SA Domain Business Hosting, ZAR 93.00/mo. on Linux Shared

Business Hosting has been updated on April 7, 2019 (added April 6, 2019)

💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire Transfer
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
🔧 Category :	Website BuilderE-Commerce
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskLive Chat
🌏 Server Locations :	South Africa
⚑ Targeting :	AU CA ZA UK

See also initial Business Hosting plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

SA Domain is a South African web hosting, domain registration, email, and internet connectivity provider established in 1997. The business operates as SA Domain Internet Services cc from Cape Town and has built a long track record in the local hosting market.

Its services are aimed mainly at individuals, startups, small businesses, professional firms, and organizations that prefer South African support and flexible month-to-month billing. The product range includes domain registration, shared web hosting, WordPress hosting, email hosting, Microsoft Hosted Exchange, SSL certificates, website builders, spam filtering, email archiving, and fibre internet connectivity.

The Domain Registration service covers more than 600 domain extensions, including popular South African extensions such as CO.ZA, alongside international and generic top-level domains. Customers can register, transfer, renew, and administer domains from the central account portal, with access to DNS and contact-management functions.

The main Shared Web Hosting range begins with a small Entry Level package containing 300 MB storage, 1 GB monthly traffic, and two email accounts. It is suitable for a simple personal page, landing page, or very small business website.

Essential Hosting increases the allowance to 500 MB storage, 2 GB traffic, ten email accounts, one database, one subdomain, and one FTP account. Midway Hosting includes 700 MB storage, 3 GB traffic, twenty email accounts, and two databases. Progressive Hosting adds unlimited monthly traffic, while the Business and Professional packages provide higher storage limits, more mailboxes, additional databases, FTP accounts, and broader website capacity.

Several entry-level packages have relatively modest disk-space allowances compared with larger international hosting brands. They remain useful for compact company websites and basic email requirements, while customers with media-heavy websites, extensive mail archives, or growing online stores will need one of the larger Business or Professional configurations.

WordPress Hosting follows a similar structure and begins with the Midway package. It is suitable for blogs, portfolios, company websites, content-driven projects, and WooCommerce stores. WordPress, email, databases, SSL, hosting management, and technical assistance can all be handled through the same provider.

Dedicated Email Hosting is available for customers who need professional domain-based email without a full website. The smallest package includes 400 MB storage, 1 GB monthly traffic, and up to five email accounts, with IMAP and POP3 support.

The larger Email Ace packages increase capacity to 20 GB or 40 GB of storage, unlimited traffic, and as many as 750 email accounts. These packages are better suited to businesses that require many individual addresses but do not need a separate hosting account for every domain.

Microsoft Hosted Exchange is available for organizations that need shared calendars, synchronized contacts, tasks, mobile access, and centrally managed business mailboxes. The service supports Microsoft Outlook, ActiveSync, encrypted connections, mobile synchronization, Exchange webmail, and redundant mailbox databases.

The email portfolio also includes incoming and outgoing spam filtering, malware protection, infected-attachment filtering, and email archiving. These services are useful for companies that require additional protection beyond standard mailbox filtering or need centralized access to historical correspondence.

SA Domain provides two different website-building systems. The AI Website Builder creates an initial website structure and content through guided artificial-intelligence tools. Hosting, email, SSL, and support are included, while the selected package determines storage, mailbox capacity, and the number of AI requests available each day.

The Kopage Website Builder offers a more conventional visual editing environment. It includes responsive templates, content blocks, photo galleries, contact forms, blogs, shopping carts, visitor statistics, newsletters, event calendars, maps, FAQs, and metadata controls. Advanced users can also insert their own HTML, CSS, or JavaScript.

Kopage supports multiple e-commerce and payment integrations, including PayPal, Stripe, Square, 2Checkout, Mollie, Authorize.Net, and PayFast. The standard builder is included with eligible hosting packages and creates websites that adapt to desktop, tablet, and mobile screens.

The security portfolio includes DV, EV, Wildcard, and multi-domain SSL certificates. Certificate brands include DigiCert, GeoTrust, Sectigo, Comodo, Thawte, and RapidSSL, providing options for basic domain validation, organization validation, extended validation, wildcard coverage, and protection for multiple domain names.

SA Domain also operates as an internet service provider. Its Fibre Internet services are delivered across networks such as Openserve, Octotel, Frogfoot, Fibre Geeks, ThinkSpeed, and Lightstruck. Availability, installation conditions, speeds, and monthly costs depend on the fibre operator covering the customer’s address.

Common fibre benefits include uncapped connectivity, month-to-month billing, a free-to-use router on qualifying packages, and static IP addresses on selected services. Combining fibre, domains, email, and hosting under one account can simplify administration and technical support for small businesses.

The main website and sales information are available in English. The customer portal includes a wider language selector through the account-management system. Product prices are mainly displayed in South African rand, while a US dollar currency option is also available in parts of the online store.