Tag: Sponsors

Why Hetzner loves WordCamp (and WordPress, of course)

Posted on by Anchen le Roux

Hetzner has been a proud sponsor of WordCamp for a few years, but we can’t talk about this event without talking about the WordPress community. For us, WordPress, the monthly Meet-Ups and WordCamp are extensions of each other － and extensions of the vibrant South African WordPress community. WordPress is the go-to platform for website design and development in South Africa, and a relationship between Hetzner and WordPress is a natural fit.  

 

Here are the top FIVE reasons we love supporting the WordPress community:

 

  1. Hetzner hosts more than 45 000 WordPress websites currently.
  2. We love being able to meet our customers face-to-face at the annual WordCamp. We also love listening － and learning －as they talk, engage and debate about all things WordPress and the changing landscape of website design and development.
  3. WordPress affords everyone the opportunity to give functionality, style and navigation to their dreams. It offers entrepreneurs a space to showcase their enterprises; and inspires creative expression for budding and seasoned designers and developers. These are all qualities that resonate with us here at Hetzner.
  4. We are proudly South African and love that WooCommerce is the leading shopping cart plugin for WordPress.
  5. Our fifth (unofficial) reason is that WordCamp affords members of our team the opportunity to head out of the office for two days, and into a creative, stimulating space where we are surrounded by similarly-minded people.

 

We understand that people pour their passions, vision, creativity and business goals into their websites. We offer a safe, secure space where a dream today is often a successful venture tomorrow. People, not technology, are at the centre of our business. Our solutions are designed around the needs of our customers – we believe that WordPress shares that vision.  

Thank you! to all our generous sponsors

Posted on by Trisha Cornelius

One of the many cool things about WordCamp is that it is one of the most affordable technology conferences. It’s not unusual for conferences to charge over R1,000. With WordCamp, we keep our ticket prices to be less than 20USD per day. The reason that we can do this is because of our amazing sponsors who step up and help us.

Without their continued support, there is no way that we would be able to make WordCamp as affordable and accessible as it is. There financial support means that we are able to deliver   for two days, including all meals.

So, without any further ado, please join me in thanking:

WooCommerce – built on WordPress, WooCommerce is a fully customizable, open-source eCommerce solution

JetPack – powered by WordPress.com JetPack connects your site to the global services, community and support provided by WordPress.com so that you can focus on the stuff that matters.

GoDaddy Pro – Offering a robust suite of products for designers and developers to save time and improve the management of all their clients. The GoDaddy Pro’s time-saving tools let you update WordPress core, plugins and themes with one click, as well as automate WordPress backups, cloning and migrations

bluehost – a WordPress partner since 2005 that powers over 1 million WordPress websites worldwide. Bluehost helps their customers (novice or pro) to create a thriving online presence at an affordable price.

uAfrica.com – offers eCommerce tools to help businesses streamline their fulfillment and shipping processes.

Hetzner –  focuses on delivering web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, performance value and good service deliver in order to live up to its brand promise: “Trusted in Hosting”

PayFast – the go-to South African payment gateway that allows you to start selling online with the least amount of effort possible. PayFast offers a wide range of payment methods through a single integration.

Trisha Cornelius – is a freelance WordPress developer who helps people get their business, cause or personal site online with a minimum amount of stress and fuss on time and on budget.

Paid Memberships Pro – is a 100% GPL compliant WordPress membership plugin with over 60,000 active installs and 6 top payment integration. It’s flexible enough to fit the needs of almost all membership-based companies and organizations and includes extensive hooks, filters, and recipes allowing developers to tailor it to your specific needs.

Servebolt provides high performance managed hosting for WordPress and WooCommerce, applying its speed to both the front-end, the backend and the databases . Servebolt opened a South African data center in October 2018.

Flicker Leap is a web development, marketing and problem-solving agency.  They provide digital solutions (development, marketing, eCommerce and server/email infrastructure) to companies with a focus on achieving growth through partnership, actionable metrics and quick iterations (hey agile!)

Thank you again to all our generous sponsors. We wouldn’t be able to do this without you 🙂