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Energy trade publisher · Africa

Energy News Africa

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

01

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.

02

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.

03

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

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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