Move host Kenya Domains & Web Hosting Review

If you are looking for the cheapest web host in town that lets you start with a free hosting plan, Move host is your perfect choice.

For as little as Ksh. 500 per year, you get hosting for your website/blog with 5Gb web disc space and unlimited email accounts.

What makes Move Host attractive to starters is their flexible payment plans.

Move Host allows you to pay for your hosting monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually.

This allows you to pay as little as Ksh 100 per month for your website hosted at Move Host.

This also means that for as little as Ksh 800, you have a .co.ke domain and web hosting for one month.

In addition to the flexible pricing, Movehost is one of the few companies offering VPS and Dedicated Web hosting services in Kenya.

These two highly rated hosting types come with both Linux server and cloud server hosting options.

For Ksh. 700/month, you get a 1-core VPS hosting with 20Gb disc space and 2Gb RAM.

The company also offers a wide range of Reseller Hosting plans for startups and ambitious web designers.

For Ksh 3,000 per month, you get a whole 50GB disc space and 10GB bandwidth to share out to your clients.

Move Host has a reputation of being one of the most experienced professional and quality web hosting service providers in Kenya.

The company began operations in 2007 and hosts hundreds of both small and medium-size websites in Kenya.

Move host Domain Prices

Domains without hosting go for Ksh 700 for .co.ke, Ksh 1,200 for .com and Ksh. 1,500 for .org domains.

Renewal costs range from Ksh.1,200 to Ksh. 1,500 per year.

Move host only gives free domain transfers for .co.ke domains.

If you wish to transfer a .com domain to them, you would have to pay Ksh. 1,300.

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Move Host makes it possible and easy for you to do DNS management tasks for your domains from one account.

This means you can easily change your nameservers as well as set up custom IPs for your domains.

You don’t want everyone seeing your private registration information associated with your website.

For this reason, Move Host allows you to manage your WHOIS records from inside your account at anytime.

Move Host Web Hosting Prices

As mentioned earlier, Move Host is one of the few companies in Kenya offering almost all the types of web hosting you may require for your website.

Apart from shared hosting, the company also deals with the following web hosting services:

✓ Reseller Hosting

✓ Cloud hosting

✓ Email hosting services

✓ Virtual Private Servers

✓ Dedicated Servers.

All these hosting plans come with different plans to suit your needs and budget.

Let’s have a look at each of the categories with the available plans.

Shared Hosting Plans

The Starter Shared hosting plan costs Ksh 500 per year, with 5Gb web disc space and 10Gb bandwidth.

Not so good for large websites.

With this plan, you are only allowed to host a single website/blog, limited to a single database.

With the plan you can still create unlimited FTP Accounts, Email Accounts and subdomains.

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With no FREE SSL certificate for the starter plan, you are forced to incur an additional Ksh 1000 after a month to keep your website running.

Of course you will not run a website/blog without the SSL certificate, unless you need a whole year to do the design work.

This actually means that you end up paying Ksh 1500, and not the stated Ksh 500.

Let’s compare this with a few other Basic shared hosting plans available in Kenya.

HostPinnacle Kenya‘s Basic hosting plan costs Ksh 1500/yr, with 35 GB disc space and unmetered bandwidth!

One would actually be right to say that in terms of allocated resources, HostPinnacle is seven times better than Move Host.

In addition to the better resources, HostPinnacle scores better in that they allow you to host several sites on a single account.

This is a benefit you will not get at Move Host, no matter the shared hosting plan you choose.

For Ksh 995/yr, hostPoa gives you 1GB disc space and unlimited bandwidth.

Clearly, the disc space that comes with the Starter Package at Move Host is more impressive.

However, hostPoa still scores better since with the plan you get a free SSL certificate and a free .co.ke domain among other benefits.

However, if Move Host is still your preferred web host, you have an option of subscribing to the Basic plan for Ksh 3,000/yr.

With this plan you get 10Gb of disc space and 50 GB bandwidth for your site.

With this plan, you get more disc space and more monthly bandwidth, plus the benefit of creating more than one database.

You still have to incur an extra Ksh 1,000/yr for a separate SSL Certificate.

If this still doesn’t work for you, you can stretch your budget to fit the Platinum hosting plan for KSh. 5,000/yr.

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The plan comes with a free domain, 30 GB Web Space, 100 GB Monthly Bandwidth and a FREE SSL Certificate.

To get the Free Domain, you need to choose from  the .co.ke, .or.ke, .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .ac.ke and .sc.ke extensions.

This is the best shared hosting plan you can get at Movehost.

Incase you require unlimited hosting for your site, you will need to check with alternative web hosts such as HostPinnacle.

Reseller Hosting Packages

Ever found yourself at a good place where several people want you to get web hosting on their behalf?

Consider getting a reseller web hosting plan.

You can actually start your web hosting business by reselling web hosting services from other companies.

Move Host has 3 reseller hosting plans from which you can choose.

The cheapest plan, preferred for beginners, costs Ksh 3,000 per month.

This starter plan comes with 50GB of web space and 10GB monthly bandwidth.

If you were to allocate 5GB disc space and 1GB monthly bandwidth to your clients, you would have 10 clients.

Whether or not this is viable depends on your mathematics, which includes how much you decide to charge each client.

VPS Web Hosting Plans

If you opt for the more reliable VPS web hosting, you would pay Ksh. 700/month, for 1-core with 20Gb disc space and 2Gb RAM.

VPS hosting with 2 cores and 80 Gb web space, 8Gb RAM would cost Ksh 2,000 per month.

If you are looking for a dedicated server for your website, be ready to pay Ksh 9,999/month.

Move Host Pros

Most affordable web hosting plan, for Ksh. 200/yr.

Uptime Guarantee and 24/7 Technical Support.

FREE Site Building Tools.

Money-back guarantee to unsatisfied clients.

Unlimited professional Email Accounts hosted with your account.

Cons

Customer support only available through tickets, no Live Chats.

Free domains, Daily backups and add on Domains only available with the Gold Package.