Announcements
This month we have something that many of our clients have bee n requesting. All Hostking web hosting accounts have the ability to utilize FREE Let's Encrypt SSL certificates with just a few clicks in your cPanel or Ples...
Due to us offering daily, weekly and monthly backup from within restore manager in every cpanel for every client on cPanel we will be removing the Softaculous backup feature so we can improve performance and load on serv...
Our significant investment over the past 2 years into our infrastructure as well as the increase in staff numbers to support our customer base has prompted a necessary price increase for some of our plans. Simply put ser...
When we first launched Plesk on our environment we used our own custom spamassasin rules the same way we do it on cPanel servers which seemed to work great. Plesk however recommended we enable their version so that custo...
Please be aware we've added more rules and DBs to the spam filtering software on all cPanel Servers due to increases amounts of Spam. We've added the following: DCC - https://www.rhyolite.com/dcc/ and Increased some URBL...
We have been working long and hard on getting all servers moved over to SSD. This should manage load very well and speed up performance enormously. We've hence decided not to stop there and also just add more memory and...
We have been testing various different chat systems on our website to see how our staff and the stats work together to give us better quality provided by our agents aswell as to monitor their performance on it. We have t...
As of the today Hostking (Pty) Ltd. crossed the VAT threshold and became VAT registered. All of our prices on the website are inclusive of VAT and the rate will now been shown on all customer invoices going forward. VAT...
Please note, there will be a price increase per domain for .co.za, .org.za, .net.za and .web.za domains. This applies to the following domain types: End User Pricing: co.za - R79 web.za - R79 net.za - R79 org.za - R79 R...
The following servers have been successfully upgraded to faster newer hardware. Xeon E5 processors, 8 port Hardware SAS RAID card using RAID10 to improve performance and ensure servers are running better. This decision t...
Wordpress botnets have attacked more websites frequently and slowing them down slighlty, we have been looking at fix and have found one such fix using HTTP authentication. When loggin into the admin area of your Wordpres...
What is the reason for the increase in the fees? During the last year we have significantly increased the features of the hosting packages. We've added better Spam filtering, CloudLinux and LiteSpeed. We've also implemen...
Since November 2014, we’ve been testing SPDY protocol support in secret with some customers. Today, we’re making it public. All sites that have SSL enabled come with SPDY version 2/3.1 support. What does that mean in eng...
Message from Payfast: As per PASA (Payments Association of South Africa) mandate, all eCommerce transaction are subject to 3D Secure (aka Verified by Visa / MasterCard SecureCode). Historically, PayFast has only required...
As of 1st March there will be a domain price increase of R10 due to ZACR Domain Registry increasing pricing as of this date. This applies to the following domain types: co.za web.za net.za org.za Please inform us if you...