Kenya's businesses deserve honest hosting. So we built it.
Every great company starts with a problem that is too painful to ignore. Ours started in Eastleigh — where we watched Kenyan businesses get burned, overcharged, and underserved by hosting companies that never understood them.
Why do Kenyan businesses keep getting the worst deal in hosting?
Africa's web hosting market is worth $2.62 billion and growing at 19% per year — yet most of that money flows to international companies that have never set foot in Nairobi, Mogadishu, or Dar es Salaam.
The pattern is always the same. A business owner signs up for hosting at a low introductory price. A year later, the renewal invoice arrives — double, sometimes triple the original amount. Support tickets take 48 hours to get a generic response. Payment methods that work for Kenyans are not even an option. And if you want to talk to someone? You are routed to a call centre on the other side of the world that has never heard of M-Pesa.
This is not an accident. It is a business model. And we decided in November 2022 to build the alternative.
The Renewal Trap
Sign up for $3/month, renew at $15/month. The fine print is intentional. Most Kenyan businesses only find out when the invoice lands.
Support That Does Not Know You
International hosts have zero context for M-Pesa, Eastleigh businesses, Somali diaspora commerce, or Kenyan market realities. We do.
Payment Barriers by Design
Global hosts do not accept M-Pesa or Airtel Money. Not because they cannot — because Kenya is not their priority. It is ours.
Ubaid's story is why Tayo Host exists
Ubaid Issa runs a growing digital business in Somalia. Like thousands of Kenyan entrepreneurs, he had the vision, the clients, and the drive — but his hosting situation was quietly strangling his growth.
His previous provider was one of those all-in-one platforms: hosting, development, apps, everything bundled together. On paper, convenient. In practice, a trap. Ubaid could not separate his hosting from his development work. Every time he wanted to make a change to his site, he had to go through the same provider — the same company that also charged him inflated rates, took days to respond to support requests, and had zero understanding of how businesses operate in the Somali context.
He did not just want better hosting. He wanted separation of concerns. A dedicated, reliable hosting provider that did one thing — hosting — and did it exceptionally well. A provider that was available on WhatsApp at midnight when something broke. A provider that could actually speak to his reality.
Ubaid found Tayo Host. He moved his sites over, got WhatsApp support in a language that understood his business context, and for the first time had a hosting partner — not a vendor trying to upsell him on everything else.
One founder. One clear mission. No compromise on honesty.
Hassan A. Hassan founded Tayo Host in November 2022 from the Mash Building in Eastleigh, Nairobi — not from a Silicon Valley office, not from a venture-funded startup hub, but from the middle of one of Kenya's most active commercial centres.
The idea was simple but radical for the hosting industry: tell people the renewal price upfront. Accept M-Pesa. Pick up the WhatsApp message. Be a hosting company that acts like a neighbour, not a corporation. Today, Tayo Host serves clients across Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, South Sudan, and South Africa — built entirely on word of mouth and trust.
We are still small. Deliberately. We believe a hosting company that knows your name is worth more than one that knows your credit card number.
“I built Tayo Host because I believed Kenyan businesses deserved the same quality of hosting as anyone else — with one addition: a company that actually answers the phone.”
Why Eastleigh?
Eastleigh is not just a neighbourhood — it is where Kenyan commerce lives and breathes. Thousands of businesses operate here, serving clients across Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and beyond. Being here is not a marketing decision. It is a statement of who we serve.
Make reliable web hosting accessible to every Kenyan business — at a price that does not change overnight.
We believe every business — whether a restaurant in Eastleigh, a school in Mombasa, an NGO in Kampala, or a Somali entrepreneur in Minneapolis — deserves fast, honest, affordable hosting with support that understands their reality.
To become the most trusted hosting brand across Kenya — not the biggest.
We measure success not in server counts but in how many Kenyan businesses go online because of us — and stay online because we never let them down.
Our values are not on a poster. They are in every decision.
These are not aspirational words. They are the actual principles that guide how we run Tayo Host every single day.
Radical Transparency
We show you the renewal price before you buy. No bait-and-switch, no fine print. What you see is what you pay — always.
Built for Kenya
Every decision we make is filtered through one question: does this serve Kenyan businesses? If not, we do not do it.
Real Human Support
No bots, no ticket queues that take three days. Real people in Nairobi answering on WhatsApp, in English, Swahili, and Somali.
Performance First
We chose NVMe SSD infrastructure specifically because Kenyan businesses deserve the same fast load times as anyone else on earth.
Honest Growth
We grow when our clients grow. No locking you into contracts, no surprise fees, and no manufactured reason to leave.
Community Rooted
Based in Eastleigh — the heartbeat of Kenyan commerce. We are not a remote company. We are your neighbours.
Currently serving clients in
Tayo Host Ltd · Mash Building, Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya · Est. November 2022
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