Solutions logos, where asmallorange.com redirects.

Is A Small Orange still in business?

Only as a customer portal. The brand still has a login page, a knowledge base, a live chat button, and its own Terms of Service. What it no longer has is a public website that sells hosting. The old plan pages, like the shared hosting page, now redirect to the login screen. The store at the customer area also sends you to the login page before it shows any products.

The public login page does not prove that an individual account is active or that its credentials still work. Existing customers should confirm service and billing inside their own account. A new buyer should compare hosts with a clear current offer.

A short history of A Small Orange

Archived Wayback Machine snapshot from April 25, 2023 of the Web.com page that asmallorange.com redirected to, saying the brand is partnering with Web.com

Archived Wayback Machine snapshot of the Web.com landing page that asmallorange.com redirected to, captured April 25, 2023. The A Small Orange logo did not load in the archive.

A Small Orange joined EIG in 2012. EIG’s hosting business later became part of Newfold Digital alongside Web.com. Archived pages show the old storefront giving way to a Web.com route in 2023, followed by the present customer-login route.

Network Solutions later absorbed the Web.com branding, which explains the logos seen in the earlier customer-page capture. This history does not prove that every customer was moved to an identical hosting plan or renewal rate.

HostNine also fed into the A Small Orange customer route. Former customers should use their own account notices to establish what service remains active.

What happened to A Small Orange customer accounts?

Public pages do not establish what happened to every customer’s account. The earlier review confirmed these public-facing routes:

  • The customer area exposes login and password-recovery pages. We have not authenticated an existing hosting account.
  • The terms page reviewed earlier named A Small Orange LLC. Check your own agreement and renewal notice rather than assuming an old public page defines every current account.
  • Support is still there. The knowledge base at asmallorange.com/help is online, with a live chat link and articles on cPanel, email, and nameservers.
  • The branding is shared. The customer area shows “a small orange + network solutions”, and its privacy links point to Newfold Digital.

What I could not confirm: whether renewal prices changed, whether servers were moved, or whether customers got migration emails. None of that is on a public page. If you are still a customer, check your account’s renewal price and your email for notices from A Small Orange, Web.com, or Network Solutions.

What A Small Orange offered (historical)

For people researching the old service, here is what A Small Orange sold before 2023. These are historical details, not current offers.

  • Shared hosting with cPanel, Softaculous one-click installs, and the Weebly site builder. Its plans were named Tiny, Small, Medium, and Large, and it charged by resources rather than selling “unlimited” plans.
  • Cloud VPS, reseller, and dedicated servers for bigger sites. Its knowledge base also describes a managed tier called Clementine Managed Hosting.
  • Pricing. In 2020 the Small shared plan was $8.80 a month. The last archived homepage, from March 2023, listed the Small Shared plan at $12.99 a month and a Level II Cloud VPS at $55.99 a month.
  • Reputation. It was well liked in its early years for friendly support. Review sites such as Review Signal reported that customer ratings fell in the years after the 2012 sale.

Moving a WordPress site from A Small Orange

Start with an independent backup of the files and database, then ask the new host whether an assisted migration is included. If you move it yourself, a migration plugin is usually the simplest route for a small site. A migration plugin can help with the WordPress copy, but destination upload limits and hosted email need separate checks.

Keep the old hosting active until the new site and email have both been checked. Our complete WordPress migration guide covers the steps, DNS and troubleshooting.

Where to move: three A Small Orange alternatives

Hostinger offers low opening prices with a long prepayment and a much higher renewal. FastComet offers a familiar cPanel workflow and a plan-specific assisted transfer allowance. Compare the full renewal bill and mailbox needs with your existing account.

Cloudways offers hourly cloud-server billing without a multi-year prepayment, although email and optional services add to its base price. It is worth comparing for a site that needs more resources, rather than assuming a cloud server is necessary for a small blog.

Our hosting hub and Bluehost alternatives cover the broader choices. If you move, use the migration guide to plan the site and email transfer together.

The A Small Orange customer area is the current public route for account help. Confirm your access before relying on it to retrieve a backup or change billing.