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Web Hosting · South Africa 🇿🇦

Web Hosting in South Africa

Hosting for small sites in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and across South Africa, with free SSL and daily backups on every plan and .co.za domains that register at checkout. Plans start at KSh 80$0.62/month.

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Serving South African businesses

What we are, and what we are not

South Africa has good local hosting companies, several with servers in Johannesburg and Cape Town. If almost all of your visitors are South African and your site is busy, a local data centre may suit you better, and we would rather say that plainly than sell you the wrong thing.

Where we fit is the small site: a portfolio, a side business, a club, a landing page for a product, a site for family or a church. For those, what matters is a low monthly price, a free SSL certificate that renews on its own, a backup every day and a control panel with your own login. That is every SiteBoma plan, with a .co.za domain that registers the moment the invoice is paid.

Our hosting server is in the United Kingdom and our team works from Nairobi, one hour ahead of Johannesburg. We answer in English on live chat, email and tickets, and you pay by Visa or Mastercard on Paystack.

Included on every plan

  • An SSL certificate at no cost, renewed for you
  • NVMe SSD storage behind a LiteSpeed web server
  • The DirectAdmin panel, with WordPress in one click
  • Mailboxes at your own domain name
  • A backup every day, which you can restore without us
  • Your existing site moved across free
  • Uptime tested every minute and shown live on our status page
Plans from KSh 80$0.62/mo

Who our hosting suits in South Africa

Portfolios and personal sites

Photographers, designers and writers who want their own domain without a big monthly bill.

Side businesses

Small online sellers and services starting out, before traffic justifies anything bigger.

Clubs and churches

Groups publishing events, fixtures and contacts, with mailboxes for the people who run them.

Product and event pages

A launch page, an event site or a campaign that needs to go live quickly and cheaply.

Businesses selling across Africa

Firms with customers in Kenya, Nigeria or Ghana as well as at home.

Developers

People hosting client and test sites who want DirectAdmin, SSH and staging.

Where your site is physically hosted

Your site is served from our hosting server in the United Kingdom. The people answering your live chat, email and tickets work in Nairobi, on East Africa Time.

You will not find a made-up latency number here. Instead, our live status page tests our website, the hosting server, mail, the payment gateway and the domain registry once a minute, and keeps the honest record, bad days included.

Good to know in South Africa

  • South Africa Standard Time, UTC+2: one hour behind Nairobi, so our working days almost match
  • Our team replies in English
  • Visitors on Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Telkom open your site the same way they open any other
  • Covering Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Gqeberha and Bloemfontein

Domains for South Africa

As well as .com, .org and 200+ other extensions, we can register the ones that belong to South Africa. .co.za registers at checkout the moment the invoice is paid, the same as .com. Look at the renewal column before you decide, since some extensions cost more to renew than to register.

Extension Register Renew Transfer in
.co.za KSh 1,060$8.15/yr KSh 1,060$8.15/yr KSh 1,060$8.15/yr Check

Anyone can register a .co.za, in South Africa or outside it, with no documents.

These figures come straight from our live catalogue, so the price shown is the price charged. Still undecided? Our guide on picking a domain name works just as well beyond Kenya's borders.

How to pay from South Africa

Ways to pay

  • Visa or Mastercard on Paystack's secure checkout page. From South Africa this is the usual way to pay, and you need nothing extra to use it.
  • Prices display in US dollars. The actual charge is made in Kenyan shillings (KES), and your bank changes rand into KES at an exchange rate it sets.
  • Bank transfer, for yearly invoices or bigger projects. Ask us on live chat and we will send you the details.

What we cannot accept, so checkout holds no surprises

M-Pesa at our checkout means Safaricom M-Pesa in Kenya and nothing else. SnapScan, Zapper and instant EFT are not available at checkout. Better that you read it here than find out halfway through paying.

No VAT is added to our prices. Should your accountant need the invoice laid out a certain way for local bookkeeping, tell us and we will issue it in that format.

Switching to SiteBoma from South Africa

1

Share the details

Let us know who hosts you now, which domain you use and roughly how large the site is. Live chat gets the quickest reply.

2

We move a copy

Your files, databases and mailboxes come over to our server and are tested there, while the old site carries on running.

3

You review it

A preview link lets you inspect the new copy. Your visitors see no change until you approve it.

4

Switch the domain

Change the nameservers yourself, or let us do it when the domain is registered with us. Every paid plan includes the move free.

What people in South Africa ask us

If your visitors are almost all in South Africa and your site is busy, a host with a Johannesburg or Cape Town server may load faster for them, and we would rather tell you that than lose you later. For smaller sites, a low price, daily backups, free SSL and a .co.za at checkout usually matter more, and that is what we offer.

Yes, and they register at checkout the moment the invoice is paid, like a .com. The registry accepts any identifiable person or company, in South Africa or outside it, with no documents. The price is in the table above.

By Visa or Mastercard on Paystack's checkout. The charge is in Kenyan shillings and your bank converts it from rand, so it may add a foreign transaction fee. SnapScan, Zapper and instant EFT are not available. For a yearly invoice or a larger project, ask on live chat for bank transfer details.

No VAT is added to our prices. If your bookkeeping needs the invoice laid out a particular way, tell us and we will issue it in that format.

Johannesburg is one hour behind Nairobi, so our working days almost match. Live chat, email and tickets are answered by people, in English.

Yes, free on every plan. We copy the files, databases and mailboxes, you check a preview, and your visitors see no change until you approve it.

Elsewhere in the region

One team and one set of plans cover each of these:

Nigeria 🇳🇬 Ghana 🇬🇭 Malawi 🇲🇼 Kenya 🇰🇪

Start small, move up when you need to

Getting set up takes about ten minutes, and we move an existing site at no charge. Prefer to talk it through with someone first? Our live chat is run by people in Nairobi.

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