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WordPress hosting

If you’re looking for a web host to host your WordPress and keep it up to date for you, sign up for any of our accounts offering at least one MySQL database and tell us which version of WordPress you’d like installed.

We install WordPress on your account using subversion, which means upgrading it is a snap. You have two options:

  1. Upgrade on demand – send us an email requesting the upgrade
  2. Automatic upgrade – whenever a new version comes out, we will upgrade you without asking you first.

There is only one disclaimer you must accept, which is that, although we will take all care to ensure that your data is not lost or corrupted, if it does occur, you agree to hold us blameless.

We do recommend that you install the wp_db_backup plugin which will automatically email you a complete backup of your database at the interval you select.

Written on 04 November 2008 by admin under WordPress with No Comments
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What would you pay for a 1GB web hosting account?

Until the end of February 2008, you can get a 1GB web hosting account with 30GB of monthly bandwidth for R95 per month or R950 per annum.

Features

  • CPANEL
  • unlimited POP3 mailboxes
  • SMTP
  • unlimited forwarders
  • LAMP platform (no ASP or Microsoft anything)
  • unlimited MySQL databases
  • PHP
  • CGI
  • SSI

This applies to new accounts only. Only one domain can be hosted on this space. Offer limited to people residing in South Africa.

Sign up today if you’re interested. Call 073 258 8545 or use the sign up form.

Written on 15 February 2008 by admin under Hosting, Special Offer with No Comments
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What do you use to distribute your mailing list?

We use and recommend the phplist Open Source Software mailing list application.

It has a number of features which makes it superior, in our opinion, to many others.

Previously we have used mailman and VPOP3’s mailing list feature to send out emails to a large distribution list (40 000+ email addresses). Both of these systems encountered critical problems that threatened our ability to continue sending out mass email mailings.

Unsubscription, for example, is problematic when a person changes their email address by forwarding it onto their new one. When they try to unsubscribe their current address, both mailman and VPOP3 could not because they did not know the correct email address to remove from their system.

Phplist solves that problem by encoding, into the unsubscribe link, the email address to which the email was originally sent. People who unsubscribe are automatically barred by the system from receiving further emails.

Phplist operates off the server, so none of your personal ISP bandwidth is consumed in distribution.

Phplist supplies you with statistics allowing you to see who has read your emails and what they have clicked on.

For R350 per month, we offer a 1GB hosting account with 30GB of monthly bandwidth pre-installed with phplist.

You will receive support from us, plus we will upgrade the software for you when upgrades become available – with your permission, of course.

Please contact us to sign up for this account.

Written on 14 February 2008 by admin under mailing lists, phplist with 2 Comments
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Revamp your tired old web site?

A lot of businesses have web sites … from Antediluvian times.

Five years or more ago, it occurred to someone in the office to slap together a few pages of HTML and call it a web site. The last time you viewed it, you cringed with embarrassment and hoped like hell that Google didn’t know about its existence.

You’d like to update it, but you don’t know HTML stuff and when someone started speaking about FTP, a kind of fuzzy cloud settled over your brain.

If this is you, then You are the proud owner of a classic web 1.0 web site!

You’ve heard about this new thing called blogs, but you’re not sure that your business wants one. You are sure, though, that you want a new web site that showcases your company in a professional way.

If this is you, I have an important message for you: Businesses need blogs!

Why? Because blogs get read often, if they are updated frequently. They help you establish your brand and develop a rapport with your customers.

Blogs form part of what is known as web 2.0. If blogs have not yet been embraced by local South African companies it is because we are trailing the international trend.

In the US, Fortune 500 companies, such as Google and Sun Microsystems have senior people blogging regularly and forming relationships with the people they serve. People like Matt Cutts of Google regularly answers questions that the general public poses regarding search related issues. Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems uses his blog to keep people up to date on what Sun is up to. He recently announced Sun’s $1 billion acquistion of MySQL, an Open Source Software database that openly competes with Microsoft’s SQL Server and Sun’s Oracle DBMS.

The point is that you could be plugging into the South African blogging community, establishing and solidifying your own online network of contacts which translates into more satisfying business with people you would not otherwise have ever encountered.

The question to ask yourself now is “What is the bottom line cost to establish a blog?”

The answer is R350 per month. No big up front deposit. Just R350 per month on a 12 month renewable contractual basis.

Interested?

Contact me to discuss your needs – 073 258 8545 / rrcatto at gmail dot com.

Written on 13 February 2008 by admin under Blog design, Hosting, Web design with No Comments
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