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Hosting and domain rates

Our rate structure is designed to strike a balance between simplicity and flexibility. We have no hidden fees, and we bend over backwards to ensure that you get value for your hard-earned money.

Zambian flag.These rates are in Zambian kwachas. For other currencies, please see the main rates page.

Hosting

  WEB AND EMAIL HOSTING   EMAIL-ONLY HOSTING
PLAN NAME   webSTART webONE webTWO webTHREE   mailSTART mailONE mailTWO mailTHREE
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Set-up fee1   K398.00 K398.00 K398.00 K398.00   K398.00 K398.00 K398.00 K398.00
Monthly fee   K265.00 K398.00 K530.00 K1,060.00   K133.00 K265.00 K398.00 K795.00
 
Disk space (GB)   1 3 5 10   1 3 4 8
Bandwidth (GB)   5 10 15 30   2 5 10 20
Email accounts   5 25 40 80   5 25 40 80
 
Databases2   0 10 15 20   n/a n/a n/a n/a
Mailing lists3   0 10 15 20   0 10 15 20
SSL4   Yes Yes Yes Yes   n/a n/a n/a n/a
Statistics5   Yes Yes Yes Yes   n/a n/a n/a n/a
Scripting6   Yes Yes Yes Yes   n/a n/a n/a n/a

Notes:

  1. Set-up fee is waived in most cases unless you need us to set up your initial email addresses or any web applications for you. There are no set-up fees to upgrade your account.
  2. MySQL.
  3. Mailman.
  4. Free Let's Encrypt SSL/TLS certificate included with all web hosting plans.
  5. Webalizer and AWstats.
  6. PHP, Perl, SSI, CGI and mod_perl. Apache ASP, Python and mod_python may be available on request.

Domain parking:

All domains registered but not assigned to a hosting plan include one POP email account on your domain and a parking page at no extra charge. (Coming soon: web-based contact form, parking page templates, and a WYSIWYG editor so that you can customise your parking page.)

WordPress hosting:

WordPress is a mature content-management and blogging system that is used by more than two million websites worldwide. NinerNet is developing a specialised hosting environment for WordPress-based websites and blogs, and currently offers individualised WordPress hosting paired with the webONE (and higher) hosting plan.

Hosting features:

In addition to the specific features listed above, all hosting accounts include the features below. (Some features apply only to web hosting, not email-only hosting, and some features may not be available for personal hosting.)

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Virtual private servers (VPS)

Virtual private servers give you all of the resources of your own dedicated server at a fraction of the cost. You have access to everything from the operating system up, while having fixed resources from the host physical server dedicated to your own virtual server. These rates are for our managed VPS service using solid-state drives (SSD).

Bigger VPSes -- with more RAM, bigger hard drives and more bandwidth -- are available. Please let us know what you need.

  VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER HOSTING
VPS SIZE   1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 8 GB
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Set-up fee   K1,590 K1,590 K1,590 K1,590
Monthly fee   K505 K665 K1,190 K1,990
 
RAM (GB)   1 2 4 8
Disk space (GB)*   25 50 80 160
Bandwidth (TB)*   1 2 4 5

Note:

* Disk space and bandwidth included depend on which data centre you choose. We use data centres in Europe, North America and Asia. The figures given above are the minimum included; at some data centres you will get more. Ask us for details.

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Domains

The following domains are available for registration through NinerNet (mouse-over each TLD to see additional information):

gTLD.aero, .biz, .com, .coop, .info, .jobs, .mobi, .name, .net, .org, .pro, .tel, .xxx
"New" TLDs.amsterdam, .club, .design, .golf, .irish, .london, .news, .ngo/.ong, .ninja, .online, .rocks, .site, .space, .taxi, .tech, .website, .work, .xyz, and many more:
Regional.africa, .asia, .eu
Africa.africa, .ac, .cd, .cm, .ly, .ma, .mu, .re, .sc, .sh, .so, .st, .tf, .yt, .za, .zam.co, .zm
Americas.ag, .ai, .ar, .br, .bz, .ca, .cl, .co, .ec, .gd, .gl, .gs, .gy, .hn, .ht, .lc, .ms, .mx, .pe, .pm, .pr, .sr, .sx, .tc, .us, .uy, .vc, .ve, .vg
Asia-Pacific.asia, .ae, .af, .am, .as, .asia, .au, .cc, .cx, .fm, .hk, .hm, .il, .in, .io, .jp, .kg, .ki, .kr, .la, .mn, .my, .nu, .nz, .ph, .pw, .qa, .ru, .sb, .sg, .tk, .tl, .tm, .to, .tv, .tw, .wf, .ws
Europe.eu, .at, .be, .ch, .cz, .de, .dk, .es, .eu, .fi, .fr, .gg, .gr, .hr, .hu, .im, .is, .it, .je, .li, .lt, .lu, .lv, .md, .me, .nl, .no, .pl, .pt, .ro, .ru, .se, .si, .ua, .uk
Specialty ccTLDs.ac, .am, .bz, .cd, .co, .fm, .im, .it, .la, .me, .tm, .tv, .ws

Map of country code top-level domains available from NinerNet:

Map of the world showing ccTLDs available for registration through NinerNet. We're making progress on our quest for Cape to Cairo domination!

Registration and renewal prices:

Multi-year domain registrations (when available) are available only by pre-arrangement with payment in advance. All prices in the table below are per year.

