Which Hosting Company Is Better?

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StatikSA

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Thinking of creating a website and i want to know which company and package is better?
Thanks!

AFRIHOST
R19 p/m
Server Storage 750MB
Web Traffic Unlimited
25 Email Accounts
Cpanel 11

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Cybersmart
R18 p/m
Server Storage 2000MB (2GB)
Web Traffic Unlimited
25 Email Accounts
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I wouldn't touch Afrihost so Cybersmart it is. Did you take a look at Web Space Bar?
 
StatikSA said:
I see this uses RVSiteBuilder where as Cybersmart uses Cpanel is Cpanel not the better option?
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RVSiteBuilder is the name of the website builder, not the control panel. Both would use cPanel, as RVSiteBuilder runs on cPanel.
Oh, and remember, you get what you pay for. Always.
 
I have switched to SiteGround.com (I have done a small write-up on my blog - be aware links to Siteground have my affiliate code on it). I used to host with eApps (they have become completely useless) and I found Siteground's support awesome - livechat gets responded to within a few seconds and they are generally helpful (when I needed to move my domain, as part of the signup they migrated the whole Wordpress installation and MySQL over - I had to do nothing which was convenient).

Although the hosting is more expensive to what is listed here (entry level is about R40 pm), but it comes with pretty much anything you need (see my blog for screenshots of CPanel and available tooling).
 
chopsky said:
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Oh, and remember, you get what you pay for. Always.
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Not necessarily. Have you tried using Cybersmart's pink hosting? It's free so one would think that it would be bad but it's not bad at all. For a small site it's got everything you need.

Plus you can always upgrade.
 
Good morning StatikSA,
all our packages are hosted on Cpanel,
RVSiteBuilder is a value added DIY website building tool we include for all customers free of charge.
Also included is Softaculous which lets you install over 300 different open source websites with a single click (like wordpress, joomla etc)
 
elitehost.co.za is by far the best out of everything mentioned here, but I guess you will soon learn that you get what you pay for
 
I currently host with Cybersmart and Domains currently. I tried Hetzner and their support honestly was worse than I get at Cybersmart. I tried Elitehost and it would have been okay, but I needed this particular website to be very responsive, and so I moved to Domains and it has been my best move in terms of website speed and support!
PM me if you would like to test out my websites or want to know more about either host from my side.
 
Solitude said:
Not necessarily. Have you tried using Cybersmart's pink hosting? It's free so one would think that it would be bad but it's not bad at all. For a small site it's got everything you need.

Plus you can always upgrade.
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Their free hosting works fine for basic stuff, but I have found it really slow compared to their R18 hosting - it is allocated less resources. As Solitude said though, if you want something basic, it will do just fine. I have a family domain on their free plan. I use the R18 plan for a small business website as it is quite a bit faster.

Domains.co.za (Wayne) said:
@fingerprintz.mgr, thanks for the kind words, appreciated
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Any time, your services are better than I have experienced elsewhere ;)

Edit: In case you wan't to test website speed. Here is my site hosted at Cybersmart (R18), and here is my site hosted at Domains.co.za (R49). When I had my Domains site hosted on Elitehost's unlimited plan, it took double the time to load when testing from tools.pingdom.com. On Elitehost's business plan , it took 1 second longer to load compared to Domains. Also had it at Hetzner (R99) and it was very much the same as Elitehost's business plan.

I have been monitoring the site for downtime (every minute). It hasn't gone down since moving it to Domains (19 days). When at Elitehost I had a a few very brief outages (2 - 5 minutes at a time and all at night). When at Hetzner, I had quite a few outages (all at night). None lasted more than a few minutes. Before that, my site was at Cybersmart for almost a year. I had pretty good up time from them. It would often go for 20 days at a time without any downtime, and then every now and then have a few minutes down. The longest downtime was for maintenance on their servers (which they notified me about prior to it happening and it was at 4am) In the past year (Most of which was at Cybersmart), the site has had a 99.54% up time (and this includes any downtime caused because of moving the site between hosts as well as general website stuff from my side.)
 
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kerbyross said:
I wish I always got what I paid for.
I paid afrihost an arm and a leg and all I got was poor support and a server that went down for several days, had to move my data back to international hosts after that.

Had my server purposefully turned off due to it "being the target of a DDOS attack" which I doubt and they didnt even think to null international traffic, their fix was to turn it off entirely.
Had to go to their site, copy my content and manually upload it to another host.
I doubt I will move that server's data back to a local host any time soon.
And for anyone who is wondering what kind of dodgy stuff was on the server, it was all church related content.
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Ye, you won't ever have a problem like that with elitehost.
 
With guys like CloudFlare around host speed becomes a bit mute. I'd say find a hist that you feel comfortable with in terms of value and service, and use CloudFlare.
 
willo said:
With guys like CloudFlare around host speed becomes a bit mute. I'd say find a hist that you feel comfortable with in terms of value and service, and use CloudFlare.
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Elitehost is the only host in South Africa with a partnership with Cloudflare, and Cloudflare is now within our borders. This means technology like "Railgun" is used directly between Elitehost and Cloudflare instead of normal means
 
Countless threads covering this.

Bottom line, keep your adsl with a adsl company keep your hosting with a hosting company.
 
envo said:
Elitehost is the only host in South Africa with a partnership with Cloudflare, and Cloudflare is now within our borders. This means technology like "Railgun" is used directly between Elitehost and Cloudflare instead of normal means
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The most important part is really that Cloudflare is peering out of Teraco. Based on that it does not really matter what the peering agreements are, as in the worst case the first hit via Cloudflare will be a cache-miss and subsequent ones will use all the CF goodness.
 
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