Nigerian Companies Offering Web Hosting (and Domain Name Registration)

During our recent free domain and website competition , someone mentioned how he hasn't been able to get a domain or website hosting account due to inability to secure access to an International credit card (thanks in part to our 419 stigma).

But there are so many local website hosting companies that can be paid in naira through a Nigerian bank! Some of them can be pretty affordable and reliable, but it's not easy to tell which is which. So I thought we could use this thread to list links to the various web hosting companies in the country and discuss their pricing, customer-service and reliability.

Please, if you have any experience with a Nigerian web hosting company, please be sure to participate in this thread (after registration)

LINKS TO NIGERIAN WEB HOSTING COMPANIES
- www.nairahost.com (not related to nairaland).
- www.domainstandard.net
- www.mcreal.net
- www.enwhy.com
- www.dafikas.net/webhosting.htm
- www.ipnxnigeria.net/host.html

What other web hosting companies in Nigeria are you aware of? How reliable are their services? How helpful is their support? How affordable is the total cost of hosting a website with them? Feel free to share what you know on this thread! The information shared in this thread should empower participants and readers with the knowledge to make the right choice of web host.

Representatives of the various website hosting companies are invited to participate in this discussion, too. Over to you!

hey guys RealHost offers cheap service quite fast www.realhostng.net

Well you may check out www.unleashedsolution.com powered various community site and one of nigeria's biggest site to be lunched soon www.nigerianyouthnetwork.com. Customer support well rendered including coding support for you project.

Can any one tell me the cheapest web host and domain registrar in Nigeria, and where services can be paid in Naira. And also offer a good and cheap reseller program

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I think the cheapest web host in Nigeria is ABIMCO Web Host; www.abimco.com. I am one of their resellers, although the basic plan of both ABIMCO and Nairahost is N3,500 with Free Domain, ABIMCO's offer is more robust and have a cheaper and better reseller plan.

Nairahost reseller programme is only 9,000 Naira, and the package also comes with a domain reseller programme at 12,000 Naira which comes in credit for 10 domains automatically. That means this 12,000 Naira would be used by you, to register domains for your clients at your own convenience. domains is @ 1200 Naira. Where else do you get it at this price. So it depends on what your want really.

Nairahost gives you only 30mb disk space for your own site for N9000 and you still continue to pay Nairahost for the the site of your clients, though at reduced price. But at ABIMCO you pay N19,800 for 2000MB and you can host 50 sites, you determine your price, and you also can brand your packages yourself. Though Nairahost beat ABIMCO to Domain reseller cos they offer for N1,400

hmm is this a competition or something . hehehe chill.

Besides @ Nairahost the package includes branding. All your clients information would be using your companies information and nameserver. All we do is reduce your burden of maintaining the hussles and troubles of providing direct hosting.

We help you do everything. All you need is to forward your support request mails to us, and we reply directly to you and you give your clients that support. All jobs done for you.

Domain reseller pricing is 1200 Naira. Point of correction.

ABIMCO for now offer the best reseller opportunity in Nigeria. I joined the reseller program when I was doing my IT few months ago and Iam glad I did. The customer support is superb and service delivery is within 60 munites. With only an investment of N19,800 4 months ago, I am not thinking of looking for job because I now have my web hosting company and I am comfortable.

I have read all the contributions thus far and the comparism between Abimco and nairahost. Well, nairahost.com takes the burden off you as you dont have to pay one-term fee for the ABIMCO reseller plan. With nairahost, you only make payment whenever you place order. This implies that if you dont make order, you dont have to pay. Like Kayode said, nairahost domain reseller plan is still the cheapest. So, just look critically at what you are looking for and make ur choice. Check the services being offered at the sites and decide...

To me Nairahost program is just an affilaite program not a reseller program. The N9,000 paid look like a setup fee. ABIMCO offer similar programm Free of Charge to Youth Corpers and students who want to start, but has no fund to pay for a complete reseller package, this was one of the options I was given. And Abimco offers domain registration for as low as N1,000 for her Platinum Resellers.

What about web hosting companies outside Nigeria for Nigerians?

I really think its worth mentioning that ipNX Nigeria has UPGRADED their Web hosting offerings:

On both windows and Linux boxes:

2000MB - 4000MB starting from 18,000NAIRA(Linux)

Now thats some space and Webmasters can actually host multiple sites using Domain name forwarding. Aint that just cool?


Also theres a new Visioneer on the block:

http://www.thinkcube.org

Well thats my babeeee!!!!

From 20MB - 1000MB....check it out!!!!!!!!! Very affordable.
so I brand, design (with php and mySql support), and host, Very fast tooooo.

let me showcase two sites I designed all hosted on thinkcube's hosting facility.

http://www.godkulture.org/
http://www.footballdevelopmentfoundation.org/
kultureman.com is coming soon too.

Cheers people

thekultureman

olutoyin:

What about web hosting companies outside Nigeria for Nigerians?

