Most reliable and affordable web hosting platform in South Africa?

[Tapsumbong]

Afternoon Carbies,

I'm looking for a company that can host and provide a domain for the pub I work at. The website is very simple, only one page with some text and a few pictures. Website folder at this stage is 37mb, we will be adding more pictures but not adding any further complexity to the site.

Any suggestions on what the most cost effective and reliable hosting platform locally would be greatly appreciated?

Thanks in advance

 

[SpaceWalker]

I wouldn't go local.
www.namecheap.com
South African hosting for small websites suck. I've only had bad experiences.
Go with NameCheap. If you need a guide to install Let's Encrypt (they use Postive SSL by default), just check online.
You can register a domain on NameCheap, or you can register a .Co.Za on domains.co.za and point it to NameCheap.

 

[jaqkar]

I have a wholesale account with Xneelo which in my opinion is some of the best hosting around. Absolute joy to deal with company and their systems are on point. That site is so small I will do you on the house. @Tapsumbong PM me and can discuss details.

 

[AinsleyHarriott]

+1 on Xneelo. I host my domains with them.

Good CDN and their support staff are always ready and willing to help should any issues arise.

 

[SpaceWalker]

I have a wholesale account with Xneelo which in my opinion is some of the best hosting around. Absolute joy to deal with company and their systems are on point. That site is so small I will do you on the house. @Tapsumbong PM me and can discuss details.

No offense intended and I've done the same, but.
It's best to let someone else carry their own load.
I had the same thing going on with family and friends and found myself in a pretty gnarly life threatening situation a few years ago.
All the content/info that I hosted from the bottom of my heart was in the balance. If I happened to actually die, all that info would've been lost. There was no indication that I would live either (won't go into details, but spent weeks sedated in ICU).

I'm just mentioning it for the sake of reality.

 

[Trompie67]

www.domains.co.za

I've been with them since 2017 and have not had a single outage. Inexpensive, friendly & importantly support means you actually speak to a human being who is firstly literate & secondly able to assist as they know what they are doing! No bloody bots or whatsapp kak!

 

[jaqkar]

No offense intended and I've done the same, but.
It's best to let someone else carry their own load.
I had the same thing going on with family and friends and found myself in a pretty gnarly life threatening situation a few years ago.
All the content/info that I hosted from the bottom of my heart was in the balance. If I happened to actually die, all that info would've been lost. There was no indication that I would live either (won't go into details, but spent weeks sedated in ICU).

I'm just mentioning it for the sake of reality.

Totally hear you, no good deed goes unpunished and all that. Willing to take it on still, if anything happens to me someone else has access to my stuff and worst case they can always talk to Xneelo and get things moved.

 

[SweetD]

https://www.oracle.com/za/cloud/free/

Assuming you buy the domain somewhere else (I’d suggest doing this anyhow & use a company that primarily focuses on domain names)…

Oracle cloud ‘always-free’ tier is available for personal AND commercial use.

At no cost they currently give away 24GB RAM, 4 fast ARM cores & 200 GB storage for you to allocate to up to 4 virtual machines (Linux) - with static IP, firewall/subnetting & SSL load balancer as well.

Your availability region on the free tier is locked to the country specified when setting up the account (i.e. hosted in Johannesburg if you specified SA).

You can host hundreds of small websites with this (I think they give a 50 Mbit line with 10TB outbound bandwidth per month but DONT try using this for torrenting!)

I currently use this (and it works as expected since they compete with AWS/Azure), at the moment my VM runs HAproxy/Docker & a modded Minecraft server.

If you need more resources than that, Oracle cloud paid services are far from affordable unfortunately.