₦airaland Forum

Frajama: I want to start blogging and i took me more than six months to digest and write on the topics that interest me most.
Right now i have started typing my contents, so i thought it will be wise to inquire from my fellow brothers and sisters who have been in the business how i will pay for a domain name here in nigeria since i don't have a credit or master card to carry out the transaction online. Please your suggestions will be appreciated.
Tanx

Register your domain with www.gigalayer.com, you can pay online with your ATM card or at any GTBank branch

Then you can use your domain with services like Blogger or Tumblr. Gigalayer will help you with the cofig.

Cheers.

elvis10ten: Please tell me a webhost you have used and enjoyed, and they give free domain when you sign up and their uptime is almost 100% ?

I simply suggest you use www.gigalayer.com

Although you pay for your domain names but quality service is there. Nairaland is using a dedicated server hosting.

jenifertaler: Hello naira friends please inform me that how can make free website? I want to make some site for blogging.
Thanks

If you want free blogging site, you can use any of these:
www.blogger.com
www.tumblr.com
www.

Cheers.

JayJohnson: How do I customize my domain name on blogger? Can the gurus in the house assist or direct? Kindly assist

This should help: http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55373

[quote author=*dhtml]I kinda love this woorank tool. It tells me lots of things i need to know in one glance - http://www.woorank.com/en/www/.net[/quote]I use Google Analytics which is obviously awesome. However, my best analytics tool is the MixPanel. It allows developers to monitor exactly what user interaction data they want to monitor.

Another alternative to MixPanel is Kissmetrics.

MisterMan: Hi Friends,

A friend of mine is into music. He has just released his second album. I want to help him create ringtones so he will have multiple streams of income; selling both the album and the ringtones. I love the way MTN and other sell ringtones by use of shortcode and I want to go that route. This is simplicity at best. I want a situation where people will get SMS informing them of ringtones. They on their own will send a code to that shoetcode. They will get the ringtone and the money will go to the musician's account. Creating ringtone is not really a problem. Does anyone know how the money for the ringtone will eventually land in his account. Will anybody be good enough to explain the general outline, not really the technical aspect per se. I want simplicity- just like MTN. User gets SMS message, texts a number to a shortcode. He gets the ringtone and my money lands in my friends account. Is something like this possible. As we are living in a global village, I want Nigerians in Diaspora to be able to do same. Will appreciate it much if some kind soul who have ideas to share it. Thanks.

Well I think what you are looking for is content providers like MTech Nigeria. The company sells most of the callertunes and ringtones that Networks like MTN, Glo Etisalat etc provide to you via short codes. You can contact them for more details. There website is www.mtechcomm.com

By the way, you have a misleading topic title.

Well well well... Eyowo has bee challenging for our business too. However, we simply choose to reason with them and advice them on their services. We started using Eyowo exactly 1 year ago (September 2011).

I received th esame email with a list of transaction references for orders amounting to exactly 15,000 yesterday and I immediately picked my phone and dialed their support desk. They first apologize and accepted their fault of having errors from their system. They also agreed to *kiss the lost if at all I am not able to reach the clients for the payments.

Well to cut the story short, I traced back the payment list and contacted the clients as follows:

"Hello ABC, I am calling to inform you that your payment for invoice XYZ was not honored by the gateway. However, your product/service was activated. This was an error from the payment gateway. You had insufficient balance on your card at the time of payment but the system failed to act on that. So, I would you like you to confirm this from your bank. We have reverted your invoice to unpaid, you should proceed to pay cash at the bank once you confirm that you have not been charged."

This evening, the clients confirmed they were truly not charged and made their payments at the bank in cash.

I am not trying to justify the incompetence of Eyowo, but trying to understand that these are challenges and I am glad they have rectified the issue. One of Softcom Imagio's staff (company behind Eyowo) once told me that they are actually on a more or less a *Beta (prelim) version of Eyowo and are doing their best to position well.

One thing I like about Eyowo is their User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) implementation. If only they iterate their problems fast and remedy them, I would be glad to continue using their service.

