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MWeb (mweb.co.za) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2018.
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mweb.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
✓ "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		webafrica.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
✓ 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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✗ "About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are missing
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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
 
MWeb
MWEB N1 City 100 Fairway Close, Parow
Cape Town, WC 7500
ZA

mweb.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
📧 Emailbilling@m...info@w...
☎ Phone+27 11 575 0055, Fax: +27.113883425+27 (21) 464-9500, Fax: 021-413-1111
Ranks🏆 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		🏆 Alexa Rating 77,854▲6,702 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 907▼-5 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in ZA 646
Languages en-USen
📄 InfoEstablished 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 [...] 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
📡 Established19971997
🏁 Site speedAverage, load time 2.1 seconds 44% sites are slower
SEO Links count 1,736		Average, load time 2.4 seconds 35% sites are slower
SEO Links count 298
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
mweb.co.za Iconmwebtweets
Started from: March, 2010
  • Tweets: 110,528
  • Followers: 25,947
  • Friends: 13,494
  • Last activity:
https://twitter.com/webafrica
Started from: June, 2009
  • Tweets: 26,020
  • Followers: 11,458
  • Friends: 5,973
  • Last activity:
mweb.co.za IconMWEB
  • Likes:
  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

https://www.facebook.com/webafrica/
  • Likes:
  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

company/mweb/https://www.linkedin.com/company/web-africa/
  • Followers: 620
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 1997
  • Employee Count: 51-200
  • Industry: Internet
MWeb Blog
  • Blog Posts: 0
  • Blog added on: Mar, 2018

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 NameLite [Linux]Standard [Linux]
💰 PriceZAR 75.00/mo. VAT 14% inc$ 2.90/mo.
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited2 GB
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited 
🆓 Free Domain0 
🔨 Control PanelCPanelCPanel
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Website Builder
Control Panel cPanel
Backup and restore
Addon/Parked Domains
Sub Domains
Redirects
Sites Allowed 1		N/A
📅 Date PlanMay 2021Dec 2016
💡 Plan NamePro [Linux]Premium [Linux]
💰 PriceZAR 105.00/mo. VAT 14% inc$ 5.88/mo.
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited5 GB
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited 
🆓 Free Domain0 
🔨 Control PanelCPanelCPanel
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa
📜 DescriptionSame as previous plansN/A
📅 Date PlanMay 2021Dec 2016
💡 Plan NameUltra [Linux]Premium Plus [Linux]
💰 PriceZAR 159.00/mo. VAT 14% inc$ 14.82/mo.
💿 Disk Spaceunlimitedunlimited
📶 Data Transferunmeteredunmetered
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited 
🆓 Free Domain1 
🔨 Control PanelCPanelCPanel
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa
📜 DescriptionINFO (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 [...]		N/A
📅 Date PlanMay 2021Dec 2016
🔧 Emails - 2/0
💡 Plan Name25GB Premium Mailbox [Linux]-
💰 PriceZAR 59.00/mo. VAT 14% inc-
💿 Disk Space25 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa-
📜 DescriptionINFO (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 PlanMay 2021-
💡 Plan Name50GB Premium Mailbox [Linux]-
💰 PriceZAR 75.00/mo. VAT 14% inc-
💿 Disk Space50 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server LocationSouth Africa-
📜 DescriptionINFO (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 PlanMay 2021-
🔧 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
  • Emails
  • Shared Hosting
  • VPS
👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
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.

-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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