Custom hosting
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These Custom hosting packages are suitable for:
Individuals and small businesses developing custom HTML and/or PHP applications with Emails running on Outlook or Mac Mail and 24/7 web mail access.
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Fastest PHP, SitePad and WordPress shared Linux web hosting packages on SSD hard drives with raid caching.
- exceptional ttfb (time to first byte) for better search engine indexing and awesome page loading times.
- shared hosting packages gives you a turn key hosting experience, (ALL standard hosting features and licensing included where applicable)
- perfect for a custom solution; All the tools required for creating your custom developed application to suit your specific requirements, whether it comprises of good old fashioned HTML (static) or Dynamic PHP apps with MySQL / MariaDB.
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Personal
R69.00PM*
30-Day money back
Custom Personal
Technical Features
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2 Sub-domains
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2 FTP Accounts
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10 Auto-responders
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Unlimited Email forwarders
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2 MySQL Databases
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5 Domain Pointers
Service and Support
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
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Mail lookup tool
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99.9% uptime
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Complete (D)NS Management
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Multiple PHP Versions
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Comprehensive Knowledge Base
Security
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DDoS Protection
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Web Application Firewall
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Malware Scanning
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24/7 Monitoring
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Standard
R119.00PM
30-Day money back
Includes all standard features
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10 GB
3 Domains
50 Email accounts
Unmetered bandwidth
100,000 inodes**
Custom Standard
Technical Features
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4 Sub-domains
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4 FTP Accounts
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10 Auto-responders
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Unlimited Email forwarders
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4 MySQL Databases
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5 Domain Pointers
Service and Support
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
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Mail lookup tool
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99.9% uptime
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Complete (D)NS Management
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Multiple PHP Versions
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Comprehensive Knowledge Base
Security
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DDoS Protection
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Web Application Firewall
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Malware Scanning
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24/7 Monitoring
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Business
R179.00PM
30-Day money back
Includes all standard features
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20 GB
5 Domains
100 Email accounts
Unmetered bandwidth
200,000 inodes**
Custom Business
Technical Features
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6 Sub-domains
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6 FTP Accounts
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15 Auto-responders
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Unlimited Email forwarders
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6 MySQL Databases
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10 Domain Pointers
Service and Support
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30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
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Mail lookup tool
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99.9% uptime
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Complete (D)NS Management
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Multiple PHP Versions
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Comprehensive Knowledge Base
Security
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DDoS Protection
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Web Application Firewall
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Malware Scanning
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24/7 Monitoring
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Custom hosting space is self-managed | * Personal hosting charged quarterly | ** Inodes represent the total number of data files on your shared hosting environment
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30-Day Money back. No questions asked!
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Free mail migrations*
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Unmetered bandwidth**
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Daily backups
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DirectAdmin Web Control Panel
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Roundcube Webmail client
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Super Fast SSD storage
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30-Day money back
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Email & Ticket Support
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24/7 Monitoring
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Softaculous Installer
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HTML & PHP Ready
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Brute Attack protection
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Easy and simple sign up
Serious-ly Cool Features
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DirectAdmin (latest custom build)
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Linux OS 7 (LAMP)
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Softaculous installer
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PHP 7.4, PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1
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Apache 2.4
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phpMyAdmin (5.1) / MariaDB (10.4)
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SuperMicro hardware
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10 Gbe Internal Network
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99.9% uptime
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Gb External Network
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Raid SSD with caching
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Samsung Enterprise SSD hard drives
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DoveCot (2.3)
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Exim MTA (4.9)
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SpamAssassin
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RoundCube Webmail (1.4)
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POP/IMAP + Contacts
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Joomla
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Magento
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Laravel
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Softaculous
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Backup daily
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Restore via DA
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Remote backups
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DNS management
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PHP configuration
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DDOS prevention
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24/7 monitoring
* First migration free for each hosting space | ** Bandwidth/traffic is not monitored on a day to day basis, although linked to our Fair Use Policy (FUP).
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EASY ONE-CLICK INSTALL
Softaculous provides you with “one-click” installations for WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal, WHMCS, Laravel, OpenCart and hundreds more. Read more…
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WHAT PHP OFFERS
- Open Source
- Dynamic Websites
- Powerful Frameworks
- Compatible with Majority of OS
- Customized Solutions
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APPLICATIONS OF PHP
- Web Pages and Web-based Applications
- Web Content Management Systems
- E-Commerce Applications
- GUI-based Applications
- Create Flash
- Image Processing and Graphic Design
- Data Representation
frequently asked questions
What database version do you offer?
MariaDB 10.4
MariaDB is more scalable and offers a higher query speed when compared to MySQL
What is DirectAdmin?
How does DirectAdmin compare to cPanel?
The short answer is that it compares very favorable in most aspects. DirectAdmin https://www.directadmin.com/ is an extremely flexible, stable and fast hosting panel running on Linux. It is not as well supported as cPanel, but then again nothing is… It is much better priced with an unlimited license option.
What is the Linux Build and Web Server software that will be running my website?
What does ttfb mean? (in website context)
ttfb stands for “time to first byte”. In context to web site page load this is a very critical statistic used by search eninges to assist in index ratings. In simple terms, it is the number of seconds (or rather hopefully part thereoff) that it takes for a web server to start delivering the first byte of data to the client opening the web page. Lower is better!
Can I also host an HTML website?
Sure.
You will be able to host any website with and .html / .htm extension. These files should be uploaded in the public_html folder of your domain.
What version of PHP do you support.
This is a moving target, we support PHP7.4 at the time of writing and strongly recommend upgrading, should you make use of older versions.
What mail software do you support?
You do daily backups of all data. How do I restore this?
You are able to backup and restore your own data in the DA panel. If you need data to be restored from an administrative level you will need to submit a written request for us to restore your data.
Can I develop my own WordPress site on the Custom hosting?
Kindly navigate to our WordPress hosting should you wish to run a WordPress site.
What does self-management of custom hosting space entail?
This simply means that clients are responsible for the day-to-day administrative tasks that take place within their hosting space as well as any related third party applications, e.g.
1. Responsible for maintaining custom application and 3rd party plugins/scripts, i.e. PHP site
2. Creating mail accounts
3. Setting up Emails on desktop client software, mobile and/or tablets
4. Reset Email and CMS passwords, etc.
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