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Web Hosting in Ethiopia

Websites for businesses in Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, Bahir Dar and across Ethiopia, with free SSL and daily backups on every plan, from a team in Nairobi on the same time zone as you. Plans start at KSh 80$0.62/month.

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Serving Ethiopian businesses

Same clock, one border away

Ethiopian businesses that want to reach buyers abroad, or simply look established at home, run into the same few problems: a site built years ago that nobody can log in to, email on a free address, and a certificate warning that tells every visitor the site is not secure.

Every SiteBoma plan fixes those basics: a control panel with your own login, a backup every day that you can restore yourself, an SSL certificate that renews on its own and mailboxes on your own domain. Our hosting server is in the United Kingdom, and our team works from Nairobi.

Addis Ababa and Nairobi keep the same time, so a question you send at ten in the morning reaches someone at their desk. We answer in English; we do not staff Amharic, and we would rather you know that before you write.

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 Ethiopia

Exporters

Coffee, flower, leather and textile firms that need foreign buyers to find a credible site and email.

Hotels and tour operators

Lodges and tours in Lalibela, Gondar and the Simien Mountains whose guests book from abroad.

Consultancies

Firms in Addis Ababa bidding for work with international organisations.

NGOs

Organisations that publish reports for donors and need staff mailboxes.

Schools and colleges

Private schools and colleges publishing admissions and results.

Developers

People hosting client 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 Ethiopia

  • East Africa Time, UTC+3: the same clock as Nairobi, so we keep your working hours
  • Our team replies in English (we do not staff Amharic)
  • Visitors on Ethio Telecom and Safaricom Ethiopia open your site the same way they open any other
  • Covering Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, Bahir Dar, Hawassa, Adama and Mekelle

Domains for Ethiopia

As well as .com, .org and 200+ other extensions, we can register the ones that belong to Ethiopia. Our team handles these country domains by hand, so they are not instant at checkout: allow one business day. The invoice comes first, and we confirm the domain once registration completes. Look at the renewal column before you decide, since some extensions cost more to renew than to register.

Extension Register Renew Transfer in
.et KSh 14,400$110.77/yr KSh 14,400$110.77/yr KSh 14,400$110.77/yr Check

Some .et names need Ethiopian business documents (a request letter, business licence, TIN and VAT certificate), and the registry does not publish clear rules for applicants outside Ethiopia. Tell us the name you want on live chat and we will confirm what is needed before you pay.

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 Ethiopia

Ways to pay

  • Visa or Mastercard on Paystack's secure checkout page. From Ethiopia this is the usual way to pay, and you need nothing extra to use it. Not every Ethiopian bank card can pay a company outside Ethiopia. If yours cannot, ask us on live chat about a bank transfer.
  • 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 birr 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. telebirr and M-Pesa Ethiopia are not available at checkout: the M-Pesa we take is Safaricom's Kenyan service, a separate system from M-Pesa in Ethiopia. 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 Ethiopia

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 Ethiopia ask us

No. The M-Pesa at our checkout is Safaricom's Kenyan service, which is separate from M-Pesa in Ethiopia, and telebirr is not available either. You can pay by Visa or Mastercard on Paystack's checkout. Not every Ethiopian bank card can pay a company outside the country; if yours cannot, ask us on live chat about a bank transfer.

Yes, by hand through the registry, Ethio Telecom, so allow a business day or more. Some .et names need Ethiopian business documents: a request letter, business licence, TIN and VAT certificate. The registry does not publish clear rules for applicants outside Ethiopia, so tell us the exact name on live chat first and we will confirm what is needed before you pay. The price is in the table above.

No. Our team answers in English on live chat, email and tickets. We would rather say so now than have you write in Amharic and wait for a reply we cannot give.

No. The server that holds your site is in the United Kingdom, run by our team in Nairobi. Speed in Addis Ababa varies with each visitor's connection, so instead of a single number we publish a status page with live checks every minute.

Yes. Ethiopia and Kenya share a time zone, so there is no gap to plan around. Live chat, email and tickets are answered by people.

Yes. Our website design service builds English-language sites for exporters, hotels and NGOs, then hosts them on the same plans.

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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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