{"id":157285,"date":"2016-03-03T09:46:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T07:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=157285"},"modified":"2016-03-03T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T07:47:32","slug":"webafrica-buys-serve-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/157285-webafrica-buys-serve-hosting.html","title":{"rendered":"Webafrica buys Serve-Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serve-Hosting is joining forces with Webafrica, with\u00a0its customers&#8217; accounts to\u00a0be migrated to Webafrica\u2019s systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWebafrica\u2019s stellar track record speaks for itself and the fact that they can migrate your services to their platform with virtually no disruptions cemented the relationship,\u201d said Serve-Hosting.<\/p>\n<p>It said all services will continue to work with almost no visible changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will be hosted in a state-of-the-art data centre in Cape Town and backed by a company we trust completely and endorse unreservedly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Webafrica CEO Tim Wyatt-Gunning said this is their eighth\u00a0hosting acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of the deal, Webafrica has acquired Serve-Hosting\u2019s 7,000 customers.<\/p>\n<p>While customers will be migrated onto Webafrica&#8217;s infrastructure, Wyatt-Gunning said they will continue to support the packages they currently have with Serve-Hosting.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Serve-Hosting clients migrating to Webafrica<\/h3>\n<p>Webafrica told clients their existing services will be imported into a new Webafrica account that will be created for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those who are already our customers, we\u2019ll be importing your existing Serve-Hosting services into your active Webafrica account,\u201d said Webafrica.<\/p>\n<p>Once the migration is complete, customers will no longer be able to access the Serve-Hosting Member\u2019s Area &#8211; and will need to order and manage services via the Webafrica Customer Zone.<\/p>\n<p>The migration of hosting services to Webafrica will begin on 31 March, and run until 15 April.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0will be a phased migration roll-out, and the migration will only be done after hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you don\u2019t have to worry about any downtime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More hosting news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/156565-2016-mybroadband-cloud-and-hosting-conference-registrations-open.html\"><strong>2016 MyBroadband Cloud and Hosting Conference registrations open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/156865-teraco-building-africas-biggest-data-centre.html\"><strong>Teraco building Africa\u2019s biggest data centre<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/152957-facebook-building-one-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-data-centres.html\"><strong>Facebook building one of the world\u2019s most advanced data centres<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webafrica has acquired Serve-Hosting, with its customers&#8217; accounts to be migrated to Webafrica\u2019s systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":131428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[36,35875,2508],"class_list":["post-157285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-active","tag-serve-hosting","tag-webafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157355,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157285\/revisions\/157355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}