Cape Town-based full service Web hosting firm WebNow recently moved offices after occupying its previous space for six years. Since starting up in 1999, the firm has grown to 20 people, as its portfolio expanded with the acquisition of several significant projects. These include a cradle-to-grave online shopping site for Toyota South Africa; the full registration management sites for the Cape Argus Cycle Tour, Junior Cycle Tour, Tricycle Tour and Giro del Capo; and a content management-based site for Cape Town’s Canal Walk Shopping Centre.

Anybody can set up a forum script and host it somewhere, but what does it take to make a set of forums on the Web a big success?  Well, I might not be able to help you build the most popular set of message boards you have ever seen (because if I could, I’d be doing that – earning millions in Google AdSense ads, and not still going on and on here) .  I do have a few suggestions though how you can get off the ground after having setup your forum script.

‘If you look at the US providers, anywhere from between 5 and 15 per cent growth is a good target,’ he said in an interview with BizIT following the completion of the company’s acquisition of Singapore-based Internet service provider Skydio. While cautioning against market volatility, Mr Lim, who is one of Singapore’s web-hosting business pioneers, is bullish about business prospects