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What type of hosting service to choose?

August 19, 2011 Hosting No comments

What type of hosting service to choose?

Deciding what type of Web Hosting Service to use can be a difficult task as there are so many options available. We will explain the different types of web hosting and hopefully this will make your job of choosing the right hosting plan to suit your needs much easier. We look at Windows Web Hosting South African .

There are various types of web hosting services and it all depends on what you want to accomplish in building a web-site and creating an online presence for your business. You should look at the different options which depend on these following factors:

Complexity of your web-site – You may want to talk to a developer on the complexity of your web-site, especially when it comes to graphics and database administration. You may have to consult with an Internet specialist on the type of hosting that you need.

Free Web Hosting – You get Free hosting but with Free hosting comes low bandwidth and low disks space, This is due to so many people using the free service instead of the paid service. Basically, you get a free web email account with free hosting services on which you will be able to host very basic static website(no database or scripting like php or asp).

Paid Web Hosting – Then there is paid hosting which gives you more control over what you host on your web site. You get POP mail access and will be able to load more advanced sites. You will also receive unlimited bandwidth and more than enough disk space.

You get two different types of paid hosting, Personal Web Hosting and Business Web Hosting. Personal Web Hosting will be perfect for simple personal websites or blogs. Generally the resources are much lower than Business Web Hosting plans. Business Web Hosting is perfect for SME companies with a large user base. Business Web Hosting offer more resources and access to enterprise software like Microsoft SQL Server.

Specialised Web Hosting – You also get Specialised Hosting like WordPress Hosting, Joomla Hosting and PHPBB Hosting. These hosting plans come with the WordPress or Joomla or PHPBB software already installed and in the case of WordPress it also includes over 200 templates to choose from. WordPress and Joomla are both Content Management Systems which allow you to easily set up and manage your own website without the help of a web developer which will save you thousands. PHPBB give you the ability to run your own forum. For custom WordPress setups you could consult a WordPress specialist to help you design and set up your custom WordPress site.

The prices depend on how much space you need on the server to load your website or applications so it is very important to plan before deciding on which hosting plan will suit your needs.

If you have any questions or wish to discuss this on our forum, visit our Forums or contact us.

Unlimited Local Web Hosting

August 17, 2011 Hosting

server-admins.net are proud to announce that we have reviewed our Personal and Business Web Hosting packages. All Personal and Business hosting packages hosted within South Africa now offer unlimited bandwidth. We are confident that our packages boast the best value for money on storage and bandwidth resources when compared to all South African based ISP’s and hosts.

At server-admins.net we believe that when it comes to web hosting, location is critical. All our servers are located within Mweb & Internet Solutions Data Centres, Johannesburg. In addition to offering quality hosting at an affordable price, all products are backed by phenomenal support.

Below you will find disk space and traffic allocation for local Personal and Business Web Hosting.

Personal Hosting	Micro	Standard	Elite
Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Disk Space	1.5 GB	3 GB	5 GB
Price	R18	R39	R95

Business Hosting	Standard	Elite	Corporate	Platinum
Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
Disk Space	15 GB	27 GB	49 GB	93.5 GB
Price	R137	R249	R420	R800

server-admins.net, We’re passionate about hosting!.

For more information on Unlimited local Personal and Business Hosting please visit our website

If you have any questions or wish to discuss this on our forum, visit our Forums or contact us.

Unlimited Local Reseller Hosting

August 8, 2011 Hosting, Marketing

server-admins.net is proud to announce that it has reviewed its reseller packages, and now boast the best value for money on storage and traffic resources for South African based reseller ISP’s and hosts.

server-admins.net is passionate about hosting and strongly believe that resellers need a provider who will endeavor to keep their best interests at heart, and offer the best value for money hosting solutions, whilst maintaining superior and personalised support.

It gives us great pleasure to announce that we have not, and will not, introduce a “pay per utilization” scheme. Instead we will provide our resellers with packages which suit their business sizes at off the shelf pricing to suit their budgets.

