About

My name’s Gian Visser. I’m the MD of the South African web hosting company Afrihost.com.

BTW that’s my Mean-ass, I-Want-YOU-To-Host-Your-Site-With-Us Look. Terrifying I know…

You probably want to know whether you should spend your excruciatingly important time reveling in my prose and watching my videos?

Well the quick answer to that is:

Absolutely!

This does not mean that I know everything. In fact I’m not even close to the Ballpark of Everything. I’m not even close to the city that has the ballpark in it.

Everyday I am staggered by what I don’t know (my lovely wife is no doubt nodding sagely at this point!)

But – and this is a Big-Capital-Letter But …

I have learnt a staggering amount in the last 6 years Afrihost.com has been going.

6 years ago we easily had enough money to splash out on at least 3 Chappies.

In fact all we could afford to invest was a whack of time, blood, sweat and tears. So that’s what we did. We invested pints.

Subsequently when the moola was somewhat more plentiful we’ve spent a small fortune on a variety of courses, training and seminars.

And I’m committed to learning more, every day.

More than that – and this is the important part - I’m committed to sharing it with those who want to hear about it.

Do you want to hear about it?

Another question from a sceptic would be something like:

“What’s the catch? Why is Gian giving all this stuff away? What’s in it for him? There must be something going on here?”

Not an easy question this but here goes:

I like helping people.

Quite simply I firmly believe in the principle that you reap what you sow. That if you give you will get.

Obviously I do also believe that Afrihost.com will also benefit from this – simply because it will hopefully give you an insight into what our service philoshophy is here.

So I suppose the catch would be: I hope to show you that we can deliver the best service available and that you would choose us to host your website (if you aren’t already)

In the end I am a marketer – so if you’re looking for the dark, ulterior motive here it is: I want you to succeed and I want you to succeed with Afrihost.com. And I want to show you why it’s easier to succeed with us than with anyone else.

So there it is – Welcome to my blog and I hope it helps you out in some way!