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Hi,

It's been quite a while since I made my last post here, just a quick question.

Among you guys, is there anyone here that owns a hosting company that can cater for a small company? One of my colleagues needs to host a website with WordPress and maybe 1 mailbox. Nothing big.

Let me know!

Thanks guys
 
Good day ! - (Welcome back?)
To be honest - any of the hosting companies - I use and recommend Hetzner - will be able to give you a reasonably priced solution.
Host your site in Germany, and get way more bandwidth on the cheap.
 
Anthro said:
Good day ! - (Welcome back?)
To be honest - any of the hosting companies - I use and recommend Hetzner - will be able to give you a reasonably priced solution.
Host your site in Germany, and get way more bandwidth on the cheap.
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haha why did you say germany?? any specific reason?
 
Get one of Gridhost's packages,simple,well priced,sounds like just what he needs
 
So basically, they're all pretty much the same without much difference? I heard that afrihost is also quite good?
 
Sent you a PM.

PS - Don't use my website for reference, it's desperate for updates! :P
 
I also heard Afrihost was good, but decided against using them as you can only host 1 website per hosting package. Why on earth would you need 50 DBs for 1 website? It just doesn't make much sense. At least at Elitehost you can host 3 websites on the 2nd unlimited package. More is always better I say :-)
 
timmie23 said:
I also heard Afrihost was good, but decided against using them as you can only host 1 website per hosting package. Why on earth would you need 50 DBs for 1 website? It just doesn't make much sense. At least at Elitehost you can host 3 websites on the 2nd unlimited package. More is always better I say :-)
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Yeh that's right man. I'm also searching for a host, and I'm thinking of going foreign, with hostmonster.com.

I'm still contemplating going with one of the local chaps, I looked at Afrihost and Mweb etc - problem is you're kind of limited to one domain, i.e. no addon domains (no multiple sites).

I'm looking for a sizable deal, but most importantly, reliability. My current host's mail server IP, has been on hotmails/lives blocklist for some time now, and unfortunately I only noticed this now. This is very unhealthy.

I'm not looking for a one-man-show hosting business, I'd like a hosting company who has a team of clued up people, and I just can't settle on a definitive solution. I've looked at Hetzner, they have good packages I would say, but from what I've read on the forums about their after-sales and customer service I'm a bit scared to go with them.

I've found myself at crossroads - and decided to create a thread here to get people's opinions. Noticed that this thread has just been recently opened, and not intending to hijack it, would appreciate anyone here to point me in the right direction :confused:
 
I'm pretty happy with serv.co.za and their support system. Hosting around 10 websites with them.
 
I host around 50 email addresses with them! Please elaborate? Via PM if you want. Jazakallah.
 
I run my own hosting 'company' (if the bloody CIPC could shape up and get my company finally registered). I registered as a reseller a few years ago with a local company, and I've been going since.

From my experience a Wordpress instance barely needs support, go for something simple and cheap. Daily backups and all the bells are nice, but unnecessary in #many# cases. Get something that'll allow addon domains so you can host a few more sites if you ever need to.

stick to a local company, there's some good options out there.

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Anthro said:
Good day ! - (Welcome back?)
To be honest - any of the hosting companies - I use and recommend Hetzner - will be able to give you a reasonably priced solution.
Host your site in Germany, and get way more bandwidth on the cheap.
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Or they can just get MWEB and get uncapped bandwidth. Hetzner locally sucks because their DC is run by MTN. And with MWEB you can get a decent *dedicated* server for a 1/3 of the price Hetzner will charge including more bandwidth you can ever use at the same price.

Hell, even Web Africa has better priced servers AND bandwidth *locally*
 
timmie23 said:
I also heard Afrihost was good, but decided against using them as you can only host 1 website per hosting package. Why on earth would you need 50 DBs for 1 website? It just doesn't make much sense. At least at Elitehost you can host 3 websites on the 2nd unlimited package. More is always better I say :-)

yaseent said:
Yeh that's right man. I'm also searching for a host, and I'm thinking of going foreign, with hostmonster.com.

I'm still contemplating going with one of the local chaps, I looked at Afrihost and Mweb etc - problem is you're kind of limited to one domain, i.e. no addon domains (no multiple sites).

I'm looking for a sizable deal, but most importantly, reliability. My current host's mail server IP, has been on hotmails/lives blocklist for some time now, and unfortunately I only noticed this now. This is very unhealthy.

I'm not looking for a one-man-show hosting business, I'd like a hosting company who has a team of clued up people, and I just can't settle on a definitive solution. I've looked at Hetzner, they have good packages I would say, but from what I've read on the forums about their after-sales and customer service I'm a bit scared to go with them.

I've found myself at crossroads - and decided to create a thread here to get people's opinions. Noticed that this thread has just been recently opened, and not intending to hijack it, would appreciate anyone here to point me in the right direction :confused:
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EliteHost's after sales service is amazing so far. The other day I was just showing their site to a colleague here at work. Showed them the nice Server Status page. Next thing I know, up pops a IM Chat Box. It's Jason, asking me if everything is ok on my site, as he can see I'm on the Server Status page.

Now that is what I call good service. SOOO glad I moved to them, not regretting it at all.

Regarding someone else who mentioned MWEB Uncapped Hosting. Think they limit your MYSQL DB size, and you only get 5 email addresses. That's very limited for me.
 
Hetzner, if customer service is important to you, they are also good with Wordpress questions and have all the stuff you need to set up the site
 
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