I am on way to set up a business in South African, I need a fast magento hosting. Please help me with some good suggestions. Thanks

I am new with magento and need some cheap solution for hosting to run magento well before decide to go with it. I got some options online here but need your advise before choosing one. Any idea for help me?

Thanks

Please help!

Feel free to add to the list

https://www.ormsdirect.co.za/

http://http://www.dionwired.co.za/

http://www.supplementworld.co.za/ > really cool owner who gave me invaluable advice on Magento hosting

http://www.chromeshop.co.za/ - not the best layouts, but ya

If you are a new business and you want to accept credit cards on your website … or if you want to send people invoices that they can pay by credit card then please go to www.evripay.com and apply to join us.

Remember even though we are currently only accepting South African based businesses, because we enable you to accept Visa and MasterCard cards, you can get paid from anywhere in the world!

Here are our fees below:

No monthly fees.
No setup fees.
No gateway fees.

Getting Paid
The standard rate for receiving payments for goods and services is 3.4% of the transaction amount plus ZAR 2.70 per transaction.
If you get paid more than ZAR 30,000.00 per month, you’re eligible to apply for a reduced rate – which lowers your fees as your sales volume increases. Your fees can be as low as 2.7%, based on your previous month’s sales volume.

Monthly Sales – Price Per Transaction
ZAR 0.00 – ZAR 30,000.00 3.4% + ZAR 2.70
ZAR 30,000.01 – ZAR 100,000.00 3.0% + ZAR 2.70
ZAR 100,000.01 2.7% + ZAR 2.70

Does anyone have a Magento site running in production that would care to show off? I’m busy working on one, still lots to do, but will let you know when done.

Regards

E-commerce is on the brink of really taking off in South Africa, and Magento could not have come at a better time for us. Just about every web developer and designer I speak to is starting to get requests from clients to implement e-commerce, and so they’re busy researching the various platforms out there. If this wave of interest had started a year ago we would all have bedded down with osCommerce or the like, and we would have missed out on the future of Magento, or at least spent a lot of time learning a new system when we finally transitioned!

It is important that as we start getting to grips with Magento we don’t all silently tackle the same issues on our own. The classic example is the development of payment gateway modules, where I have heard this week of two different developers working independently on a module for the same payment gateway. These efforts could be combined to create a more robust and well-tested solution that everyone can benefit from.

It is tempting to cling to hard-earned knowledge or proprietary modules in an attempt to get a competitive advantage over other developers, but I hope we all realise that we will win clients through our relationships rather than our fancy technology. Let’s share what we have and raise the standard of e-commerce in South Africa so that there is more than enough work and online turnover for everyone.

Please feel free to respond to this post with an introduction of where you’re from and what your plans with Magento are.

We are looking for a Junior - Senior Magento web developer to work on existing and new projects.

Send your CV to shaughn.legrange-hatlen@fontera.com

Regards
Shaughn