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I need to create a website for a friend and I've decided to use Wordpress. I'm trying to decide which hosting company to use. On the Wordpress site, they recommend www.dreamhost.com as well as some others, but I know there are tons of others out there, such as hostgator etc. What do you guys recommend?
 
We have some redundant servers which we've converted to Wordpress/Joomla hosting servers. (1 database, unlimited space/email) A few on here have set up some sites. Shout if you're interested. In exchange, we'd be happy with a Like on our FB page. Email me at [email protected] .
 
I am using Domaincheap, and although I have no clue what I am doing, I got Wordpress up and running in minutes, and it's been working perfectly since I've had it.
 
If you are cheap focused, and you are not going to have too much traffic, then there are a lot of cheap hosting options in ZA. Page loading WILL be faster if your audience is local.

If you are going to be doing lots of traffic like 1000 visitors / day and up and lots of big images, video, audio then go international. Personally I like site5 because you can choose where your site is hosted, I like cPanel. For international hosting for a ZA audience I prefer hosting in Europe

ngadao08 said:
I would go for Godaddy
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Godaddy is a dreadful option, dreadful!
 
texo are pretty good. Support over email is always very quick.
 
I an vouch for Texo, Steve is brilliant and the speed of their servers are unreal fast.

The difference between Texo and the rest is that he looks after your accounts.

Personal service at a killer price and it's local - I tried them all and Texo are the best after 104 000 visitors without a glitch give them a try
 
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Hey Hey

I am using elitehost for my wordpress hosting.

No problems in the past year and for R29.99 a month for 1 site unlimited local hosting... I cannot complain. http://www.elitehost.co.za/hosting

With your post-count mercurial, you can get free hosting from Domaincheap, as long as you link them in your signature here on mybb... will find link or you can PM LinoMan here for details.
 
mercurial said:
I need to create a website for a friend and I've decided to use Wordpress. I'm trying to decide which hosting company to use. On the Wordpress site, they recommend www.dreamhost.com as well as some others, but I know there are tons of others out there, such as hostgator etc. What do you guys recommend?
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For me Godaddy has done pretty well, so my experience says it is the best option.
 
Just a warning about elitehost, allthough they seem to be a good host. Weekend and Afterhour support seems to be non existent. This is ok as long as noting major goes down. (Currently I am having a site hosted on a server where the http service is down for at least 2 hours allready (since i discovered it). They don't offer telephonic support only email which does not seem to be attended very well after hours.

I am currently contemplating of moving my site back to international hosting where i know I will have 24 hour support within minutes. I think South Africa is lacking on that.

I would like to host locally, but i expect the same support locally as overseas.

Edit: Seems the problem has been fixed, but I am still worried about support turn around time
 
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fateh said:
For me Godaddy has done pretty well, so my experience says it is the best option.
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moklet said:
I am currently contemplating of moving my site back to international hosting where i know I will have 24 hour support within minutes. I think South Africa is lacking on that.
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I used to host all my clients websites with GoDaddy and let me tell you their support turnaround time (largely due to them being in the states) and automated robotic canned responses were terrible and useless. In the end I had to look in their KB to find an answer to my problem or even Google. In the end I stopped using their support as it was a waste of my time.

I would like to host locally, but i expect the same support locally as overseas.
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IMO it really depends on the provider and not based on the country.
 
southafricanhosting.co.za said:
We have some redundant servers which we've converted to Wordpress/Joomla hosting servers. (1 database, unlimited space/email) A few on here have set up some sites. Shout if you're interested. In exchange, we'd be happy with a Like on our FB page. Email me at [email protected] .
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Wow, Dean! I didn't know you were on here. I was just searching for a very old thread just for fun and this is the first one.

^ I owe my entire existence to Dean. And it's just amazing to see this piece of history, where you helped others with their digital existence.
 
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