{"id":831502,"date":"2025-08-06T07:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=831502"},"modified":"2025-08-06T07:36:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:36:44","slug":"afrihost-south-africas-top-isp-and-hosting-provider-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/831502\/afrihost-south-africas-top-isp-and-hosting-provider-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrihost \u2013 South Africa\u2019s Top ISP and Hosting Provider of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Afrihost is the winner of the 2025 MyBroadband Awards for ISP of the Year and Hosting Provider of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These awards are allocated based on several strict criteria, including offering a wide range of services, commanding high customer satisfaction ratings, and offering exceptional service quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrihost.com\/?utm_source=Article&amp;utm_medium=BusinessTech&amp;utm_term=August+2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more about Afrihost\u2019s offerings.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Using these criteria, MyBroadband assessed South Africa\u2019s ISPs and hosting providers and found that Afrihost was the clear winner in both categories for 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afrihost has been particularly successful in the ISP sector, as this is the third year running that it has come out on top in this category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This highlights the company\u2019s dedication to quality and innovation in the connectivity space, enabling it to continue setting the standard for fibre connectivity in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It first entered the ISP sector in 2009 with a new DSL product that offered massively more affordable prices than the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afrihost would continue to expand and refine its solutions and now offers options such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fibre<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed LTE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fixed 5G<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ADSL<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mobile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these solutions is tailored to South African needs, ensuring that no Afrihost customer is ever dissatisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hosting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While Afrihost\u2019s success in the ISP space is impressive, many readers may not know that Afrihost was actually founded as a hosting provider in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It immediately disrupted the hosting market by offering solutions that cost less than half the price of competing products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By offering such an affordable solution, Afrihost played a key role in democratising the Internet; it also positioned itself as an innovative force in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in 2025, Afrihost continues to set the standard in South Africa\u2019s Internet ecosystem \u2013 making it a deserving winner of these two awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrihost.com\/?utm_source=Article&amp;utm_medium=BusinessTech&amp;utm_term=August+2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more about Afrihost\u2019s offerings.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost is the winner of the 2025 MyBroadband Awards for ISP of the Year and Hosting Provider of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":831523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[22006,1944,23124,23044],"class_list":["post-831502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-2025-mybroadband-awards","tag-afrihost","tag-best-hosting-provider-of-the-year","tag-best-isp-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831502","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834130,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831502\/revisions\/834130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}