Since 2018 · Westlands, Nairobi
We are a Kenyan hosting company, built for how business actually works here.
Azania Host provisions shared hosting, VPS hosting and dedicated servers for small, medium and large businesses across Kenya and the wider African market.
Our story
We were the developers who kept apologising for someone else’s servers
Every project ended the same way: a site we were proud of, handed over to a host that throttled it, lost email, or vanished when something broke on a Friday night. Clients blamed us, and fairly — we had chosen the host.nnSo in 2018 we bought our own hardware, learned to run it properly, and started hosting the sites we had built. Word travelled through Nairobi’s developer community faster than we expected. Eight years later we run infrastructure for more than 1,800 websites, and a growing number of businesses outside Kenya who want African latency without African-market excuses.nnWe are still a small company by design. Every client has a named engineer, and that engineer has root.
Our mission
Make world-class hosting an ordinary purchase for an African business
Priced in the currency you earn. Supported in the hours you work. Fast for the people you actually sell to.nnWe hold ourselves to two numbers: uptime, and how long a customer waits for a human being. Everything else — the hardware choices, the shift patterns, the refusal to oversell shared servers — follows from those two.
How we got here
Eight years, four decisions that mattered
1. 2018 — Our own hardware
We bought two servers, colocated them in Nairobi, and moved the twelve client sites we had built ourselves. The whole business plan was: never apologise for someone else’s downtime again.
2. 2020 — KES pricing and M-Pesa
The shilling moved, and our clients’ renewals moved with it. We repriced every plan in shillings, absorbed the currency risk ourselves, and added M-Pesa as a first-class payment method. Churn halved.
3. 2022 — NVMe, LiteSpeed and honest limits
We rebuilt the shared platform on NVMe and LiteSpeed, then set a hard cap on accounts per server. Slower to grow, but it is why our shared hosting behaves like a VPS at lunchtime.
4. 2024 — 24/7 engineers, no outsourcing
Instead of buying a call-centre contract we moved to three in-house shifts. Median first reply fell from just over an hour to eleven minutes, and it has stayed there.
What makes us different
Eight commitments we will put in your contract
Not features. Obligations, with service credits attached where it matters.
24/7 support on EAT
Phone, WhatsApp and tickets answered by the engineers who run the servers.
M-Pesa payments
M-Pesa, card or bank transfer. KES invoices your accountant will accept.
Free migration
Files, databases and email moved from your old host at no cost, usually overnight.
99.9% uptime SLA
A contractual guarantee with service credits if we miss it.
Free SSL & daily backups
Certificates renew themselves; restores are one click and self-service.
LiteSpeed & NVMe
The fast stack on every plan, including the cheapest shared package.
.KE domain expertise
KENIC registrations, transfers and disputes handled daily. Nothing gets stuck.
30-day money-back
If we are not the improvement we promised, take a full refund. No interview.
Talk to the people who will run your servers
Fifteen minutes, no sales script. Bring your current invoice and we will tell you honestly whether we can do better.