The Garden Route a new Online Publication

The Garden Route is the new online publication by Garden Route Publishing. The Purpose is to provide free online information about topics around the Garden Route as well as to be a useful tool for South Africans who would like to profit from the positive aspects of the Internet in our local and global society.

The Garden Route has been initiated by Yorgo Nestoridis from YORGOO Publishing, joined by Bianca Gubalke who have been inspired by the Garden Route Directory Project elaborated for Hanno Coetzee. Working on that latter project it appeared that there is an increasing demand for online services according to international standards and prices in South Africa.

“The Garden Route” is focused on bridging between low-tech live and the virtual world by making the best technology and the most personalized services accessible to anyone.

The Garden Route web site is powered by YORGOO Press, a Semiomantics script prepared and tuned by Yorgo Nestoridis. The formula used serves as a test for a typical local publication as it can be set up. The site will promote specifically efforts from the area of the Garden Route to develop business and services online, and extend it’s services then to South Africa.

The Garden Route is a non profit and non-commercial website, it’s a service for all those who want to join and use it. The Garden Route makes services available to a wide public and is open to contributions from the public to design a dynamic picture of every day life along the Garden Route, from artistic creativity to business and from agricultural to touristic developments, from personal online activity to online business building. The Garden Route is a Mirror and aims to bring additional opportunity to express views and opinions to a large readership way beyond the Garden Route.

To start its activity, The Garden Route, in a joined effort with Hosting South Africa, will sponsor 1001 fully equipped unlimited cPanel Hosting accounts to South Africans who are interested to get their web site online without material barrier. Hosting south Africa hosts co.za domains as a well as all current international domains.

The Garden Route will be ready for its first full size edition by end of May. By that time TGR expects to be already well placed on Google Search Engines in as much as its targeted keywords are concerned to provide contributors with the best possible visibility and exposure. The Garden Route will then continue to support local efforts and content as well as the local internet penetration.

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Hosting South Africa: New Project

Hosting in South Africa looks like an expensive affair, at least from customer side. Comparing prices with our hosting packs from ChiHosters or from the YORGOO Pro host, you will notice, that the shared hosting accounts or the Virtual Managed Servers cost a multiple from what our cost is. Even domains are sld at about double of what yorGOdom is charging.

 

 

Hosting Players in South Africa

 Courtesy Webhosting.info

From the above chart you see the size of the players in terms of domains hosted. 

When it comes to Pricing, you will notice huge differences between South Africa and the rest of the world which is served from international providers. Take for example the best shared web hosting pack from Hetzner: the Master Pack costs roughly $43 PER MONTH plus a set-up fee of about $20: the pack is less complete than ChiHosters Basic Pack at $35 per YEAR, not to speak about the features. Worse, they charge for excess usage of bandwidth, whereas the band in South Africa is limited to a minimum and heavily charged.

We have done some market assessment and came to the conclusion: it’s a great market to…deregulate :-).

Look forward to news about Hosting South Africa which will open it’s doors on March 12, 2009.

 

Yorgo
YORGOO Publishing

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Account Migration

This is an update to our previous post; please read it carefully.

Due to the traffic load we are not able to migrate the sites at this point in time. In agreement with the data centers we will move all accounts on Sunday, March 6, 2011.

1. Identify Domains you wish us to move to the new host.

2. Join tonight’s call for detailed information and to discuss a discount.

3. Order the service from the page added to the above menu Move WP. Leave a comment about the domains to move and or send a confirmation mail to admin(at)zonicholas.com.

More tonight at yorGotalk.

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Chi Affordable WordPress Hosting

For the last 4 years we have been able to provide cheap hosting for WordPress at the incredible rate of $35 per year for unlimited bandwidth, disk spacem, MySQL data bases and so on. Since the end of last year, we have noticed that the WordPress installations require much more server resources and that the performance of sites on the shared host was suffering from slow loading times and down times.

The interest in running a self-hosted WP based site is amongst others in the about endless possibilities available through the use of advanced scripts, such as Semiomantics, Plug-ins and Add-ons.

ChiHosters shared hosting is no longer in a position to provide unlimited shared hosting for WordPress installations. We regret this evolution, however we will try to offer attractive alternatives as per below.

After as before, we will offer cheap hosting on Chi at $35 per year. We will however limit the usage of each cPanel account in order to prevent over load. The Chi Package will be limited to 1 domain and maximum 3 sub-domains and we recommend, not to load more than 1 WordPress installations per cPanel for advanced WP scripts and usage.

We strongly recommend not to host commercial customers on Chi Hosters shared hosting package. This recommendation dates from 2009 and has been widely respected. We notice however that a small number of commercial customers accounts have been loaded to the host; these customers are suffering most from the disadvantages of the shared host.

