Locally Hosted Thought

View Comments 27 October 2006

Dear Hetzner Africa

I love Hetzner, South Africa and the WWW.

I’ve been hosting with hetzner since 2001 without a problem and have referred many, many people to you.

Suddenly, (5 years of work later) a site becomes popular and receives 1000+ unique visitors per day. A large majority of them being South African, even getting visits from Mountain View.

Problem: High cost of hosting of www.rafiq.za.net/blog locally costing morethan the monthly payment on my car.

Solution: Monetizing the blog with the likes of Google Adsense and an advertising system we’re about to roll out. Before approaching other hosting companies or moving to low-cost US servers I’d like the great Hetzner team to have a look at the statistics and organic growth of www.rafiq.za.net/blog/. Once your eyes have have reverted back to their original position please suggest the best way forward for us.

I will be publishing this email on the blog soon after sending this. Eagerly awaiting your response.

Kind Regards,
Rafiq Phillips

There we go, an email sent to the best web-host ever. They usually reply within minutes, lets see what happens. Your Web AddiCT(s); do not want to move this blog to the US Do any of you have locally hosted suggestions?

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Current Period: 2006-10-16 – 2006-11-15
Domain Account Type Monthly Quota Current Usage % of Quota Reached
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5GIGs in 10 days, oh joy.
Miguel

This is what we call a high quality problem, but a problem nevertheless. We love all the attention you’re giving us, so please Hetzner help the Web AddiCT(s); blog stay in SA, we need your support.
http://www.rafiq.za.net/blog/2006/10/30/south-african-webhosting-roll-over/ Your Group of Web AddiCT(s);

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