Cloud Backup prices cut, and more room to grow
Vander Host has cut Cloud Backup prices by up to 53% and added bigger storage tiers, up to 10 TB.
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Insights, guides, and updates on web hosting and running your online presence.
Best Cape Town VPS Providers (2026): An Honest Comparison
Comparing Cape Town VPS hosting from Vander Host, HostAfrica, Afrihost, 1-grid and DataKeepers: where each VPS really runs, public specs, prices and Hello Peter reviews.
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Best Web Hosting Providers in South Africa (2026): Compared
An honest comparison of South African web hosts — including Vander Host, xneelo, HostAfrica, Afrihost, Domains.co.za, Axxess and 1-Grid.
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shared hosting packages
Introducing Titan: our biggest website hosting plan yet
Some websites outgrow even our Ultimate plan. Busy online shops, agencies hosting dozens of client sites, and businesses with years of email all need more room. That's why we're launching Titan Website Hosting, our new top-tier cPanel plan.
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cpanel
Node.js Hosting at Vander Host: App and Email hosting, one incredible price
Built a Node.js app and stuck on where to deploy it? Our Standard plan and up now run Node.js apps, right next to your email. Deploy from GitHub, and we're here to help.
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Vander Host Co-Founder Joins Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program
Eugene van der Merwe, co-founder of Vander Host, has been accepted into Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program. Here is what the program is, why he applied, and how it adds value for our customers.
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domain registration
Introducing Vander Host's New API for Seamless Service Ordering
Vander Host is excited to unveil our new API, designed to simplify domain ordering and service management through automation. Discover how you can enhance your integrations and scripts today!
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Help Centre has step-by-step documentation, or you can submit a support tickets. But always remember, we are humans and we love humans, so contact us for personal home page or business scaling advice.
Anyone getting a business online. Some posts assume no technical background at all - like our beginner's guide to setting up a first website. Others go deeper for developers and sysadmins, covering VPS virtualisation, Laravel hosting and how we monitor our own network to provide maximum performance.
Around once a month. We prefer to publish something worth reading than posting just because there is a schedule.
Local hosting is the biggest theme - why hosting location matters for the lowest latency, may it be Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, or South Africa.
What to look for in a local host. Beyond that: choosing a hosting provider, AI, Loveable, WordPress or ecommerce, email setup, domain registration, and practical SEO in the post "AI" era.
Yes, and we are proud of it, but always try to be balanced an unbiased. We write about product announcements, data centre tech and locations, and our internationally famous Experts Portal. Our APIs also get covered here. We try to emphasize how our cloud offerings can propel your business to the next level.
The Vander Host blog is all around hosting, and articles that assist people with hosting.
The Vander Host blog is updated once every few months.
