Custom hosting

These Custom hosting packages are suitable for:

Individuals and small businesses developing custom HTML and/or PHP hosting applications with Emails running on Outlook or Mac Mail and 24/7 web mail access.

Fastest PHP, SitePad and WordPress shared Linux web hosting packages on SSD hard drives with raid caching.

  • exceptional ttfb (time to first byte) for better search engine indexing and awesome page loading times.
  • shared hosting packages gives you a turn key hosting experience, (ALL standard hosting features and licensing included where applicable)
  • perfect for a custom hosting solution; All the tools required for creating your custom developed application to suit your specific requirements, whether it comprises of good old fashioned HTML (static) or Dynamic PHP apps with MySQL / MariaDB.


WORDPRESS


CUSTOM


SITEPAD

Personal

R69.00PM*

30-Day money back

All standard features
+
5 GB

2 Domains

20 Email accounts

1 CPU / 1Gb RAM / 25 Tasks

50,000 inodes**

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Custom Personal

Technical Features

2 Sub-domains

2 FTP Accounts

10 Auto-responders

Unlimited Email forwarders

2 MySQL Databases

5 Domain Pointers

Service and Support

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Mail lookup tool

99.9% uptime

Complete (D)NS Management

Multiple PHP Versions

Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Security

DDoS Protection

Web Application Firewall

Malware Scanning

24/7 Monitoring

Standard

R119.00PM

30-Day money back

All standard features
+
10 GB

3 Domains

50 Email accounts

1.5 CPU / 2Gb RAM / 30 Tasks

100,000 inodes**

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Custom Standard

Technical Features

4 Sub-domains

4 FTP Accounts

10 Auto-responders

Unlimited Email forwarders

4 MySQL Databases

5 Domain Pointers

Service and Support

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Mail lookup tool

99.9% uptime

Complete (D)NS Management

Multiple PHP Versions

Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Security

DDoS Protection

Web Application Firewall

Malware Scanning

24/7 Monitoring

Business

R179.00PM

30-Day money back

All standard features
+
20 GB

5 Domains

100 Email accounts

2 CPU / 2Gb RAM / 35 Tasks

200,000 inodes**

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Custom Business

Technical Features

6 Sub-domains

6 FTP Accounts

15 Auto-responders

Unlimited Email forwarders

6 MySQL Databases

10 Domain Pointers

Service and Support

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Mail lookup tool

99.9% uptime

Complete (D)NS Management

Multiple PHP Versions

Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Security

DDoS Protection

Web Application Firewall

Malware Scanning

24/7 Monitoring

Business+

R379.00PM

30-Day money back

All standard features
+
50 GB

7 Domains

250 Email accounts

3 CPU / 3Gb RAM / 40 Tasks

500,000 inodes**

Free .co.za domain

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Custom Business+

Technical Features

8 Sub-domains

8 FTP Accounts

20 Auto-responders

Unlimited Email forwarders

8 MySQL Databases

15 Domain Pointers

Service and Support

30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

Mail lookup tool

99.9% uptime

Complete (D)NS Management

Multiple PHP Versions

Comprehensive Knowledge Base

Security

DDoS Protection

Web Application Firewall

Malware Scanning

24/7 Monitoring

 Custom hosting space is self-managed | *Personal plan charged quarterly | **Inodes represent the total number of data files on your shared hosting environment

SELECT THE RIGHT PLAN…

Personal

1 Page info site
with contact form and
additional Email domain

10k visitors p/month

STORAGE
5GB

RESOURCES
1 CPU / 1Gb RAM / 25 Tasks

FILE SYSTEM
50,000 inodes

Standard

3 Page info site
with contact form
and user registration / blog

20k visitors p/month

STORAGE
10GB

RESOURCES
1.5 CPU / 2Gb*RAM / 30 Tasks

FILE SYSTEM
100,000 inodes

Business

5 Page info site
with photo gallery and/or small
eCommerce store (1-20 products)

30k visitors p/month

STORAGE
20GB

RESOURCES
2 CPU / 2Gb RAM / 35 Tasks

FILE SYSTEM
200,000 inodes

Business+

5+ Page info site  with photo gallery and/or medium eCommerce store (20-50 products)

40k visitors p/month

STORAGE
50GB

RESOURCES
3 CPU / 3Gb RAM / 40 Tasks

FILE SYSTEM
500,000 inodes

Resources are shared by all sites in custom client hosting space | * Memory throttled above 1Gb on Standard plan

BRING YOUR OWN DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

we have the tools you require

custom hosting packages include these standard features

Secure your site with SSL for free.

30-Day Money back.  No questions asked!

Super-fast SSD raid storage.

