Hosting

Sigmataf offers a variety of economic web hosting options at extremely competitive prices, to help you get the most out of your website and spread word of your company or business to a larger scale of users over the internet. As if our prices weren’t competitive enough, be sure to take advantage of our special discounts available for any clients who pay for a year’s worth of hosting up-front.

• “What is Web Hosting and what does it encompass?

For those who are unfamiliar with the term, “web hosting” and are unfamiliar with the spectrum of features which it encompasses, here is everything you need to know:

Web hosting is a service which allocates space for customers to showcase their websites on computer servers that are connected to the Internet at all times. Servers are powerful computers that have extremely large hard drives, or an array of hard drives. Space is then rented to those who want a website on the Internet. Every server on the Internet has a unique numerical IP address. You can think of servers as a block of flats with unique addresses. Each flat within each building is the same as space rented out for individual websites. And like real flats/apartments, each unit also has an address based on “the building” in which it is located. When you rent a space on a server then, you’re setting up house on the Internet. You can be reached by a unique address (the website address or domain), which is based on the server’s address.

So, in essence, one cannot have a website without space on the internet. Hosting is the space on the internet that one rents for their website.

• “So, if Hosting is like renting space on the internet, are there different packages that vary in the amount of space one can rent?”

Yes. Sigmataf offers a variety on packages, ranging from one to suit the most minimal of needs, to power packages with unlimited space. The best part is that all of these packages are so competitively priced that you’ll struggle to find a cheaper web hosting solution in South Africa. Not only do these packages cover the cost of hosting, but they include extras such as allotted free mailbox forwarders that coincide with your business/company’s online domain (e.g.: carl@jhbconfectionary.co.za) for professional e-mail use, amount of databases allowed per website, etc – all of which vary depending on the package of your choice.

• “How reliable are your servers?”

They are extremely reliable. Located in the United Kingdom, our servers will ensure that your site is constantly backed up and that when local connectivity in South Africa is down (as is sometimes the case), your site is still accessible globally via abroad connections or foreign Internet Service Providers.

Hosting packages to be added later