WEBSITE HOSTING & PROFESSIONAL EMAIL
Reliable Hosting and Professional Email for Your Business
Your website needs somewhere reliable to live, and your business deserves an email address that looks like it belongs to your business.
WebCoZa provides website hosting and professional domain-based email for South African small businesses, with straightforward support when you need help.
HOSTING WITHOUT THE MYSTERY
What Does Website Hosting Actually Do?
Your domain is your website’s address. Hosting is the service that keeps the website itself available online. You need both if customers are going to visit your website.
Your Domain
This is your business address on the internet, such as yourbusiness.co.za.
A domain is normally renewed annually.
Your Hosting
Hosting provides the server resources needed to keep your website available to visitors online.
Think of the domain as the address and hosting as the property sitting at that address.
Your Business Email
Hosting can also provide professional email addresses connected to your domain.
Instead of a personal address, you can use something such as [email protected].
PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS EMAIL
Your Email Address Should Look Like Your Business
A personal Gmail address may be perfectly useful in everyday life, but a domain-based email address gives customers a clearer connection between your email and your business.
For example:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
It is a small detail, but small details contribute to how professional a business appears online.
Professional Email Helps You:
- Use your own business domain
- Present a more consistent business identity
- Separate business and personal email
- Create role-based addresses such as info@ or sales@
- Keep your website and email under one domain
FOR OUR FIVE-PAGE WEBSITE CUSTOMERS
Straightforward Hosting at R200 Per Month
The standard WebCoZa free five-page website package uses our R200 per month hosting service, with professional business email included.
Larger websites, ecommerce stores or projects with additional resource requirements may need a different hosting arrangement. We’ll explain that before you commit to anything.
ONE LESS THING TO WORRY ABOUT
Hosting Should Quietly Do Its Job
Most business owners don’t want to become hosting experts. They want the website and email to work and somebody to help when something goes wrong.
Website Hosting
The server environment needed to keep your website available online.
SSL Security
SSL enables the secure HTTPS connection visitors expect when opening a modern website.
Business Email
Professional email addresses connected to your business domain.
Domain Assistance
Help with registering, connecting or managing the domain used by your website.
WordPress Support
Hosting designed to work with the WordPress websites WebCoZa builds and manages.
Someone to Ask
If you’re unsure about your website, domain or email, you have someone you can contact instead of spending the afternoon talking to a chatbot about DNS records.
HOSTING VS MAINTENANCE
Hosting and Website Maintenance Are Not the Same Thing
This is an easy distinction to miss.
Hosting provides the environment in which your website lives.
Website maintenance is the ongoing work involved in looking after the WordPress website itself, such as updates and routine technical attention.
Depending on your website and requirements, you may need one or both.
A Simple Way to Remember It
- Domain = your internet address
- Hosting = where your website lives
- Email = business communication using your domain
- Maintenance = looking after the website software
ALREADY HAVE A WEBSITE?
Moving Hosting Doesn’t Have to Mean Rebuilding Everything
If you already have a website and want to discuss moving the hosting to WebCoZa, we’ll first look at what you have and whether it can be moved sensibly.
Review
We look at your current website, platform, domain and hosting arrangement.
Plan
We identify what needs to move and any potential problems before changing anything.
Move
Where practical, the website, domain settings and required services are migrated.
Check
We check the website and related services after the change rather than simply crossing our fingers.
NEED A WEBSITE AS WELL?
Hosting Can Include Your Five-Page Website Design
If you’re a South African small business that needs a straightforward professional website, WebCoZa can design the standard five-page website for R0.
You pay for your domain and R200 per month hosting, with professional email included.
Standard Five-Page Offer
- Website design: R0
- Domain: approximately R60–R120/year
- Hosting: R200/month
- Professional email included
- Initial 12-month hosting term
HOSTING & EMAIL QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions
What is website hosting?
Hosting provides the server resources required to make your website available on the internet. Your domain points visitors to that hosted website.
How much is WebCoZa hosting?
Hosting for the standard free five-page website package is R200 per month. Larger or more demanding websites may require a different hosting arrangement.
Is professional email included?
Professional domain-based business email is included with the standard five-page website hosting package.
What is the difference between a domain and hosting?
Your domain is the address people type to reach your website. Hosting is the service that stores and serves the website itself.
Can WebCoZa host my existing website?
Possibly. We first need to review your existing website, its platform and its requirements to make sure moving it is practical.
Can you help with my existing domain?
Yes. If you already own a domain, tell us when you enquire and we’ll look at the existing setup and explain the available options.
Does hosting include WordPress maintenance?
Hosting and WordPress maintenance are separate services. If you want WebCoZa to help look after the website software as well, see our Website Maintenance service.
HOSTING BEHIND REAL WEBSITES
Hosting Is the Bit You Shouldn’t Have to Think About Every Morning
Good hosting should give the website a dependable technical foundation while the business gets on with the work people actually notice. WebCoZa supports websites ranging from content-heavy directories to ecommerce and specialist business sites.
Noster ProBiotics
An active specialist website supporting product information, educational articles and ongoing content development.
View Case Study →Body and Mind
A long-running directory with substantial content, practitioner listings and years of accumulated website history.
View Case Study →Nail’d It In Style
A specialist WooCommerce store combining product pages, category content and educational material.
View Case Study →Bass Fishing Tips US
A niche content and ecommerce website combining a large tackle catalogue with long-form editorial content.
View Case Study →Different websites need different amounts of storage, traffic capacity and technical resources. WebCoZa’s standard R200/month hosting package is designed for the five-page business website offer, while larger or more demanding websites are assessed according to what they actually need.
NEED HOSTING OR PROFESSIONAL EMAIL?
Let’s Talk About What Your Website Needs
Whether you’re starting a new website or looking at an existing one, tell us what you have and what you need.