Category Archives: Hosting & Domains

The question many pose to themselves is whether their website hosting company is really actively making their website the potential great marketing tool it can be. Marketing your business online, or as it is more commonly known, ‘Digital marketing’ is an absolute must and as someone just setting up a new website and deciding on >>> Read More

Brute force attacks are sadly a reality that website owners have to deal with. Brute force attacks will be investigated in this blog by looking at: What is a brute force attack? Who is at risk? What can I do to keep my website safe? Brute force attacks sound like something that takes place in a >>> Read More

SPAM is an unfortunate problem that causes havoc when your livelihood depends on using the internet and sending and receiving emails. In this blog we are investigating What is SPAM What happens when you have SPAM How to Prevent it What is SPAM? Undeliverable emails, blocked email addresses and suspended services can all be >>> Read More

What is webmail and why should I know how to log in to webmail? When Emails aren’t delivering or sending or both, it can have dire consequences for businesses. In this blog you’ll learn how to log in to your email account via webmail to test if your server is online and to test whether >>> Read More

It doesn’t happen very often that a website goes down, especially on Hosting101’s servers. Our servers have 99.9% uptime and have been online constantly without a glitch since September 2014. Having said that, if your website ever goes down you can check a few things before contacting Hosting101’s support. Steps you can follow yourself to >>> Read More

“Help, my email isn’t working!” This is one of the most common troubleshooting issues that hosting clients contact us with. It isn’t always easy to determine exactly where the problem is without some feedback from the user, so in order for Hosting101 to determine what is causing the problem there are some simple troubleshooting steps >>> Read More

By Lourens Tredoux Security in general is a big issue today, especially with all the hacking, ransomware and other malware becoming an increasing threat. In this blog post I want to focus on securing your email in particular. Fact: Email is not secure Unfortunately the hard truth of the matter is that email, at its >>> Read More

One of the questions our customers often ask us is, “What domain name should I register to feature on Google?” Unfortunately, the answer can be rather complex. For a few years Google’s algorithm assigned good SEO value to a site with a keyword rich domain name. However, as usually happens, people then started abusing the >>> Read More

It’s been more than 5 years since its launch and so far Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite, Office 365, is showing no signs of slowing down. If anything, it is gaining momentum, becoming more and more popular each year, improving business and personal productivity wherever it is used. In this blog post we will be answering >>> Read More

The ZA Central Registry (ZACR) recently announced that they are set to increase the domain prices for all South African (ZA) domains. The prices of all .co.za, .org.za, .net.za and .web.za domains will increase by 50% as of the 1st of March 2015. This means that Hosting101’s za domain price will increase as well. However, >>> Read More

WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, Blog Factory… It’s easy to get lost in all of the blogging platforms available. It gets even more confusing for many people when they find out that there are two completely different WordPress variants, for example. This blog post will try to guide you through this chaos and help you to choose >>> Read More
Every person in the world should have an email address which is web-based, i.e. someone@gmail.com; someone@yahoo.com; someone@ananzi.co.za which you can use anywhere anytime, even if you are not sitting in front of the pc or laptop on which your email client is configured, or have not yet set up your email on a handheld device >>> Read More