Host Cow 🆚 MWeb - Mar, 2024

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Host Cow (hostcow.co.za) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 .
MWeb (mweb.co.za) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2018.

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hostcow.co.za logo
Profile completion status:
Things done
Company address location is complete
Company phone/fax is added
Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
Promotions are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years

Things to do
Company descriptions is too short. Minimum 500 chars
"About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are missing
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👉 Total Reviews: 7
🙌 Average Rating: 2 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 1
👎 Bad Reviews: 6
👈 Official Responses: 2
2 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

7 user reviews
mweb.co.za logo
Profile completion status:
Things done
Company descriptions is fine
Company address location is complete
Company phone/fax is added
Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
"About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
Note: Add a promotion or coupon

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👉 Total Reviews: 1
🙌 Average Rating: 1 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 0
👎 Bad Reviews: 1
👈 Official Responses: 0
1 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

1 user reviews
 
107 Market Street, Elephant House, 212
Johannesburg, EC 7446
ZA

hostcow.co.za
MWEB N1 City 100 Fairway Close, Parow
Cape Town, WC 7500
ZA

mweb.co.za
📧 Emailmoocrew@h...billing@m...
☎ Phone+27 81-492-5551+27 11 575 0055, Fax: +27.113883425
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 0 (0 is bad)
Alexa Rank in ZA 39,445
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 14/36🔗 Links 4,134
🏆 Alexa Rating 24,407▲8,839 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 4,115▼-28 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in ZA 160
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 62/63🔗 Links 350,893
Languages en-ZA en-US
📄 InfoAll our products come with monthly commitment, you can cancel at any time. We promise you no surprises, just great hosting experience and support. Our products were created with simplicity and ease of use in mind. Test and see. Read full reviewEstablished in 1997, Mweb is a division of Internet Solutions Digital (Pty). The company kept on growing over the years, launching products after products: ADSL, free WIFI connectivity, iBurst, LTE Rain, LTE Cell C. Today, beside these services, they also provide Fibre connectivity.

In terms of hosting services, they specialize in shared hosting and email hosting.

All shared hosting packages include addon domains, parked domains, subdomains. In unlimited amount, customers will find the [...]
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📡 Established20081997
🏁 Site speedVery slow, load time 4.4 seconds 10% sites are slower
SEO Links count 29
Average, load time 2.1 seconds 44% sites are slower
SEO Links count 1,736
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media

🔃 User Shares
hostcow.co.za Iconhostcow
Started from: April, 2020
  • Tweets: 1
  • Followers: 2
  • Friends: 6
  • Last activity:

mweb.co.za Iconmwebtweets
Started from: March, 2010
  • Tweets: 110,528
  • Followers: 25,947
  • Friends: 13,494
  • Last activity:

https://www.facebook.com/hostcow (inactive)mweb.co.za IconMWEB
  • Likes:
  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

ADSL Web Host
  • Followers: 8
  • Entity type: Self Owned
  • Founded: 2008
  • Employee Count: 2-10
  • Industry: Internet

company/mweb/
http://hostcow.co.za/blog
  • Blog Posts: 11
  • Software Wordpress version 5.4.15
  • First post from: Feb, 2015
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

MWeb Blog
  • Blog Posts: 0
  • Blog added on: Mar, 2018

🔧 Shared Hosting - 0/3
💡 Plan Name-Lite [Linux]
💰 Price-ZAR 75.00/mo. VAT 14% inc
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-CPanel
🌏 Server Location-South Africa
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Website Builder
Control Panel cPanel
Backup and restore
Addon/Parked Domains
Sub Domains
Redirects
Sites Allowed 1
📅 Date Plan-May 2021
💡 Plan Name-Pro [Linux]
💰 Price-ZAR 105.00/mo. VAT 14% inc
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-0
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-CPanel
🌏 Server Location-South Africa
📜 Description-Same as previous plans
📅 Date Plan-May 2021
💡 Plan Name-Ultra [Linux]
💰 Price-ZAR 159.00/mo. VAT 14% inc
💿 Disk Space-unlimited
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains-unlimited
🆓 Free Domain-1
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-CPanel
🌏 Server Location-South Africa
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)For those small businesses who need tech support 365 days a year, as well as additional mailboxes, databases & tools.

This package includes

*First month FREE
20 X 50MB mailboxes
FREE .co.za domain
3 Databases
FREE website self build tool

Upgrade options

As your website [...]
📅 Date Plan-May 2021
🔧 Emails - 0/2
💡 Plan Name-25GB Premium Mailbox [Linux]
💰 Price-ZAR 59.00/mo. VAT 14% inc
💿 Disk Space-25 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain- 
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-South Africa
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)25GB mailbox storage
Protection against spam and phishing attempts
Improved email support
Email access using any device and an email client

MWEB's Premium Mailbox gives you larger storage space, as well as added extras such as calendar, tasks and briefcase features.
📅 Date Plan-May 2021
💡 Plan Name-50GB Premium Mailbox [Linux]
💰 Price-ZAR 75.00/mo. VAT 14% inc
💿 Disk Space-50 GB
📶 Data Transfer-unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains- 
🆓 Free Domain- 
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-South Africa
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Improved email support
Protection against spam and phishing attempts
50GB mailbox storage
Email access using any device and an email client

MWEB's Premium Mailbox gives you larger storage space, as well as added extras such as calendar, tasks and briefcase features.
📅 Date Plan-May 2021
💻 Supported Operating Systems
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  • Linux
📤 List of products
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  • Shared Hosting
  • Emails
✍️ Support Options
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  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • 0 WHTop support responses
💰 Payment Options
-
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
Kashiefa Pietersen (info@s...)
on 📆 Feb 18, 2011
😃 Hosting Plans: Shared Hosting - Mini CowTestimonial: It's very seldom that one discovers a company that really cares about your needs, and not just about closing a sale or taking your money. I am so happy that I found Host Cow. Not only do they [...]

D Cairncross (administrator@l...)
on 📆 May 30, 2012
hostcow.co.za for utterly poor and unreliable service
😠 All i can say is steer clear of hostcow!Their servers were hacked and all the sites were down. They eventually did a restore but my site was never the same again all my hard work now down the drain.Customer service is slow and almost non [...]


Leeanne (liamleah1985@g...)
on 📆 Aug 20, 2020
poor service
😠 my fibre has run out i im having a problem connecting to buy a new voucher but do you think that i could get hold of anybody today, it is so frustrating as i called to their call centre twice and the calls just gets cut off after hanging on forever.

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