Niabusiness web hosting services Kenya provides the tools you need to start a blog or create a website. For domains, you can register one with the help of Niabusiness.com or use any of the domain registrars listed here. For web hosting, Niabusiness currently offers 3 plans.
For scripts to run your website / blog there are many free scripts to choose from in the cPanel > Softaculous script installation area. You can choose any of them to power your site.
For your needs as a small business, individual, blogger, company or organization, Niabusiness recommends using WordPress.
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Why host with Niabusiness in 2021
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Initial planning
Once you get in touch with Niabusiness (show interest in starting a blog or website) we’ll discuss:
- the keywords/niche you want to target
- what your site is going to be about and
- what you expect to get out of it
Then we will also talk about the kind of content you should create and have published on your site when it is launched.
This is usually content that describe what you do as a business, individual or organisation – published on the homepage or about us page.
Niabusiness can also help you decide how many pages and blog posts to publish initially.
As mentioned above Niabusiness offers 3 plans.
It is cheap to get started with any one of them especially the Starter plan which costs KSh 6000 per year.
Read more about the plans here.
cPanel dashboard
To manage your site, each hosting plan comes with cPanel.
Within the cPanel dashboard you can manage your email accounts, databases, logs, backups and content you upload to your site.
Softaculous installer
Through the installer, you can choose any number of scripts to power your blog or website.
There are free scripts to run blogs, portals, wiki sites, auction sites and more.
Choose the one you need.
Niabusiness will install it for you.
Domain registration
Niabusiness can help you with domain registration if you want to.
Most domain registrars charge Kenya Shillings 1000 per year for a domain name with the most popular extensions.
With Niabusiness Hosting, you only pay the cost of any of the shared plans (linked to above) to get your .com, .co.ke, .net or .org domain registered for one year.
WordPress installation
If you want everything handled for you (when it comes to installation), Niabusiness will install the self-hosted version of WordPress, install a WordPress theme, the necessary WordPress plugins and then configure theme.
Set up your email list
Niabusiness.com will create a free MailChimp account for you.
You can use this to manage your email subscriber data – and to send emails to them.
MailMunch can also be added to your WordPress blog/website to capture emails from popups and sign up forms in blog posts and your site’s sidebar areas.
Support
With the purchase of any Niabusiness shared hosting plan, you will get the help you need to start and grow your blog/website.
NOTE: When you need help with your blog/website, use the contact form here to get in touch.
Accountability with your content calendar / promotion plan
Depending on how much content you are able to produce in a week or month, you can ask Niabusiness to check up on you to see if there is any new content you want added to your site.
Adding new blog posts and pages to your WordPress site is something you can do yourself but if you are not comfortable doing that yourself, you can send articles (pages/posts) you have written to Niabusiness via email (as Microsoft Word documents)Â and the new content will be added to your site.
This applies to images you want added to your website as well.
To help with content sharing, Niabusiness will install a plugin to help your readers/customers/clients share content published on your blog/website.
The buttons will help you and your blog visitors share the content you create to different social networking site and messaging apps.
Niabusiness will also install Jetpack to auto-share blog posts to your social networking sites (Facebook, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn) whenever new posts are added to your site.
Apart from that, Niabusiness will provide you with different tips to grow your existing site in 2021 and beyond.
This will be done via email, phone calls, live chat and through the various blog posts published to the site – on blogging, content marketing, and online business.
If you have a question on Niabusiness web hosting services in Kenya, add it in the comments section below.