Absolute Hosting offers a range of locally hosted web hosting solutions designed for different types of websites and customers, from someone building their first website to established businesses running demanding eCommerce stores and web applications.
Choosing a web hosting package can be confusing with so many options available to you.
WordPress hosting, cPanel hosting, NVMe storage, website builders, .NET Core, VPS hosting — if you are simply trying to get your business online, knowing which option you actually need isn’t always obvious.
The good news is that choosing a hosting package doesn’t need to be complicated.
The best place to start is not with specifications, but with a much simpler question:
Absolute Hosting offers a range of locally hosted web hosting solutions designed for different types of websites and customers, from someone building their first website to established businesses running demanding eCommerce stores and web applications.
Here is how to choose the right one.
For most individuals and small businesses, **NVMe **WordPress Hosting is a great place to start.
WordPress is one of the world’s most popular website platforms and can be used to create everything from a simple company website or blog to a sophisticated online store.
One of its biggest advantages is that you don’t necessarily need to employ a developer to get started.
Absolute Hosting’s NVMe WordPress packages start from R39 per month, with the entry-level package providing 1GB of fast NVMe storage, a free SSL certificate, daily backups and a one-click WordPress installation.
The hosting environment uses AMD EPYC processors, NVMe storage and LiteSpeed web server technology to provide fast response times while keeping the service affordable.
Most importantly, the servers are hosted locally in South Africa, helping South African visitors enjoy low-latency access to your website.
For a small business website, personal website, blog or new WordPress project, this is likely all the hosting you need.
An eCommerce website has very different requirements to a simple company website.
Platforms such as WooCommerce must constantly interact with a database while customers browse products, search the store, add products to their carts and complete orders.
As traffic and the number of products increase, the performance of the underlying hosting platform becomes increasingly important.
For these websites, Absolute Hosting offers its High Performance WordPress Hosting platform.
Rather than simply adding more resources to a conventional shared hosting server, the environment is specifically designed around high-performance web and database workloads.
High-frequency AMD EPYC processors, DDR5 ECC memory and Gen 5 NVMe storage are combined with LiteSpeed Enterprise and Redis object caching to reduce website and database response times.
The platform also separates web and database workloads from services such as email and DNS.
This means a busy mailbox or other unrelated hosting workload isn’t competing with your online store for the same resources.
For a business that depends on its WooCommerce store to generate revenue, High Performance WordPress Hosting is therefore the better fit.
Not everyone wants to learn WordPress.
While WordPress provides enormous flexibility, there is still a learning curve involved — and many small business owners would rather spend their time running their business than learning how to build a website.
This is where modern website builders come in.
Absolute Hosting’s cPanel Web Hosting packages include the Sitejet website builder at no additional cost.
Sitejet provides an easy-to-use visual website builder that allows customers to build pages without needing to understand HTML, CSS, PHP or other web development technologies.
Its newer AI-powered functionality can also assist with creating a website, further reducing the amount of time required to get a new business online.
For customers who would prefer Absolute Hosting’s NVMe WordPress packages, SitePad provides another visual website-building option.
Both approaches are designed to achieve the same thing:
Getting your business online without requiring you to become a web developer first.
This one is considerably easier.
If your website or web application has been developed using Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core or .NET Core technologies, you need a hosting environment that supports them.
These applications generally cannot simply be uploaded to a conventional Linux or WordPress hosting package.
Absolute Hosting provides dedicated .NET Core Hosting packages for this purpose, with prices starting from R39 per month.
The packages are hosted on AMD EPYC servers with NVMe storage and provide Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL database options, along with the SolidCP web hosting control panel.
Absolute Hosting has seen strong growth in demand for .NET Core hosting over the past two years as more South African developers and businesses adopt Microsoft’s modern development platform.
It has consequently become an increasingly important part of the company’s hosting portfolio.
Starting a new business doesn’t mean you need to start with an expensive server.
Shared web hosting exists precisely because it allows multiple customers to securely share powerful server infrastructure, making professional hosting considerably more affordable.
As your business grows, however, your requirements may change.
A website attracting thousands of visitors, a large eCommerce store, or a custom application performing substantial amounts of processing may eventually need dedicated computing resources.
At that point, customers can migrate from shared hosting to high-performance VPS hosting, where CPU, memory and storage resources can be allocated specifically to their environment.
This provides a natural progression:
Start with the hosting you need today and scale as your business grows.
There is little benefit in paying for infrastructure your website doesn’t yet need.
So which hosting package should I choose?
For most customers, the decision can be reduced to four simple choices.
I want a WordPress website:
Choose NVMe WordPress Hosting.
I’m running a busy WooCommerce or performance-sensitive WordPress website:
Choose High Performance WordPress Hosting.
I want to build my own website without learning WordPress or coding:
Choose cPanel Hosting with Sitejet, or use SitePad with an NVMe WordPress package.
My developer has built a .NET Core application:
Choose .NET Core Hosting.
And if your website eventually becomes too demanding for shared hosting, you can move to a VPS rather than having to redesign your entire online presence.
Still not sure? Ask before you buy
There is one final option that is often overlooked when choosing web hosting:
Ask someone.
Customers shouldn’t need to understand CPU architectures, NVMe storage, database caching or web server technologies simply to put their business online.
Absolute Hosting’s support team can help customers identify what they actually need based on the type of website they are building, their expected usage and their budget.
This also helps avoid a common mistake in web hosting — paying for resources you don’t need or, conversely, choosing an inexpensive package that isn’t suited to the application you intend to run.
Whether you’re launching your first website, opening a WooCommerce store, deploying a .NET Core application or looking for somewhere to host an established high-traffic website, Absolute Hosting has a locally hosted solution designed to grow alongside your business.
Click here to learn more about Absolute Hosting’s web hosting solutions.
