Entry level hosting price comparison

How can you host with max 150Mb of traffic :(

Just forget it for anything!

Update the table with xtra traffic costs (after included traffic is used up and then see how bad things really are!
 
Telkom yet again pushing our stools in...

Telkom shared hosting is an absolute JOKE! :wtf:
Telkom Shared Hosting 40MB traffic and 10MB disk and no db for R139 GTF outta here! The "Advanced" option is probably even worse!
 
jasweb said:
How can you host with max 150Mb of traffic :(
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Many people are using their hosting just for email and maybe a one page 'online business card'. 150MB is more than enough for this.

Remember that these are entry level packages. Everyone starts somewhere :D
 
If your website gets attacked by something malicious, suddenly you owe the hosting company a couple of million rands.
And, not one of our hosting providers have the ability to provide live bandwidth usage notification.

These offerings are not only impractical, they're downright dangerous to your financial health.

How on earth can Telkom hand out 10GB of free local-only while at the same time charge massive amounts for local hosting?

Similarily, IS charges R100 for 10GB of local only.

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Wow - Telkom near the bottom. What a surprise.

Anyways, as ambo said, 150MB is plenty for most small business use. At 500kb a page hit, that is 300 hits. Some small businesses would consider that high volumes.
 
davemc said:
If your website gets attacked by something malicious, suddenly you owe the hosting company a couple of million rands
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That is always going to be a risk no matter how big your hosting account is. If you run a big website you are actually more likely to be hit by something nasty then if you have a micro site.

That said - many entry level providers do not charge overages and have a fairly efficient limiting system. No surprises on your invoice at the end of the month :D
 
ambo said:
Many people are using their hosting just for email and maybe a one page 'online business card'. 150MB is more than enough for this.

Remember that these are entry level packages. Everyone starts somewhere :D
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To be fair I would rather use international hosting for that. At R15 you can get 25mb disk space and 1gb or traffic from axxess.

My site is pretty much only text, and it isnt a very active site (even though Im trying to grow it into a community) and currently for R25 a month I get 100mb disk space and 3gb of traffic from axxess again. As it stands at this moment, 12 days into January have gotten me 154 unique visitors using 81.13mb of my traffic allowance. (for december it was 257mb odd of traffic and only 342 visitors)

Basically this means that if I want to move my site to local only without upping costs I will only end up paying more on penalties, unless I go for a bigger package and up costs anway.

Local hosting for me is still pretty much out the picture for my site, but hopefully in the future it will fit my student budget, but until then international hosting is the way to go.
 
Hi

Something is very very wrong with these numbers.

I am hosting with Afrihost (Silver) and the control panel says my monthy bandwidth transfer is x / 50000 MB.

Disk space is y / 1500 MB

Hopefully the control panel is working correctly. :)

Regards
L
 
My server sits in the US and I offer hosting packages at R300 for the year that includes a co.za domain name, 250Mb space, plenty traffic and database support. The sites hosted by me are as fast as locally hosted sites, never, and I mean NEVER go down. If we are to get decent local hosting, we need the big datacenter players like Telkom and Vodacom to pull finger and get on par with the likes of the big overseas datacenters are doing. Until then, I cant see the value of hosting locally.

http://www.bizbuilder.co.za
 
The reason I use international hosting is because slowly but surely international bandwidth prices are dropping. Keeping this in mind it would make absolutely no sense to fork out that much money for what I get now with International hosting services.
 
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CAPPED

thesuspect said:
My server sits in the US and I offer hosting packages at R300 for the year that includes a co.za domain name, 250Mb space, plenty traffic and database support.
The sites hosted by me are as fast as locally hosted sites, never, and I mean NEVER go down.
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I understand the benefit of hosting Internationally -- but what happens when people in SA ( your market) want to access your site but are CAPPED ????


MW
 
LiamRG said:
Hi

Something is very very wrong with these numbers.

I am hosting with Afrihost (Silver) and the control panel says my monthy bandwidth transfer is x / 50000 MB.

Disk space is y / 1500 MB

Hopefully the control panel is working correctly. :)

Regards
L
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The article is quoting the website, which seems to be out of date.

I have Afrihost Linux Gold and on the website it says:

1500 MB Disk Space
3000 MB Traffic

but on my panel it says:

X/3000 MB
Y/50000 MB

There was also an article last year saying they had cut their overages to 4.5c per MB, but their website still say 9c/MB.
 
Entry Level hosting

MWEB's pricing seems pretty decent, 1GB Traffic and 150MB space for R29....not bad!!!
 
nazmatazz said:
MWEB's pricing seems pretty decent, 1GB Traffic and 150MB space for R29....not bad!!!
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Not too bad but is has no database support - can't even run WordPress. But I guess it all depends on what your specific requirements are.

MWEBs other packages which include database support are too expensive.
 
I'm assuming its ALL Linux hosting. Would have been interesting to know for Windows hosting too for the remnant that do ASP development.

I'm surprised Digiserv isn't in that list. Their pricing beats some of those on the list:

http://www.digiserv.biz/hosting/linux/
 
Have you guys heard of Serv Hosting [http://www.serv.co.za/main/hosting.html], its certainly value for money.

Their entry is R29 / month that includes 1GB space and 12GB transfer. Unlimited email, databases and subdoamins.

My biggest gripe with local hosting solutions is lack of Python support effectively making it impossible to try Django [http://djangoproject.com] and other cool Python frameworks
 
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