Telecoms14.03.2010

Hosting pricing comparison

For a website owner hosting is often one of the most costly components of running his business.  For this reason a website manager must be aware of which internet service providers offer the best deals with regards to hosting, disk space or capacity, traffic allowances and over use charges.

Hosting is a highly competitive industry, and with prices and terms constantly changing it is challenging to keep up to date on where the best home for a website is.

With this in mind we have compiled a pricing comparison between several major players to see who offer the best deals for both shared and dedicated hosting. To achieve this several packages within a similar price range were detailed and compared.

Company Package Traffic Disk Space Monthly Cost Traffic Over Usage Disk Space Over Usage
Hetzner Basic 4GB 1GB R99 R0.05 per MB R5.00 per 10MB
WebAfrica Business 6GB 250MB R100 R0.05 per MB R0.50 per MB
Afrihost Silver 2GB 750MB R99 R0.05 per MB NA
MWeb Business Hosting 2GB 2GB R99 R0.09 per MB NA
Telkom TI Business Space 40MB 10MB R139 NA NA

For shared hosting services Web Africa offers a lucrative deal within the R100 per month range. At the cost of traffic bandwidth Hetzner also offers a comprehensive basic package with 1GB of shared disk space.

Telkom’s shared hosting service however is out of touch with current trends, offering only 40MB of traffic and 10MB of disk space for R139 per month.

Company Package Traffic Disk Space Monthly Cost Traffic Over Usage
Hetzner TruServe Plus 15GB 2TB R1395 R0.025 per MB
Afrihost AfriServer Gold 15GB 1GB R1450 R0.025 per MB
WebAfrica Nitro Server 20GB 1TB R1999 R0.04 per MB
MWeb Business Host Serve 10GB 320GB R1395 R0.09 per MB

In terms of dedicated hosting most of the major players are reasonably similar within the mid range market.

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