Hostalite Personal, UGX 100,000.00/yr. on Linux Shared

Personal has been updated on January 25, 2020 (added August 10, 2017), Aggregate Rating (1 out of 10 from 1 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanelWebsitePanel
🔧 Category :	Backup
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-Free
Other special features :	Free Support
🌏 Server Locations :	Germany Uganda United Kingdom United States
⚑ Targeting :	UG

Original plan URL was http://www.hostalite.com/web-hosting/

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Hostalite Limited is a Ugandan web hosting, web development, and software company based in Kampala, serving businesses, organizations, and individual customers in Uganda and the wider East African market. The company has grown from a relatively small hosting operation into a provider handling more than 12,000 hosted domains, while expanding into website development, custom software, content management systems, and business applications.

LinkedIn lists Hostalite as founded in 2008, while founder and CEO Dickson Mushabe has associated the launch of the hosting business with 2009. This places the beginnings of Hostalite around the 2008–2009 period, with 2008 serving as the company foundation year. The business operates from Kampala and has developed into a broader technology company rather than remaining exclusively a hosting provider.

Its hosting portfolio centers on Shared Web Hosting, Linux VPS, Domain Registration, SSL Certificates, and dedicated IP addresses. Reseller hosting also appears in the customer portal, although there are currently no publicly orderable reseller packages in that category. Dedicated server products are not part of the current standard ordering catalog.

Shared Web Hosting covers several annual packages, ranging from a small personal plan to larger corporate configurations. The Personal package includes 500 MB storage, 4 GB monthly bandwidth, two databases, two subdomains, and 20 POP3 email accounts. Basic increases resources to 2 GB storage and 10 GB bandwidth, while Basic-Xtra includes 5 GB storage, 50 GB bandwidth, 30 databases, and 100 POP3 accounts.

Corporate-level packages increase storage from 10 GB up to 50 GB and provide unlimited databases, subdomains, and email accounts. One unusual specification concerns bandwidth: Corporate-Max includes 700,000 MB, while the more expensive Corporate X-tra and Corporate Turbo packages show 70,000 MB. Customers considering these larger plans should confirm the intended transfer allowance before ordering.

The shared hosting packages do not specify storage technology, dedicated CPU or RAM allocations, backup frequency, or a named hosting control panel. This makes the service easier to evaluate for conventional website hosting than for workloads where detailed resource guarantees are important.

The current Linux VPS catalog contains a VPS-Linux1 package with 1 CPU core, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB disk space, and 1 TB bandwidth. It supports unlimited domains, subdomains, email accounts, MySQL databases, and FTP accounts. Customers receive full root access, private nameservers, and free site-builder software, while the setup fee is waived.

The VPS specification is straightforward but does not include details about virtualization technology, disk type, operating system choices, backup arrangements, or DDoS protection. The most important practical advantage is the combination of root-level access with local technical support and integration with Hostalite's other services.

Domain Registration is another important part of the business. Hostalite supports international extensions as well as regional and Ugandan domains such as .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .UG, .CO.UG, .AC.UG, .GO.UG, and .AFRICA. Hostalite works with upstream domain registration providers rather than acting as the underlying registry for these extensions.

Domain ownership remains with the registrant, while Hostalite functions as the technical service provider handling the registration process. This is particularly important for businesses that want clear ownership of their domain names rather than having domains registered under the hosting company's identity.

The domain ordering catalog contains a broad selection of extensions, although several displayed prices are inconsistent. Common extensions have realistic pricing, while some less common TLDs display unusually low figures that are clearly not representative of normal retail registration costs. The final checkout amount should therefore be checked carefully before completing an order.

Hostalite also offers SSL Certificates with domain validation, encryption up to 256-bit, coverage for a single domain, a site seal, broad browser support, and one-year validity. Reissues are included, and renewal reminders are available. Dedicated IPv4 addresses can be ordered separately.

Hosting is only one part of Hostalite's activities. The company also provides website development, responsive design, e-commerce development, CMS development, custom software, application maintenance, SEO, and related digital services. Development work covers technologies including PHP, .NET, Java, Python, Node.js, and modern JavaScript frameworks.

Its CMS and website work includes WordPress and other common content-management platforms, while software development extends to larger custom business applications. Hostalite has worked with corporate, institutional, and government-related customers in Uganda, giving the company experience beyond small personal websites.

Hostalite has also developed proprietary software. Bamboo CMS combines functions such as customer management, billing, expense tracking, recurring invoices, contracts, tasks, and reporting for small and medium businesses. HR360 Suite focuses on human resources and payroll management. These products make Hostalite more suitable for organizations wanting hosting, website development, and custom software from the same provider.

Environmental projects are another notable part of the company. Hostalite introduced wind-powered hosting infrastructure initiatives in 2022 and has connected some of its hosting and domain activities with tree-planting programs. Founder Dickson Mushabe is also involved with Greening Africa and other sustainability initiatives.

The main Hostalite website is available in English and uses a modern responsive design suitable for desktop and mobile access. The billing portal supports a much wider range of languages, including Arabic, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Persian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.

The billing environment supports at least Ugandan shillings (UGX) and US dollars (USD), which is useful for both local and international customers.

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