Energy News Africa reports on oil, gas, power and renewables across the continent. We migrated it to a cloud server on Hetzner with no downtime, and it has stayed on that hosting since.
This site defers its images until a reader scrolls, which a capture tool cannot trigger, so the thumbnails are missing from these snapshots. The layout and structure are as they appear live.
How it's built
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A trade publication front page
A lead story runs full width, then Latest News, a headline list and a Press Release rail sit side by side. A trade reader is scanning for one specific development, so the page favours a lot of headlines over a few large images.
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Beats as top-level navigation
Oil and Gas, Africa News, Alternative Energies, International News, Upcoming Events, Tenders and Procurement each get their own place in the bar rather than hiding under a generic News menu. On a trade title the beat is the product.
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Standing commercial blocks
Subscribe, Ad Rates and Tenders sit in the main navigation alongside editorial sections, because for a trade publisher those are revenue, not footer links.
What it does
Moved to a Hetzner cloud server
Migrated with no downtime, and running on that hosting since.
Beat-level sections
Oil and Gas, Alternative Energies, Africa News, International News and more, each as a top-level destination.
Events and tenders
Upcoming Events and Tender and Procurement listings alongside the news feed.
Press release channel
A separate rail so industry announcements do not crowd out reporting.
Subscribe and ad rates
Commercial routes promoted in the main navigation.
Under the hood
Hosting
Hetzner cloud server
Platform
WordPress
Delivery
Cloudflare
Transport
HTTP/2 over TLS, HSTS enabled
Migration
Moved with no downtime
How we run it
Cloud server on Hetzner, sized to the traffic
Server updates, TLS certificate renewals and service monitoring
Off-site backups with restores on request
Uptime monitoring with alerts
A route to us when something needs attention
Moved to hosting that suits the traffic, without visitors noticing.
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