Startup Africa

Client: Startup Africa

www.startupafrica.co.za African Digital Magazine

Business Challenge

startupAFRICA is a pioneering monthly digital magazine that showcases and celebrates the efforts of

entrepreneurs who work towards developing startups and progressive businesses which contribute to

the growth and success of the African economy.

Challenges the business was facing was downtime and cyber-attacks on the website and emails .

Solution

built a completely new system from scratch. The use of state-of-the-art technology and refined software

architecture provides higher scalability and enables smooth further enhancements. The newly

redesigned product features top-notch UI design, while the enhanced and extended functionality set

offers a much wider range of content management system tools.

Finally, the system performance was optimized to increase the application’s responsiveness, reduce the

server load, and decrease server costs.

SERVICE IMPROVEMENTS:

• Integration of Ruby-based administration module with and WordPress-based frontend;
• Implementation of 4 types of user profiles (superadmin, admin, operator, user) with extended

rights management system.

• SSL integration for security;
• Migration of all data to the new website
• Web server work optimization

Business Analysis, Design, Development, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Support and Cyber

security .

TECHNOLOGIES

MySQL, React.JS, HTML5 and WordPress , Bootstrap and OneSignal