Web Hosting South Africa – who hosts your blog or website?

Web Hosting South Africa – who hosts your blog or website?

29 Comments 09 June 2008

Are you a South African that hosts your blog or website locally? Doing a quick count of where the South African blogosphere has there web hosting. Please drop a comment below with who and where you website or blog is hosted. Do you host your blog on international web hosting servers or do your host locally. You might even host your blog on local web hosting servers or have your blog hosting overseas.

Where does the most important person on the Internet, you, host you blog? Your Web AddiCT used to host this blog in Cape Town but decided to settle with hosting in Germany, more hosting bandwidth at a fraction of the cost of hosting in South Africa.

I wonder where Thought Leader, Tech Leader and Sport Leader is hosted.

Please let me know where you websites and blogs are hosted by commenting below.

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Local – WebAfrica (Cape Town)
International – MediaTemple (US)
http://www.justbcoz.co.za/headspace justBcoz
With my usual SA hosting company on a local server.
http://www.startupafrica.com Ismail
Currently Hosted Internationally, i compared the prices and the bandwidth limits are too low in SA.
Used to host in SA at http://www.ascension.co.za bet 98-2003, they were well priced(R25 bucks for 100 MB space and 10 mail accounts) but had bandwidth limits.
Conrad Strydom
Your nuts if you dont just keep it at goddaddy or someplace else thats dirtcheap.
If you don’t want to maintain it, get one over at http://www.wordpress.com.
http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips
Who is your usual web hosting company justBcoz?
http://www.justbcoz.co.za/headspace justBcoz
It’s Hetzner – they offer servers here or in Germany.
One of my sites is hosted with another company, Webonline (also locally) but it costs me an arm and a leg. Seriously, I pay about 15-20k a month! I’ve tried hosting it internationally, but it got too slow for us to operate the admin tool …
http://www.matthewbuckland.com matthew buckland
the Leaders are hosted overseas…
http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips
TYFYC Matt
http://woganmay.com/ Wogan May
Local outfit ( http://www.serv.co.za ), but the servers themselves are in Texas somewhere, I think.
http://www.shaunoakes.com Cape Town’s Favourite Son
I’m with Hetzner, haven’t had any issues with them.
Why did you use so much italics in your post?
http://netucation.co.za/web-hosting-locally-a-waste-of-time/ Ramon Thomas
For the last few years I have hosted my all my websites in the USA. In the past I have used ServerFly and PowWeb. And now I have an unlimited account with Hostgator. They are very stable, very reliable and their technical support is excellent. In my view their is few to no good reasons to hosting in South Africa. Instead focus on your website content and other things you have in your control rather than local bandwidth.
http://sarocks.co.za Nic
Host SA Rocks Locally with Afrihost… moving nicharalambous.com over there soon.
I stick to the local guys, support local all the way.
http://www.geniosity.co.za/musings/ James
I host my “local” sites with anno.co.za but with the international hosting option. So hosting is cheaper if you host overseas because hosting a site locally is just a really expensive hosting option.
I’ve been hosted… by host. (Any other variations I’ve missed )
http://www.performmarketing.co.za Marcel
Been with Hetzner for 5 years now & I’m quite a fan. It’s great to have technical support a local ‘phone call away & they really are extremely helpful. I’ve given them some (what I would consider) odd requests in the past & they’ve always managed to come up with a solution. I’m not sure where they get their techies from, but they’re ‘lekka’, they’re ‘local’ & bloody good at their jobs.
http://networkninja.co.za Deon Botha
Media Temple in the US
http://www.feistyfemale.com feistyfemale
Being proudly South African I would love to host all my sites locally – sadly that is not always the best solution. Thus I host both locally and internationally [USA].
http://dostuffct.com/ Al
Bluehost in the states – very cost effective
http://www.blog.winecountry.co.za Henre
Hosted with Hetzner South Africa and Hetzner Germany.
http://www.definitehosting.co.za Definite Web Hosting
I’m from Definite Web Hosting. I stay in SA but our servers are located in the USA.
http://www.getvalue.co.za flytrap
Using Hetzner for 2 years with no worries. Tech support is great.
http://www.softsmart.co.za/ SoftSmart
Our hosts are based in the USA because of cheaper disk allowance and traffic…
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http://www.stallionhosting.com/ Bryan Jackson
My sites are hosted by Stallion Hosting, they have been affordable and their packages are not limiting like most other South African hosting companies.
I am actually very pleased with the service and value for money that I receive from them.
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Host Your Site On A Shared Server … provider depends on what type of website you want to have hobby, blog, or ecommerce
http://www.jrconsumer.com/ Motorhomes
i just use blogspot…
http://www.imod.co.za Chris M
HostGator for me, I refuse to host my baby with the local guys
http://www.webaddict.co.za Rafiq Phillips
I’d love to host in ZA but the cost are way too high
http://www.igeek.co.za/ Gerhard
I am lucky to have a local dedicated server where I host my site, but at the rate my traffic is growing each month its starting to get expensive.
Stef
I use Web2Web Hosting, they are great local guys with the best service. All their servers are overseas but they get the job done!