We have set up our own dedicated servers at Hosting South Africa which have been specially equipped and configured to run complex WordPress installations. Also, at HSA we are in control of the total number of cPanel accounts accepted per machine.

At present there are 3 hosting packages available on HSA:

This is the equivalent of what we had on Chi, except that we provide the quality of dedicated hosting for about $52 per year. The cPanel accounts are limited to 1 domain and 3 sub-domains, whereas we recommend not to load more than 1 complex WP per cPanel.

This package is the recommended managed hosting pack for commercial and medium size web-sites. Most of our high profile commercial customer accounts are hosted on the Business Pack. The cost per month is $49.95. (formerly $34.95).

This pack is designed for large high traffic sites; essentially it represents 50% of the resources of a dedicated high-power host. The server is managed and tuned for Semiomantics high performance websites which need loads of CPU and Memory. Pricing $125 per month. This pack is better than any VMS and comparable to managed dedicated hosting. Please contact us to discuss your requirements and our solutions.

In addition to this we  offer managed dedicated hosts with custom configuration.

Some of our customers are active resellers and host customer accounts. Also they network multiple sites according to the YORGOO Publishing Model. In order to max out on the advantages of a small Publishing Network, the individual sites need to be set up on multiple servers and locations. We custom design hosting solutions for such customers involving at least 3 different addresses. The solution is ideal for Publishing Networks with high traffic and site-to-site movements (syndication and aggregation).

Pricing is on the bases of the Pro Plus Pack. Please contact us to discuss your requirements and our solutions.

How to upgrade an existing Chi Account? As on the Chi Host we only provide cheap shared hosting,we are not in a position to offer upgrades on the same server. Any upgrade will be linked to migrating the site.

Hosting Cost:

The new Affordable Hosting for WordPress pack is the 1Rand Pack from HSA. Cost is 1 Rand per day or about $52 per year at the present exchange rate.

Migration:

For technical reasons beyond our influence, we cannot mass-move accounts; we charge for manual migration $25 per WordPress installation till the end of this month. If you have many set-ups to move, please discuss mass pricing with us.

Payment compensation

We will communicate the payment mode shortly, however it looks as if we will end up with charging for the new hosting as from June 2011 to compensate for the payments made under Chi.

The present situation has the advantage that we can reconsider our networks and redesign the flow of information profiting from the advanced knowledge we all have acquired during the past years.

Let’s eliminate sites and focus on a clean streamlined set-up. Reducing the number of sites and increasing their efficiency will make the Migration a trigger for higher visibility and performance.

More soon.

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Knysna Cycling Accommodation

Sometimes we just want to see how much Google likes us, for example with Knysna Cycling Accommodation as key entry. Of course our friends from Garden Route Directory and YORGOO Publishing hang already out on Google Top 10 and times.yorgoopress.com is joining as well.

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Garden Route Directory on Super Hosting

Garden Route Directory from Lalakoi Publishing has migrated to the new hosting facility set up by Hosting South Africa and ChiHosters for professional Semiomantics customers.

Within a relatively short time Garden Route Directory has outgrown its initial shared hosting account, then a VMS to finally end up on the most advanced dedicated hosting solutions we have built for high performance and high traffic websites.

The Hosting provided runs on super fast processors with 4 times more memory than normal shared hosts. Performance enhancements such as Semiomantics SEO deploy better than ever:

Garden Route Directory scores between 92 and 97 on YSlow!

Garden Route Directory is one of the first sites we host on the new super host; others include BlogMasterClass, a test ground for high performance script testing which scores 97 and above on YSlow even on the home page where 10 posts are actually on display with loads of media. The same hosting solution is powering now PhotoMediaStock which needs loads of resources, as well as the personal site of Hanno Coetzee and of yours truly.

Actually under migration is Global Sports where the store needs the longer the more punch and a mega affiliate mall for Gene Line is under construction.

As usual, we deliver hosting for Semiomantics Customers at cost and kick in Customer Service and Host Management for Semiomantics Commercial Customers.

We are proud of the success of our friends and customers!

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New IP Addresses

We have finished the migration process at Hosting South Africa. Please modify DNS settings of your domains as follows:

ns1.hostingsouthafrica.net
ns2.hostingsouthafrica.net

We made all changes for you, you don’t need to intervene.

Change DNS IP addresses to:

New Nameservers:
============
Nameservers»ns1.hostingsouthafrica.net/64.185.233.165
Nameservers»ns2.hostingsouthafrica.net/64.185.233.151
============

If your existing DNS settings are:

ns10.dnsdc9.com/64.185.237.185
ns11.dnsdc9.com/64.185.237.186

Change DNS to:

ns1.hostingsouthafrica.net
ns2.hostingsouthafrica.net

If you need any help or have questions, please use the below comment field.

