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Introduction

As your business grows, you will need more staff, equipment, money and technology tools and applications. There are a range of tech tools that you can get but the most important thing to consider is where you buy them and who your network host is.

What is a Network Host?

A network host is defined as any computer connected to a network. It works to provide information, applications or services to other hosts or nodes on the network. Some examples of networks hosts are computers, smartphones, and multi-functional devices.

There are a number of network hosts in South Africa. For small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) looking for a network host, look no further than Afrihost.

What is Afrihost?

Afrihost is a leading Internet Service Provider (ISP) and telecoms company in South Africa. With its hosting offering, the platform provides server space and infrastructure so your website or application can be accessed on the Internet.

What Does Afrihost Offer SMEs?

Afrihost offers a robust suite of scalable hosting solutions tailored to SMEs, featuring month-to-month flexibility, free domain registrations on select plans, and unlimited web traffic. Their ecosystem is locally hosted in Tier-3 South African data centres and managed via the Afrihost ClientZone.

Main Features

Shared Hosting

Under the shared hosting offering, Afrihost offers both Linx and Windows. Features include:

Free Domain: You will get a free .co.za or .site or .store or .tech domain.  

Web Traffic: Afrihost enables you to get unlimited web traffic.

Latest PHP: Latest version of PHP supported by the website control panel.

Website Builder: The Linx website hosting packages include a comprehensive website builder.

Softaculous: Afrihost Linx comes with Softaculous, a popular web-based software auto-installer that allows you to automatically install, update, and manage hundreds of different applications.

Website Control Panel: On Linx, you can manage your website from one centralised panel.

Mellanox switches: Linx and Windows come with high-performing ethernet switches.

Free Setup: All offerings come with free setup.

Host ASP: Windows offering includes Host ASP enabling you to host an application built with Microsoft’s ASP or ASP.NET framework.

Cloud Hosting

Under cloud hosting, the self-managed offering features:

Web Traffic: Afrihost enables you to get unlimited web traffic.

Storage Type: The self-managed offering gives you SAN (Storage Area Network), a dedicated, high-speed network that pools block-level storage devices and makes them accessible to multiple servers.

Admin Access: You get admin controls over your server.

Host Multiple Domains: No limit on the amount of domains you can host.

WHMCS Add-on Available: You can add the Afrihost all-in-one client management, billing and support platform.

Under cloud hosting, the managed offering features:

Managed by Afrihost: Afrihost will manage the server’s hardware and software.

Web Traffic: Afrihost guarantees unlimited web traffic.

Storage Type: The managed offering gives you SAN (Storage Area Network), a dedicated, high-speed network that pools block-level storage devices and makes them accessible to multiple servers.

Admin Access: You get admin control over your server even in the managed offering.

Host Multiple Domains: No limit on the amount of domains you can host.

WHMCS Add-on Available: You can add the Afrihost all-in-one client management, billing and support platform.

Pricing

Shared Hosting

Under the shared hosting plan, the Linux packages are as follows:

Silver – R84 per month. The silver plan features:

  • 2GB of storage space
  • 50 email accounts
  • 1 MySQL database

Gold – R94 per month. The gold plan features:

  • 3GB of storage space
  • 75 email accounts
  • 1 MySQL database

Platinum – R109 per month. The platinum plan features:

  • 4GB of storage
  • 200 email accounts
  • 5 MySQL databases

Bronze Pro – R135 per month. The bronze pro plan features:

  • 8GB of storage space
  • 500 email accounts
  • 20 MySQL databases

Silver Pro – R179 per month. The silver pro plan features:

  • 10GB of storage space
  • 2000 email accounts
  • 100 MySQL databases

Gold Pro – R265 per month. The gold pro plan features:

  • 20GB of storage space
  • 5000 email accounts
  • 200 MySQL databases

Platinum Pro – R579 per month. The platinum pro plan features:

  • 50GB of storage space
  • Unlimited email accounts
  • Unlimited MySQL databases

Cloud Hosting

Under the self-managed plan, the packages are as follows:

Bronze – R460 per month. The bronze plan features:

  • HDD size of 100GB
  • 1 vCPU
  • 2GB of RAM

Silver – R730 per month. The silver plan features:

  • HDD size of 200GB
  • 2 vCPUS
  • 4GB of RAM

Gold – R860 per month. The gold plan features:

  • HDD size of 300GB
  • 3 vCPUs
  • 6GB of RAM

Platinum – R1130 per month. The platinum plan features:

  • HDD size of 500GB
  • 4 vCPUS
  • 8GB of RAM

Bronze Pro – R1260 per month. The bronze pro plan features:

  • HDD size of 2TB
  • 6 vCPUs
  • 12GB of RAM

Silver Pro – R1600 per month. The silver pro plan features:

  • HDD size of 3TB
  • 8 vCPUS
  • 16GB of RAM

Gold Pro – R2000 per month. The gold pro plan features:

  • HDD size of 4TB
  • 10 vCPUs
  • 24GB of RAM

Platinum Pro – R2930 per month. The platinum pro plan features:

  • HDD size of 8TB
  • 12 vCPUs
  • 32GB of RAM
Pros and Cons

Pros

Free domain registration
Has cloud and shared hosting options
Has all-in-one client management, billing and support platform as an add-on

Cons

Limitations in shared hosting
Shared servers can affect website performance
FAQs

A domain is an ‘address’ on the internet and hosting is the ‘space’ where the website files are stored.

No, you are  paying for your own webspace, and you are in complete control of what you put on your website. If you want to put ads on your site, you can – but it is your choice completely.

 

In order to decide whether to go for Linux or Microsoft hosting you will have to identify what your website requirements are. If you need to support Microsoft products such as ASP.net, ASP, MS Access, Microsoft SQL Server or VBScript, then Windows hosting would be better.

Linux is generally a more popular option because of its affordability, stability, and many features. Linux supports PHP, Perl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, CGI Scripts with access via a control panel.

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