Web4Africa Launches Local Hosting Services at Rack Centre

To serve its Nigerian and West African customers better, Web4Africa, the Pan African web hosting company has launched its web hosting services in Rack Centre, the Nigerian Carrier neutral premium data centre colocation company.

Accredited by the Internet Corporation for assigned names and numbers, ICANN, and also the Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NIRA), and founded in 2002, Web4Africa offers Web Hosting, Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting, Domain Names and related services to clients worldwide.

With presence in Rack Centre, Web4Africa, was the first hosting company to offer web services physically from Nigeria from a Tier III data centre with comprehensive global connectivity.

Mr Oluniyi Ajao, managing director of Web4Africa, said, “Rack Centre has provided a cost-effective carrier-neutral environment with 100% uptime since launch and the hosting of the Internet Point of Nigeria at Rack Centre which allows several internet service providers and network operators to exchange traffic making it a perfect location for our West African network point-of-presence.”

Mr Ayotunde Coker, managing director of Rack Centre lauding the move to Rack Centre by Web4Africa said, “Web4Africa is a key player in delivering local Cloud services hosted here in Nigeria, delivered in Nigeria.  This is a key component of Rack Centre Cloud on GroundTM marketplace for cloud based services.  Rack Centre provides Web4Africa the most connected data centre in West Africa, and the ideal geophysical location to provide its services, not only within Nigeria, but across all of West Africa.

Rack Centre is 100% owned by Jagal, a Nigerian conglomerate holding that operates leading energy businesses and manages a diverse portfolio of investments.

The Data Centre is a state-of-the-art, Tier III Design Certified offering carrier-neutral colocation services.

It is the most connected in West Africa, offering 16 major carriers in the country and direct connection to all undersea cables serving the South Atlantic Coast of Africa.

Its Cloud on GroundTM services offers a locally hosted cloud marketplace. Colocating within Rack Centre allows companies to avoid fixed infrastructure investments and to leave the growing complexity of managing power and environmental issues to specialists.