{"id":201718,"date":"2017-09-29T08:43:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T06:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=201718"},"modified":"2017-09-29T08:43:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T06:43:30","slug":"webafrica-splits-its-business-into-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/201718\/webafrica-splits-its-business-into-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Webafrica splits its business into two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Webafrica CEO\u00a0Tim Wyatt-Gunning has announced that the business is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webafrica.co.za\/blog\/big-hosting-move-message-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>splitting into two units<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt-Gunning said that since Webafrica started 20 years ago, it has grown to offer a variety of connectivity and hosting solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree years ago, we just offered ADSL. Now we have fibre and LTE too, both of which are growing like crazy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the hosting side, we just offered basic web hosting services. Now we have VPS, website design and marketing, and website security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During this period, Webafrica has bought 10 hosting businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, we don\u2019t think we should try and be everything web anymore, because it\u2019s simply not possible to be good at everything web, because it\u2019s too damn big.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt-Gunning said they have decided to\u00a0formally split the businesses into two \u2013 to \u201censure that you are served by a company which really understands your needs\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Split<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From 1 November, the following will take place:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All hosting customers will be serviced under existing brand Gridhost.<\/li>\n<li>Internet access customers will remain under Webafrica.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Improvements as a result of the move will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Separate, more specialised operating systems.<\/li>\n<li>High-level hosting specialists.<\/li>\n<li>Ramped output of cloud-based applications for small businesses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Webafrica purchased hosting company Gridhost in 2013, with the intention of bringing its customers under the Webafrica brand, said\u00a0Wyatt-Gunning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe soon realised that the brand itself was strong, so we decided to keep it running as Gridhost, supported by Webafrica and its full resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hosting services will be migrated from\u00a0Webafrica to Gridhost from the start of October, with \u201ccompletion planned for 1 November\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who receive Internet and hosting services from Webafrica will now receive separate invoices from the respective companies.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/195936\/these-8-tech-companies-have-some-of-the-coolest-job-perks-in-south-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">These 8 tech companies have some of the coolest job perks in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Webafrica CEO\u00a0Tim Wyatt-Gunning has announced that the business is\u00a0splitting into two units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":201722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[419],"class_list":["post-201718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-webafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201724,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201718\/revisions\/201724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}