Every existing business should have a website. The size of the business does not matter. Nowadays, small, medium-sized, and large businesses all have websites. A website can help you in displaying your business information online so that it can potentially be accessed by all internet users. All services offered, products, their prices, ordering channels, contact details, and all the necessary … Read More
Choosing Web Hosting – Why Location Matters
Speed is widely considered one of the most important factors in the success or otherwise of a website. It applies whether it is a news website, entertainment website and even more so where it is an e-commerce website. A fast website performance is directly proportional to the success of a website – all other things being equal. The strongest technical … Read More
What is the Best Way to boost Sales Online?
The fate of every online business entity depends on its presence on leading search engines including Yahoo, Bing, and Google – to a large extent. If you want to develop a portfolio in the online business, a good ranking on the search engines is a must. In this way, your potential clients can locate you quickly. How do you make … Read More
Celebrating .africa TLD with Discounted Prices
The .africa Top-Level Domain (TLD) is hitting it’s 1st Anniversary since it went into General Availability this July 2018. To mark the auspicious milestone, Web4Africa is offering BIG Discounts on .africa domain registrations and renewals. Between 4th and 31st July 2018, .africa domains would be available at 20% discount when the client makes use of the Promo Code visible our … Read More
.XYZ 4th Anniversary Promos
.XYZ Domains have been a hit since they became available in 2014. As of June 2018, .xyz is the 2nd most popular new gTLD having retained the top spot for a long time and is among the top 10 fastest growing new gTLDs. The most notable registration has been abc.xyz by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. Renew your .xyz now … Read More
.HOST is now an Open Generic Top-Level Domain
Before now, .HOST domains had been targetted exclusively at the web hosting and cloud hosting industry. The .host registry is however now expanding the target audience by repositioning it as a generic top-level domain extension. Why is .HOST re-positioned as a generic TLD? Research on live websites in the .HOST namespace indicates a natural connect with a variety of audiences … Read More
How to Choose the Best Domain Name for your Website
Choosing the best domain name is not rocket science. Since 2014, the number of available domain extensions one can choose for one’s website has exploded massively – from just about 215 to the over 1,450 available today. This then brings another challenge of which extension is best for one’s purpose. Before 2014, generic choices were limited to .com, .net, .org, … Read More
Why SquirrelMail is being removed from cPanel
SquirrelMail is a project that provides both a web-based email client and a proxy server for the IMAP protocol. Started in 1999, it has been shipped with cPanel since over 10 years ago. Used and loved by millions globally, SquirrelMail is, unfortunately, getting the stick from cPanel as it would stop being included officially from cPanel version 76. cPanel is … Read More
Altcoins now accepted
Web4Africa now accepts alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins) for Domain Registration, SSL Certificates, Web Hosting, VPS Hosting, Dedicated Servers and all other services we offer. Some of the altcoins are gaining wide-spread acceptability and have varying levels of increasing popularity. The altcoins we accept currently are: FirstBlood (1ST) Aragon (ANT) Basic Attention Token (BAT) Bancor (BNT) Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Bitcoin Gold (BTG) … Read More
5 Reasons .NG Domains have increased drastically
5 Reasons .NG Domains have increased drastically in number over the past 10 years. NiRA, the official registry for the .ng domain extension, recently announced that the number of domain names under .ng have exceeded 100,000. The recent boost further consolidates .NG’s position as the 2nd most popular domain extension in Africa*. .NG is the official top-level Domain Name for the … Read More