Use the form below to check if the domain you want is available:
Credit card payments
I have finally set up a credit card payment facility, allowing you to pay for your hosting on a monthly and not yearly basis!
As an introduction special, if you sign up for your hosting and pay for it monthly with your credit card, you will NEVER have to pay for domain registrations and yearly renewals (which saves you up to R250 per year!)
This also means that you don't have to worry about someone else stealing your domain name when renewal time comes, I will renew it for free! (but only if you pay with a credit card)
Contact Us if you need more information!
More value for money!
Great news!! We have decided to give you much more for what you pay! From July 2010, all our hosting packages have been upgraded to offer you much more server space, monthly bandwidth, email addresses and more! And this doesn't cost you anything extra at all! Here is the summary:
Lite Hosting Package
The Lite hosting package has been upgraded from:
- 25MB server space
- 250MB bandwidth per month
- 10 email addresses
to
- 100MB server space
- 500MB bandwidth per month
- 15 email addresses
The price stays the same @ R60 per month (payable yearly @ R720 per year)
Standard Hosting Package
The Standard Hosting Package has been upgraded from:
- 100MB server space
- 500MB bandwidth per month
- 20 email addresses
to
- 350MB server space
- 750MB bandwidth per month
- 25 email addresses
The costs for the Standard Hosting Package also stays the same @ R120 per month.
Superior Hosting Package
The Superior Hosting Package has been upgraded from:
- 500MB server space
- 2000MB bandwidth
- unlimited email addresses
to
- 1000MB server space
- 5000MB bandwidth per month
- unlimited email addresses
The costs stays the same @ R350 per month
Click here to see a full comparison chart between our hosting packages
What do you need if you want your own website?
So you've decided that its time to get yourself a website, but you haven't got a clue on where to begin. This very simple guide will definately answer some of the questions you might have:
First of all, what is a website technically? Well, a basic website consists of various computer files. These contain the actual content of your website, like paragraphs, headings, bullets, images, etc. This is written in a special markup language called HTML. Each page of your website usually has its very own HTML file, which contains the text content of that specific page - like your contact page. Images are not embedded in the same HTML files, they are stored seperately, and are only linked to from within your HTML file.
Secondly, your website files, as mentioned above, must obviously be stored on a computer that is always connected to the internet. Such a computer must have a static ip address, and a very fast internet connection, as some of these servers can host many many websites. Obviously you need to "rent" some server space for your websites' files. We also call this website hosting
Thirdly, you get assigned your very own ip address for your website. This can be something like 56.72.109.3 or 231.43.70.29. But who will ever remember your website address if you tell them its 56.72.109.3? So, what the clever people did is they allowed your unique ip address (56.72.109.3) to be "connected" to a domain name, like www.google.com or www.rgtwebhosting.com. So you only have to tell people your website address is www.rgtwebhosting.com, and not its ip address like 56.72.109.3 - much easier!
Fourthly, you need a person or company that can design your website. o5webdesign is one of the top web design companies in South Africa, and they are slowly but surely making their mark in Australia as well.
So, the summary of what you need to do if you want a website is:
- Think of a name for your website. (You can use the Check Domain Availability tool at the top of this page to see if a domain name is available)
- Once you've decided what name you want to use, you must decide how much space you reckon you'd need (Our Lite Package is usually more than adequate for a small website)
- So, now you've got your domain name, and you decided which hosting package you want, so now you contact us and we'll register your domain name, and setup your hosting.
- Your next step is to choose who you want to design your website. As mentioned above, o5webdesign is a very good one!
That is basically all there is to it! A good web design company should assist you with the rest of the procedures, and in no time you'll have your own website!
More Information
All our hosting packages includes the following:
Hosting on Linux Servers
We host all our websites on Linux Servers because it is a much cheaper alternative to a Windows Server. We have servers situated in Texas, USA, and in Toronto, Canada.
Apache web servers, with PHP and MySQL support
Apache is one of the more popular web servers out there, as it supports a variety of features and extra modules to extend its functionality. It has built in support for PHP, Perl and Python programming languages. It also features a very usefull URL rewriter and custom log files.
PHP is the most popular Apache module at the moment among all servers using Apache. And it is ranked as the fourth most popular programming language, with Java, C and Visual Basic occupying the first three slots.
MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system (DBMS), and currently has more than a whopping 11 million installations worldwide. It is also an Open-Source database engine, which means there are little to no costs involved.
A brief summary of our hosting packages functionality
- Hosting on Linux Servers
- 99.9% uptime guaranteed
- CGI
- PHP 4 & 5 with Zend Optimizer
- MySQL 4+
- Perl
- Ruby On Rails
- Python
- SSH
- SSI
- Cron
- FrontPage
- Curl
- GD
- Image Magick
- Streaming Audio/Video