Shared Hosting Tips in Angola

Our team has visited another African country on the Atlantic Ocean Sea coast. Angola is a country with a high level of corruption operating at all levels — the Covid test costs €250. Also, it can be dangerous in Angola and leaving houses after 6 PM is not recommended because probably, 99% — people may get in trouble.

Understanding the Angola Market

The population of Angola is 33 million people. Locals tend to use mobile phones for network connection instead of computers. However, the majority are living in villages, where are no internet or network connections.

In Angola the support service is provided in the official language — Portuguese. English language is not popular and is used only in some tourist places. For this reason, it is incredibly hard to find an English-speaking hosting company representatives. But there are many Portuguese brands on the market from neighbouring countries.

Hosting in Angola

Almost everything is extremely expensive, unprofessional and has poor quality. For this reason, hosting is not developed, high priced, support does not provide service even of the average quality and the domainity level is lower than 1% (less than 1 domain per 1000 people). Of course, there are several good companies — webmasters.co.ao; angolaonline.net; nestangola.com. However, the majority of locals still prefer to host outside Angola. Outside hosters provide higher quality support, and is cheaper, better servers. Rich telecoms do not offer shared hosting in Angola – only small providers and web design studios.

Payment methods

There are not many payment gateways, only several of them (2Checkout, PayPal and domestic debit cards). Although mobile money is popular in African countries. In Angola they are only going to come. Such an update in payment gateways will change the culture of the Internet.

Website builders and free services

Website builders' popularity is growing. Site.pro is the number one product in Angola. Many Portuguese brands are on the market from neighbouring countries Brazil and Mozambique, also some of them from Nigeria. People usually expand just because the market is very small right now. So, people make diversification for some countries.

Local people prefer to use free services as people all around the world. One of the reasons is payment issues. As there are not many payment gateways, money collection is complicated, as well as in other countries such as Mozambique, Lesotho, Swaziland or other not developed countries.

Final Word

Angola has great potential to grow in the hosting market. Developing the quality of the services provided by adding new payment methods and analysing products is a great place to start. It would help to encourage people to start using the local services more instead of the foreign ones.