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Build, ship and scale on African cloud infrastructure

Web Happy Cloud gives South African teams the primitives they expect from a hyperscaler — virtual machines, object storage, VPC networking and IAM — with local latency, rand-denominated billing and humans on support.

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cloud.webhappy.co.za/compute/instances

africa-south1
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Running VMs

4

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Buckets

3

payments

Spend MTD

R 1 842

Instances

Create

wordpress-prod-01

africa-south1-a

 running

api-prod-01

africa-south1-a

 running

analytics-batch-01

africa-south1-c

 stopped

99.9%

Uptime SLA on compute and storage

8 ms

Median latency from major SA metros

ZAR

Billing in rand, no FX surprises

24/7

Local engineers on WhatsApp

Products

The building blocks, without the hyperscaler bill

Start with a single VM and grow into private networking, object storage and fine-grained access control. Everything is available from the console, REST API and CLI.

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Compute Engine

On-demand virtual machines with persistent SSD or balanced disks, custom machine types and public IPs.

From R1.10 / hour

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Cloud Storage

S3-compatible object storage with versioning, lifecycle classes and per-bucket access policies.

From R0.22 / GB

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VPC networking

Software-defined networks, regional subnets, firewall policies and reserved static addresses.

Included

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IAM

Organization, folder and project scoped roles with policy inheritance and audit trails.

Included

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Billing & budgets

Rand-denominated usage billing, budgets, forecasts and per-service cost breakdowns.

Pay as you go

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Custom domains

Register .co.za and global domains through our ZA registrar network, or connect a domain you already own.

From R99 / year

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APIs & automation

Service accounts, scoped API keys and a gcloud-compatible CLI for infrastructure as code.

Included

GPU & AI

Accelerated compute, closer to your data

We are building GPU capacity and managed AI services for South African teams that need serious compute without sending data or spend offshore.

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Coming soon africa-south1
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GPU as a Service

Dedicated GPU instances for training, inference, rendering and simulation — attached to your projects, VPC and IAM from the first boot.

  • check On-demand GPU instances
  • check Persistent high-speed disks
  • check Per-second ZAR billing
  • check Same VPC and IAM controls
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Coming soon Local data residency
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AI Services

Managed inference, embeddings, speech and document understanding — with the same projects, budgets and access controls as the rest of your cloud.

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Roadmap item. GPU and AI workloads are not billable yet; early-access enquiries are handled by the Web Happy team.

Developer experience

Infrastructure as code, from day one

Every resource in the console is backed by the same control plane API. Use the CLI in CI, or issue scoped keys for Terraform and GitHub Actions.

  • check_circle Organization → folders → projects → resources hierarchy
  • check_circle Policy inheritance with predefined roles and audit logging
  • check_circle Metering engine that turns usage into rand-denominated invoices
terminal cloud-cli 
# authenticate with a service account key
whc auth activate-service-account --key-file=ci-key.json

# provision a production VM
whc compute instances create wordpress-prod-01 \
  --machine-type=e2-standard-4 \
  --zone=africa-south1-a \
  --image-family=web-happy-wordpress \
  --tags=http-server,https-server

# inspect month-to-date spend
whc billing projects describe web-happy-prod

✓ instance/wordpress-prod-01 created
✓ firewall rule allow-https applied
✓ estimated cost R 1 840.00 / month

Pricing

Pay for what you use, in rand

Usage is metered hourly and invoiced monthly. Stop an instance and you stop paying for compute — disks and reserved addresses stay on the books until you delete them.

Resource Spec Price
e2-micro 2 vCPU · 1 GB R 0.15 / hour
e2-standard-2 2 vCPU · 8 GB R 1.05 / hour
e2-standard-4 4 vCPU · 16 GB R 2.10 / hour
Balanced disk Per GB R 1.10 / GB / month
Standard storage Per GB R 0.22 / GB / month
Static IP Reserved address R 3.20 / month

Activation

R 99.00 once-off

Your workspace is provisioned only after the secure payment has been verified.

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  • check No card details stored by us
  • check Workspace live after confirmation
  • check Cancel from the console
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