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Web Hosting for Kenyans in Canada

For Kenyans in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and across Canada with a business here or back home. Free SSL and daily backups on every plan, payment by Canadian 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 Canada

Your business at home, without the late-night calls

Many Kenyans in Canada keep something running at home: a family shop, a farm, rental units, a school, a church project. The website for it is usually set up once, then forgotten until a renewal fails and customers in Kenya find an error page. From Toronto or Calgary, sorting that out means calls across seven or more hours of time difference.

We take the website off that list. The plan comes with a control panel login in your name, daily backups you can restore yourself, a certificate that keeps the padlock showing and mailboxes on the business domain. When the invoice arrives, pay it with a Canadian card or send the number to someone at home to pay by M-Pesa.

Our team works from Nairobi, so a ticket you send in your evening is often done by your morning. 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 Canada

Rental units at home

Flats and bedsitters in Kenya with a page listing what is vacant, and an email address tenants can write to.

A business your family runs

A shop, hardware store or farm in Kenya that you fund and want customers to find online.

Associations in Canada

Kenyan community associations in Toronto, Calgary or Edmonton publishing events, dues and contacts.

Newcomers with a side business

People new to Canada testing a service or product with a simple site before going bigger.

Charity projects at home

Water, school and scholarship projects in Kenya that report to donors in Canada.

Developers

Developers in Canada hosting client and test sites who want DirectAdmin, SSH and staging.

Where your site is physically hosted

Our hosting server is not in Kenya: it is in the United Kingdom, and it serves our Kenyan customers too. Help by live chat, email or ticket comes from our Nairobi team, 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 Canada

  • Eastern to Pacific time: Nairobi is 7 or 8 hours ahead of Toronto and Ottawa and 10 or 11 ahead of Vancouver, depending on the season
  • Our team replies in English
  • Visitors on Rogers, Bell and Telus open your site the same way they open any other
  • Covering Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Ottawa and Winnipeg

Domains for Canada

As well as .com, .org and 200+ other extensions, these are the ones that matter most to Kenyans in Canada: .ca for a business here, and .co.ke for one at home. .co.ke and .ca register 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
.ca KSh 1,550$11.92/yr KSh 1,550$11.92/yr KSh 1,550$11.92/yr Check

.ca needs a Canadian presence: Canadian citizens, permanent residents and businesses registered in Canada qualify, among others, and CIRA, the registry, can ask for proof later. Anyone can register a .co.ke, in Kenya or abroad, 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 Canada

Ways to pay

  • Visa or Mastercard on Paystack's secure checkout page. From Canada 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.
  • Billed in KSh. If dollars are easier to read, the currency switcher in the menu shows US dollar prices. Whatever you view, the charge is in Kenyan shillings, with your bank converting from Canadian dollars at its own rate.
  • 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. Interac e-Transfer and PayPal 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 Canada

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 Canada ask us

By M-Pesa, without needing an account with us. On their phone they open Lipa na M-Pesa, choose Paybill, enter 1393006 as the business number and your invoice number as the account number. Our system matches the payment to the invoice by itself.

Yes. KeNIC lets anyone, anywhere, hold a .co.ke, and no documents are needed for it; only go.ke, ac.ke and sc.ke names require paperwork. Once the invoice is paid the domain is registered, and the yearly price is in the table above. If you want a .ca as well, remember that it needs a Canadian presence.

Yes, with a Visa or Mastercard on Paystack's checkout. The charge is in Kenyan shillings and your bank converts it from Canadian dollars, so it may add a foreign transaction fee. Interac e-Transfer and PayPal are not available.

Toronto is 7 or 8 hours behind Nairobi and Vancouver 10 or 11, depending on the season. In practice you write in your evening and find the answer in your morning. For live chat, the start of your day is the best time to catch us.

On our hosting server in the United Kingdom, managed by our team in Nairobi. Rather than quote a speed figure, we publish a status page that checks our website, the server, email and payments every minute.

Yes. Send us what the business does, a few photos and the contacts to show, and our website design service builds the site, which we then host.

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Kenyans in other countries

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

Kenyans in the UK 🇬🇧 Kenyans in the USA 🇺🇸 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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