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 your web hosting plan. Most Web hosting plans also 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 make them available on the internet. A domain name is the address of your website, you need both a domain name as well as a 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 paint it any color 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 house.

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

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

The reason the term shared hosting exists is because all websites on the web hosting server share the resources of the server. Thus leading to the term "shared hosting".

Yes absolutely.  You can choose to do this 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 at all.

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 knowledge base filled with helpful tutorials and videos to guide you through all aspects of hosting your website on our web hosting plans.

Softaculous App makes installing applications like Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento and many more effortless. There are over 380+ web applications which can easily be installed in a few click of a mouse.

We provide you with free Lets Encrypt 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 improves your Google rankings.

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, 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 control panel called cPanel. 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 of your website statistics.

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.

Yes, web hosting at domains.co.za is secure. We use CageFS to isolate each cPanel account on the server, ensuring that your account is completely separate from 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 and Monarx to ensure that malware does not affect your website or email. 

Our web hosting servers are also protected by Fortigate Firewalls, protecting your website from milicious traffic and exploits. 

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

If you are a home user wanting a personal website, or maybe you are thinking about starting a business, we recommend our Web Hosting Basic plan for your needs.

If you are a small business looking to host your company website with email addresses, our Web Hosting Standard and Web Hosting Advanced plans should be suitable for your business needs.

If you are looking to host directories, e-commerce websites, forums, or simply just require more space and resources, then our Web Hosting Deluxe will be suitable suitable for your needs.

Domains.co.za utilized the cPanel control panel to make managing all aspects of your web hosting plan simple and easy. cPanel is an award-winning control panel that is the most widely used in the web hosting industry.

NVMe is the latest generate in storage hardware. It boasts speeds that are 10x quicker than typical SSD hard drives and 1000x quicker than normal rotational hard 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 is no slow bottlenecks in the performance of our Web Hosting servers.

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.