Safaricom Lite, KES (on request) on Linux/Windows Virtual Dedicated

Lite has been discontinued on January 27, 2026 (added December 5, 2018), Aggregate Rating (1 out of 10 from 6 reviews)

💪 CPU/Cores :	1 CPU (3.3 GHz)
🔋 RAM :	2000 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Kenya
⚑ Targeting :	KE

Original plan URL was https://www.safaricom.co.ke/business/corporate/cloud-and-hosting-services/virtual-data-center-service

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Safaricom PLC is first and foremost Kenya’s dominant telecom and mobile money provider, but over the last years they have built out a complementary Safaricom Cloud Services platform for domains, shared web hosting, business email, and SSL certificates, aimed mainly at Kenyan SMEs that already live inside the Safaricom ecosystem. The hosting storefront runs on domains.safaricom.co.ke and is tightly integrated with M-PESA and Safaricom Business support, with all pricing in Kenyan Shillings (Ksh).

On the pure hosting side, the catalog is straightforward: a single line of Linux shared hosting packages under the Shared Hosting category. There is no separate "WordPress hosting", reseller hosting, or developer-focused VPS/dedicated range exposed in this online store, although Safaricom Business does mention virtual servers (VPS) and broader cloud services for larger projects on the corporate site. For a small business that just wants a website and email on a Kenyan provider, the shared hosting line is the core offer.
Shared hosting comes in six tiers – Bronze, Silver, Gold, Premium, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus. All of them share the same basic pattern:

• Hosting on Safaricom Cloud infrastructure
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Plenty of email accounts tied to your own domain
• Free email security (SPF, DKIM, DMARC configuration)
• A bundled website builder
• Multiple subdomains and FTP accounts

Storage and email capacity scale quickly as you move up. Bronze is clearly built for micro-sites: 500 MB of space, 10 email accounts, and 5 subdomains. Silver already jumps to 2 GB of space and 50 email accounts, while Gold and Premium raise this to 10 GB / 100 emails and 20 GB / 200 emails respectively, with matching increases in allowed subdomains and FTP accounts. At the top end, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus are aimed at busier organizations, offering up to 100 GB of space, 1,000 email accounts, hundreds of subdomains and dozens of FTP logins, still with unlimited traffic and the same building tools included.

Domains are handled in the same portal. Safaricom sells .ke country-code domains (like .co.ke and .ke) alongside global TLDs such as .com and .org. Pricing is competitive for the local market and clearly targeted at Kenyan businesses: .com domains are offered around the Ksh 999/year range, .co.ke around Ksh 1,300/year, while the shorter .ke extension sits significantly higher. Prices are indicated as VAT inclusive, which simplifies budgeting for local companies.

The platform also includes a small but useful SSL certificate store. Customers can add DV and OV SSL certificates (for single domains, wildcard and multi-domain), from well-known certificate brands, directly from the same cart. That makes it possible to register a domain, attach a hosting plan, and enable HTTPS in one flow, all billed in Kenyan shillings.

From a control and usability perspective, the environment is familiar to most admins: Safaricom’s shared hosting uses cPanel. The knowledgebase and tag cloud reference cPanel Website, RVSiteBuilder for drag-and-drop site creation, PHP Selector, and JetBackup for backup/restore operations. Email integrates with webmail as well as desktop/mobile clients, and there is a focus on business email security via SPF/DKIM/DMARC entries to keep messages out of spam.

One interesting detail is language coverage. The Safaricom Cloud Services portal itself can be switched into over twenty languages, including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Russian, Romanian, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Ukrainian and others. Despite that, the service, contacts and legal documents are clearly anchored in Kenya, with support naturally geared around local customers and Safaricom Business accounts.

Overall, this is a simple, locally-anchored hosting offer: classic cPanel shared hosting backed by Safaricom’s own data-centre footprint and M-PESA integration, rather than a broad international hosting platform with dozens of product lines. For small and medium Kenyan businesses that already bill other services through Safaricom, that tight integration is the main appeal.