Starting September 1st 2010, individuals and small business owners alike can now get their own websites at the affordable price of N6,650 for the ‘Standard’ web pack offered by GoldenSteps Enterprises on their newly launched website http://www.mynigerianblog.com. This standard web pack offers a domain registration with GoDaddy.com, webhosting space with inMotion INC, and a WordPress blog attached to the domain name.At N6,650 per annum, this offer is easily the cheapest in the industry, however, cheap in this context does not connote inferior, since the three elements that make up every website is 1) a domain name, 2) a web hosting space, and 3) the webpages. Therefore, a good website is one that has a good domain name registrar, a reliable web hosting company, and professionally programmed web pages. So how do websites on the
MyNigerianBlog.com platform fare based on these three criteria?
a) Domain name: All domain names are registered with GoDaddy.com, a leading domain name registrarb) Web Hosting: All websites are hosted with inMotion INC, also a top VPS and Dedicated Server hostc) Web pages: The blog engine is the latest version of WordPress (the same software that powers the popular wordpress.com), and is also said to be the best blogging engine in the world, with thousands of theme and plugins available for useThe question on everyone’s lip is: Why is it so cheap?
To quote the Chief technology Officer of the company:
“What made it possible to offer this otherwise expensive service at the cost of N6,650 is the fact that we have divided the existing webspace into the minimum possible sizes, thus, while 10MB might be enough to house an average business’ website, it might not be enough for businesses that require a custom application and database or that upload a lot of media in the forms of photos, videos, and audios. And even though there is an optional workaround (email forwarding), 10MB is also not enough for people that want emails on their domains”
Therefore for those requiring bigger space, access to more features, and their own email addresses too, there is a pricier pack, dubbed the ‘Premium’ web pack, that comes with 100MB webhosting space and a N23,650 price tag.
Other benefits of these packages are that since they are essentially blog engines, users can easily change content and look of their websites whenever they desire to, without needing to notify or wait for anyone else. And blogs can be easily moved from one host to another, without affecting website or ranking on Search engines.
GoldenSteps Enterprises is a web development company that specializes in building custom B2B and B2C applications, focusing on individuals and small businesses. MyNigerianBlog.com is their platform for dealing with the accessibility issues many face when acquiring their own websites.
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If you’d like more information, or to schedule an interview, call
08033954301/08053091406 or write samuelanyaele@gmail.com.