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Ample Hosting (amplehosting.co.za) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2017.
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amplehosting.co.za logo
Profile completion status:
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✓ Company descriptions is fine
✓ Company address location is complete
✓ Company phone/fax is added
✓ "About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
✓ Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
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✗ Facebook account is missing
✗ Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are missing
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👉 Total Reviews: 5
🙌 Average Rating: 6 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 4
👎 Bad Reviews: 1
👈 Official Responses: 0 6 / 10

5 user reviews		webafrica.co.za logo
Profile completion status:
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✓ Company descriptions is fine
✓ Company address location is complete
✓ Company phone/fax is added
✓ Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
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👉 Total Reviews: 21
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 2
👎 Bad Reviews: 19
👈 Official Responses: 0 2 / 10

21 user reviews
 Ample Hosting
25 Maple Drive
Pietermaritzburg 3201
ZA

amplehosting.co.za is inactive, but is redirected to hostafrica.co.za
amplehosting.co.za		webafrica.co.za
The Boulevard Office Park, Block E,
Cape Town, EC 7925
ZA

webafrica.co.za is inactive, but is redirected to 1-grid.com
webafrica.co.za
📧 Emailsupport@a...info@w...
☎ Phone+2733 386 8508+27 (21) 464-9500, Fax: 021-413-1111
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 1,749,639▼-2,200,883 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in ZA 9,514
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 14/45🔗 Links 3,290		🏆 Alexa Rating 77,854▲6,702 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 907▼-5 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in ZA 646
Languages en-USen
📄 InfoAmpleHosting.co.za is the hosting division of Greycell cc. We've been in the hosting and web design industry for over 5 years, this period has been both exhilarating and a lot of hard work. A pleasant journey which we hope to continue for many years through our every adapting product offering and great staff.

Our belief in quality means that we spend far more than other hosting companies on hardware and on support staff. We've chosen the best data centers, hardware and support.

It's been [...] Read full review		NEW 2019: On the hosting side, we just offered basic web hosting services. Now we have VPS, Website design & marketing and Website security. And during that period we have bought 10 other hosting businesses to beef us up. From 1st November, we are changing things to allow us to serve you better. All of our Hosting customers will be serviced under one of our existing brands, Gridhost. ---------- Web Africa, a multi-award-winning internet service provider (ISP) founded in 1997, has established [...] Read full review
📡 Established-1997
🏁 Site speedFast, load time 1.8 seconds 49% sites are slower
SEO Links count 45		Average, load time 2.4 seconds 35% sites are slower
SEO Links count 298
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
https://twitter.com/amplehosting
Started from: March, 2010
  • Tweets: 3
  • Followers: 21
  • Friends: 0
  • Last activity:
https://twitter.com/webafrica
Started from: June, 2009
  • Tweets: 26,020
  • Followers: 11,458
  • Friends: 5,973
  • Last activity:
-https://www.facebook.com/webafrica/
  • Likes:
  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

-https://www.linkedin.com/company/web-africa/
  • Followers: 620
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 1997
  • Employee Count: 51-200
  • Industry: Internet
-https://www.webafrica.co.za/blog/
  • Blog Posts: 319
  • Blog added on: Feb, 2012
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

🔧 Shared Hosting - 3/3
💡 Plan NameBusiness 2 [Linux]Standard [Linux]
💰 PriceZAR 40.00/mo.$ 2.90/mo.
💿 Disk Space5 GB SSD2 GB
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domains1 
🆓 Free Domain0 
🔨 Control PanelCPanelCPanel
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)The business 2 package is perfect for any start up business. Our services are all hosted on super fast SSD server's offering our clients the best possible speeds. The package comes with the world famous cPanel to control your website content and emails etc. We also include a free site builder and [...]N/A
📅 Date PlanSep 2017Dec 2016
💡 Plan NameBusiness 3 [Linux]Premium [Linux]
💰 PriceZAR 80.00/mo.$ 5.88/mo.
💿 Disk Space10 GB SSD5 GB
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domains1 
🆓 Free Domain1 
🔨 Control PanelCPanelCPanel
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plansN/A
📅 Date PlanSep 2017Dec 2016
💡 Plan NameBusiness 4 [Linux]Premium Plus [Linux]
💰 PriceZAR 160.00/mo.$ 14.82/mo.
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited SSDunlimited
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domains1 
🆓 Free Domain1 
🔨 Control PanelCPanelCPanel
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plansN/A
📅 Date PlanSep 2017Dec 2016
🔧 Reseller Hosting - 4/0
💡 Plan NameReseller Bronze [Linux]-
💰 PriceZAR 100.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space10 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer500 GB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel, WHM-
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Perfect for the reseller that is just getting started. All our reseller packages offer overselling to help you get the most out of the space available.

