Author Archives: Ivy Ngari

cPanel vs DirectAdmin comes down to a fairly simple starting point.  cPanel is generally the easier choice for beginners and anyone who wants a familiar, feature-rich hosting dashboard. The kind that shows up in tutorials, documentation, and most hosting providers’ own onboarding guides.  DirectAdmin is a lighter alternative that tends to appeal to users who …

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Sometimes a single website isn’t really one thing.  You might want to separate a blog, an online store, a staging area for testing changes, a support section, or some other part of your site from the main pages entirely.  That’s exactly what a subdomain is for. A subdomain is essentially an extension of your main …

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Buying hosting gets you server space, but space on its own doesn’t manage itself.  You still need a practical way to handle your website files, domains, email, databases and everything else that keeps a site actually running. That’s what is cPanel used for, at its core.  cPanel is a web based control panel that brings …

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Truehost and Afrihost are two of the more visible web hosting providers serving the South African market.  Both running locally hosted infrastructure and both competing for the same crowd of bloggers, small businesses, and developers looking for somewhere to put a website.  The honest answer to which is better isn’t a single name, it depends …

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