Web hosting is an online service that makes your website’s content accessible on the internet. When you purchase a hosting plan, you are renting space on a physical server to store all the website’s files and data.
Web hosts provide the hosting technology and resources required for the effective and secure operation of your website. They are responsible for keeping the server up and running, implementing security measures, and ensuring that data such as texts, photos, and other files are transferred successfully to the visitors’ browsers.
In this article, you will learn what web hosting is, how it works, and what are the different types of web hosting available.
Types of web hosting services
Web hosting is grouped into 5 categories namely:
Shared Hosting
Dedicated Hosting
WordPress Hosting
VPS Hosting
Cloud Hosting
Explaining these types of web hosting services is a story for another day. Now after this background on what web hosting is, let’s go onto the cheapest web hosting service in Zimbabwe.
NivaCity
NivaCity is a popular web hosting company which offers Cloud Hosting and VPS Hosting services. They are a South Africa based company who extended their outreach to Zimbabwe and made it possible for Zimbabweans to purchase their services using Paynow.
Here in Zimbabwe, the average price for the cheapest hosting plan for most web hosting providers is $3 which is quite cheap and affordable. However, NivaCity managed to surpass that with their Direct Admin hosting plan going for $1.50.
Now if you wanted to run a personal website or a project website, which one would you choose? If my guess was right you would choose NivaCity. But let’s take a look at all of the plans they offer.
NivaCity’s shared hosting is divided into two groups. The first is cPanel web hosting and the second is Direct Admin web hosting.
cPanel Web Hosting
All of NivaCity’s sites are hosted on LiteSpeed servers hence speed is not a speciality for this hosting plan only. The cPanel hosting has 3 plans which are pretty much ideal for businesses and small websites. The plans are listed below:
Starter Plan
1 Domain
5GB disk space
Unmetered bandwidth
10 mySQL databases
10 secure emails
MailChannels guaranteed email delivery
Free SSL certificate
The starter plan is going for $2.50/mo
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Intermediate Plan
5 Domains
20GB Disk Space
Unmetered Bandwidth
Unlimited MySQL Databases
Unlimited Secure Email Accounts
MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
Free SSL Certificate
The intermediate plan is going for $4.50/mo
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Deluxe Plan
Unlimited Domains
Unlimited Disk Space
Unmetered Bandwidth
Unlimited MySQL Databases
Unlimited Secure Email Accounts
MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
Free SSL Certificate
The Deluxe Plan is going for $6.50/mo
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Direct Admin Web Hosting
Now let’s get into their cheapest plans, the Direct Admin plans.
Starter Plan
1 Domain
5GB Disk Space
Unmetered Bandwidth
10 MySQL Databases
10 Secure Email Accounts
MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
Free SSL Certificate
The starter plan is going for $1.50/mo
Get
Intermediate Plan
5 Domains
20GB Disk Space
Unmetered Bandwidth
Unlimited MySQL Databases
Unlimited Secure Email Accounts
MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
Free SSL Certificate
The intermediate plan is going for $3.50/mo
Get
Deluxe Plan
Unlimited Domains
Unlimited Disk Space
Unmetered Bandwidth
Unlimited MySQL Databases
Unlimited Secure Email Accounts
MailChannels Guaranteed Email Delivery
Free SSL Certificate
The deluxe plan is going for $5.50/mo
Get
Conclusion
If you’re someone who knows about the hosting services here in Zimbabwe, you would have noticed that their Direct Admin Deluxe Plan is almost the same price as other hosting providers’ Starter plans. So according to what I’ve come across lately, NivaCity has the cheapest hosting in Zimbabwe.