Top 25 Web Hosting Companies in Nigeria
If you are wondering what web hosting companies are leading the pack in Nigeria, perhaps this web host ranking information from WebHosting.Info would give you an idea of what web hosting or managed hosting company to choose when registering domains or getting a webhosting package from Nigeria.
The ranking is based on the overall market share and total domains registered as at November 11, 2008.
From the graph, Nairahost.com ranks number 1, with a market share of 10.901% and total domain registered is at 1,130. Mcreal.net follows with a market share of 10.8335% and total domain registered at 1,123 (just 7 domains shy of Nairahost.com). Then, Syskay.com ranks 3rd position with a market share of 9.9749% and total domains of 1,034.
Other notable web hosting/domain registration companies include weblagos.com (4th position) and Nairadomains.com (5th position). Web hosting companies such as Linkserve.com.ng that started before Nairahost.com didn’t make it to the Top 10. Linkserve ranks 16th with a total of 105 domains and a market share of 1.0129%.
I’m surprised that Web4Africa.com.ng doesn’t make it to this list, even though the company offers Nigerians the opportunity to buy domain names and web hosting services via payment with Interswitch Debit/ATM card.
Besides, when I googled the phrase ‘top web domains nigeria’, the search showed that web4africa.com.ng ranks 2nd on the list, while nairahost.com ranks 4th position. Web4Africa.com.ng claims to offer the most affordable domain registration service in Nigeria from N1,250 only (about $10) as at October 2008. I think Nairahost offers the .ng domain for about N1000. Not sure.
My final thoughts
Even though most of these web hosting companies offer interesting features and packages, none of them offer unlimited disk space and bandwidth like the world’s most popular web hosting companies.
I think that with enough broadband access to cater for the 10 million or more internet users in Nigeria, we will start to witness more competitive web hosting offers that may include unlimited disk space and bandwidth.
Do you use any of these web hosting companies? What is your opinion about them? What other web hosting companies in Nigeria do you know? How reliable are their services?
If you represent any or none of the various website hosting companies mentioned here, you also can share in this discussion.
Statistics Source: WebHosting.Info
Nairahost host my personal website (www.mutiuokediran.com) and some of my clients. They started very well and they still growing,
I use http://www.syskay.com also, and the service is OK.
The only thing I’ve not found in Nigeria as you pointed out is unlimited webspace, where I’ll not be jittering over the space.
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Web4Africa is a market leader and hosts more websites than Nigeria’s current no. 1 Nairahost. Web4Africa is listed under another country on WebHosting.info since its office is in Accra, Ghana.
Hostportfolio.com is another very highly respected web hosting company in Nigeria. When you search “web hosting” or “hosting” in Google.com.ng, hostportfolio is either No. 1 or No. 2.
So i wonder if seacrh engine ranking is the grading criteria, why Hostportfolio is not in your first 25.
Nice post though.
TinyCall Nigeria also do web hosting. They are good too with a turn around time of at least a week. Not too sure how many domains they’ve hosted though.
There is a new web hosting company in Nigeria that i have just discovered. They will turn out to be a fanstatic web services company in Nigeria. I have been watching their website as they improve on it. They offer fastanstic web products. I think they are taking the web industry to another level in terms of innovation and creativity in products and services development and delivery. Check them out at http://www.defture.com You might find them okay. I have bought web hosting from them and their services are okay.
Abimco WebHost is one of the best webhosting firm in Nigeria, I have been hosting my firm site with them since 2003, they have excellent support service