WordPress Hosting South Africa
South Africa’s Fastest WordPress hosting
All the speed without the premium price tag!
One click WordPress Clone
Cloning a WordPress website with Absolute Hosting requires one click. Thanks to our integrated Client Service Area which allows for easy management of your WordPress Websites.
One Click WordPress Staging
Our integrated Client Service Area provides you with a one click WordPress Staging function. Create and publish your WordPress Staging sites with ease
One Click WordPress Backup
Create complete backups of your WordPress site using our One Click WordPress backup that is built into our Client Service Area.
SSL Enabled WordPress Hosting
Secure WordPress Hosting with Free SSL Certificates + Bruteforce Detection ensure that your WordPress Website remains secure
SSD WordPress Hosting
SSD Powered servers ensure that your WordPress Website runs at lightning fast speeds. Absolute Hosting’ WordPress Hosting Environment is 100% SSD Powered.
Instant Setup with Free WordPress Install
Order your WordPress hosting package and enjoy instant setup with free install of the latest version of WordPress
Themeforest + WordPress
Browse the worlds leading WordPress theme and plugin store to compliment your new WordPress enabled domain.
Our WordPress hosting allows you to upload your favorite theme and plugins to extend your WordPress website beyond amazing.
WordPress Hosting with Free Domain Name + SSL
Order any WordPress Hosting package with annual billing & get a free domain name + Free SSL
WordPress SSD Palladium
R20/Month
- 750 MB SSD Storage
- Free Co.Za Domain Name*
- Free SSL Certificate
- 5 WordPress Websites
- 30 Email Accounts
- 5 MySQL Databases
- 5 FTP Accounts
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Servers located in South Africa
- Free WordPress migration
WordPress SSD Osmium
R50/Month
- 2000 MB SSD Storage
- Free Co.Za Domain Name*
- Free SSL Certificate
- 5 WordPress Websites
- 100 Email Accounts
- 10 MySQL Databases
- 10 FTP Accounts
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Servers located in South Africa
- Free WordPress migration
WORDPRESS SSD IRIDIUM
R66/Month
- 2500 MB Storage
- Free Co.Za Domain Name*
- Free SSL Certificate
- 10 WordPress Websites
- 200 Email Accounts
- 20 MySQL Databases
- 10 FTP Accounts
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Servers located in South Africa
- Free WordPress migration
Mid Range WordPress Web Hosting Packages
WordPress Hosting for multiple web sites
WORDPRESS SSD RUTHENIUM
R105/Month
- 3200 MB SSD Storage
- Free Co.Za Domain Name*
- Free SSL Certificate
- 20 WordPress Websites
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited MySQL Databases
- 20 FTP Accounts
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Servers located in South Africa
- Free WordPress migration
WORDPRESS SSD Gold
R165/Month
- 10000 MB Storage
- Free Co.Za Domain Name*
- Free SSL Certificate
- 25 WordPress Websites
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited MySQL Databases
- 25 FTP Accounts
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Servers located in South Africa
- Free WordPress migration
WORDPRESS SSD PLATINUM
R275/Month
- 20000 MB Storage
- Free Co.Za Domain Name*
- Free SSL Certificate
- 30 WordPress Websites
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited MySQL Databases
- 30 FTP Accounts
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Servers located in South Africa
- Free WordPress migration
Your most commonly asked questions, answered by our Hosting Pro’s
Q: Where are your servers located?
A: Our servers are located within the Internet Solutions Data Center in sunny Randurg – Gauteng.
16 Victory Rd, Victory Park, Randburg, 2195
Yes they are physical servers, and NO, you may not lick them 😛
Q: Can my hosting package be upgraded?
A:Â Absolutely – and at any time, when ever you need or wish.
Upgrading your hosting account is completely automated and is facilitated via the Client Service Area.
Q: Can I upload WordPress Themes and Plugins
A: Yes you can upload any WordPress theme and plugin on to your WordPress Website
Q: Do you perform daily backups?
A:Â Yes we most certainly do. All servers are backed up on a continuous bases and our retention policy is 60 days.
This includes website data, mail data, database data and dns data.
Q: Do you offer a control panel to manage my hosting, like cPanel?
