Mango.ke Premium Hosting, $ 99.99/yr. on Linux Shared

Premium Hosting has been added on Jul 22, 2022, Aggregate Rating (10 out of 10 from 2 reviews)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
⚑ Targeting :	DZ BF BI CM CA CZ FR GM DE GH KE UK

See also initial Premium Hosting plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Mango Hosting Limited is a Nairobi-based Kenyan web hosting company operating since 2020. The business combines conventional hosting with locally oriented internet services and has developed a fairly broad portfolio for individual website owners, developers, agencies and small hosting resellers.

Its core services include Shared Hosting, Reseller Hosting, KVM VPS, Dedicated Servers, Domain Registration and Email Hosting. Mango also provides VoIP services, Bulk SMS, affiliate services, website-building options and additional web-related products. This makes the company more versatile than providers focused only on entry-level shared hosting.

Shared hosting uses NVMe SSD storage, LiteSpeed, cPanel, free SSL certificates, email accounts and Softaculous. The environment supports PHP as well as Node.js and Python, making it usable for more than basic WordPress hosting. Applications such as WordPress, Joomla, Moodle and Drupal can be installed, and website migration assistance is included.

The Baby Plan costs KES 1,999 per year and includes 30 GB NVMe storage, 100 GB bandwidth and hosting for as many as 50 websites. The Business Plan costs KES 3,999 per year and increases the allocation to 500 GB NVMe storage and 500 GB bandwidth while allowing unlimited websites. The Premium Hosting package costs KES 9,999 per year and includes unlimited websites, storage and bandwidth together with a free-domain benefit. cPanel, SSL and email functionality are included throughout the shared-hosting range.

Mango is also particularly interesting for customers intending to resell hosting. Current reseller packages start with Starter Reseller at KES 2,100/month, including 100 GB SSD storage, 300 GB bandwidth, up to 50 cPanel accounts, overselling capability, a domain reseller account and a WHMCS license.

The Standard Reseller package costs KES 3,100/month and provides 500 GB storage with unlimited bandwidth and cPanel accounts. VIP Reseller, at KES 4,100/month, increases storage to 1 TB. WHM and WHMCS make these plans suitable for agencies or small hosting companies that want to automate account creation, billing and customer management.

Some older reseller configurations remain priced differently, including a previous four-plan structure ranging from KES 1,999 to KES 7,999 per month. Resource limits also differ between those older offers and the current ordering options, so the final checkout configuration should be treated as the applicable package before payment.

The reseller platform works well with the Kenyan market because customer payments can be integrated through options such as M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Eazzypay and card payments. Combined with WHMCS and domain-reseller functionality, this gives local designers and hosting entrepreneurs a practical base for running their own branded hosting operation.

Mango's KVM VPS service is available from Germany and the United States. The entry configuration costs KES 5,000/month and includes four CPU cores, 8 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD storage, unlimited bandwidth and a 200 Mbit/s connection. The Medium configuration costs KES 6,000/month and increases resources to six CPU cores, 16 GB RAM, 400 GB SSD storage and 400 Mbit/s connectivity.

The Large VPS includes eight CPU cores, 30 GB RAM, 800 GB SSD storage and a 600 Mbit/s connection for KES 8,500/month. Extra Large costs KES 9,000/month and offers ten CPU cores, 60 GB RAM, 1.6 TB SSD storage and 1 Gbit/s connectivity. VPS packages include root access, DDoS protection, IPv4, a /64 IPv6 allocation and limited cPanel licensing. Provisioning is normally completed within three to six hours.

An older KES 7,500 price still exists for the Large VPS configuration, while the current order configuration is KES 8,500. This is another area where checking the final order total before purchase is worthwhile.

Dedicated Servers are available for customers who need resources beyond VPS hosting. Dedicated services are handled under separate billing and cancellation conditions and are not covered by the refund protection available with shared and reseller hosting.

Domain registration is another important part of Mango's business. The company supports many generic and country-code extensions, including Kenya's own domain space. .co.ke registration currently costs KES 1,700, transfer costs KES 900 and renewal is KES 1,700. Other examples include .net registration at KES 2,552 and .org at KES 1,518.40.

Domain accounts include the normal management functions required for running websites, including DNS administration, domain locking, forwarding and privacy functionality where supported by the corresponding registry.

Some older domain price references differ from the current registration system. Previous pricing of KES 2,766 per year for .com, .net and .org does not always correspond with current extension-specific charges, so domain buyers should confirm the final registration or renewal price for the exact TLD they need.

English is fully supported, while the customer-management interface is available in many additional languages including Arabic, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Persian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Prices can be displayed in KES and USD, which is useful both for Kenyan customers and international buyers.

The combination of affordable shared hosting, locally useful payment methods, reseller automation and international VPS infrastructure makes Mango especially suitable for customers in Kenya and East Africa. The main weakness is inconsistency between some older product information and current ordering configurations, particularly with reseller pricing, VPS pricing, domain costs and guarantee terminology.