Reseller packages start at R138 per month and include:

Unlimited bandwidth
Unlimited Diskspace
Helm 3
Access to reseller discounted domain registrations
No hidden costs

We’re passionate about hosting and, more importantly, passionate about our resellers.

For more information on Unlimited SA Reseller Hosting please visit our website

If you have any questions or wish to discuss this on our forum, visit our Forums or contact us.

Reseller Hosting Resources Increased

June 23, 2011 Hosting

server-admins.NET are excited to announce a massive increase in resources on all our Windows Reseller Hosting Packages.

We strive to ensure that we offer our resellers the best value for their money and by doing so allow them to grow their businesses to their greatest potential, hence we have decided to drastically increase the disk space of our Windows Reseller Hosting Packages both locally and internationally by more than 100%.

In addition to the exciting Disk Space increases we have also reviewed our US Bandwidth allocation and drastically increased these.
We expect to offer exciting Bandwidth increases to our ZA Resellers within the next few weeks as we are currently in negotiations with our upstream suppliers.

Below is a breakdown of our increase in Disk Space for both US and SA Reseller Hosting packages:

	Micro	Standard	Elite	Platinum
Current Disk Space	500 MB	2500 MB	8000 MB	13 000 MB
New Disk Space	20 GB	45 GB	65 GB	Unlimited

Below is a breakdown of our increased in Bandwidth for US Reseller Hosting packages:

	Micro	Standard	Elite	Platinum
Current Bandwidth	40 000 MB	80 000 MB	120 000 MB	300 000 MB
New Bandwidth	280 000 MB	450 000 MB	650 000 MB	Unlimited

Note: The above increases are immediately effective and all reseller accounts have been upgraded.

If you have any questions or wish to discuss this on our forum, visit our Forums or contact us.

WIN R500 THIS FATHER’S DAY

June 18, 2011 Hosting

Father’s Day is just around the corner. Do you have something special planned for the dad in your life or are you a dad yourself who cannot wait to get spoilt by your family?

server-admins.NET wants to thank all our fathers this Father’s day by offering you a chance to win R500 credit on your server-admins.NET account. Upload a few photos of your Fathers day celebration onto our FaceBook page and get your friends to “Like it”.

Tip : Increase your chances of winning by uploading multiple photos onto our FaceBook page and get more likes.

How to win R500.00 this Father’s Day

Log in to Facebook.
‘Like’ Server-Admins.NET fan page.
Upload your photo(s) to our wall photos.
Add a description to your photo(s).
Get your friends to ‘Like’ your photo(s).

About the Contest:

Entries close 21 June at 11 pm
The winner will be announced June 22, 2011.
Server-Admins.NET reserves the right to disqualify any contestants who violate the contest’s rules and regulations.
Employees of Server-Admins.NET and their relatives are not allowed to take part in this contest.
The Prize of this contest – R 500 credit cannot be converted to cash, cannot be transferred to other accounts and has no expiry date.

Server-Admins.NET wishes you a Happy and Memorable Father’s Day!

Bulkmail Newsletter Management Solution

June 13, 2011 Hosting

Keeping in Touch with your customers

Introducing the all new Bulkmail Newsletter Management system – an email marketing system that enables you to communicate with your customers. Email communication is still today the most effective medium.

Using our powerful Bulkmail Newsletter Management system it’s never been easier to do just that.

If you have any questions or wish to discuss this product further, visit our Forums or contace us.

Reseller Options also available

Affordable Blog and Forum hosting ZA

June 8, 2011 Hosting

Server Admins are proud to announce our affordable Blog, Forum and CMS hosting services. Locally hosted our new hosting solutions offer low latency, free transfers, superior support and daily backups.

Signup today and take advantage of our website transfer service, or our no hassle free installation service.

WordPress Blog Hosting – from R45 pm

Express yourself to the world with your own blog, or you may want to add a blog to your existing website and greatly improve your web site’s seo rankings by utilizing a blog.