It worth to Note that Nairahost uses USA located servers and has a branch in Malaysia. Besides that Nairahost has clients from Malaysia, France, USA and even Australia. That means our hosting is not only dedicated to the Nigerian market only.

We also have reseller packages currently which gives you total control over your clients using the Web Host Manager by Cpanel and this also comes with client management script for your hosting management.

It cost only 15,000 Naira for 2000MB and 15GB bandwidth Reseller package. It comes with 2 nameservers of your choice and total anonymousity is ensured. Other features can be viewed by visiting our site.

Our servers are totally maintained by professional dedicated technicians of fastservers in the USA. we provide 24/7 e-mail support too. on yahoo messenger we provide 12 hours support from 12pm GMT to 12am.

More Information can be obtained at Nigeria Web Hosting . Please feel free to use our support desk if you have any enquiries regarding our identity or services.

We also have a promotional package of 500MB at 10,000 Naira only.

We accept paypal, credit cards, GTB and STB bank transfer.

If you need any proof for our claims please feel free to contact us too .

Just Web Services is based in Nigeria but does not offer cheap web hosting plans because the focus is reliability and availability so we stick with a plan that guarantees maxixmum uptime.

Just Web Services - http://www.justwebservices.com

Customer service and support is free as long as any contract lasts

please i am searching for a nigerian company that does webhosting and domain registration, with php and asp included, with a reasonable fee. i'd appreciate some good help.
thanks

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NB! Nigerians without credit or debit cards should visit  www.nigeria-host.com
You can pay for our services in Naira at your local bank.

Oh la la!

Web4Africa offers web hosting as well. Using Linux servers. Many free scripts available for instant installation on your websites: Shopping carts, blogs, wikis, forums, customer support, web hosting billing, and much more.
MYSQL database and so much I can't list here.

World-class hosting, affordable rates. Reliable servers. Great 24/7 customer support.

Whats more? Domain name registration is only $10!

It doesn't get better. Sure doesn't.

http://www.web4africa.net

www.asorockhost.com takes mediocrity out of web hosting.What's the use hosting on little disk space if you can pay the same price for gigabytes hosting?
For example 15gigs for just N20,000 is what i call ideal.See quote from the site...........
www.asorockhost.com/webhosting.htm
"Aso Rock Host has now lunched a win win reseller program aimed at helping you multiply your income. The web hosting industry grows daily as hundreds of thousand new businesses go online. With a very little investment, you can tap into this multimillion dollar venture.

How It Works: You can choose from any of the two packages on offer depending on which one suits your marketing strategy. Thus your profits can not be immediately estimated as you can make as much as thrice your initial investment.

Pay Twice Advantage: To further make your going into business easy, we allow payment on two installments for any purchase up to N58,000 by immediately setting you up on payment of 90% of the amount payable while you are allowed to pay the balance 90 days from the day of initial set-up"
see site www.asorockhost.com/resellersdelight.htm

Ok thanks i have been looking i knew mcreal b4 shaa

Well i don't know about you guys and all you are going on about, at the end of the day, it's cheap for what, it's like buying a computer for 10,000 naira, it's cheap but it's also creap, for me am not looking for cheap but for a place where, there service is good, and uptime is 99%, for me that is ok, for me i use xceptions.biz, it's a small company but there uptime is wonderful and there customer care is great.

If the uptime of your host is 99% them you have a Abimco is better than your host, her uptime is 100% see this independent monitor: http://www.webhostingstuff.com/uptime/AbimcoWebHost.html

The monitoring tool was for 48 days and not one year.

That your site is up for less than 2 months does not mean that it will remain so for up to a year.

Even properly scheduled maintenance by your hosting company is enough to reduce the uptime from 100% to anything less than that.

I will agree to the 100% uptime is it stays so for 12 months.

erm can someone just make a chart and make this whole heap of data/cluster more sensible and straightforward, though a lot of advert but i think it will be more appealling if this comes in form of a table

Hi have u guys considered www.domaisn4pick.com.
Check dem out!!!
I use their service and its working
They are about quality and affordable fee

Nairahost i thought they said they have free hosting.i cant find it there oh!.can u?

mikkybuddy you like free things, even your site was hosted on a free server, try and get one you can pay for. it's cheap.

@ 4real what will that one be called..? insult or what.where and where have u seen me getting free things.People like you cant even buy that una go and steal up peoples Credit card and pose.

mikebuddy:

@ 4real what will that one be called..? insult or what.where and where have u seen me getting free things.People like you can't even buy that una go and steal up peoples Credit card and pose.

mikebuddy, don't mind 4real, there is no sin starting with  free hosting. You can have your beautiful site hosted for only N2,500 a year with your domain name www.mikebuddy.com FREE  at www.abimco.com

@ ijebu 10x i wil try that is it one full year.?

mikebuddy:

@ ijebu 10x i wil try that is it one full year.?

Yes one full year for only N2,500 for .com, .net etc, but if you want www.mikebuddy.info it is only N2,000