{"id":231051,"date":"2017-09-29T07:26:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T05:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=231051"},"modified":"2017-09-29T07:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T05:29:42","slug":"webafrica-splitting-its-business-in-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/231051-webafrica-splitting-its-business-in-two.html","title":{"rendered":"Webafrica splitting its business in two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Webafrica CEO\u00a0Tim Wyatt-Gunning has announced that the business is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/big-hosting-move-message-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>splitting into two units<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt-Gunning said that since Webafrica started 20 years ago, it has grown to offer a variety of connectivity and hosting solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three years ago, we just offered ADSL. Now we have fibre and LTE too, both of which are growing like crazy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the hosting side, we just offered basic web hosting services. Now we have VPS, website design and marketing, and website security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During this period, Webafrica has bought 10 hosting businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result, we don\u2019t think we should try and be everything web anymore, because it\u2019s simply not possible to be good at everything web, because it\u2019s too damn big.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt-Gunning said they have decided to\u00a0formally split the businesses into two &#8211; to &#8220;ensure that you are served by a company which really understands your needs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Split<\/h3>\n<p>From 1 November, the following will take place:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All hosting customers will be serviced under existing brand Gridhost.<\/li>\n<li>Internet access customers will remain under Webafrica.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Improvements as a result of the move will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Separate, more specialised operating systems.<\/li>\n<li>High-level hosting specialists.<\/li>\n<li>Ramped output of cloud-based applications for small businesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Webafrica purchased hosting company Gridhost in 2013, with the intention of bringing its customers under the Webafrica brand, said\u00a0Wyatt-Gunning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We soon realised that the brand itself was strong, so we decided to keep it running as Gridhost, supported by Webafrica and its full resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hosting services will be migrated from\u00a0Webafrica to Gridhost from the start of October, with &#8220;completion planned for 1 November&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who receive Internet and hosting services from Webafrica will now receive separate invoices from the respective companies.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/230969-naspers-buys-775-million-stake-in-delivery-hero.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Naspers buys $775-million stake in Delivery Hero<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webafrica CEO\u00a0Tim Wyatt-Gunning has announced that the business is splitting into two units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41906,25],"tags":[35,3542,2508],"class_list":["post-231051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-telecoms","category-cloud-hosting","tag-headline","tag-tim-wyatt-gunning","tag-webafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231051"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231053,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231051\/revisions\/231053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}