Great hosts in South Africa

I've got all my sites with Texo (www.texo.co.za) and I've had very few problems.
they use cPanel with Softaculous for Drupal installation - very handy

Hey thanks, do you know whether they have mod_rewrite enabled?

yeah, they're totally Drupal friendly, so clean URL's, etc all work

You can also chat to the guys and increase php memory, etc.

We have a few sites with webafrica and besides there complete incompetence and lack of understanding of anything that is not microsoft , they also have a way about just deleting whole sites at random and excusing themselves by giving some half lame attempt while trying to solve the problem. I reckon if I had another host I would be alot better at drupal because of the time I would have spend using drupal instead of having to deal with these people. Support can only help with telling you the obvious like - "No sir i see the site in the files" not understanding that the site is offline if they just go to the url and check ..why .. who knows " Your php file is in the cgi-bin" - " o Really so thats why you delete my site .. cause that is the question I asked" .... I ask them for a trace of the activity .. no sorry cant do that ..why? ... because .....WTF!!!

Then just the other day 2 sites randomly went offline, so I phone support and wait about ten minutes before they decide they will phone me back ... 2 hours later " um .. err.. We had to upgrade apache on that server .. it should be ok now." - "So will you compensate me for the loss of business during that time " ... they just hung up .. no jokes.

It's driving me insane... Never again!

--Check out hetzner if you go to the basic package -> then click server ready apps -> the click the question mark by drupal ... kuk funny, and so true

Thanks for that lol i will make a mental note not to even bother with trying them. I think i am going to give www.texo.co.za a try when i put another project online. Last thing i want from a host is hassles!

Anyone else have any good hosts worth trying? Only good hosting experience i have ever had was with dataflame but they are a uk host and not south african. Uploaded site, imported database and changes settings.php and WHAM everything just worked =] No asking support for a thing.

Oh, just one thing with Texo, is that the servers are in the UK, although the company is in Cape Town - useful for an international site, but not that great if your market is SA orientated.

Another great company that I've dealt with recently is RSAWeb - you can choose to have your site on SA or US servers, so if you have an account with them one site may be local, another international. They're also moving into the Cloud server/hosting market in a big way, and all sorts of other tech stuff - well worth checking them out. A very professional bunch of guys, that offer great support and understand the needs of a Drupal site. A bit more pricey than Texo, but if you're planning on building a large site it's probably worth the extra 50bucks for the support, etc.

Hetzner.co.za is the one that gets recommended the most in my experience.

I've also successfully hosted Drupal sites with Afrihost.

Although their Konsole DM is not Cpanel, but you get by soon enough.
On shared hosting. script timeout is a bit low as well as memory limit (use Drupal tweaks module :) ). Also file uploads and dbase uploads are limited to 5Mb, but this is only a problem if you are moving a site. And there are other ways to do it with them like with SSL.

And I myself have a horror story from them.
On one of the sites, they decided they are going to change the server for the database.
I am set up as Technical contact, webmaster as authoritive contact, and the person who pays the bill is the owner.
They only send notification to the owner about this. And she was out of the country at the time.
2 Weeks later, bang. Site down. No Database.
They just shrugged.
Sometimes I think Tech support think they are God.
Anyway, thanks to Backup and migrate, manage to restore.

Like hetzer and a few other companies they tend to not want to provide that much memory . Like Max_headroom said konsole DM does not allow for much memory. I think its 55.

I havnt used the drupal tweaks module but I found that just adding
ini_set('memory_limit', '100M'); in the index.php on the root will sort out your memory_limits.

The ini_set does pretty much any set to the .ini file which i have found most hosts dont want you to touch and have to request the damn thing.