Local SA host reccommendations

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I have a customer I am designing a webpage for using Joomla. They want local SA hosting as the market they service will probarly only have local bandwidth.
Anyway we need a SQL database and more than 500mb bandwith a month. I have hunted and they are all over the R50 per month budget who has some suggestions they have the Hertzner Micro pro currently but it does not offer a SQL database.
 
R50 is a bit low if you want local hosting with a database.
 
Yeah I would have to agree, R50 per month, ain't going to get you much. Either way look at Hetzner. I highly recommend them.

HTH
 
Local hosting normally comes with very small bandwidth allowance. Check out Texo, they are a local company but do the hosting in the states. I've got a 2GB package with 16GB traffic allowance for R40/month. Got very good service from them during the setup.
 
Take a look at the link in my signature. We have some local hosting products that are in your price range but as synapseZA indicated the bandwidth limits are quite low.
 
I would stick with hetzner!
but "unfortunately" they only offer PHP (required for Joomla!) from their basic plan, which will be R99.
and only R44 over your "budget" or 198% of your budget, depends what way you want to look at it.
 
It is simply not feasible to host locally.
If your machine gets attacked by a virus or other malicious "devices" you could end up with a R40 000 bill for traffic that the attackers consumed.
Not a risk anybody should be exposed to.
 
davemc said:
It is simply not feasible to host locally.
If your machine gets attacked by a virus or other malicious "devices" you could end up with a R40 000 bill for traffic that the attackers consumed.
Not a risk anybody should be exposed to.
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By that reasoning he should also never get into a car or walk near a coconut tree.
 
davemc said:
It is simply not feasible to host locally.
If your machine gets attacked by a virus or other malicious "devices" you could end up with a R40 000 bill for traffic that the attackers consumed.
Not a risk anybody should be exposed to.
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That is a good point. I do all my hosting in the states with goDaddy so do not understand the need for local, but had to ask the question. Thanks for all the replies and information.
 
midrange said:
By that reasoning he should also never get into a car or walk near a coconut tree.
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Not true.
An attack can quickly consume a heck of a lot of bandwidth, and, at the rates our hosting companies charge, will quickly add up to a lot of money.

In addition, with a coconut tree you can wear a helmet or look for coconuts, and you can wear a seatbelt and drive defensively.
But, our ISP's do not have set measures in place to protect us from such an occurrence, preferring to simply bill us for the event.

Last time I researched this was in January.
If there are ISP's out there that have protection measures in place, please let me know.
 
AcidRaZor said:
I recommend the search feature on these forums...
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Are you recommending that to me?
If so, here's what I am looking for:
A Linux based Virtual Machine with 256MB of RAM, 10GB disk space and 25GB of bandwidth per month that is protected from attacks or is limited to the 25GB given.
 
davemc said:
Not true.
An attack can quickly consume a heck of a lot of bandwidth, and, at the rates our hosting companies charge, will quickly add up to a lot of money.

In addition, with a coconut tree you can wear a helmet or look for coconuts, and you can wear a seatbelt and drive defensively.
But, our ISP's do not have set measures in place to protect us from such an occurrence, preferring to simply bill us for the event.

Last time I researched this was in January.
If there are ISP's out there that have protection measures in place, please let me know.
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Experience or conjecture?

Wouldn't use Hetzner myself, loads of down time. (On shared hosting, haven't dealt with anything else). And don't register a domain through them.
 
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