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gTLD*
Flag of Australia.
.au
Flag of Canada.
.ca
Flag of Colombia.
.co
Flag of the European Union.
.eu
Flag of Israel.
.co.il
Flag of New Zealand.
.nz
Flag of the United Kingdom.
.uk
Flag of the United States of America.
.us
Flag of South Africa.
.za
Flag of Zambia.
.zam.co
Flag of Zambia.
.zm*
 
1 year K495.00 K495.00 K635.00 K1,085.00 K450.00 K555.00 K1,085.00 K450.00 K495.00 K495.00 K66.00 K350.00
Add WHOIS privacy (where available) for only K240.00 per domain per year.

Notes:

Domain features:

All domains registered but not assigned to a hosting plan include one POP email account on your domain and a parking page at no extra charge. (Coming soon: web-based contact form, parking page templates, and a WYSIWYG editor so that you can customise your parking page.)

All domains except .za, .zm and .zam.co domains include access to a web-based interface to control your domain (contact information and nameservers) and (subject to availability by TLD) domain locking to keep your domain safely in your hands and prevent inadvertent changes that could bring your domain down.

WHOIS privacy for your domain (to keep your name, address, phone number and email address out of the public look-up facility for domain registrations) is also available for K240.00 per year.

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Bolt-ons

We strive to ensure that the plans above meet the needs of most of our clients. If you find that you need extra resources, but don't want to upgrade to the next level, these are our fees for the most common extra resources.

Extra hosted domains 1st domain charged at 100% of the plan price is the domain using the highest plan
50% of the plan price per extra domain if sharing the same resources
75% of the plan price per extra domain if needing full additional plan resources
Disk space (100 MB) K135.00 per month, bought in advance in 100-MB blocks
Bandwidth (1 GB) K135.00 per month, bought in advance or billed after use in 1-GB blocks, one-month grace period
Email accounts K39.75 each per month
K159.00 5-pack per month
IP addresses K106.00 per IP address per month
DNS-only hosting K530.00 per year


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Web applications

To enhance security on your server, we offer custom installation of many common web applications -- things like content-management systems, blogs, shopping carts, newsletter lists, wikis, forums, photo galleries, etc. If you are technically savvy, you may very well choose and install many of these applications yourself, but if you'd rather we do it, we will, and we'll also take care of upgrading the software when there are security updates.

Common applications:

Commonly-used applications include PunBB (forum), phpBB (forum), Mediawiki (wiki), Joomla (content-management system), Drupal (content-management system), osCommerce (shopping cart), WordPress (blog and content management, see WordPress hosting above), phplist (newsletter list), Gallery2 (photo gallery), and many more.

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Managed hosting and maintenance contracts

While we provide you with web-based tools that simplify the process of managing your web, email and database hosting, experience has show us that some people prefer that we just run the whole lot based on email or verbal instructions from them, or even provide further services to keep things running smoothly for them. We're more than happy to provide these services as an added layer to the standard hosting plans. Think of this as having your own IT employee on staff, but without the salary and benefits!

manageONE K795.00 per month* Includes these items on a monthly basis:
  • Manage email accounts
  • 2 requests to update 4 existing web pages*
  • Add 50% to work on a non-NinerNet server
manageTWO K1590.00 per month Includes all manageONE items, and:
  • Disk-space and bandwidth usage report
  • Dead-link and broken-image checks
  • Testing of forms
  • Add 45% to work on a non-NinerNet server
manageTHREE K3,180.00 per month Includes all manageTWO items, and:
  • Search-engine submission
  • Database and web application maintenance
  • Create, delete and edit user accounts
  • Create, edit and delete auto-responders
  • 4 requests to update 6 existing web pages
  • Add 40% to work on a non-NinerNet server
manageFOUR K4,770.00 per month Includes all manageTHREE items, and:
  • Mailing list performance monitoring and adjusting
  • Statistics analysis
  • DNS modifications
  • Set-up and maintenance of standard CGI scripts
  • Set-up password-protected directories
  • 6 requests to update 9 existing web pages
  • Add 35% to work on a non-NinerNet server
manageFIVE K7,155.00 per month Includes all manageFOUR items, and:
  • Provide support for client's customers (3 incidents)
  • Domain record modifications
  • Set-up and maintenance of custom CGI scripts
  • Proactive server and site monitoring and tweaking
  • 1/2 hour of technician time for use at your discretion
  • 12 requests to update 18 existing web pages
  • Add 30% to work on a non-NinerNet server
manageSIX K13,120.00 per month Includes all manageFIVE items, and:
  • Provide support for client's customers (10 incidents)
  • 1 hour of technician time for use at your discretion
  • Daily updates of existing web pages (5 days per week)
  • Additional client customer support incidents: K640.00 each
  • No additional charge to work on a non-NinerNet server

Notes:

* The following points apply to managed hosting and maintenance contracts: In addition to also offering managed hosting and maintenance contract plans tailor-made to your specifications, minor variances to the above are possible and at the discretion of NinerNet. For example, even though we emphasise that maintenance contracts are for the maintenance of existing web pages, under certain circumstances (especially on template-driven websites) we may consider including the creation of new pages if the time necessary to do so isn't excessive (in comparison to maintaining existing pages) or doesn't involve the necessity to spend time working on layout, formatting or coding. We can't include an exhaustive list of exceptions here, but it shall suffice to say that we are flexible and interested in your satisfaction, and so will work with you to get the job done.

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Custom options

Flexibility is the word of the day, every day, at NinerNet. We can tailor solutions to meet your needs. Do you have a need that can't be met by any of the standard plans above? Let us know! We love a challenge, and we will happily assess your needs and come up with a solution to meet them.

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Sponsorship

We are happy to sponsor hosting and domain registration for a number of non-profit organisations. If you would like us to consider your organisation, please contact us.

Currency

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