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[Virex]

@Jade @ Absolute Hosting

My company might really have to consider moving. Afrihost is down again, meaning all our clients are down again. This is becoming ridiculous

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

@Jade @ Absolute Hosting

My company might really have to consider moving. Afrihost is down again, meaning all our clients are down again. This is becoming ridiculous

Sending you a DM now

 

[Virex]

I'm discussing things with my boss tomorrow on the way forward. Because right now, and I don't mean to **** talk them, but Afrihost has been terrible the past 6 months. Don't know what happened with them. But it's become unacceptable.

So I'll drop you a DM tomorrow after the meeting to discuss the way forward.

 

[L-Dog]

Hey guys asked claude for some assistance, any recommendations you guys have on this no real expert in Local hosting..

Looking for hosting advice: public stats dashboard for a hobby trading bot

What the site is:
- Static site (HTML/CSS/JS) — no backend, no logins, no database on the host
- Small JSON data files pushed to it ~hourly by a bot running on my home server
- One page: a live chart, a leaderboard table, a trade feed
- Low traffic, occasional spikes from social media links
- Need HTTPS + a custom domain





Domain: .com ~R200–350/yr, or .co.za ~R100–150/yr from a local registrar (note: Cloudflare's registrar doesn't sell .co.za).

My current plan: Cloudflare Pages (free) + a .com (~R250/yr) → total running cost ≈ R250/year, all of it the domain. GitHub Pages as fallback if the hourly-deploy plumbing on Pages is annoying.

Questions:
1. Any gotchas with frequent small deploys (hourly JSON) on Cloudflare/GitHub Pages?
2. Anyone regret free-tier hosting for a site like this once traffic spiked?
3. Better-value setup I'm missing?

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

If you’re comfortable with managing a lightweight VPS then this would be a perfect fit for your application.

We charge R99 incl vat for co.za domain renewals, registrations are billed at R86.00 incl vat - free dns management with any domain registered with us.

 

[Packet-Kollector]

Questions:
1. Any gotchas with frequent small deploys (hourly JSON) on Cloudflare/GitHub Pages?
2. Anyone regret free-tier hosting for a site like this once traffic spiked?
3. Better-value setup I'm missing?

It sounds like you should evaluate Oracle Clouds free-for-mahala-whatwhat. Free VPS. There is a thread about it in this subforum.

 

[Packet-Kollector]

I'm discussing things with my boss tomorrow on the way forward. Because right now, and I don't mean to **** talk them, but Afrihost has been terrible the past 6 months. Don't know what happened with them. But it's become unacceptable.

@Afrigirl ever in this section or is hosting abandoned by AfriConnectivityOnlyNow?