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We Do The Heavy Lifting So You Don’t Have To
At ZAKS Web, we are not just another hosting company. We are the hosting company that does the heavy lifting for you. All our Hosting and Cloud products include:
- Full Server Setup & Administration
- Frequent Operating System & Software Updates
- A Full SLA (Service Level Agreement)
- Support for the Open Source Web Apps we host
- Direct Support for your staff
- Real human support from a family-run business
All hosted on our own cloud servers, so we do not need to rely on a third party hosting company to fix anything that goes wrong… We have full access to:
- All logs
- The entire operating system
- All the installed software
- We have full unrestricted root level access to every server we host
Whether you’re running a small website or a high-load cloud infrastructure, we make sure everything works — securely, efficiently, and reliably. It’s like having your own fulltime Server SysAdmin, without having to pay the huge salary that goes with it.
Shared Hosting Starting at R50pm
Our Shared Hosting servers are specially optimized for WordPress, Elementor and WooCommerce. We provide full support for almost all aspects of WordPress — not just server-level issues. What Makes Us Different?
- We give you FREE access to our private collection of WordPress plugins
- We offer CUSTOM plugin development for your specific needs (if the need is simple enough, then we develop the plugin for FREE — for not so simple needs, we have very low development costs)
- We also offer CUSTOM styling and behavior adjustments to most third party plugins (without editing the original plugin source code)
- Daily incremental OFFSITE backups included with all shared hosting packages (unlike most other providers, we do not store the backups on the same server hardware as your website and emails — the backups are not even stored in the same city)
If you’re launching a new site, we will Fully Support your chosen WordPress Designer / Builder. Or we can recommend one of our Trusted Affiliates.
If you are a WordPress Designer, become a Trusted Affiliate and host your clients with us and earn ongoing recurring revenue. We support you and your clients.
Some of the Open Source Apps We Host & Support
On our shared hosting packages we also proudly host and support a range Open Source Web Apps that offer small businesses powerful functionality. Here are a few of our favourites…
Invoice Ninja — A professional invoicing and client billing platform for managing quotes, invoices, payments, and recurring billing. Mobile and Desktop client apps are available for all major devices and operating systems.
YOURLS — A private URL shortening service for managing branded links, marketing campaigns, and internal tracking.
DokuWiki — A lightweight documentation platform ideal for internal company knowledge bases and operational documentation.
And remember that ALL our Shared Hosting packages include FREE Daily Incremental OFFSITE Backups.
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Fully Managed Cloud Servers Starting at R340pm
For businesses needing More Power and More Control, we offer Personal Cloud Servers starting with 2x vCPU cores, 2GB DDR4/DD5 ECC RAM and 50GB High Speed NVMe Storage. Resources can be scale in multiples of 2x vCPU cores, 2GB RAM, 50GB NVMe Storage. All cloud servers include:
- Full Setup
- Full Server Administration
- Ongoing System Updates
- Application Support (for supported apps)
By now you probably realize that we love Open Source, and as such we have a range of Open Source Cloud Apps that we can install for you, and we provide Support and optional one-on-one or group training for your staff
Here are a few of our favourite Powerful Cloud Applications suitable for ANY Businesses, not matter how big or small…
ISPConfig — An Open Source Alternative to cPanel, ISPConfig is a hosting control panel for managing multiple websites, email accounts, and server services from a single interface.
Nextcloud — An Open Source Alternative to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, Nextcloud is a secure file sharing and collaboration platform for teams needing private cloud storage, document collaboration, video conferencing project collaboration and more.
Calibre-Web — An Open Source web-based library management interface suitable for managing internal document collections and digital archives.*
Jellyfin — An Open Source web-based private media streaming server for hosting and streaming your own in-house training and/or corporate media. Playback can be done via a web browser or through a host of apps available for major mobile devices, operating systems and leading smart TVs.*
Gitea — An Open Source Alternative to GitHub, Gitea is a lightweight Git platform for hosting private code and document repositories, managing software projects, and collaboration.
OPTIONAL Daily Incremental OFFSITE Backups for your Personal Cloud Server can be configured to run at your premises for a once-off setup fee, or you can choose to run your backups at our secure backup location for a small setup fee and a low variable monthly fee (you only pay for the data stored).
*We need to emphasis that we DO NOT support piracy of any kind and we will not hesitate to terminate a client who is found to be using Calibre-Web or Jellyfin to store Pirated Content.
Build & Host Your Own API
We can help you build and host your own API using our in-house API Framework — ftAPI. Unlike mainstream frameworks our framework is tiny (less than 100KB) and it is fast, using very few server resources. Plus you can use different scripting languages for different API endpoints, giving you the right tool for each part of the job. Current supported scripting languages are Bash, Perl, PHP and Python. But we plan to add more languages soon. Essentially if the language can read System Environment Variables then it can be supported. Efficient. Flexible. Practical.
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High-Traffic WordPress? Meet Our In-House CDN
For high-load and high-traffic WordPress websites, we have developed our own self-hosted Content Delivery Network solution designed specifically for WordPress websites of ANY size. Our CDN solution uses a core/node cluster configuration, with WordPress running on the core server or servers, and any number of your own custom node servers to store and serve your media files.
A webpage has to download all the included media files such as images from the same server that WordPress is hosted on. If your site is media rich or has a lot of concurrent visitors, the site will load slow and your visitors will experience overall degraded service.
Our solution uses clusters of core servers and node servers. The core servers are optimized for running WordPress, Elementor and WooCommerce, having more vCPU cores and RAM and less NVMe storage. And the core servers do just that, serve WordPress pages very fast. But the media files are all stored to the node servers which are optimized for serving static files only, having less vCPU cores and RAM and a lot of NVMe storage. So if you have several dozen media files on a given page, they can all be spread across multiple CDN nodes allowing even quicker times for your pages to be fully downloaded and rendered.
Unlike mainstream CDN providers:
- Media files are NOT retained on the same core servers as WordPress, guaranteeing less storage needs for your core servers.
- Media is distributed across dedicated CDN node servers inside your WordPress CDN Cluster
- Scales effortlessly from two servers to hundreds of servers
- Multiple CDN nodes can serve the same files in an alternating method to spread the load further
- WordPress itself can run across multiple core servers using the same alternating distribution model
- Perfect for sites that have a hundred or even tens of thousands of visitors at a time, as well as sites that use mountains of images, audio files, videos and/or download files. If you can upload it to WordPress, it will automatically be stored on any one of your CDN nodes.
- WordPress will THINK the media files are on the core server but in reality they are on your node servers.
All of that is powered by our own in-house CDN software and plugin. This means:
- Better load distribution
- Higher performance
- Greater redundancy
- Real scalability for growing businesses
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Now You Know What We Are — This Is Who We Are
ZAKS Web is a family-owned and operated business based in Durban, South Africa.
At the head of it all is Ze’ev (AKA Karl), who first connected to the Internet in August of 1992 before Web Browsers even existed. Having a background in coding, Ze’ev took to building webpages in HTML in late 1994. And in April 2004, Ze’ev registered his first domain name and started his original Web Hosting Business, The Schurtek Group. And since then he as never looked back.
At ZAKS Web we are passionate about the Internet, Open Source software, and helping businesses grow online.
Trading Hours:
- Monday – Thursday: 08:00 – 16:00
- Friday: 08:00 – 15:00
- Closed Weekends & Public Holidays
(We do occasionally keep an eye on support requests outside of business hours.)
Contact us today on WhatsApp: +27 68 589 7417 – We are looking forward to hosting you.