We will be featuring Nigerian web hosting companies in this newly created section, I will start with the veteran then to the innovative and game changers. Web hosting and domain registration as we may all know, are the bedrock of your online success, hence choosing one is very critical. I will advise first of all that you should not accept a free domain or hosting you won’t have access to move around. Think about it this way, if someone’s name is written on your business certificate, wow, am sure he owns the business. Think about it this way again, if someone has the key to your office or has a cheque of yours and still a signatory to. He definitely owns your business. This must be taking serious I must say, because it has brought down a lot of promising websites!

The 2 companies above have been in the industry since the internet usage became widespread in Nigeria and I must say, they still remain relevant and operative till now.

Back in 2004, I registered my first domain name with signonafrica.net printing my presence on the websphere. Then remained with them till I founded my own web hosting company. Signonafrica.net became the yardstick of other budding web hosting firm. I could remember using their prices for benchmaking and doing our business projections. Almost half of the sites I knew then were hosted by signonafrica. In webhosting like every other ones, there are challenges and ups and down, Signonafrica also experience a fair share if theirs. There server was shut down sometime about 3 years ago because of a fraudulent website registered. The website signed up with them under false pretense to perpetrate phishing and subsequently affected a whole lot of other sites.

Their office which is located at the heart of Ikeja, Allen Avenue in Lagos remains functional.

Mcreal.net is also a veteran in webhosting business in Nigeria, having been in the business for over 5 years and still keeping it real! Their website was one of the coolest in terms of design and graphics. Mcreal.net is also selected as one of the official .ng registration company.

This is just the beginning, 2 other companies will be featured next week, while not subscribe to our feed to get an alert.

Disclosure: This review is not sponsored by any of the companies under review hence they are as objective as my experience with them and observation over the years.