Free mail migration*

Unmetered Traffic**

Daily backups

DirectAdmin Web Control Panel

Roundcube Webmail client

Super Fast SSD storage

30-Day money back

Email & Ticket Support

24/7 Monitoring

Softaculous installer

HTML & PHP Ready

Brute Attack protection

Easy and simple sign up

Free .co.za domain***

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Serious-ly Cool Features

Operating system and panel Software

DirectAdmin (latest custom build)

Linux OS 7 (LAMP)

Softaculous installer

PHP 7.4, PHP 8.0, PHP 8.1

Apache 2.4

phpMyAdmin (5.1) / MariaDB (10.4)

Server technology

SuperMicro hardware

10 Gbe Internal Network

99.9% uptime

Gb External Network

Raid SSD with caching

Samsung Enterprise SSD hard drives

Email

DoveCot (2.3)

Exim MTA (4.9)

SpamAssassin

RoundCube Webmail (1.4)

POP/IMAP + Contacts

CMS

Joomla

Magento

Laravel

Softaculous

Backup

Backup daily

Restore via DA

Remote backups

Other

DNS management

PHP configuration

DDOS prevention

24/7 monitoring

* First migration free  | ** Although bandwidth is not monitored, it is linked to FUP | *** Free .co.za domain for Business+ package credited to account after payment

EASY ONE-CLICK INSTALL

Softaculous provides you with “one-click” installations for Magento, Joomla, Drupal, WHMCS, Laravel, OpenCart and hundreds more.  Read more…

WHAT PHP OFFERS

  • Open Source
  • Dynamic Websites
  • Powerful Frameworks
  • Compatible with Majority of OS
  • Customized Solutions
    Sign me up!

APPLICATIONS OF PHP

  • Web Pages and Web-based Applications
  • Web Content Management Systems
  • E-Commerce Applications
  • GUI-based Applications
  • Create Flash
  • Image Processing and Graphic Design
  • Data Representation

frequently asked questions

What database version do you offer?

MariaDB 10.4
MariaDB is more scalable and offers a higher query speed when compared to MySQL

What is DirectAdmin?
DirectAdmin https://www.directadmin.com/ is an extremely flexible, stable and fast host panel running on Linux.
How does DirectAdmin compare to cPanel?

The short answer is that it compares very favorable in most aspects. DirectAdmin https://www.directadmin.com/ is an extremely flexible, stable and fast hosting panel running on Linux. It is not as well supported as cPanel, but then again nothing is… It is much better priced with an unlimited license option.

What is the Linux Build and Web Server software that will be running my website?
Linux OS 7 with Apache 2.x
What does ttfb mean? (in website context)

ttfb stands for “time to first byte”. In context to web site page load this is a very critical statistic used by search eninges to assist in index ratings. In simple terms, it is the number of seconds (or rather hopefully part thereoff) that it takes for a web server to start delivering the first byte of data to the client opening the web page. Lower is better!

Can I also host an HTML website?

Sure.
You will be able to host any website with a .html / .htm extension.  These files should be uploaded in the public_html folder of your domain.

What does self-management of custom hosting space entail?

This simply means that clients are responsible for the day-to-day administrative tasks that take place within their hosting space as well as any related third party applications, e.g.

1.  Responsible for maintaining custom application and 3rd party plugins/scripts, i.e. PHP site
2.  Creating mail accounts 
3.  Setting up Emails on desktop client software, mobile and/or tablets
4.  Reset Email and CMS passwords, etc.

For additional info please navigate to Terms and Conditions | serious.host and select HOSTING.

What version of PHP do you support.

This is a moving target, we support PHP7.4 at the time of writing and strongly recommend upgrading, should you make use of older versions.

What mail software do you support?
Exim Mail Transfer Agent with Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server. SpamAssassin for spam protection. RoundCube Web Interface.
You do daily backups of all data. How do I restore this?

You are able to backup and restore your own data in the DA panel. If you need data to be restored from an administrative level you will need to submit a written request for us to restore your data.

Can I develop my own WordPress site on the Custom hosting?

Kindly navigate to our WordPress hosting should you wish to run a WordPress site.

How are resources allocated for each package?

Besides disk space (storage) and Inodes (total file system), the following resources are allocated to each hosting package, of which the vCPU / RAM / Tasks are displayed on each hosting package, while the rest of the resources are listed under each hosting plan’s additional features option;

1.   vCPU quota – % of vCPU core
2.  Memory (RAM) Max – Absolute Memory limit
3.  Memory (RAM) High – Throttle Memory above this limit
4.  Processes/Tasks – Max number of processes or tasks
5.  IO read – Max rate data kan be read from a disk (mbps)
6.  IO write – Max rate data can be written to a disk (mbps)
7.  IOPS read – Max disk read operations per second
8.  IOPS write – Max disk write operations per second

Please note the below:
Standard Hosting
Although Standard Hosting offers 2GB RAM, memory is throttled above 1Gb RAM.

How do I select the right hosting plan?

Please see the below purely as a guideline to select the best hosting plan for your site:

Personal Hosting
Great for a single page information site attracting 5k visitors per month.

Standard Hosting
Ideal for a 3-page site with a standard gallery or blog allowing registrations and attracting around 10k visitors per month.

Business Hosting
Perfect for a 5-page small Ecommerce site with 1 – 20 products, generating 15k visitors per month.


Business Plus Hosting

Suitable for a 5+ page discussion forum or medium Ecommerce site with 20 – 50 products, attracting around 25k visitors per month.

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EEMW
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