Why choose a South African Company for your Website?

South Africa is an incredible country with an amazing future, we would like to be a part of that future and believe providing web hosting that combines the best of international hosting infrastructure (and stable power) with South African take, we can encourage local web development with web hosting to cater for it (Advanced features such as PHP4 and PHP5, Ruby, Mail Control, and a Powerful Control Panel)

The other reason for choosing a South African company for your web hosting, is the timezones problem. Our servers are set up and configured to behave as if they were in the South African timezone, while most other international hosts obviously are not. A major problem seen when international web hosts are hosting pages for South African sites is that the time appears as if it were the time whereever the server is located. We solve this problem by setting our clocks on the server to South African time (and the current city to Johannesburg).

Is bandwidth not more expensive in South Africa?

Yes. You would normally expect to pay atleast 10x more for a South African web hosting account than the equivalent international account. For this reason, while Lusion Technologies is based in South Africa (with South African support), our servers are in top-class international data centers (We using Steadfast) with 24/7 international hardware monitoring for all our web hosting users.

Our combination of both South African support and international hosting allows us to offer web hosting locally for prices that are competitive internationally, with a custom web hosting system built on the stable CPanel web hosting control panel - which is not available outside of South Africa. Our server times are set to the local South African time, and host South African websites - just without the insane costs of local web hosting bandwidth.

South Africa has 11 official languages, and we are working on it

We are working on getting our website and web hosting control panel translated into every official South African language (so far only English and Afrikaans for the website, but we will have other translations before you know it. If you are interested in possibly assisting with the translation effort, please send an email through to support@lusion.co.za and we will have our control panel in every official South African language before you know it.

Do you allow clients from outside South Africa

While we would never turn down a client just because he is not South African, all of our services are designed specifically with South Africans in mind, which may not be optimal for someone not living in our amazing country.