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8 Reasons WordPress Hosting is better than regular Web Hosting

Why WordPress Hosting is better than regular Web Hosting

Making a choice between WordPress Hosting and the regular Web Hosting for your project may seem a bit confusing due to the features and pricing both plans offers. However, a WordPress specific plan is absolutely worth paying for. What is WordPress Hosting? WordPress is an open-source platform that powers millions of website around the globe. It is generally designed for … Read More

Tips to Improve Website Loading Speed

As an online entrepreneur with a business website, low speed can affect the bottom-line. Very few people are patient enough to wait for it to load – if it takes too long. For this reason, only a few people will be able to access your website and read the information uploaded on it. For an e-commerce store to sell, your … 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?

Boosting online sales requires the right strategies

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

The benefit of downloading Linux distros locally

Some 250 million people live in any one of the 15 countries in West Africa. Millions of people already own and use a device that is connected the Internet. While Windows Operating System (OS) dominates the regional market, variants of Linux desktop OS distributions are steadily making way into the sub-region, especially among students and young software Developers. Also, a … Read More

What Would You Like Mirrored In Nigeria?

Are you a developer or Linux user in Nigeria? What would you like mirrored in Nigeria? Web4Africa has been working on a local mirror for linux distributions and important software/modules/scripts. The mission is to make the most popular open-source Operating Systems and software available locally, starting from Nigeria. Users in Nigeria would be able to benefit from very speedy downloads … Read More

Web Hosting in Nigeria: Off-The-Grid Power

Nigeria is an emerging economy of over 170 million people and a leader in business and information technology, on the African continent. The country needs to develop despite its challenges. The local hosting industry needs to grow and blossom. It is well documented that electricity generation and distribution is a perennial challenge in Nigeria. Web Hosting servers on the other … Read More

Web Hosting in Nigeria: A network performance overview

Web4Africa had commissioned some web hosting equipment in a Tier-III datacentre in Lagos Nigeria a few months ago. We own and manage our network infrastructure and are peering locally at the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN). This gives us direct IP connectivity to the networks of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Carriers that are peering locally in Nigeria. Local … Read More

A review of VPS Hosting in Nigeria

A few months ago, I had the privilege of discussing in-country hosting with the CEO of Web4Africa. He informed me he was about to start offering hosting accounts in datacenters here in Lagos. I’ve always been a proponent of internet performance and one of the major issues with the performance of internet applications is that of latency. Latency is the … Read More