I previously wrote about the 8 best website companies in South Africa and felt the need to make a complete list of website hosting companies in the rainbow nation in 2024. I have compiled this list by making a simple Google Search at my home in Durban.
This list can be easily used by companies that want to reach out to local website companies for whatever reason. I’ll do a short description on each host.
- Xneelo ranks number 1 on Google in South Africa and is also the biggest website hosting company in South Africa. I have personally used them and can confidently say they have some of the best support in the industry.
- Domains.co.za also ranks high on the most dominant search engine locally. I have also personally used them and they have a great domain buying experience that is affordable. They also have some of the cheapest VPS servers that we could find.
- HostAfrica has been around since I can remember and is still one of the best website hosting companies in South Africa.
- Axxess occupies more of a VOIP and ISP space in my mind, however, they also sell website hosting.
- Wix is a bit surprising to see on this list as it is an international CMS. However, they offer free website hosting with 500MB storage and 500MB bandwith.
- Afrihost is a full-service ISP and offers a lot of other services which of course includes web hosting.
- MWEB is mostly known for their business email hosting services, but they also do website hosting.
- Registerdomain is a company I have not heard of before, but they have a top 10 spot on Google and they do host websites. Their design looks a lot like Xneelo.
- Google Cloud. Did you know that Google has a website hosting platform? I didn’t, but Google does everything these days.
- Vox is another ISP in the country that is known for their fibre to the home products, but they host websites too.
- HostKing is another website host that I have never heard of, but they seem to have good reviews and lots of customers.
- Absolute Hosting is another popular website hosting company in South Africa and they are especially known for VPS hosting.
- Priority One is a relatively new website hosting company with great support in English and Afrikaans.
I realise that there are a lot of agencies like Orcanically that do provide website hosting, however, they do not rank well on Google.
I have also excluded some international website hosting companies, even though they are well known, they are not South African.
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