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Web Hosting for Kenyans in the USA

For Kenyans in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Minneapolis and across the USA with a business here or back home. Free SSL and daily backups on every plan, payment by US card, and family in Kenya can pay your invoice by M-Pesa. Plans start at KSh 80$0.62/month.

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For Kenyans living in the USA

Run the site at home from eight hours away

Running a business in Kenya from the United States is mostly a problem of distance. Nairobi is seven or more hours ahead, phone calls happen at odd times, and the website for the shop, the farm or the rental units is the thing nobody gets round to renewing. When it lapses, customers at home see an error and assume the business has closed.

We make the website the part you never have to chase. You get your own login to the control panel, so nothing depends on a developer at home. Backups run every day, the SSL certificate renews without anyone noticing, and staff at the business get email on its own domain. The invoice can be paid from here with a US card, or at home by M-Pesa.

Our team works from Nairobi, so while you sleep, tickets get answered and changes get made. Our hosting server is in the United Kingdom. We answer in English on live chat, email and tickets.

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 uses our hosting from the USA

A project going up at home

A school, clinic or apartment block under construction in Kenya, with a site that shows progress to partners and future tenants.

The family shop or farm

A business in Kenya that relatives run day to day while you cover the bills from here.

Fellowships and churches

Kenyan congregations in Dallas, Atlanta or Minneapolis sharing service times, sermons and giving details.

Tutors and trainers

People teaching or coaching students in Kenya online, who need a booking page and a professional email.

Savings and investment groups

Groups pooling money for land or a business at home that want one place where members find updates.

Developers

Engineers in the US building sites for clients in Kenya, who want DirectAdmin, SSH and staging at Kenyan prices.

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 the USA

  • Eastern to Pacific time: Nairobi is 7 or 8 hours ahead of the East Coast and 10 or 11 ahead of the West Coast, depending on the season
  • Our team replies in English
  • Visitors on every US network open your site the same way they open any other
  • Covering Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Boston and Seattle

Domains for the USA

As well as .com, .org and 200+ other extensions, the one that matters most to Kenyans in the USA is .co.ke, for a business at home. .co.ke 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.ke KSh 1,200$9.23/yr KSh 1,700$13.08/yr KSh 1,700$13.08/yr Check

Anyone can register a .co.ke, in Kenya or abroad, with no documents. We have left .us out of this table: it needs a real US connection, which US citizens and residents have, but it bans privacy services, so the owner's name and address are always public.

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 the USA

Ways to pay

  • Visa or Mastercard on Paystack's secure checkout page. From the USA this is the usual way to pay, and you need nothing extra to use it. Because the charge is in Kenyan shillings, your bank may add a foreign transaction fee.
  • Prices display in US dollars. The actual charge is made in Kenyan shillings (KES), and your bank changes US dollars 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. PayPal, Zelle, Cash App and Venmo 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 the USA

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 Kenyans in the USA ask us

They can. Each invoice carries a number such as INV-3E5275FC. From a Safaricom line in Kenya they choose Lipa na M-Pesa, then Paybill, enter business number 1393006 and use that invoice number as the account number. The payment is matched to the invoice automatically, usually within a minute.

No. KeNIC, which runs .ke, accepts .co.ke registrations from individuals and companies anywhere in the world, with no documents; only go.ke, ac.ke and sc.ke ask for paperwork. Pay the invoice and the name is registered straight away. Its yearly price is in the domain table above.

Yes, with a Visa or Mastercard on Paystack's checkout. Prices on siteboma.com are shown in US dollars; the charge itself is in Kenyan shillings, and your bank converts it, so it may add a foreign transaction fee. PayPal, Zelle, Cash App and Venmo are not available.

Our team works on Nairobi time, 7 to 11 hours ahead of you depending on your state and the season. A ticket you send in your evening is usually answered by the time you wake up. Live chat and email are answered by people.

No. Our hosting server is in the United Kingdom, which is geographically closer to Kenya than a US data centre, and the team behind it is in Nairobi. The status page lists the live health of our website, the server, email and payments, checked every minute.

Yes. Our website design service builds the site from the details and photos you or your family send, and then we host it.

Kenyans in other countries

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

Kenyans in the UK 🇬🇧 Kenyans in Canada 🇨🇦 Kenyans in the UAE 🇦🇪 Kenya 🇰🇪

Ready when you are

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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