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A Quick Guide to effective Googling.

22/10/2017

Searching with Google can be both a rewarding and also a frustrating experience. I have put together a few tips and tricks to optimise your search results. These are tips we use regularly at HostAfrica to help us stay in tune with the latest happenings in tech. Use quotes to search for an exact phrase. […]

Business Cloud Hosting

Why use HostAfrica for my Cloud Hosting?

21/10/2017

SMME focussed At HostAfrica, we realize that one of the major obstacles to the growth of Small, Medium and Macro Enterprises (SMME’s) is cash flow, or rather, lack thereof. Ths is why we focus on providing the best value for money at each tier. If your business is successful, ours is too. We rely on your prosperity […]

Business Security

The POPI Act and data

19/10/2017

What is PoPI? PoPI is an abbreviation for “The Protection of Personal Information”. Simply put, the PoPI Act is there to make sure that all South African institutions conduct themselves in a responsible manner when working with another entity’s personal information. It does this by holding these institutions accountable should personal information be abused or […]

Hosting VPS

Virtual Private Servers

17/10/2017

A VPS is an effective way to host your own website affordably and easily. A VPS, or virtual private server, has its own operating system, disc space and bandwidth. This means that a physical server that resides in a data centre is divided into several spaces that each creates their own virtual server. As a […]

Hosting

Virtual Hosting Concepts – Multi-Tenanted hosting

10/10/2017

Hosting has its own challenges and two types of hosting can be more challenging than most. These are web-hosting and containerized hosting. True virtualization (HVM) totally isolates the VM from the environment. The Hypervisor has only one function – to emulate a hardware platform for every VM. Multi-tenanted hosting is where multiple tenants share […]

Cloud Hosting

Virtual Hosting Concepts – Shared Storage

09/10/2017

Shared storage is a term readily thrown around, but just what is it and why do we use it? Who shares it? Do I need to worry about it? What is shared storage? This is storage that usually resides in a specialised device or set of devices that form a SAN (Storage Area Network) […]

A Quick Guide to effective Googling.

Why use HostAfrica for my Cloud Hosting?

The POPI Act and data

Virtual Private Servers

Virtual Hosting Concepts – Multi-Tenanted hosting

Virtual Hosting Concepts – Shared Storage

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