South African virtual private server price shootout – MyBroadband

South Africans looking to host a website or app have several virtual private server (VPS) products available to them from various prominent hosting providers.

VPSes are hosting environments where customers share hardware, but in a way that is isolated from one another.

Each customer is allocated a specified amount of CPU, RAM, storage, and bandwidth, almost as if they have their own dedicated server.

However, they can be significantly more affordable than dedicated server products.

MyBroadband compared VPS offerings from Absolute Hosting, Afrihost, Axxess, Cybersmart, Domains.co.za, and 1-Grid regarding specs and pricing.

It should be noted that Absolute Hosting recently upgraded the network speeds for some of its VPSs to 500Mbps. We only included VPS packages that received the…