What You Get With Your Photography Hosting

A photography website needs somewhere to store its pages, images, galleries and other files so visitors can access them online. Your hosting account provides that space and connects your website to your domain.

For photographers, it’s worth considering storage capacity, website performance, backups, security and how easily you can manage your site. A hosting plan with WordPress and cPanel support can also make it simpler to build and maintain your portfolio.

For many photographers, yes. A portfolio website with a manageable number of galleries can run comfortably on shared hosting, particularly when images are resized and optimised before they are uploaded.

Truehost’s WebHosting Starter plan, for example, supports up to 10 websites, includes 30 GiB SSD storage and is designed for approximately 25,000 monthly visits. Photographers with larger portfolios or higher traffic can move to a plan with more storage and resources as their requirements increase.

The cost depends on the hosting package and billing period you choose.

Truehost Kenya’s current web hosting options include:

All three main plans include features such as WordPress support, free automated SSL, unlimited bandwidth, email accounts, backups, a website builder and cPanel.

For a photographer launching a portfolio website, the Starter package can be a practical place to begin. If you expect to host several websites, larger galleries or a busier site, the Pro or Unlimited plans provide more room.

It can be, especially when you’re starting out and your images are properly compressed before uploading.

Truehost’s Starter package currently provides 30 GiB of SSD storage. How quickly you use that space will depend on the number of photographs you publish, the size of each image, your website files and any email accounts stored with the hosting plan.

Photographers with extensive archives or multiple large galleries should consider a plan with additional storage rather than keeping every original high-resolution image on their website.

WordPress is one of the simplest options if you want to create and update your own photography website.

You can choose a photography-focused theme, create portfolio and gallery pages, add your services and packages, publish blog posts and include contact or enquiry forms without developing the entire website from scratch.

Truehost hosting includes WordPress support and a one-click installer, making it possible to get WordPress running without manually handling the installation process.

A .co.ke domain is worth considering if most of your clients are in Kenya. It immediately gives your website a local identity and can work particularly well for photographers serving Kenyan weddings, events, businesses and families.

For example, a photography brand could use a domain such as yourstudio.co.ke or yournamephotography.co.ke.

You aren’t limited to .co.ke, though. A .com or another suitable extension can also work depending on your brand and whether you plan to serve clients outside Kenya.

Yes. Your website can be organised into different galleries or portfolio sections for the types of photography you offer.

For example, a wedding photographer could have separate pages for traditional weddings, church weddings, destination weddings and engagement shoots. A commercial photographer could organise their portfolio around products, corporate events, restaurants or other client projects.

Keeping galleries organised also makes it easier for potential clients to find examples that are relevant to the type of photography they want to book.

Yes. Truehost’s web hosting plans include email accounts, allowing you to create addresses connected to your domain.

Instead of relying entirely on a personal email address, you can use addresses such as [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected] when communicating with clients.