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One of the best web hosting sites, and certainly one of the most famous, is putting itself up for sale. GoDaddy.com is most likely to be acquired by private investors for an estimated price tag of $2.5 billion.

The private equity group is composed of Silver Lake Partners and KKR, and an official announcement is expected as soon as Tuesday. GoDaddy.com is based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company holds a record for domain name sales and owns almost half of that market, in addition to large pieces of the SSL and web hosting spaces. They currently manage almost 50 million domain names and have issued over 500,000 SSL certificates. GoDaddy.com became famous in the US not just for its size, but also for its racy TV commercials which featured scantily clad models.

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One of the best web hosting companies, A2 Hosting, is now offering CloudLinux on all of its service packages.

CloudLinux is the first OS that is designed around the specific needs of web hosting providers, and it provides an extremely stable platform that can stand up to the most extreme hosting demands. CloudLinux was designed from the ground up to prevent crashes and server slowdowns, and it works so well because it finely adjusts resources available to each account to avert resource spike effects before they happen. This allows for more precision control over available resources and isolates each account from others. Current customers of A2 Hosting can upgrade their accounts to a managed VPS hosting package simply and seamlessly. CloudLinux is also the only server OS that's fully compatible with CentOS and RHEL.

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Web Hosting South Africa is one of the best web hosting providers in the country. The service has become very popular with locals thanks to the many features it offers exclusively for South African customers. The company specializes in creating customized solutions for its clients in the the SA market, with various special features for locals including many promotions which can add up to big cost savings.

Their last promotion was very successful and generated a big response, causing the company to increase their capacity and build out their infrastructure further to accommodate the increased demand from their customers. Another South African web hosting company, Osirion, has also been offering competitive hosting deals for local customers, and has become a top choice among small businesses in South Africa due to its top notch local support team.