A2 Hosting, a Linux web hosting company, today announced the unveiling of Zend Framework hosting on their web servers. It states that Zend Framework is a thoroughly tested PHP component library, created to aid in the development of modern Web 2.0 applications and a variety of other web services. It was created with the objective to make web development straightforward while also encouraging best practices among PHP developers. It says that Zend Framework has met its lofty objectives while also managing to be lightweight, flexible and easily adoptable. Current and future A2 Hosting customers now have access to Zend Framework hosting support, adds the company.

It declared that Zend Framework hosting is available for all their shared reseller and semi-dedicated hosting packages; dedicated customers may utilize Zend Framework upon request. VPS hosting customers also have the ability to install Zend Framework themselves. Further, assistance can be obtained by contacting their support staff and thorough the knowledgebase.

Zend Technologies spokesperson and chief evangelist Bradford Cottel comments, "A2 Hosting has always taken great pride in their ability to support the latest in PHP hosting technology. Their release and support of Zend Framework provides significant value to the growing numbers of developers looking to create modern web applications based on open source, industry standard technologies."