To choose a web hosting company in Nigeria, compare providers on the points that affect your business day to day: whether you can pay reliably, what the plan costs at renewal, what is included, where the servers are, the uptime commitment in writing and when you can reach support. Tremhost is a hosting company based in Harare, Zimbabwe, that serves customers across Africa, including Nigeria, with plans billed in US dollars. This guide sets out what to check and how Tremhost answers each point.<\/p>\n
A note on this guide:<\/strong> Tremhost is not a Nigerian company and does not rank itself against Nigerian hosts. Put the same questions below to every provider you are considering, local or international, and compare the answers side by side.<\/p>\n Before comparing hosts, write down how many pages and email addresses you need, whether you will run WordPress, an online shop or custom software, who will handle updates and security, and where most of your visitors are. A five-page company site with staff email needs far less than a busy shop or a customer portal, and buying more than you need is the most common way to overspend on hosting.<\/p>\n Both can work. A Nigerian host may bill in naira and offer support in your time zone. An international provider may offer different server locations, control panels or pricing. What matters is the answers to the questions below, not where the company is registered. Lagos and Harare are one hour apart (WAT is UTC+1, CAT is UTC+2), so support hours in Central Africa Time largely overlap with the Nigerian working day.<\/p>\n A renewal that fails can take your website and email offline. Check which payment methods the provider accepts and whether your bank card allows international payments in US dollars.<\/p>\n Tremhost:<\/strong> bills in US dollars and accepts Visa, Mastercard, Bitcoin, Tron and Litecoin, as well as Zimbabwean methods such as EcoCash and ZimSwitch. It does not bill in naira.<\/p>\n Many hosts discount the first term and charge more at renewal. Compare the total over three years.<\/p>\n Tremhost:<\/strong> no introductory pricing; plans renew at the sign-up price.<\/p>\n Check storage type and size, the control panel, email accounts, SSL and backups, and whether any of these are add-ons.<\/p>\n Tremhost:<\/strong> cPanel web hosting with LiteSpeed, NVMe storage, free SSL, unlimited mailboxes, daily backups and free migration on every plan.<\/p>\n Distance between server and visitors adds delay. Ask where your account will be hosted.<\/p>\n Tremhost:<\/strong> shared hosting runs on servers in Europe and the USA. VPS plans can be deployed in Johannesburg, New York, Miami, Limburg (Germany) or Roubaix (France). A content delivery network such as Cloudflare, which Tremhost partners with, can cache static files closer to visitors.<\/p>\n Look for a service level agreement, not a homepage claim.<\/p>\n Tremhost:<\/strong> a 99.9% monthly availability target for hosting, email and servers in its published SLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tremhost:<\/strong> tickets, WhatsApp on +263 73 563 9917 and booked calls, Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00 CAT (07:00 to 16:00 in Lagos). Armor SOS offers free same-day triage for hacked sites.<\/p>\n Tremhost:<\/strong> free cPanel-to-cPanel migration, typically within 24 hours, with the site live on the old host until you switch. A 30-day refund on the first order for web hosting, managed WordPress, business email and reseller hosting.<\/p>\n Prices are in US dollars:<\/p>\n Tremhost was founded in 2016 and has more than 13,000 domains on its infrastructure.<\/p>\n Any domain can point at any host by changing its nameservers or DNS records, so a domain registered elsewhere can use Tremhost hosting.<\/p>\n Distance adds some delay, but caching, a well-built site and a CDN often matter more. Test your own pages with PageSpeed Insights before and after a move.<\/p>\n Tremhost bills in US dollars. Card payments are converted by your bank, so check your card’s international limits.<\/p>\n Use the seven questions with every host you shortlist. To see Tremhost’s plans side by side, visit the web hosting page<\/a>, or read about free website migration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seven questions to ask any web hosting company in Nigeria, local or international, with Tremhost’s own answers on payment, renewal, servers and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":5040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tremhost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81084,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions\/81084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tremhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Start with what your website needs<\/h2>\n
Local Nigerian host or international provider?<\/h2>\n
Seven questions to ask any hosting company<\/h2>\n
1. Can I pay reliably, and in what currency?<\/h3>\n
2. What does it cost to renew?<\/h3>\n
3. What is included?<\/h3>\n
4. Where are the servers?<\/h3>\n
5. Is uptime committed in writing?<\/h3>\n
6. When and how can I reach support?<\/h3>\n
7. Can I move my existing site, and get a refund if it does not work out?<\/h3>\n
Tremhost web hosting plans<\/h2>\n
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Which type of hosting do you need?<\/h2>\n
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Red flags when choosing a host<\/h2>\n
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Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n
Can I use a .ng domain with Tremhost hosting?<\/h3>\n
Will my site be slow if the server is outside Nigeria?<\/h3>\n
Can I pay in naira?<\/h3>\n
Next step<\/h2>\n