4 local web hosting options for small businesses

[Jan]

Best website hosting providers for South African businesses

South African business owners have several providers to choose from to host their websites.

The Covid-19 pandemic brought into stark relief the importance of having a digital presence.

 

[FaSMaN]

No Elitehost?

 

[1337]

No Elitehost?

Doubt they paid for the privilege

 

[1337]

Putting Afrihost in this article is sickening after having lived through the gallo manor incident

and no domains.co.za? sure buddy

 

[DStvNothingOn]

No Elitehost?

Thats what I thought, been along term Elitehost customer, very happy with them.

Need support I get it immediately from opening ticket to response which is also normally the solution depending on issue is never more than 1/2 hour.

Pretty sure there has been at least one negative article about the listed in the last 12 months, not to mention Gallo manor.

Looking at the the offerings from listed, I would say also they are the most cost effective looking at just storage and board band costs

 

[Petec]

If you host anything on these shores, even your mum's apple pie recipe, you are nuts.
I host and run everything overseas.
No member of guavament is gonna wake up one morning and force me to pay toll/fence fees, coz my stuff is near their greedy evil clutches.

 

[2026]

If you host anything on these shores, even your mum's apple pie recipe, you are nuts.
I host and run everything overseas.
No member of guavament is gonna wake up one morning and force me to pay toll/fence fees, coz my stuff is near their greedy evil clutches.

Wut?

 

[system32]

No Elitehost?

No AWS?
No Azure?
they both have presence in ZA.
Google soon.

 

[Afrigirl]

Putting Afrihost in this article is sickening after having lived through the gallo manor incident

and no domains.co.za? sure buddy

Hi, I do apologise for the bad experience you have had with our hosting services. Please do not hesitate to send me a message if there is anything I can assist with.

 

[lordnokon]

Haha no 1-Grid.... Ouch.... Says a lot...

 

[1337]

Hi, I do apologise for the bad experience you have had with our hosting services. Please do not hesitate to send me a message if there is anything I can assist with.

No thanks. https://mybroadband.co.za/news/clou...t-hit-with-massive-outage-at-data-centre.html

Don't host stuff with Afrihost. Lesson learnt.

 

[BBSA]

If you host anything on these shores, even your mum's apple pie recipe, you are nuts.
I host and run everything overseas.
No member of guavament is gonna wake up one morning and force me to pay toll/fence fees, coz my stuff is near their greedy evil clutches.

 

[SeaSickMama]

Lol wasnt Absolute hosting down due to DDOS etc wouldn't include them in this
For about a week plus or so

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Lol wasnt Absolute hosting down due to DDOS etc wouldn't include them in this
For about a week plus or so

Yep we were and it’s been well documented in the thread that I created in the hosting section.

Hence we’re moving to a better location where we can better service our clients

 

[PsyWulf]

Lol wasnt Absolute hosting down due to DDOS etc wouldn't include them in this
For about a week plus or so

If you jump ship for every outage *somebody has* you're gonna be the village bicycle

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

If you jump ship for every outage you're gonna be the village bicycle

We've learnt from our mistakes... and you arent wrong.

My point was that we aren't hiding anything and have tried be as transparent as possible, and I dont think there is any reason for lols

 

[PsyWulf]

*

Not disagreeing or aiming at you,making a point that just about everybody gets hit,going to be a hard dig to find anybody that hasn't (edited to make that clearer)
It's how the providers deal with it (and uptimes that aren't in the sub 90's ofc) that's key

 

[Jason-ZA]

+1 for Absolute Hosting, have been very happy with them and have recieved amazing support, I will continue supporting them after the DDoS attacks.

 

[SeaSickMama]

Yep we were and it’s been well documented in the thread that I created in the hosting section.

Hence we’re moving to a better location where we can better service our clients

Most likely one of the local crowds did it due to you taking a few of their clients or something. I remember when CISP got theirs i can tell you someone local that has issues.
we use to see if big time at a stage in the FiveM community and its silly how cheap a DDOS package is and even the free ones at 1Gbps.

 

[McGuywer]

Dealing with a proper DDOS attack is not funny. Also, how is it Absolute Hosting’s fault that they got the attack? Could have been plenty of reasons someone would want to attack a website hosted by them.