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

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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29 Responses to "Web Hosting South Africa – who hosts your blog or website?"

shaunrich says:

9 June 2008 at 14:13

Local – WebAfrica (Cape Town)
International – MediaTemple (US)

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justBcoz says:

9 June 2008 at 14:18

With my usual SA hosting company on a local server.

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1. Rafiq Phillips says:
  
  9 June 2008 at 14:42
  
  Who is your usual web hosting company justBcoz?
  
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  1. justBcoz says:
    
    9 June 2008 at 14:58
    
    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 …
    
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Ismail says:

9 June 2008 at 14:19

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.

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Conrad Strydom says:

9 June 2008 at 14:37

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.

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matthew buckland says:

9 June 2008 at 15:08

the Leaders are hosted overseas…

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1. Rafiq Phillips says:
  
  9 June 2008 at 15:14
  
  TYFYC Matt
  
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Wogan May says:

9 June 2008 at 15:16

Local outfit ( http://www.serv.co.za ), but the servers themselves are in Texas somewhere, I think.

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Cape Town's Favourite Son says:

9 June 2008 at 15:27

I’m with Hetzner, haven’t had any issues with them.

Why did you use so much italics in your post?

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Ramon Thomas says:

9 June 2008 at 18:50

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.

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Nic says:

9 June 2008 at 22:50

Host SA Rocks Locally with Afrihost… moving nicharalambous.com over there soon.

I stick to the local guys, support local all the way.

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James says:

9 June 2008 at 23:22

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 😛 )

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Marcel says:

10 June 2008 at 00:47

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.

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Deon Botha says:

10 June 2008 at 10:28

Media Temple in the US

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feistyfemale says:

13 June 2008 at 15:03

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].
😉

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Al says:

17 June 2008 at 10:30

Bluehost in the states – very cost effective

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Henre says:

19 June 2008 at 22:49

Hosted with Hetzner South Africa and Hetzner Germany.

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Definite Web Hosting says:

20 May 2009 at 09:22

I’m from Definite Web Hosting. I stay in SA but our servers are located in the USA.

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flytrap says:

31 July 2009 at 13:38

Using Hetzner for 2 years with no worries. Tech support is great.

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SoftSmart says:

25 December 2009 at 13:35

Our hosts are based in the USA because of cheaper disk allowance and traffic…

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Rolling over Locally Hosted Thought | Web AddiCT(s); says:

26 January 2010 at 15:29

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Bryan Jackson says:

11 February 2010 at 14:28

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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seo for website says:

22 March 2010 at 13:13

Host Your Site On A Shared Server … provider depends on what type of website you want to have hobby, blog, or ecommerce

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Motorhomes says:

23 March 2010 at 07:19

i just use blogspot…

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Chris M says:

13 May 2010 at 14:17

HostGator for me, I refuse to host my baby with the local guys 😉

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1. Rafiq Phillips says:
  
  13 May 2010 at 14:39
  
  I’d love to host in ZA but the cost are way too high
  
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  1. Gerhard says:
    
    13 May 2010 at 14:44
    
    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.
    
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Stef says:

2 June 2011 at 11:47

I use Web2Web Hosting, they are great local guys with the best service. All their servers are overseas but they get the job done!

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