South Africans looking for hosting services they can use to develop and release an app, or for their online business, have a range of options from which to choose.
Dedicated server providers used for the comparison include Xneelo, Absolute Hosting, Afrihost, and 1-Grid, while the cloud hosting services came from Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle. For example, the cheapest cloud hosting product compared has 16GB of RAM and 100GB of storage for R1,017 per month.While the Afrihost dedicated server option is fractionally more per month than Oracle, it provides the same amount of RAM and twenty times the storage.