Thank you all... and I'm in noway related or affiliated with Eyowo. Cheers.

Is this scam? olxhost using free hosting from www.biz.ly and selling hosting?

I'm at http://mukoshy.com
Well unlike Ken Sawyer (Dual Core) , I have a profile, portfolio and also a blog!

Dual Core: Your voter's card is a Government-issued ID.

I don'think voter's card is an ID, not even in Nigeria will it be accepted as an Identification Card. Try Nigerian banks and see.

mohammedmuz: Thanks 4 the contribution!!!.

You should get one of these:
1) International Passport
2) Drivers License
3) National ID

Gerardcole: And this is a host you adviced me to go for. Thanks for your prompt reply though but with something like this happening to their site, how would i expect them to ensure mine is never off?

if you doubt it, check the time at the top right corner.

I am speechless about that! But I assure you quality service, you can verify testimonies from clients right on twitter in relation to GigaLayer... at http://twitter.com/gigalayer/favorites

databoy247: Rated as one of the best webhosting companies in Nigeria, am thrilled that trudigits is just f**king too rigid. They don't embrace social media and no promos, discounts, etc...I know say una serious for business oh but it will be good for us (clients) if you guys are a bit flexible. Get stuff going on facebook, twitter, give us mind blowing promos, etc

Just my thoughts oh.

LOL!
Maybe you should send them an email or talk to [url=http://nairaland.com/dual%20core]DualCore[/url].

Gerardcole: Thanks... I know many sites in Nigeria using Arvixe but I don't know of I can trust them.

Though their plans seem catchy, I can only guaranty you GigaLayer. Is it only the mass-mailing and traffic you are opt-in for? You can have a seamless email settings with a VPS and heroic support.

@DualCore:
You are NOT alone in this thought, when Ezra told me he's left... I was and they've been prolonging settlements not just this week, weeks back too. I just spoke with them about the current IIS default page and they said they're working on it.

I am having second thoughts for GTPay now... Maybe that's its the way forward (SADLY).

Gerardcole: I run a website with about 4.5K users and the number is increasing in 100's daily and im planning a VPS hosting package, but since I'm a dummy in this I seek advice from experienced web developers.

I wanted to use hostgator shared hosting but I read there is a limit to number of outgoing emails(500). And I wanna build a mailing function to the software which would send more than that limit as the users keeps increasing.

My budget is < or = 20USD monthly.

I am not sure you can get a reliable VPS at that budget. But I will suggest www.gigaLayer.com. Pricing starts from #9,000 a month for a Managed VPS with cPanel lisence.

You get 24/7 Managed VPS Service, you have less to worry about Server Management.

You can email sales@gigalayer.com if you want a custom plan and free content migration.

Jamie b: Webmasters, i have been blogging under the free wordpress platform but want to upgrade now. Which are the best domain registrar and host do i go for. Again how much is their cost per year.

I will recommend www.gigalayer.com for you. Free content transfer from Wordpress to your new hosting account. Fast and Reliable.

emmykk: Dual core is it d forum user name and password u want or the hosting/domain name account details you want?

He asked for your "cPanel" details not forum login. Then you should send him email.

The username and passeword you use at http://gethotinfo.com/cpanel

[quote author=dbodng.com]Smartweb has not replied me yet,pls some should me call their attention my username with them is engrpayne@yahoo.com[/quote]You should contact them NOT Nairaland! This cannot help you.
I found these numbers on their website, call them:
08035905422, 08051897087, 08094260722. or send an email to billing@smartweb.com.ng (with your registered email).

Stop panicking

[quote author=dbodng.com]I paid for domain and hosting on smartweb.com.ng
for almost 2 weeks now, despite my payment slip scanned
to them and mails their customer service,
up till now no response, they don't pick calls again
and some of their numbers are off.
Pls Are still functioning?
08032741905[/quote]THIS IS NOT NICE!

