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How Much Does It Cost To Host A Website In Kenya? [Revealed]

Are you asking; how much does it cost to host a website in Kenya?

In this article, I will help you answer this question using examples from Truehost.

Here is the thing;

There are three types of websites.

  • Personal sites
  • Online stores (eCommerce websites)
  • Business websites

I mean, whenever you want to host a website, you fall under any of these three broad categories.

And depending on your category, the cost of hosting a website will vary.

For example;

The cost of hosting a simple personal website is much cheaper than when hosting a business website.

Why?

It has to do with the resources.

When building a personal website, you don’t need a whole 50 GB of storage, but a business website needs it.

Why?

Because a business website comes with several pages and serves a lot of users.

Now, getting such a big storage space may cost you more.

With that said, let’s go through each category of the websites and what to expect in terms of the cost of hosting such a website in Kenya.

How Much Does It Cost To Host A Website In Kenya

#1 – Hosting a personal website in Kenya

An example of a personal website is a portfolio site.

This is a website you create to showcase your work.

For example;

If you are a freelance photographer, you may need a central place where your potential clients can access and preview some of your work.

To do that, you will need to create a website where you can upload some of your work.

Considering the nature of such a website, it won’t require a lot of resources.

Anything between 10 GB to 30 GB of storage is enough.

Also, things like bandwidth wouldn’t be a problem since the site won’t be attracting more visitors.

In such a case, you should expect to pay at most 2K to host such a website.

Have in mind that this excludes the cost of the domain, which will depend on the extension you pick.

At Truehost, we have web hosting plans designed perfectly for such purposes.

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First, there is the Bronze hosting package.

cost to host a website in Kenya

This web hosting package costs KES 0 for the first month.

And after that, you pay only KES 399 per year.

Inside, this is what you get:

  • Up to 500 Visits per month 
  • Host only 1 site
  • Cloud shared hosting type
  • 1GB Cloud Storage
  • 1GB Bandwidth per month
  • Free Let’s Encrypt SSL

Assuming you get a .co.ke domain, which costs KES 399, this web hosting package should cost you less than 1K per year.

KES 1500 per year hosting in Kenya

Additionally, there is the Silver hosting plan.

cost to host a website in Kenya

With just KES 1500, you can have this hosting plan.

Inside, you get;

  • The traffic of up to 10K per month
  • Host up to 3 websites
  • Cloud shared type
  • 30 GB storage
  • Free SSL certificate

With such awesome specs, this type of hosting is perfect for someone seeking to start a blogging career in Kenya.

How much does it cost to host a website in Kenya under this package?

Whether you get a .com or .co.ke domain, your costs should be less than KES 3K per year.

To wrap up the costs of hosting a personal website, here are some pointers;

  • Consider the growth potential of your website. If it a blog, go with Silver, but if it is for personal stuff, Bronze will do

#2 – Hosting a business website in Kenya

A typical business website is attracting at least 5K visits per month. 

That means you need adequate bandwidth and storage space to accommodate all the files (images, files, and articles).

With such requirements, here is how the costs look like;

Silver hosting package works for this type of website.

Why?

This hosting package comes with unlimited bandwidth, which suits perfectly with a popular website.

Additionally, the plan allows you to host up to three websites.

His means that if you have additional sites you’d wish to add to your business, you won’t have to get an additional hosting account.

All you have to do is make the extra domains as add-ons.

If this interests you, you should expect to pay KES 1499 per year.

And depending on the choice of the domain extension, the costs shouldn’t rise above 4K (assuming you have the 3 extra domains).

Alternatively, there is the Gold hosting plan.

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This package allows you to host up to 30 websites, which means that you will forget about getting extra hosting spaces if you wish to add more sites to your current portfolio.

As such, this package is perfect for someone having more than 3 websites that receive over 50K visitors per month.

Here is what is inside;

  • 50 GB of storage
  • WordPress & 400+ CMS
  • Node JS & Python
  • PHP 7.3 ready
  • MYSQL Latest, among others.

How much will it cost to host a website in Kenya with this package?

With a hosting cost of KES 3499 per year, if you are using a .co.ke domain, you should be paying anything between KES 4499 (if you pick .com domain) to KES 4699 (for .co.ke domain) per year.

Then there is the Platinum hosting plan.

cost to host a website in Kenya

Costs more than the Gold plan, but gives you flexibility in terms of the maximum number of monthly visitors your site can sustain.

Additionally, you get extra storage space.

#3 – Hosting an eCommerce website in Kenya

As you can already guess an online store in Kenya requires more resources than any other type of website.

You need a bigger storage space to accommodate all the product images and other files. 

And unfortunately, anything less than 50 GB of storage is not enough.

Then there are the thousands of people who will be visiting the site daily.

For this alone, you need unlimited bandwidth.

Without it, your users will be experiencing issues such as slow-loading pages, and sometimes, the store will be down.

Trust me, you don’t want that.

In fact, a business loses roughly 25% of its online visitors if its site takes over 4 seconds to load.

Ouch!

That’s a ton of money down the drain.

So, what should you do?

Unlimited web hosting in Kenya

You have two options;

Go with our Unlimited package.

unlimited web hosting in Kenya

With this plan, you have everything unlimited.

This means that you can do anything with this plan, including hosting multiple websites.

The cost to host a website in Kenya with this unlimited plan?

This depends on the number of domains you own and the types of extensions.

Assuming you have 10 domains, all .co.ke, the costs should be around KES 20K per year.

Alternatively, you can get your own server.

VPS and Dedicated hosting in Kenya

You have two options here;

  • A VPS server hosting- costs KES 699 – 2499 per month depending on features.

cost to host a website on a VPS in Kenya

  • Dedicated server hosting –  costs KES 6000 per month and above, again, depending on specs, and whether managed or unmanaged.

cost of dedicated web hosting in kenya

What to do next

The cost to host a website in Kenya depends on the resources you need to adequately operate your website.

If you are running a resource-intensive website, you will have to dig deeper for higher packages that offer what you need.

But if you are hosting a simple site, the costs will be lower.

Now that you know what to look for, check these cheapest web hosting packages in Kenya.

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