Local Backups Matter: How Namhost Protects Your Hosting Data in South Africa
When you choose a hosting provider, you are not only choosing where your website, email, application, or database runs. You are also choosing how...
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cPanel Price Increases & Why Now Is the Best Time to Move to DirectAdmin
Every few years, the global web-hosting ecosystem gets shaken by a familiar tremor: cPanel license fee increases. Unfortunately, 2025 has brought...
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Why True Data Ownership Starts with Self-Hosting
In recent months, stories like Slack's licensing changes have highlighted just how fragile our control over data can be when it lives entirely in...
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Introducing DirectAdmin: Comprehensive Updates to Hosting Control Panels and Pricing
We are excited to share that Namhost is transitioning from cPanel to DirectAdmin as our primary hosting control panel. This change comes with a...
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Important changes regarding all Linux hosting accounts at Namhost (re: cPanel price changes)
cPanel introduced a new pricing structure that affects everybody in the world who makes use of their web hosting management software. That includes...
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Which SSL Certificate is Best for my Business?
Installing an SSL Certificate is absolutely crucial to every modern website. Google will penalize you for not having one, and you will severely...
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Shared Hosting vs Reseller Hosting vs Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
Shared hosting is undoubtedly the most popular type of hosting that you get in our day and age. In fact, the shared hosting market has tripled in...
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What type of web hosting do I need?
There are 4 main different types of hosting to choose from and it can be tricky figuring out which is the best for your specific scenario. Below I...
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FREE .NET and Linux Shared Hosting from Namhost
The free hosting packages offered by Namhost were originally created to cater to clients who wanted DNS hosting but did not necessarily need a lot of...
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Sending bulk mail the correct way
There are quite a few ways that you can send mass mail to people nowadays. Out of all these ways, we have only found two real ways that work well and...
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