Web hosting is a service that allows organizations and individuals to post a website or web page onto the Internet. A web host, or web hosting service provider, is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for the website or webpage to be viewed in the Internet.
Obviously, the first step to get your website online is purchasing web hosting and a domain name. There are various Kenya web hosting companies such as Truehost, Kenya Web Experts, Sasahost, Peak and Dale etc.
However, we want to ask the question: Is it worth it to purchase web hosting from Truehost, Kenya Web Experts or Sasahost when you just need a professional business brochure website?
Well, the answer is no and the reasons are as follows:
- The main reason is that web hosting is becoming more irrelevant by the day in this day and age of website builders. Website builders allow you to create a website from scratch or website templates that suit your business, provide you hosting and a domain at one affordable package i.e. they offer a one stop shop for getting your business online.
This relieves you the time consuming stress of searching for and vetting web developers
- Web hosting is expensive for small business owners. Most web hosting packages inclusive of a domain cost roughly Kshs 4000/yr. In addition to this, factor in the cost of developing a website which ranges around Kshs 15,000, coming to a total of around Kshs 20,000.
Compare this to a website builder package inclusive of a domain, hosting and a website at around Kshs 5,000/yr. You can save hundreds, no thousands! of shillings. You don’t need to wait too long either. You can create your own website in less than 30 minutes.
- Fast Support from website builders: One thing for sure, maintaining a website takes a lot of time and money. Picture this: you wake one day and find out that your site is inaccessible. One cause could be that the hosting package has expired or your website has some issues. You go and login to hosting account's client area and find out that your domain and hosting package hasn't expired. The next step will now be to contact your web developer. Right? Good. Ring, Ring.....you call the web developer and explain your issue. Most web developers will look at the issue and be assured that you will pay for the service, even if the issue may have been caused by the web developer's carelessness or something similar.
How does this compare to getting support from website builders' support team? One, everything is centralized in one place so you get support from the same support team who will help you out in every issue pertaining to your website. Two, website builders host 100s or 1000s of websites on their servers. This ensures that extreme care is taken so as to minimize downtimes. In the end, the chances of your website being inaccessible is minimal close to none.
- Website builders are easy to use: Almost all website builders offer a drag and drop facility, which means the user need not write a new code every time for every change he wishes to make to the website. It thus gives the user the ability to upgrade content and images very easily. You can test out our drag and drop website builder here.
Conclusion
While we have given some reasons as to why Kenya web hosting is becoming irrelevant to small business owners who need to set up their websites, it is not all doom and gloom for the web hosting companies.
If you require dynamic sites such as marketplaces or membership sites, website builders are not for you. You will be required to search for a quality Kenya web hosting provider and a good web developer who will assist you to make your dream come true. Learn how much a website should cost in Kenya.
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