The benefit of downloading Linux distros locally

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Some 250 million people live in any one of the 15 countries in West Africa. Millions of people already own and use a device that is connected the Internet. While Windows Operating System (OS) dominates the regional market, variants of Linux desktop OS distributions are steadily making way into the sub-region, especially among students and young software Developers.  Also, a … Read More

Web Hosting in Nigeria: Off-The-Grid Power

Nigeria is an emerging economy of over 170 million people and a leader in business and information technology, on the African continent. The country needs to develop despite its challenges. The local hosting industry needs to grow and blossom. It is well documented that electricity generation and distribution is a perennial challenge in Nigeria. Web Hosting servers on the other … Read More

Web Hosting in Nigeria: A network performance overview

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Web4Africa had commissioned some web hosting equipment in a Tier-III datacentre in Lagos Nigeria a few months ago. We own and manage our network infrastructure and are peering locally at the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN). This gives us direct IP connectivity to the networks of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Carriers that are peering locally in Nigeria. Local … Read More

A review of VPS Hosting in Nigeria

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A few months ago, I had the privilege of discussing in-country hosting with the CEO of Web4Africa. He informed me he was about to start offering hosting accounts in datacenters here in Lagos. I’ve always been a proponent of internet performance and one of the major issues with the performance of internet applications is that of latency. Latency is the … Read More

Our .net domain story

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Web4Africa started operations in the year 2002, using the domain name web4africa.net – we registered web4africa.com about two years later but have stayed with the .net domain ever since. This is even more intriguing because in most African countries, .net only ranks 3rd in popularity among generic TLDs. This write-up celebrates our use of .net Our choice of .net in the … Read More

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Buy Domain & Web Hosting with Bitcoin

Buy Domain: Buy Domain with BitcoinWeb4Africa offers hundreds of Domain Name extensions at affordable prices. These include .com, .net, .org, .biz, .tv, .cc and new ones like .xyz, .trade, .joburg, .capetown, .durban, .trade, .africa, .tech as well as country-code domains ending with .uk, .ng, .za, .us, .gh, .na among several others. We offer additional free features like Domain Forwarding & … Read More

15 Facts about .net domain names

.net is the 2nd most popular generic domain extension in the world, after .com The domain name net is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from network, indicating its originally intended purpose was for organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies. … Read More

Web Hosting: Security vrs Convenience

Offering Web4Africa’s web hosting customers easy access and management to their web hosting services whilst not compromising on security remains an unending balancing act. In a world where motivation is all that us needed to be a hacker due to the reckless abundance of free hacking tools, maintaining a high level of security in the web hosting industry is not … Read More

Verve Card

All about Verve Cards

Verve Card is issued by Interswitch, a leading pan-African payment gateway and processor. Having started in 2002, Interswitch has since evolved from being a Nigerian operation and now has a strong presence in Kenya, Uganda (both in East Africa), and The Gambia. Verve Card is one of the products of Interswitch. It is issued by banks in Nigeria who are … Read More

Why you should renew your domain name early

Irrespective of where you registered your domain name, it helps to renew your domain name on time. Not doing so can cause a lot of problems. At Web4Africa, we have dealt with a lot of difficult situations, where clients have not renewed their domains early enough. We do send out 5 notices via e-mail, before a domain eventually expires but … Read More