The Best Web Hosting in South Africa

Web Hosting is a service that allows you to host your website, emails or web application on a secure server, making it accessible to others over the internet. When you create a website, you need a place to store your website files, these files are stored on our web hosting servers under your aeb hosting account. All our Web Hosting plans include email services in order for you to send and receive email on your domain name.

Web Hosting is the service that stores your website files and makes them available to the internet. A domain name is the address of your website, you need both a domain name and a Web Hosting plan in order for your website to be live on the internet.

A simple way to think of this is that Web Hosting is like a house or property. At the house you can receive mail, store files, setup security and design it anyway you want.

A domain name is like the address for the house. You give this address to other people in order for them to find your website (house).

The two go hand-in-hand and in order to have a website on the internet or email services, you will require both.

The Web Hosting plan will give you everything you need to host your personal or company website. All plans include a free .co.za domain name registration, fast NVMe storage, unlimited traffic, email accounts and free SSL certificates to help you secure your online presence.

All Web Hosting plans include the award-winning website hosting cPanel Control Panel. cPanel will allow you to manage all aspects of your website web hosting plans from the creating of email accounts, managing of databases and files, backing up your website and viewing your website statistics.

Shared Hosting is another name for Web Hosting, they are synonymous with each other and refer to the same thing.

The reason the term “shared hosting” exists, is because all websites hosted on the web hosting server share the resources of that server. 

Yes absolutely. You can choose to do the migration yourself or you can make use of our Professional Services Team, who will migrate your primary website to our web hosting servers for free. They are happy to help you every step of the way and have a wealth of experience in migrating websites successfully with little to no downtime.

Read our Knowledgebase article: How to Migrate a Website to Domains.co.za

At Domains.co.za, we take pride in offering our Web Hosting customers access to our exceptional Support Team. Our support staff are well-trained, approachable, and committed to helping you succeed.

Additionally, we provide a comprehensive Knowledgebase filled with helpful tutorials and videos to guide you through all aspects of hosting your website on any of our web hosting plans.

We provide you with free LetsEncrypt SSL Certificates for all websites hosted on your Web Hosting plan. SSL Certificates secure the communication between your customers browsers and your website. It shows your customers you are serious about security, and it helps improve your Google rankings.

For more information about SSL Certificates, refer to some of our Knowledgebase articles:

- Before You Start - Introduction to SSL Certificates

- What are the Different Types of SSL Certificates

- Glossary of Terms - SSL Terminology

Yes absolutely, the Web Hosting plans include email accounts for your domain name. You can create and manage email accounts in the cPanel control panel, along with email forwarders, autoreplies and email encryption.

Please refer to our Knowledgebase article for more details.

- How To Create And Configure An Email Account With Domains.co.za

Yes, all our web hosting platforms, software and infrastructure are highly secure. We use CageFS security to isolate each cPanel Account on our servers, ensuring that your account is completely separate from any others. This prevents unauthorized access and enhances security, even in a web hosting environment.

Our servers also run malware and virus protection software like Imunify360, SpamExperts and Monarx Malware Protect, to ensure that malware does not affect your website or email.

Our web hosting servers also have DDoS protection and FortiGate Firewalls to ensure maximum protection of your website from malicious traffic and other exploits. 

Certainly, we allow you a great deal of flexibility. You can upgrade or downgrade your Web Hosting plan at any time. You can easily do it yourself or call us if you require assistance. For cancellations, you’ll need to provide us with a calendar month notice.

If you are a home user wanting a personal website, or thinking about starting a business, we recommend our Web Hosting Basic plan to start until you have a need for further resources and then upgrade to the next package.

If you are a small to medium business looking to host your company website and emails, our Standard and Advanced plans should be suitable for your business needs.

If you are looking to host directories, ecommerce websites, forums, or simply just require more space and resources, then our Deluxe plan will be more than suitable for your needs.

Should you be uncertain as to which plan to select, please contact our Sales Team and they will be able to assess and advise you on the most suitable option.

Softaculous is a platform that makes it easy to install applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and many more. There are over 380+ web applications which can easily be installed in just a few clicks.

Our Knowledgebase has multiple articles on how to install various apps via Softaculous. 

Domains.co.za utilises the cPanel Control Panel, making it easy to manage all aspects of your Web Hosting plan efficiently. cPanel is an award-winning control panel that is the most widely used in the web hosting industry.

At Domains.co.za, we utilize the LiteSpeed Web Server, renowned for its high performance, speed, and security. LiteSpeed is designed to handle more connections and requests than traditional web servers, providing faster load times and a better overall experience for your website visitors.

NVMe is the latest generation of storage hardware. It boasts speeds that are 10x quicker than typical SSD hard drives and 1000x quicker than normal rotational hard drives and 500 times faster than SSD drives.

We at domains.co.za use NVMe storage to ensure that customers websites and emails are as fast as possible and to ensure that there are no slow bottlenecks in the performance of our Web Hosting servers.

1-Click Installs is an application that facilitates the installing of applications like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and many more, with the minimum amount of clicks. There are over 300 applications which can easily be installed with the click of a mouse.