Providing a solution to meet your business requirements
Customer loyalty today demands digital options. If your business doesn’t have an attractive and well-functioning website, your potential customers will shop elsewhere.
South Africa’s online retail sector showed a significant increase in the past few years, growing by almost 30 percent (29 percent) between 2022 and 2023. Having reached the R71 billion mark in 2023, online sales are now anticipated to break the R100 billion barrier by 2026 – which is just around the corner.
And so, with South Africa’s online sales soaring, there’s never been a better time to make sure your business has a functioning website. Even with a bricks-and-mortar operation, it’s essential to back it up with an online option as well.
If you’re keen to upgrade your company’s online presence quickly and effectively – or even kickstart one if you haven’t got a website already – Vox offers several different hosting experiences with solutions to meet your business’s unique requirements, no matter your budget.
Domain and Web Hosting: The Right Address and Functioning Operations
In the physical world, you need an address so your customers can find you, and you need premises from which to operate. These two terms represent different things in terms of getting your website infrastructure up and running.
- Start with an address: Domain hosting is a service that allows you to choose and register a unique online name for your website and brand, in other words your web address.
- Make sure your premises are fit for purpose: Behind the address lies the property from which your business operates. Web hosting is essentially what stores all your site’s information and files. It’s usually a server, or space on a server.
- Let your customers come inside: When someone uses your domain to access your website, signals are sent to the server, which then opens up your live site for the customer – the online version of ‘going into your shop’.
With Vox Web Hosting, you rent space on our server and host your website contents through us. We offer multiple platforms to choose from, including WordPress, Linux and Windows. Vox Web Hosting includes a free .co.za domain.
Backed by Vox Expertise
As well as being able to choose from multiple platforms and have a free domain, Vox Web Hosting also offers the following benefits:
- Extensive network coverage: Vox Web Hosting has an established national and international backbone with over 13 local PoPs (Point of Purchase outlets) and footprints in all the Teraco Data Centre environments.
- Security Team: All servers sit behind Vox’s state-of-the-art firewall infrastructure, with virus management and security updates.
- 24/7 Expert Support: Our servers are locally hosted and managed around the clock by our engineering team for peace of mind.
- Includes a Free SSL Certificate: If you’re going to run a prosperous website that is secure for your users and browsers, SSL certificates are an essential. Vox SSL Certificates keep your customers’ confidence by ensuring the safety of their data while they visit your website.
WordPress, Linux and Windows are some of the world’s most popular website hosting platforms today, and Vox Web Hosting is proud to bring you different options across each brand.
Shared Web Hosting: Linux and Windows
Shared hosting makes getting started online simpler and easier, saving you money, as well as taking the headache out of hosting.
With Vox shared Web Hosting, our customers experience a form of web hosting in which more than one website shares the resources of a single virtual or physical server, which means a stable but also low-cost solution.
Choose from Linux options as follows:
- Linux Basic: 1GB of storage, 25 email addresses;
- Linux Standard: 4GB of storage, 75 email addresses;
- Linux Advanced: 20 GB of storage, 200 email addresses; and
- Linux Ultimate: 30 GB of storage, 250 email addresses.
Alternatively, Vox Web Hosting also offers Windows options, as follows:
- Windows Standard: 2GB of storage, 100 email addresses;
- Windows Advanced: 4GB of storage, 200 email addresses; and
- Windows Ultimate: 20GB of storage, 250 email addresses.
Premium WordPress Hosting
If you want to kick your website functionality up a notch, consider WordPress. Over the last two decades, WordPress has grown from being a simple blogging website to one of the world’s most used hosting platforms today.
Our premium WordPress offering delivers performance and scalability to your fingertips. It’s an excellent solution for customers who require better performance, uptime and scalability – although please note: it doesn’t come with email addresses built into the offering.
- WordPress Starter is ideal for startups that require a professional WordPress website, offering 50GB storage and able to cater to up to 30,000 visitors monthly.
- WordPress Innovator is perfect for growing businesses that need to scale and require speed and reliability, with 100 GB storage and ideal for up to 120,000 monthly visitors.
- WordPress Fanatic is excellent for running an e-commerce website, with 150GB storage. It’s capable of catering to an unlimited number of visitors monthly.
Which Option to Choose?
Whether your business is already established or a startup about to take off, you need a strong online presence. From your website address to the online ‘premises’ behind it, Vox has the right option to help you with your online sales.
Shared hosting shares a single physical server with hundreds (if not thousands) of other websites, giving you a low-cost service. WordPress hosting is tweaked for high traffic websites, providing excellent performance and faster loading websites.
Contact us for more information and we can assist you with working out the option that’s best for your business. We can help you establish a business identity, give your organisation a professional look and feel, and build credibility on the web.
Join the sales revolution and be part of the drive to reach the one billion Rand online sales mark next year!
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