Web hosting or website hosting is an internet based service that hosts websites for a clients. The services ranges from storage(for putting website files on servers), maintenances, and making websites available on WWW (world wide web). There are many options for web hosting in Ethiopia.
Now days, having and managing websites for organizations and for personal are simplified. If you are technical person you can develop your own custom website and host them on servers, but if you are not you can follow tutorials to learn how to customize websites using content management tools like WordPress, Jomla, Dropal and many more.
After developing or customizing websites, hosting come, which is very crucial step to make your work available on the internet. I remember, I studied Computer Science and start to develop websites since 2015 but I have never been able to host any of websites until I started searching and understanding website hosting options available in Ethiopia.
By the time I got it, I able to host my first website in 2018. In this blog I will review some of the methods and options you can use to host your websites living in Ethiopia.
Top 5 Web Hosting in Ethiopia
The selections are according to my choice, and it may not be true for everyone. But since there are limited number of choices for website hosting in Ethiopia, I thought those are the best ones. The good news is you can pay online from where ever you are in Ethiopia to buy one of their services.
One: Ethio telecom – Ethio telecom is partially government owned telecom company in Ethiopia. Recently, after competitor telecom company announced to enter Ethiopian telecommunication market, Ethio telecom is going through an amazing changes. They have an old portal where they sell domain names and hosting services. For a price range starting with 650 Birr/year (Lunix Bronze, which is very limited) to 5,200 Birr/year (Lunix Platinum, unlimited). Visit ethio telecom Hosting Portal
Two: Yegara Host – Yegara host provides a nice hosting services, it is where this website was hosted a year ago. They are excellent in their simplicity. Payment and usage mechanisms are easy for everyone. They are web hosting service based in UK. Price range from 780 Birr/year (for personal use) to 1, 780 Birr/year (for enterprise websites). Visit Yegara HOST | Ethiopia’s Web Hosting and Domain Provider | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Three: HahuCloud – Like Yegara Host, they provide simple, safe and high performance services. Price range from 1,200 Birr/year (Personal Website) to 1, 900 Birr/year (for enterprise use). They are web hosting service based in US. Visit HahuCloud – Ethiopia’s Web Hosting and Web Design Service Provider
Four: Techno Bros. – Techno Bros. is the prominent web hosting service provider in Ethiopia, which provides fast, reliable and secure hosting services. Many Banks used their services for long times. Banks like Dashen, Awash, and more. Visit Web Hosting – Techno Bros. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Five: Gojo Host – Gojo Host is also very user friendly and trusted by many clients like Banks and other big organizations. Hijra Bank, eatsafe and more. They also provides secure and fast services. Price range 660 Birr/year (for starter website) to 1, 360 Birr/Year. Visit gojohost.net
Selection Criteria
Well usually the choice is personal. But to make it standard I prefer an organization that simplify all processes, starting from buying domain to hosting. Some of my criteria are:
- Simple and fast user interfaces
- Simplified way of buying domain name and availability of online payment.
- Simplified configuration during hosting like DNS
- Unlimited Storage
- Automatic security updates, like SSL
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Unlimited Emails and Databases
- Should support at least 10 subdomains
- Support for one click content management installer, like softaculous.
