African Domain Hosting!

If you are looking to host your web page in Africa – you come to the right place. African Domain hosting specialises in African Countries and their domains. We offer an extensive range of services. Check out our services below – or go directly to our hosting and domains site.

Web Hosting and Domain Services

Compared to local hosting -  these hosting options are a fraction of the price.

Are you tired of looking at hundreds of options and reseller hosting packages? Are you new to domains and web pages – we can help. Our one stop domain hosting service is just what you need – easy to set up and easy to maintain. Our professional tech guys will walk you through every step of the process – from domain registration, setting up your email accounts and getting a great web page and shopping cart working. No nonsense – best packages! Or take it one step further – start a web hosting business. I went through the same pain when trying to get a web presence – too many options – too many variations in domain pricing – too many “best deals ever”. What I found is that most of it is bull. Most of these guys are expensive and their service sucks. Or you sign up – and then the service levels drop. Have a look at my correspondence with Crazy Hosting – quick replies, no impatience, and great service. From: Wayne Skews [mailto:webmaster@africangold.co.za] Sent: 21 November 2009 10:37 AM To: sales@circuitbytes.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Ok – my current hosts bill me once a year for my domain renewals. This is done automatically as they were registered through their companies. Wayne From: Circuit Bytes CC Sales [mailto:sales@circuitbytes.co.za] Sent: 21 November 2009 10:20 AM To: webmaster@africangold.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Hi Wayne, Do you do automatic domain renewals?

Explain the question, I do not understand what you mean. There is a 0.04 second difference in the access time to a web site between Hosting a site in South Africa or in the US. This difference is so tiny that it makes no sense to pay more for that. The only time it makes a difference is if you are going to be running a gaming server or a voice over ip service. Like I said 94% of my customers are in the US and all their websites are targeted to SA. Regards, Morne From: Wayne Skews [mailto:webmaster@africangold.co.za] Sent: 21 November 2009 10:07 AM To: sales@circuitbytes.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving web sites Thanks, Do you do automatic domain renewals? Is hosting locally quicker for South Africans – all the sites are targeted at S.A. Wayne From: Circuit Bytes CC Sales [mailto:sales@circuitbytes.co.za] Sent: 21 November 2009 08:29 AM To: webmaster@africangold.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Hello, I have 9 servers in the USA, 3 servers in India, 1 Server in the UK and 2 Servers in SA. 94% of my customers are on my US servers as they are the most reliable and the most affordable. By comparison, you would pay over R1000 per month for the same hosting packages on my SA servers.

The problem with servers in SA is the high cost of bandwidth, resulting in only big corporate’s being able to afford it. For a reseller it is not cost effective to host in SA as you could run into trouble with bandwidth overage costs if one or 2 of your customers sites become busy/popular and start using large amounts of bandwidth. As for your pricing, existing customers prices never go up for at least 3 years, they also never come down. From time to time we do however increase disc space or bandwidth and that usually applies to all existing customer packages. The lockin discount if a once off special offer for Christmas and does not affect our regular pricing model. You will still qualify for extra disk space or bandwidth if it is offered. Regards, Morne From: Wayne Skews [mailto:webmaster@africangold.co.za] Sent: 21 November 2009 07:26 AM To: sales@circuitbytes.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites More question – Are you hosting in S.A?

About your 20% discount and lock in – if your prices drop below 20% am I locked in and paying more? Do you do automatic domain renewing? Wayne From: Circuit Bytes CC Sales [mailto:sales@circuitbytes.co.za] Sent: 20 November 2009 01:23 PM To: webmaster@africangold.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Hi Wayne, I always try to assist as quickly as possible, with over 3000 customers on my books I sometimes only answer emails after an hour or 2. But I do have a ticketing system for urgent support if a site goes down due to a server error. Give me a link to a few of your websites to look at. I want to see the coding of the sites. Usually if a site is published with frontpage then it is better to use windows hosting. If your site are normal html/php sites then the linux hosting is better. Our linux hosting does also support frontpage publishing to a limited extent. Frontpage on our linux servers might be discontinued sometime in the future as it is not a very reliable way of doing websites. Regards, Morne

