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Top hosting providers in Africa

21 web hosting companies ranked by rating, review volume and listing quality.

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Between them, the 13 best-ranked of these 21 web hosting companies cover shared hosting (8), domain registration (7), VPS hosting (6) and dedicated servers (5). They also list work in North America, Latin America, Asia and Europe. 13 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.

What to look for in hosting providers in Africa

The right provider depends on your workload, where your users are and what your team can run, not only on its place in this list. Before you shortlist, check:

  • The hosting type you need: shared, WordPress, VPS, dedicated or bare metal, cloud, CDN, colocation or domains
  • Servers in Africa if your users or your data-protection rules need them there
  • Renewal prices and contract terms, not only introductory offers
  • Who runs what: managed or unmanaged, and support hours in your time zone
  • Backups, restores and how easily you can leave

How to use this ranking

Use it to build a shortlist. Each profile lists the hosting types a provider sells, the countries it runs servers in and its prices as printed on its own site, with the date we read them. Test the two or three that fit before you move anything that matters.

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  1. Equinix logo

    Equinix

    Web Design · React Native · Colocation · Also in Ivory Coast and Ghana

    Equinix, Inc. of Redwood City operates colocation data centres and interconnection services for enterprises, network operators and cloud providers worldwide.

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  2. Aveshost logo

    Aveshost

    Managed WordPress hosting · Bare metal servers · Shared hosting · Also in Ghana

    Aveshost sells shared, WordPress, VPS, dedicated and bare-metal hosting and domains, with country-specific VPS offers for customers in Ghana, South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya.

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  3. HostNowNow logo

    HostNowNow

    Managed WordPress hosting · Shared hosting · Domain registration · Also in Fleet

    HostNowNow, founded in Lagos, sells Naira-priced shared hosting on Microsoft Azure, managed WordPress, email, SSL and domains for businesses in Africa.

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  4. HostPinnacle logo

    HostPinnacle

    Managed WordPress hosting · Shared hosting · Domain registration · Also in Kenya

    HostPinnacle Cloud Limited, based in Nairobi, sells shared, WordPress, reseller and VPS hosting, .ke domain names and bulk SMS to customers in Kenya.

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  5. Inslyhost logo

    Inslyhost

    Managed WordPress hosting · Shared hosting · Domain registration · Also in South Africa

    Insly Host (Pty) Ltd, a South African company, sells web hosting, managed WordPress, VPS, dedicated servers, domains and business email under one login.

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  6. S

    Serverion

    Shared hosting · VPS hosting · Dedicated servers · Also in Hong Kong and Asia

    Serverion sells VPS, dedicated servers, colocation and shared hosting from 37 listed locations across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Africa.

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  7. V

    Vultr

    Bare metal servers · CDN · Also in Middle East and Asia

    Vultr sells self-service virtual machines, single-tenant bare metal servers and a CDN, deployable through a console, API or Terraform, to developers and businesses.

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  8. T

    Teraco

    Colocation · Also in South Africa

    Teraco runs vendor-neutral data centres in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban and sells colocation and interconnection to enterprises, carriers and cloud providers.

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  9. K

    KeyCDN

    CDN · Also in Asia and Europe

    KeyCDN, operated by proinity LLC and made in Switzerland, sells a pay-as-you-go CDN with per-region traffic pricing and image processing add-ons.

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  10. X

    xneelo

    Shared hosting · Domain registration · Dedicated servers · Also in South Africa

    xneelo, formerly Hetzner South Africa, sells web hosting, dedicated servers, colocation and domains from its data centre in Gauteng.

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  11. T

    Truehost

    Shared hosting · Domain registration · VPS hosting · Also in Kenya

    Truehost is a Kenyan provider, founded in Nairobi in 2014, selling web hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and domains to several markets.

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  12. W

    Whogohost

    Shared hosting · Domain registration · VPS hosting · Also in Nigeria

    Whogohost, run by HostAfrica Nigeria Limited, is a Nigerian host selling web hosting, WordPress hosting, VPS, email and domain registration.

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  13. AD

    Africa Data Centres

    Colocation · Also in Kenya

    Africa Data Centres sells colocation, cloud connectivity and remote-hands services from carrier- and cloud-neutral facilities in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.

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How is this ranking of hosting providers in Africa worked out?

A position here is earned, never bought. It is worked out from what each listing documents and what has been verified about it: a complete, accurate profile, and the checks a provider has passed. Client reviews count where they exist, but they are still rare across this catalogue, so today the order comes mainly from documentation and verification. A top position means best-documented, not best for your workload. A provider appears under Africa when its own pages say it runs servers or data centres there or is headquartered there.

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No. Sponsored and Featured places are labelled and shown apart from the ranked list, and they never change a provider’s position in it. How rankings work

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