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Hosting South Africa and Author Blogs Migrate

We have finished building the new servers and are running tests now. Later today we will migrate all accounts from Hosting South Africa as well as from the YorgoBiz servers to the new host.

All accounts will be consolidated under Hosting South Africa and are hosted on the servers of HSA. The name servers will be:

ns1.hostingsouthafrica.net
ns2.hostingsouthafrica.net

We will communicate the new IP addresses shortly.

Domains hosted on YorgoDom: we will tempt to update all concerned IP addresses using a single query to apply the modifications on a host wide bases.

Domains which had been hosted on HSA previously: you don’t need to change name servers as you are allready pointing to HSA’s name servers.

South African co.za Domains: You will need to change your name servers using the new IP addresses which we will communicate shortly.

No down-time is expected as we will change DNS once all accounts are copied to the new servers.

More later today.

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Author Blogs and Hosting South Africa Concerned

Hosting sophisticated WordPress installations has become more difficult since the WordPress core script as well as plug-ins and other add-on features drain more resources with every update and upgrade.

In order anticipate also future development, we will migrate Hosting South Africa and YorgoBiz (Author Blogs) to a new hosting environment on fast, high power dedicated servers specially designed to host busy and sophisticated WordPress based sites, and Semiomantics powered installations.

All sites at present hosted by YorgoBiz and Hosting South Africa will migrate to new servers. As the sites will be located on a new set of IP addresses, our Name servers will be updated accordingly and for customers using those name servers, no downtime is expected.

For customers using co.za domains, we will communicate the new IP addresses as soon as available to change domain’s DNS settings.

For customers using data-center originated name-servers: we will communicate the new set of name-servers to use.

We expect the migration to be accomplished by the end of this week-end. In the meantime, be prepared for a somewhat bumpy ride; however, we don’t expect any significant down time. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but we are sure the benefit you will experience will make this move worth the while.

I will keep you posted about the developments on this blog; please bookmark this post and follow the discussion about this issue.

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Great Brak River Accommodation

Our earlier post on the Great Brak River Accommodation facilities was in support of Graden Route Directory and to test different methods of tagging.

Under Great Brak River Accommodation our post was not to be seen on Google within 10 minutes, while under Accommodation Great Brak River we have a tangible result:

Great Brak River Accommodation on Googe

We come in on Rank 25 immediately and we are sure it will improve within the hour.

Watch out for Great Brak River Accommodation on Google.

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Great Brak River Accommodation Resting Palms Bed and Breakfast

Resting Palms, Great Brak River Bed and Breakfast establisment is a brand new Bed and Breakfast in the town of Great Brak River. Great Brak River is between Mossel Bay and George and is ideal situated for holiday makers and business persons. Here you are only minutes drive from two of the biggest towns in the Garden Route, the George Airport, many of the tourist attractions, activities and golf courses. The beach and river is a stones through away!

The owner of Resting Palms B&B, Linda Rademeyer, has created a stylish yet comfortable oasis where you will feel right at home.This Great Brak River guest house offers five individually decorated en-suite bedrooms each have an outside entrance ensuring your privacy. Guests are also welcome make use of the facilities the house offers. This includes the mini home gym, jacuzzi, lounge area, conference table, dining room, indoor braai facilities and lapa with braai facilities over looking the lush garden with swimming pool. The kitchen is also available to guests.

Coffee & Tea Making Facilities in bedrooms, Colour TV in bedrooms, Mini Gym, Jacuzzi, Guest Lounge with DSTV, Indoor braai area, Lapa with braai facilities, Dining Room, Swimming Pool, Non Smoking, Secure parking on property

5 En-suite bedrooms
Bedroom 1: King Size Bed, En-suite bathroom with spa bath
Bedroom 2: Queen Size Bed, En-suite bathroom with shower
Bedroom 3: 2 x Single Beds, En-suite bathroom with shower
Bedroom 4: Double Bed, En-suite bathroom with shower
Bedroom 5: Double Bed, En-suite bathroom with bath & shower

Resting Palms Rates/ Rooms from:

R330 per single person per night
R495 per double room per night
R680 for Honeymoon Suite per night
* rates includes breakfast.

R195 per single person per night — including breakfast
R350 per double room per night — including breakfast
– Subject to availability.

Contact Details
We are only an e-mail away! Please use the Booking Enquiry Form on this page or contact us on the following numbers and use “gardenroutedirectory.com” as your reference.

Linda Rademeyer
Tel/fax No: + 27 (0) 44 620 3349
Cell No: + 27 (0) 76 371 4390
Address:

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