27th Nov 2015

We are now VAT registered

As of the today Hostking (Pty) Ltd. crossed the VAT threshold and became VAT registered. All of our prices on the website are inclusive of VAT and the rate will now been shown on all customer invoices going forward.

VAT Registration number is shown on all invoices aswell.

VAT Registration Number: 4440271502
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17th Nov 2015

Price increase for certain domain extensions and starter plans

Please note, there will be a price increase per domain for .co.za,  .org.za, .net.za and .web.za domains. This applies to the following domain types: End User Pricing: co.za - R79web.za - R79net.za - R79org.za - R79 Reseller Domain Pricing: co.za - R64web.za - R64net.za - R64org.za - R64.com - R149.net - R149.org - R149.biz - R149 Some ...
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17th Jul 2015

Servers Upgraded with Faster RAID Card and Processors

The following servers have been successfully upgraded to faster newer hardware. Xeon E5 processors, 8 port Hardware SAS RAID card using RAID10 to improve performance and ensure servers are running better.This decision to improve hardware was taken due to some servers showing a slight increase in cpu usage and diskio. All disks were replaced were ...
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2nd Jul 2015

Wordpress Login Attacks More Frequent

Wordpress botnets have attacked more websites frequently and slowing them down slighlty, we have been looking at fix and have found one such fix using HTTP authentication.When loggin into the admin area of your Wordpress website you will be presented with a random username and password question. Kindly answer it and it will present you to your ...
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