A: Yes we do have a control panel that allows you to manage your WordPress website … but…. its not cPanel 🙂
We use DirectAdmin to allow you to manage your WordPress hosting websites.
Q: Can I remotely connect to my database?
A: Yes you can connect to your MySQL database using your preferred database administration tool – such as SqlYog.
Additionally we offer a web based database management tool for MySQL -phpMyAdmin
Q: Do your servers support PHP?
A: Yes our WordPress servers do support PHP from version 5 all the way up to version 7.3.
Q: Which versions of WordPress are supported on the WordPress Hosting Servers?
A: We support all versions of WordPress, though we would prefer that you installed the latest versions due to security and usability.
Q: What payment methods do you accept?
A:Â We offer three types of payments to our clients. Payment via credit card or cheque card via SagePay, credit card, cheque, Instant EFT, Bitcoin, Mobicred + masterpass via PayFast.
For those that prefer traditional EFT’s – we also allow EFT payments.
SSD DirectAdmin Servers – Faster Than Traditional WordPress Hosting
Your developer will love you + your clients will notice the speed of your WordPress Site.
Included With Every WordPress Plan
Litespeed Optimized WordPress
WordPress web sites perform exceptionally well on our WordPress servers thanks to the use of Litespeed Web Server.
LiteSpeed revolutionary architecture delivers more performance and typically cutting server load in half and improving time to first bite (TTFB) by 3x
WordPress sites perform faster and respond faster thanks to superior caching and WordPress optimized cache plugins
Award Winning Control Panel
Our WordPress Web Hosting packages complimented with an award winning web based control panel that allows easy management of your WordPress Web Site.
DirectAdmin provides easy management of email accounts, ftp accounts, mysql services, SSL Management, scheduled backups + more.
WordPress Hosting
Our servers are specifically built to provide fast WordPress hosting
SSD Disks
Litespeed Web Server
Server Caching with WordPress plugin
MariaDB Server
DirectAdmin Control Panel
WordPress Hosting Server Backups
Our servers are backed up daily to ensure that in the event of a disaster we’re able to get your hosting services up and running as quickly as possible.
LetsEncrypt SSL Support
Secure your WordPress website with letsencrypt SSL. All WordPress hosting plans include free letsencrypt support and can be easily installed on any WordPress hosted website.
Secure WordPress Hosting Services
Security remains our focus & our WordPress Web Hosting Services are secured using the latest available tools + industry standards. All hosted services include brute force detection to prevent and deter hacking attempts and include connectivity via SSL or TLS to prevent eves dropping and leaking of sensitive information.
Our Hosting Infrastructure
Hosted in South Africa – Gauteng
Enterprise Grade SuperMicro Server Hardware
SuperFast SSD Drives
Multiple PHP Versions Supported
PHP 7+
PHP 5+
High Availability WordPress Servers
Latest Enterprise grade server hardware ensures no compromise on degraded components.
24/7 Resource Monitoring ensures all services are actively monitored.
WordPress Hosting
The in’s and outs about our WordPress hosting packages + more
WordPress hosting allows you to host classic blogs, full websites and even eCommerce websites. WordPress is ranked as the top cms system in the world and used by more than 70% of the industry to host many website types.
Our WordPress Servers are powered by SuperFast SSD disks, Dual Intel Xeon CPU’s, ECC Registered memory and SuperMicro hardware – backed by a next business day warranty – all of this to ensure that your website and email perform at SuperFast speeds and remain online all the time.
DirectAdmin Control Panel provides you with an easy to use web-based control panel to manage every aspect of your hosting. Manage new and existing email accounts, install WordPress or other PHP applications with our one click installs, mange existing and new ftp accounts for your website developers.
WordPress Web Hosting in Detail
More detailed information about our WordPress Web Hosting Packages
SuperFast WordPress Experience
At Absolute Hosting our passion lies in providing SuperFast WordPress Hosting that’s tailored to provide you with the Absolute Best Locally Hosted WordPress Experience. Every part of our Hosting Environment is hosted on SuperFast SSD Powered servers that deliver amazingly fast web page load times, low latency and high output.
Our WordPress servers have been specifically hand built using only the best SuperMicro Server Hardware and complimented with cherry picked SSD Hard Drives which deliver industry leading performance.
Disk space overages billed at R0.50c per mb