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Wordpress Hosting

I use Wordpress as the foundation for the sites I build.

I charge a flat fee of R1800 per year for managed Wordpress hosting.

What this means is that once your site is setup and all the plugins are installed, I will update to newer versions of Wordpress and the necessary plugins monthly. For this I will make sure your site is running the latest & greatest version of Wordpress and update all the plugins installed. This also includes yearly domain re-registration.

Wordpress Hosting includes:

• 100MB webspace (most sites are under 10MB)
• 1000MB of traffic monthly ( a well designed site shouldn’t use more than this, if you need more it can be added at a later date)
• 1 additional subdomain
• 10 e-mail addresses
• yearly domain registration or renewal

About Wordpress

Wordpress is an open source blogging tool that also allows for static site development. The beauty of it is that you get a database driven website for no more effort than is required to build a standalone static solution.

Want to add additional functionality, Wordpress has hundreds of plugins for nearly every possible need.

• Newsletter Management
• Shopping Cart
• Statistics Tracking
• you name it…

Domain Transfer

If you need to transfer your current hosting, here are a few things you need to take into account

• Time: Give yourself plenty of time to transfer your domain. Make sure it is done in before the middle of the month in case their are any unforeseen delay’s.
• e-mail addresses: the addresses you currently use will need to be setup on the new server before your account is transferred so you don’t lose any mail.
• Current hosts IP: You will need your current hosts IP to be able to grab any mail left on their server once you have transferred your account.

Other Hosting

I recommend using Elitehost if you are looking more simplistic hosting or if you have the skill to manage your own hosting solution.