Which Hosting Type Should You Choose For Your Website?

When it comes to website hosting, you will need to consider the type of hosting that is best for you. This will have direct implication on your website and what you can do with it. We have 3 hosting packages as follows: Linux premium, Linux professional and Linux professional plus+. The difference is mainly on the disk space that is allocated to you. Choose any package that suits your budget.

How do I transfer my hosting account to GFI?

In some cases where you already have and existing domain with another hosting company when you make the decision to purchase one of our hosting packages. The article will explain the procedure for moving this domain over to our hosting package. Your main concern should be that your website is not down for the 48 hour propagation period. Your first step is to look at our hosting packages, making sure that the new hosting package of your choice provide you with all the services your previous host did to ensure that you don't lose major functionality required for your website to function properly. Do not cancel your old hosting before your data is secured on our servers. Send a request to your old hosting provider to unlock the domain name and send you the EPP/Authorisation Key. You can then supply your representative at GFI with this EPP/Authorisation Key and we will set the domain transfer in progress. Move your data from your old hosting provider to your new hosting package at GFI. If you require assistance in transferring your data from the old host to our hosting account, contact us for any assistance. At this point you should have two hosting accounts, one with GFI and the other one with the previous service provider. Once you or GFI have confirmed the data has been transferred, we will commence with changing your domain name details to reflect as required to link to our servers; this is referred to as the propagation period. During this transition period your website will be bouncing between the two hosts every other minute. After the 48 hour propagation period, we will confirm that your website has fully moved over to the new hosting account. Once we have confirmed with you, you can proceed to cancel the old hosting account. If you have any question or require assistance with this process, please don't hesitate to contact us.

After paying for my order how do I receive my account details?

As soon as funds reflect in our bank account we mark invoices as PAID. When an invoice is marked as PAID domain names are automatically registered and hosting accounts are automatically set up. As soon as the hosting account is set up the client will receive an email (Subject: New Account Information) containing all the necessary information used to manage the hosting account.