I think you should consider www.gigalayer.com next time. And please update this thread if you get things cleared up.

chiefkpokp: i want to know which of the bank has the best credit card for hosting, i found it difficult to host a website, because the site use to reject the card i am using.

You should be able to use your GTBank Card (MasterCard) on GigaLayer.

Spam OR Scam, which one are you trying to do? Please stop this and get something legitimate to do.

You can start with Linda Ikeji's blog.

chidi500: HOSTLIKER IS best Nigeria web hosting in 2012

Hostlinker is an on-line solution company based in Nigeria, Incoorperated in 14th March, 2002. Since then, we have been growing in both strength and capacity in efficient service delivery.

We are into a lot of online solutions including Web designing, Software developement, web hosting, web re-seller and domain name registration.

Hostlinker understands the financial limitations of small businesses and the need to have an online presence in order to succeed in business today. We understand because we are proud to be a small business here to serve the needs of other small businesses!!

Who awarded you the BEST host of 2012? I noticed you've been spamming everywhere hostlinker

Take it easy Mr. I have a webhosting company too (reseller) and I have to persuide people to buy from me.

databoy247: I dont know about you guys but the recent problem am experiencing with voguepay is that when i want to make purchase from any of their merchant sites, i really DONT click the "buy now" button before it takes me to the payment page. Is it supposed to be automatic? or is it a technical glitch which needs to be fixed? I started losing my money to this GTpay, interswitch blah blah blah last weekend the moment i start noticing the "buy now" button issue. Now i dont know if its my laptop or my network but i have tried with several other laptops and networks and it still gives me same problem.

Please confirm if you notice same issue (or you can carry out a test now to see for yourselves) or if the problem is from my own end so i can safely and confidently carry out my transactions without fear of losing money again. I have opened a support ticket on the above subject matter but maybe its either they are working on it or its discarded. Someone should please explain whats happening.

Thanks.

This has nothing to do with VoguePay, the sites you are paying from always controls when you get forwarded to the payment page.

They decide what you'll be charged and forward you to VoguePay. #okbye.

Eyyah, sorry for that.


If you can contact the registrar, they may be able to ammend the changes to the domain if its not older than 3days.

If you want .com.ng go to www.gigalayer.com

adewaleh: All nigerian hosting services are ressellers, dats why they can't give u unlimited disk space.. And other services,

POC: "Most of them are Resellers!" but not all. Actually the number of resellers claiming to be full fledge web host in Nigeria is alarming. www.gigalayer.com, www.web4africa.com, www.syskay.com, www.trudigits.com, www.whogohost.com and more are NOT reseller

Besides most of those amateur resellers can be fished from a glance.

playnaija: Please, do anyone have any idea of the designer of Kasuwa or the software they used or the company that did it.

I think you should be asking what software was used for Amazon or Ebay!

Kasuwa is owned by a billion dollar company that has similar exsistence in many countries, owned by the Germans behind Groupon.de

Cheers.

godswill4m: Is not about inferiority complex and is not that i feel foreign host are better. There a lot of foreign web host that sucks so bad than some Nigerian host but anyone that has used hostgator services before can vouch for Hostgator they have the best hosting and also good customer care.

Still, why not give the good and reliable Nigerian web hosts a handshake of patronage? Do you think US citizens will host with Nigerian webhosts no matter how good they are? That's support for their home grown companies!

I think your post should be about reliable Nigerian webhosts that can be an alternative to HostGator for Nigerians!

Thats better.

[quote author=.NET]OK. I have been profiling some of the Webhosting companies we have in Nigeria (on whois.com and who.is). Some are doing pretty well. Others are still trying.

Anyway, my question is: Are there any Nigerian-owned webhosting companies that have their Servers here in Nigeria. If there are, I'd really like to know.
If NOT, what could be the REAL problems that make it impossible (as we have seen).

.NET[/quote] No, i dont think there is one.

The reason is to power webservers, you need redundant power & cooling systems, highly professional technicians, specialized server computers and more importantly robust internet speed.

All these require a lot of money too! Chao.