Sponsor Spotlight: RSAWEB WordPress Hosting

We are very proud to welcome RSAweb as Title Sponsor for WordCamp Cape Town 2011. RSAweb is South Africa’s leading Internet Services Provider, specialising in Internet access, hosting and enterprise-class data centre solutions.

Tell us a bit about your business. How do you use WordPress?

We’re an Internet Service Provider with a long history and passion for hosting WordPress Websites – everything from small personal blogs to media companies publishing content on a large scale. We work closely with developers & integrators to make sure they get the optimal wordpress hosting environment, backed up by essential services such as Load Balancing, Scaling, CDN, security and hosting consulting. We also use WordPress for the majority of our online properties, making our lives much simpler!

Why WordPress?

We feel that WordPress has a great future, and a brilliant community behind it. It has played a huge part in shaping the web, and will keep evolving and enabling more people to publish quality content and make money online.

Why did you decide to get involved and sponsor WordCamp Cape Town 2011?

WordCamp has an amazing global reputation as the premier WordPress community event. Enabling this event to come to South Africa, is a great way to support the local WordPress community, and spread word about WordPress in South Africa. We’ve used WordPress ourselves for many years (and tried others) but WordPress is continuously the top performer.

What are your thoughts on the WordPress community as a whole? And the South African WP community?

WordPress has a very active and impressive community globally. We’re very pleased to see how the local WordPress community has grown over the past few years.

What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Cape Town?

Seeing some of our very own world-class WordPress community thought-leaders in action on the stage. South Africa has some of the top companies involved with WordPress based here and for everyone to experience their thoughts around WordPress will hopefully be inspiring.

Who in the WordPress community inspires you? Who do you follow?

We’re inspired by the vision of Founder Matt Mullenweg, as well as local heroes achieving global success like the guys from Woo Themes and Obox.

What is the most exciting improvement to WordPress that you have noticed in the last year?

Overall, we’ve been impressed by the increased speed of WordPress, the much improved API for the all-important widget-creators and the ease at which we’ve been able to assist customers scale their sites to cope with high volumes of pageviews.

Where do you see WordPress 2 years from now?

We see WordPress being more integrated into the business and enterprise space, and used more as a business tool for eCommerce and B2B business models. The integration of new technologies such as HTML 5 will also bring about interesting new capabilities. WordPress core development is strong and ongoing which brings new features and functionality, we will continue to see ongoing change and improvement. The 3rd party community will also evolve into offering additional addons and making WP even more extensible.