How much does website hosting cost in South Africa?
Hosting prices differ because the products differ. Here is what sets the monthly price, what is billed on top of it, and what our own hosting costs.
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Before you pay for a website, SEO, hosting or a custom business system, you need to know what it should cost, what to ask and what to do if something goes wrong. The Fyre Interactive blog answers those questions for the person making the decision, not for developers. Where it helps, we show our own prices and our work for named clients, with links you can check.
Start with the guide that matches your question: how much a website costs in South Africa, what SEO is and how it works, what SEO costs and what you should get for it, setting up your Google Business Profile or what to do in the first 24 hours after a hack.
There are also guides on building an online store, redesigning a website, WordPress hosting and maintenance, and on the systems behind a business: learning platforms, loyalty programmes and bookings and memberships.
What is managed WordPress hosting? What you are paying for, and why speed matters
Managed WordPress hosting means somebody else runs the server, the backups and the monitoring under your site. Here is what that covers, where it stops, and why the speed of the server matters.
What a proper SEO audit covers, and what free SEO checkers miss
A free checker scores one page against a list. An SEO audit finds out why the right customers aren't reaching your site, and puts the fixes in order. Here is what separates the two.
How to rank your website on Google: what Google looks at, and how to check where you stand
What Google says it looks at when it ranks a page, why your own search misleads you, and how to check where your website really stands.
Website redesign price: what a redesign costs in South Africa
What a website redesign costs with us, in rand and incl. VAT: which price fits which job, what is quoted separately, and what the new site costs to run.
Website redesign: when to rebuild, what it costs, and how to keep your Google rankings
How to tell when a website needs replacing, what a redesign costs with us, and how to change your site without losing the Google rankings it has earned.
WooCommerce vs Shopify for South African stores: costs, payments and control
Shopify rents you a shop and looks after the building. WooCommerce gives you the shop to own, on hosting you choose, with someone to look after it. For a South African store the payment rules and the exchange rate decide more than the feature lists do.
Ecommerce website price in South Africa: what an online store costs
The price of an online store in South Africa, with our figures incl. VAT: what our R25,000 starting price buys, what pushes a store into custom work, and what it costs every month once it is live.
How to start an online store in South Africa: platform, payments, delivery and cost
What to decide, and in what order, to start selling online in South Africa: products, delivery, platform, payments and cost, with our prices incl. VAT and real stores as examples.
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