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We have gathered information on South African web hosting and put it in one place. Hosting Help is a place where you can:

  • Compare web hosting packages
  • Review and rate web hosting companies or providers (have your say), and
  • Find the hosting package or hosting service provider that suits you.

We also try and keep up to date on topical issues relating to web hosting and specifically hosting in South Africa.

Gridhost Hosting Package Upgrades & Reseller Packages

Submitted by HostingHelp on Mon, 07-May-2012

Gridhost has just updated their hosting packages with some nice upgrades, including a 50% increase in hosting disk space and bandwidth on local hosting packages.

In addition to the package updates they have launched reseller hosting on servers in South Africa starting at R389.95 for

  • 25 domains
  • 40 Gigs bandwidth
  • 25 Gigs of storage

Hetzner Data Over-usage Charges Lowered and Increased Allowances

Submitted by HostingHelp on Fri, 04-Nov-2011

Hetzner announced yesterday that their bandwidth allowances were dropping, which is great news for anyone on their hosting packages. It must be tough when you have a lot of clients paying you on data overages to then drop that revenue away, so why do it? Perhaps MWEB's uncapped strategy is starting to pay off for MWEB, are Hetzner starting to see some client loss?

MWEB Launches Local Virtual Hosting (VPS) Offering

Submitted by HostingHelp on Thu, 14-Apr-2011

In 2010 we heard rumours and then heard direct from MWEB that they were working on and testing a virtual server hosting offering (VPS).

If you look around you will find a number of local hosting companies ostensibly offering VPS, but for the most part they are reselling the services of international VPS services. So MWEB are not the first to market with VPS but certainly one of the first.

Webafrica Tripples Data on Dedicated Servers

Submitted by HostingHelp on Thu, 20-Jan-2011

The competition is really hotting up in the dedicated server business in South Africa. Webafrica's revised offering brings the per megabyte cost for data overrun right down, making it hard for resellers and second tier opperators to compete. Rather than dropping the price of packages they increased the bundled data which makes sense as you really only need dedicated if you are using a fair amount of data.
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