Sunrise Communications STARTER HOSTING, TZS 65.000/yr. on Linux Shared

STARTER HOSTING has been updated on April 19, 2018 (added April 18, 2018)

🔌 Hosted domains :	1
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔨 Control Panel :	CPanel
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Canada United Kingdom United States
⚑ Targeting :	CN EG GH HK IN KE PH CH TZ UG UK US ZW

See also initial STARTER HOSTING plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Sunrise Communications Company Limited is a Tanzanian ICT and web hosting provider established in 2015 and headquartered in Dar es Salaam. The company serves customers in Tanzania and more than 40 countries, combining conventional hosting services with web development, mobile applications, cybersecurity, business software, bulk SMS, search-engine optimization, unified communications, computer hardware, and network administration.

Its hosting portfolio includes domain registration and transfers, Linux shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS, Tanzania VPS, managed dedicated servers, business email, SSL certificates, website migration, website-building tools, and application hosting. The selection is broad enough for personal websites, local companies, developers, hosting resellers, online stores, and organizations requiring servers located in Tanzania.

Shared Hosting starts with a compact 1 GB package and extends to larger configurations with up to 35 GB or nominally unlimited storage. Plans include email accounts, MySQL databases, FTP accounts, subdomains, script installation, a website builder, cPanel, migration assistance, weekly off-site backups, and continuous server monitoring.

The Professional and larger shared-hosting packages include a free .co.tz domain. Entry-level Starter and Standard customers must register their domain separately. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, MediaWiki, and other applications can be installed from the hosting control panel.

Reseller Hosting is designed for web designers, developers, and businesses that want to sell hosting under their own identity. Packages include WHM, individual cPanel accounts, private nameservers, a domain-reseller account, migration assistance, and storage allocations ranging from 10 GB to 100 GB. Customers can create multiple hosting accounts, with practical capacity determined by the disk space, bandwidth, processor, and memory available to the reseller package.

The standard VPS Hosting range includes root access, one public IP address, remote reboot facilities, serial-console access, operating-system templates, and configurable applications. Linux options include CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Scientific Linux, while Windows-based virtual servers are also available. Storage configurations use SSD or RAID 10 SAS and SATA drives, depending on the selected server.

A separate Tanzania VPS range is available for businesses that need local infrastructure. Packages start with 2 vCPU cores, 2 GB RAM, and 50 GB storage, while larger configurations reach 4 vCPU cores, 16 GB RAM, and 200 GB storage. Each Tanzania VPS includes a public IP address and a 1 Mbps connection.

Local VPS hosting can be valuable for Tanzanian business applications, institutional systems, internal platforms, and websites where domestic connectivity or data location is more important than obtaining the lowest international price. The Tanzania VPS range costs considerably more than the company’s standard virtual servers.

Dedicated Servers are fully managed and include cPanel administration. Provisioning normally takes up to 24 hours. Available configurations use Intel Xeon E3-series processors, 4 GB to 16 GB RAM, 1 TB storage, and monthly bandwidth allocations from 5 TB to 15 TB.

Some dedicated-server specifications include older Xeon E3 v2 processors, DDR3 memory, and legacy operating-system references. Customers planning production workloads should request an updated written configuration covering the exact processor generation, storage technology, operating system, RAID level, replacement guarantees, and management scope before payment.

Email Hosting provides professional mailboxes under the customer’s own domain. Features include cPanel administration, POP3, IMAP, secure mail protocols, autoresponders, spam protection, antivirus filtering, and synchronization with computers and mobile devices. Packages range from five mailboxes with 400 MB storage to an Enterprise package with 5 GB storage and nominally unlimited mailboxes.

The SSL portfolio includes domain-validated, organization-validated, single-domain, and wildcard certificates. Certificates support encryption of up to 256 bits, browser compatibility, site seals, and unlimited reissuance. SSL purchases have a separate 15-day refund period.

Domain services cover Tanzanian extensions such as .tz, .co.tz, .or.tz, .ac.tz, .info.tz, and .ne.tz, together with international and regional extensions. A .co.tz domain costs TSh25,000 per year. Both new registrations and transfers are supported, with DNS propagation commonly requiring 24 to 48 hours.

Cloud Hosting and WordPress Hosting remain part of the wider service navigation, although WordPress is primarily handled through the shared-hosting environment rather than through a clearly separated managed WordPress range.

The customer platform supports billing in Tanzanian shillings and US dollars. It also includes interfaces in 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.

English is fully supported, while some translations retain English product names and technical terminology. This multilingual setup is useful for international customers, although the company remains especially well suited to Tanzanian users who prefer local payments, .tz domains, and domestic support.

Several specifications require careful confirmation before purchase. Script-installer totals vary between sections, some VPS configurations differ between the product information and checkout area, and SSL prices can appear with an incorrect monthly label even though the certificates are billed annually. References to PHP 5, CentOS 6, SquirrelMail, older Xeon processors, and DDR3 hardware also indicate that technical details should be confirmed directly for new orders.