10GB SSD Storage Space
500GB Bandwidth
Unlimited Email Addresses
Unlimited MySQL Databases
Host Unlimited Domain Names		-
📅 Date PlanSep 2017-
💡 Plan NameReseller Silver [Linux]-
💰 PriceZAR 300.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space50 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer1 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel, WHM-
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Locally hosted SSD based reseller accounts which are tailored for clients that need the fastest local hosting and low server tenant density.
99.9%+ server uptime.
Free site builder.
Overselling.
No limit on the number of cPanel accounts you can host under one account.
Our local SSD reseller [...]		-
📅 Date PlanSep 2017-
💡 Plan NameReseller Gold [Linux]-
💰 PriceZAR 600.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space100 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer2 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel, WHM-
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanSep 2017-
💡 Plan NameReseller Platinum [Linux]-
💰 PriceZAR 1,200.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space200 GB SSD-
📶 Data Transfer4 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel, WHM-
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa-
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plans-
📅 Date PlanSep 2017-
🔧 VPS - 0/5
💡 Plan Name-Starter [Linux]
💰 Price-$ 7.37/mo.
💿 Disk Space-10 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain- 
💪 CPU-1 core
🔋 RAM-1 GB
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 Description-N/A
📅 Date Plan-Dec 2016
💡 Plan Name-Standard [Linux]
💰 Price-$ 22.26/mo.
💿 Disk Space-50 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain- 
💪 CPU-1 core
🔋 RAM-2 GB
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 Description-N/A
📅 Date Plan-Dec 2016
💡 Plan Name-Premium [Linux]
💰 Price-$ 37.15/mo.
💿 Disk Space-100 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain- 
💪 CPU-2 cores
🔋 RAM-4 GB
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 Description-N/A
📅 Date Plan-Dec 2016
💡 Plan Name-Premium Plus [Linux]
💰 Price-$ 52.04/mo.
💿 Disk Space-150 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain- 
💪 CPU-3 cores
🔋 RAM-6 GB
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 Description-N/A
📅 Date Plan-Dec 2016
💡 Plan Name-Ultimate [Linux]
💰 Price-$ 74.38/mo.
💿 Disk Space-300 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain- 
💪 CPU-4 cores
🔋 RAM-8 GB
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-
📜 Description-N/A
📅 Date Plan-Dec 2016
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Linux
📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Reseller Hosting
  • Shared Hosting
  • VPS
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
Delia South (liame45@g...)
on 📆 Jun 14, 2010
😃 Great support from Amplehosting!! Thank you for always being available for my queries! Thank you for supplying wonderful features and the cpanel is great to use!! Thanks again!

Kevin Koll (kevin@k...)
on 📆 May 22, 2010
😠 they are a complete butch of idiots ,had shit from day 1 ,with reseller package server went down 12 times in 2 weeks ,and they don't give a shit ,with hostgator now and haven't had glitch in 3.5 months

-anonymous- (-no email-)
on 📆 May 30, 2020
😁 Due to power outages my modem to Fiber connection broke during lockdown. I ended up without internet and had to buy Afrihost . Could not get hold of anyone at Webafrica for days and lost all hope. And all of a sudden in the morning i received WA [...]

Chris (x.grp@i...)
on 📆 Jan 15, 2022
Not worth it
😠 Only support via whatsapp (very slow) & don't even bother to call the support line.You will just waist your money. Promised me the R1300pm for 3 months then Normal price afterwards.Never happened.Charge me full amount from the start.Late payment [...]

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