A Small Orange no longer sells hosting through its old website, although existing customers can still access the account portal. 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.

So if you are a current customer, your account still exists and you can still log in. If you are looking for a new host, A Small Orange is not really an option anymore.

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.

Here is the timeline, built from the company’s own pages, archived copies of its websites, and its owners’ filings and press releases.

A Small Orange was founded in Atlanta in 2003, according to its About page. EIG’s 2013 SEC filing records its purchase in July 2012, the same month EIG bought HostGator. Clearlake completed its acquisition of EIG on February 10, 2021, and combined its hosting business with Web.com as Newfold Digital.

In early 2022, sister brand HostNine announced it would join A Small Orange; its domain redirected there by June. A Small Orange then revised its terms on November 16, 2022, adding cPanel usage limits and a cancellation timeframe for suspended accounts.

Archived pages show the ordinary A Small Orange homepage on March 26, 2023, followed by a Web.com redirect by March 29. Network Solutions announced the consolidation of the Web.com brand on June 18, 2025. The old partnership page was still visible on July 17, 2026, but by September 11 the domain led directly to the customer login.

Why the redirect matters

The 2023 Web.com page had two buttons. Existing customers were told “Your web hosting is here” and sent to log in. Everyone else was pointed to Web.com’s own products. That is the clearest sign that A Small Orange stopped taking new customers under its own name in 2023, even though the owner never published an announcement saying so that I could find.

The 2026 change goes one step further. Web.com itself now runs under the Network Solutions name, and the A Small Orange login page shows the Network Solutions logo next to its own.

What about HostNine?

HostNine customers were folded into A Small Orange in 2022. As of October 2026, hostnine.com redirects through the old Web.com address and lands on the same A Small Orange login page.

What happened to A Small Orange customer accounts?

As far as public pages show, existing accounts were never moved to Web.com or Network Solutions in a way the company announced. Here is what I could confirm as of October 2026:

The customer area still works. The login page, password reset, and account registration pages all load at customers.asmallorange.com.
The old Terms of Service still apply. The terms page names A Small Orange LLC and says it was last modified on November 16, 2022.
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. All-in-One WP Migration worked in our test, but the destination host’s upload limit initially blocked the import. Its free Import route works without the paid Restore button.

Test the new copy before changing DNS, including images, forms and your administrator login. Database imports bring over the old site’s credentials. Keep the old hosting active until the site and email work at the new host, then cancel it. Our complete WordPress migration guide covers the steps, DNS and troubleshooting.

Where to move: three A Small Orange alternatives

These are the hosts I would look at first. Prices are as listed on each vendor’s site and in our reviews as of October 2026. Our hosting hub has the rest of our reviews.

Hostinger is the lower-cost option if you can prepay for 48 months: its $2.99 monthly introductory price renews at $10.99, and migration is free. FastComet offers the more familiar cPanel workflow, a support-assisted free transfer and pricing from $1.99 a month initially, renewing at $9.95.

For monthly cloud hosting without a long prepayment, compare Cloudways. The option here costs $14 a month, billed hourly, and includes a free migration.

Hostinger is the best value for most small sites. It moves WordPress sites for free from its hPanel dashboard. Read our Hostinger review for renewal math and trade-offs. If you are weighing it against Newfold’s own Bluehost, see Hostinger vs Bluehost, and for hosts outside Newfold, our list of Bluehost alternatives.
FastComet is the closest match to the old A Small Orange experience, with cPanel and a support team that handles the move. See our FastComet hosting review.
Cloudways suits busier sites and people who do not want to prepay for years. Our Cloudways review explains how it works and what it costs, and our Cloudways vs SiteGround comparison compares the two.

Current A Small Orange customers can still reach their account through the A Small Orange customer area to download backups and cancel.