Our WordPress Hosting Plans run on servers that are tailor made to give you maximum performance for your WordPress powered sites.

All WordPress Hosting Plans come with a range of high quality Free Themes catering for a range of different web content. You will be able to host sites such as a photo gallery, personal blog, business portfolio news and magazine, ect. Our WordPress hosting plans include a range of Pre-installed Plugins to assist you in the development and day to day running of your website.
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Joomla Hosting – from R45 pm

Joomla is fast becoming the CMS application of choice . Hosted on our Windows 2008 servers, Joomla offers SEO features which were previously only available to Linux servers.

Add-on components
With over 2000 add-on components available it’s never been easier to extend the functionality of your website. You can find these on the Joomla! Extensions website.
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phpBB Forum Hosting – from R45 pm

phpBB is the most widely used open source forum software in the world and is used by millions of people on a daily basis. phpBB has all the features built in to stay in touch with a small group of friends or if you are looking at setting up a large multi-category board for a corporate website.

Server-Admins offers professional hosting services for phpBB forum owners. Our powerful Windows 2008 servers are optimised for the best phpBB performance.

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Helm 4 Beta Testers Required

March 2, 2011 Marketing

We’ve been hard at work over the past few months getting a new HELM 4 infrastructure setup and require some testing before we go live. We thought that there’s no better way to get an environment tested than giving our resellers access to it and letting them push it to its limits.

We’re looking for 5 resellers who will be able to test the new system and report back to us on any errors and issues that are experienced during the testing phase. In particular we require testing of PHP applications, including the common ones such as Joomla, WordPress, OSCommerce and any others that you or your clients may use on a day to day basis.

Our new Helm 4 infrastructure boasts some of the newer technologies available, such as
Window 2008 & IIS 7
Microsoft SQL 2008
SmarterMail 7 Enterprise (Version 8 to be implemented as soon as the vendor has released it)
SmarterStats 5 – (Improved SEO reporting and competitor comparisons)
Helm 4 – Now includes standard features such as Web site backups, unzip and zip features, granular reporting and improved package management.

If you have the time to do some testing then please get in touch with us by sending us a ticket as per the instructions below.

For your efforts and assistance with regards to this there will be some fantastic discounts up for grabs for those that have taken part in the beta testing and purchase their new Helm 4 reseller packages within 3 months of us releasing to market.

Instructions and requirements for each application
Please complete the section below and send to us via response to this blog post
Applications must be received by 17H00 on Friday the 4th March 2011.
Each application must be completed with the required information and those who have been chosen to assist shall be notified via return.
We aim to allow each reseller to test a particular PHP / .NET application in order to diagnose any unknown issues.
You need to be an active server-admins.NET reseller in order to partake in this beta test.
Below is the format to be used when applying for beta testing access :

Applicant Client Code : [clientcode]
Applicant Name : [firstname] [surname]
Application to be tested :
Application installation file URL :

The importance of using real server hardware

February 7, 2011 Hosting

We’re often asked as to whether our servers are real servers? Yeah it may seem like a strange and cheesy question which tends to pop up quite often often but its one which raises some valid points.

Whilst working in our data center with a client who recently signed up with us he mentioned that he’d recently moved away from two of our largest competitors after purchasing “servers” from them, only to find that what they had labeled as a server was in fact cheap and nasty desktop hardware.

Its no secret that many shared web hosting providers in South Africa may choose to provide and utilize inexpensive hardware for their clients in an attempt to keep their costs of ownership down, how ever decisions like these can be costly on the long run.

Whilst it may make “business sense” to purchase inexpensive desktop hardware to start off with, one has to consider the long term cost of ownership with these decisions and the impact it brings later on. A prime example with such decisions is up time and, in our books, there are no negotiations or “if’s and butt’s” when it comes to up time!

Still not convinced that hardware makes a difference? Take a look at some of our competitors notifications pages and compare these to ours….

In fact we’re so confident that we’ll send you a copy of our SLA reports to prove that we mean business and when it comes to hosting there are shortcuts.