Telkom Hosting OMFG!

Now there i do have experience. Cheap yes, good, well..... I have 2 sites hosted there. They are not exactly the fastest server out there and they are very heavy on the server cacheing. They also only support Unix/linux so there is no ASP, msSQL no perl, python so services are limited. For a small site yes great server, bigger sites, i would unfortunatley go elsewere.

There is no peace without war!!!
 
True about the 150mb and db functionality(?). But keep in mind that an E-Commerce gateway costs R350 - R1500 per month
 
Hi Pr13sT,

Please give us one of your domain names you have with them so that we can check out the speed?

ta
 
Hey all,

Host4Africa happens to have their servers based in the US. And at those prices they're probably overloaded as well.

Telkom can include all the e-commerce infrastructure it wants, but nobody's going to have many sales before they're out of their 150 megs for the month. You'd do better to host an e-commerce site on your home PC over ADSL.

And... if Telkom had more than 2 brain cells in total, they'd realise no e-commerce entrepreneur with enough intelligence to breathe would settle with those prices for that service.

But at the other end of the scale, 'unmetered' traffic is not a good thing. Either you simply won't be able to use more than a certain amount due to your link speed, or you're likely to have your site taken down because of 'excessive use' or something.

My fav is http://netfirms.com. Recently became 1 GB space and 50 GB transfer for +/- R 70 / month, and with excellent quality of service.

Because after all, if your site's not up, you're not going to need your 1 TB of bandwidth.
 
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<br />Hi Pr13sT,

Please give us one of your domain names you have with them so that we can check out the speed?

ta

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www.peakevents.co.za

There is no peace without war!!!
 
Sorry one more thing, big sad face... www.host4africa.com does not provide java/jsp support. So their is no ASP or JPS. Very sad face!!!!

There is no peace without war!!!
 
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