Your Online Store Should
Be Selling, Not Buffering

E-commerce hosting is web hosting specifically configured for online stores. The key difference is Secure Checkout Ready — your store comes pre-configured with the security protocols, SSL encryption, and database setup that payment processors require. Regular shared hosting may not meet these standards, causing checkout errors or payment failures. Tayo Host e-commerce hosting is ready for WooCommerce, OpenCart, and other platforms out of the box.

E-commerce hosting in Kenya starts at $55 per year with Tayo Host — that is $4.99 per month billed annually. Renewal is $80 per year. The Plus plan (3 stores, 15 GB NVMe) starts at $100/year, renewing at $120/year. All plans include Secure Checkout Ready, free SSL, daily backups, LiteSpeed speed, and WhatsApp support. You can pay with M-Pesa, Airtel Money, or MTN MoMo.

Yes. Your Tayo Host e-commerce hosting works with WooCommerce and plugins like PesaPal, which accept M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN MoMo, Visa, Mastercard, and bank transfer. Our hosting is pre-configured for secure checkout so payment gateway integrations work reliably. Kenya has over 12,260 active e-commerce users — M-Pesa is the payment method most of them expect to see at checkout.

Slow stores are almost always a hosting problem, not a design problem. Budget shared hosting puts hundreds of stores on one server — when any of them gets traffic, yours slows down. Tayo Host uses LiteSpeed NVMe servers, which handle significantly more requests per second than Apache and deliver pages up to 20× faster than traditional hard drive hosting. Speeding up your mobile site by just 0.1 seconds can boost conversion rates by 8% for retail sites.

Yes. All Tayo Host e-commerce plans are fully compatible with WooCommerce — the platform that powers 75% of all online stores in Kenya. WooCommerce installs in one click from your control panel. The LiteSpeed server and NVMe storage are specifically optimised for WooCommerce performance under load, preventing the slowdowns that plague WooCommerce stores on cheap shared hosting during peak sales periods.

There is no limit on the number of products. The only limits are storage (5 GB on Starter, up to 50 GB on Ultimate) and the number of stores per account (1 to unlimited depending on your plan). A typical Kenyan retail store with 500 products and optimised images uses under 2 GB of storage. If you plan to sell high-resolution fashion photography or video, consider the Plus or Deluxe plan for more room.

Yes — and we show you both prices before you sign up. The Starter plan starts at $55/year and renews at $80/year. The Plus plan starts at $100/year and renews at $120/year. Both prices are visible on this page. No shock invoice, no bait-and-switch. The renewal increase is modest and transparent — unlike several Kenya competitors who double their price at renewal without warning.

Yes. Our support team handles queries in English, Swahili, Somali, and Arabic via WhatsApp. This matters especially for Somali diaspora business owners in Minneapolis, London, Toronto, and Columbus who are building stores to serve customers in Kenya and the diaspora community. We respond fast and we understand the specific payment and logistics context of Kenyan e-commerce.