WordPress hosting
These WordPress hosting packages are suitable for:
Individuals and small businesses requiring a WordPress website 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)
- also perfect for a managed WordPress hosting solution – We take care of the software installation, design and development, theme and plugin updates as well as content management.
WORDPRESS
CUSTOM
SITEPAD
Personal
R89.00PM*
30-Day money back
WordPress Personal
Technical Features
5 Sub-domains
2 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
Standard
R139.00PM
30-Day money back
All standard features
+
10 GB
4 Domains
50 Email accounts
1.5 CPU / 2Gb RAM / 35 Tasks
100,000 inodes**
100% off first invoice
WordPress Standard
Technical Features
10 Sub-domains
4 FTP Accounts
25 Auto-responders
Unlimited Email forwarders
8 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 / Divi Builder
R199.00PM
30-Day money back
All standard features
+
20 GB
6 Domains
150 Email accounts
2 CPU / 2Gb RAM / 40 Tasks
200,000 inodes**
Free .za registration
WordPress Business
Technical Features
20 Sub-domains
6 FTP Accounts
50 Auto-responders
Unlimited Email forwarders
12 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+ / Divi Builder
R399.00PM
30-Day money back
All standard features
+
50 GB
10 Domains
300 Email accounts
3 CPU / 3Gb RAM / 50 Tasks
500,000 inodes**
Annual .za renewals
WordPress Business+
Technical Features
40 Sub-domains
10 FTP Accounts
100 Auto-responders
Unlimited Email forwarders
20 MySQL Databases
25 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
Client hosting space is self-managed | * Personal WordPress hosting charged quarterly | ** Inodes represent the total number of data files on your shared hosting environment.
SELECT THE RIGHT PLAN…
Personal
Ideal for 1 Page info site with contact form and additional Email domain
10k visitors p/month
STORAGE
5GB
RESOURCES
1 CPU / 1Gb RAM / 30 Tasks
FILE SYSTEM
50,000 inodes
Standard
Perfect for 3 Page info site with contact form and user registration / blog
20k visitors p/month
STORAGE
10GB
RESOURCES
1.5 CPU / 2Gb*RAM / 35 Tasks
FILE SYSTEM
100,000 inodes
Business / Divi Builder
Ideal for 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 / 40 Tasks
FILE SYSTEM
200,000 inodes
Business+ / Divi Builder
Perfect for 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 / 50 Tasks
FILE SYSTEM
500,000 inodes
Resources are shared by all sites in client hosting space | Hosting excludes any site development | * Memory throttled above 1Gb on Standard plan
DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING YOU LIKE OR HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS?
FREE Divi Builder*
Divi is a complete design framework that allows you to design and customize every part of your website from the ground up. Determine your own design and build your website from scratch – the way YOU like it!
Some of the features include:
- Drag & Drop building
- True visual editing
- Custom CSS control
- Responsive editing
- Design options galore
- Inline Text editing
- Save & manage your designs
- Global Elements & Styles
- Undo, Redo & Revisions
* FREE Divi Builder included in WordPress Business and Business+ annual hosting only.
WordPress Manager
Some of the features of WordPress Manager and advangtes of managing your WordPress installation through WordPress Manager.
WordPress Security
Security First!
Apply security measures to selected websites to block unauthorized access.
Auto Login
The Auto Login function allows you to login as an Admin user without have to enter login credentials.
Upgrade Installation
Hit the Upgrade Now button to install the latest available WordPress version.
Auto Upgrade Core Settings
Choose your Core Upgrade preference to either upgrade only minor versions or major and minor upgrades.
Auto Upgrade Plugins/Themes Settings
Enable or disable Auto Upgrade for both Plugins and Themes.
Enable/Disable Search Engine Visibility
Disable Search Engine Visibility if your site is not yet complete and you do not want it to be indexed.
Enable/Disable WordPress CRON
WordPress Cron runs periodically and performs various tasks on your site. This can be disabled if not required.
Enable/Disable WordPress Debug Mode
This option is useful when you run into any difficult and wanting to identify the issue. It is disabled by default.
Change Website URL
Change your SITE URL from within the WordPress Manager if access to dashboard is not possible.
Change Site Name
Have the ability to change your Site Name which will also be updated in the database.
Change Password
Perfect if you have forgotten your Account Password or want to reset another user password.
WordPress Staging environment
Duplicate your website in order to test any changes or updates before committing those to the live site.
Manage Plugins
Allows you to search for installed plugins on WordPresss.org with ability to activate new theme upon installation.
Manage Themes
Allows you to search for installed themes on WordPress.org with ability to activate new theme upon installation.
Add User
Ability to Add and Edit Users. Add Authors and Editors with specific access levels to perform their tasks.
Clone Site
Clone your website in order to create a template for a new site with certain settings already configured.
WordPress hosting packages include these standard features
30-Day Money back. No questions asked!
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
WordPress Manager
Softaculous installer
Brute Attack protection
Easy and simple sign up
Free .za domain***
Serious-ly Cool Features
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)
SuperMicro hardware
10 Gbe Internal Network
99.9% uptime
Gb External Network
Raid SSD with caching
Samsung Enterprise SSD hard drives
DoveCot (2.3)
Exim MTA (4.9)
SpamAssassin
RoundCube Webmail (1.4)
POP/IMAP + Contacts
WordPress
Magento
Laravel
Softaculous
Backup daily
Restore via DA
Remote backups
DNS management
PHP configuration
DDOS prevention
24/7 monitoring
* First migration free | ** Although bandwidth is not monitored, it is linked to FUP | *** Free .za domains on Business & Business+ applies to annual payment only
EASY ONE-CLICK INSTALL
Softaculous provides you with “one-click” installations for WordPress, Magento, Joomla, Drupal, WHMCS, Laravel, OpenCart and hundreds more. Read more…
WORDPRESS SITES & BLOGS
WordPress is a free Content Management System (CMS), included in your hosting, offering freemium themes and plugins. We specialise in development and maintenance of WordPress sites. Sign me up!
Most Popular knowledge base articles
Increase Max file upload size
If you need to increase the max file upload size for your site, follow this easy guide.
Experiencing technical difficulties?
This article will give you a nudge in the right direction to assist with resolving the issue.
Need to receive site submissions?
You will require an SMTP Plugin should you wish to receive website sumbissions.
frequently asked questions
What is DirectAdmin?
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?
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 and .html / .htm extension. These files should be uploaded in the public_html folder of your domain.
Which hosting plan offers a free domain?
Business hosting offers free registration for .co.za, .net.za, .org.za and .web.za domains when hosting is paid annually, while annual renewal of the above domains are included in the hosting fee of the Business+ hosting plans, when paying for the whole year.
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.
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?
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?
Sure!
The managed option is only for those clients who wish to leave the design, development and maintenance of the site to the professionals.
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.
What does self-management of client 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. Creating mail accounts
2. Setting up Emails on desktop client software, mobile and/or tablets
3. Reset Email and CMS passwords, etc.
For additional info please navigate to Terms and Conditions | serious.host and select HOSTING.