From: Wayne Skews [mailto:webmaster@africangold.co.za] Sent: 20 November 2009 12:59 PM To: sales@circuitbytes.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Well – you are passing the first test of a great hosting company – answering an endless string of questions quickly and politely – thanks. One of the websites has been published with front page – does this need a windows package? Wayne From: Circuit Bytes CC Sales [mailto:sales@circuitbytes.co.za] Sent: 20 November 2009 12:16 PM To: webmaster@africangold.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Hello Wayne, Sorry about the misunderstanding, when you enquired about moving cpanels across I thought you meant cPanel as in linux hosting. WHM is part of the reseller login and management for linux hosting. Please clear up that you are looking for windows reseller hosting? As the windows reseller hosting is a bit more expensive than the linux hosting. Our windows hosting packages come with just about the same features as the linux ones. You can setup as many databases as you like as long as you have enough disk space left. No extra charges for the amount of dbases you use.

The basic package has 50Gigs so plenty to use. If you do run out of disk space then you can always buy extra space. Most websites and dbases use very little space so that would not be a concern for a while. There are also many instant installable scripts available in the windows control panel very similar to the linux cPanel WordPress, joomla, dotnet nuke, phpbb, smf, siteframe, postnuke, oscommerce and many other Just like with the linux reseller you will be able to give your customers their own control panels for their domains. Hope that helps, let me know if you need more info Regards, Morne From: Wayne Skews [mailto:webmaster@africangold.co.za] Sent: 20 November 2009 11:51 AM To: sales@circuitbytes.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Thanks – what is WHM? Can one host databases? (windows) – My hosting company charges extra for such? Does each domain get it’s own Cpanel? Regards Wayne From: Circuit Bytes CC Sales [mailto:sales@circuitbytes.co.za]

Sent: 20 November 2009 08:52 AM To: webmaster@africangold.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Hi Wayne, Sorry about that I forgot to mention about the reseller accounts. Yes we offer full reseller accounts. Linux cPanel/WHM reseller Pricing is as follows R349.00 per month if paying monthly R330.00 per month if paying 3 months in advance R320.00 per month if paying 6 months in advance R299.95 per month if paying 12 months in advance R249.00 per month if paying 24 months in advance Pay by direct bank transfer or CC via Moneybookers or Alertpay No debit orders to worry about, no contracts that lock you in and no credit checks. We don’t hassle with the credit checks or reporting, you pay us we provide the service, you don’t pay us we don’t provide the service. See our T.O.S. here: .com domain name registered for free to use as your own personal name servers for domain registration purposes. Here is the direct order link for Our mini reseller package: choose your domain name for us to register and complete the rest of the registration. Regards, Morne Beck From:

Wayne Skews [mailto:webmaster@africangold.co.za] Sent: 20 November 2009 05:27 AM To: sales@circuitbytes.co.za Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Hi, Do you have a reseller program? Regards Wayne From: Circuit Bytes CC Sales [mailto:sales@circuitbytes.co.za] Sent: 19 November 2009 06:45 PM To: ‘Wayne Skews’ Subject: RE: Contact Form: Moving websites Hello Wayne, Thank you for visiting our website and your enquiry. You are welcome to sign up for an account at crazyhostingsa.com Moving complete existing accounts including all email settings dbases and fantastic installations and existing websites is all done for free for our new customers. Just signup for an account and choose transfer a domain to crazyhostingsa Complete the sign-up, confirm your payment and we will take care of the rest. Be sure to NOT CANCEL at your current host until we give you the go-ahead to ensure no interruption to your existing service and to give us a chance to make sure everything works correctly on our side. If you need any further info you are welcome to contact me direct. Kind regards, Morne Beck Owner Circuit Bytes CC From: crazyhos@circuit.circuitbytes.com [mailto:crazyhos@circuit.circuitbytes.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Skews Sent: 19 November 2009 06:23 PM To: sales@circuitbytes.co.za Subject:Contact Form: Moving websites Is it possible for you to move my cpanel and websites across to you. I am currently with afrihost? I can find no reseller information – do you have? Regards Wayne