A better online world, for less

Giving you the tools, support, and value you need to go further

The Story of Sailexhost

Sailexhost takes its name from the idea of setting sail: giving businesses and individuals across Africa a platform to launch, grow and reach further online.

Too often, large international providers win on price and then disappear the moment you need help. That is not how we work. We are committed to outstanding service for every customer, because hospitals, schools, online shops, financial institutions and other essential organisations rely on us to stay online at all times. It is a responsibility we take seriously.

Your partner in hosting.

Our Purpose

Every website, online store, app and email address lives on a server somewhere. Keeping those servers fast, secure and online around the clock is demanding work, and it is work most people never want to think about. That is where we come in. Sailexhost builds and looks after the infrastructure so you can focus on what you actually set out to do: run your business, share your ideas and reach your customers.

We started Sailexhost because getting online in Africa was too expensive, too complicated and too slow. Our purpose is simple: give every entrepreneur, creator and organisation the tools, the support and the fair pricing they need to build something great online, backed by real people who are there whenever you need them.

We were one of the first companies to bring true cloud hosting to Africa.

Sailexhost was started by a small team of engineers who were tired of watching African businesses pay overseas prices for servers hosted a continent away. Bringing years of experience running large-scale hosting infrastructure, they set out to build a cloud platform closer to home: fast, fairly priced and supported by people who understand the local market.

Today Sailexhost is an established hosting company leading in cloud server solutions, and we have grown remarkably since inception.

How We Have Grown Over the Years

2016
Sailexhost is founded with a single rack of servers and a simple goal: reliable hosting that anyone can afford.
March 2017
Launched cloud shared hosting with free SSL on every plan.
October 2017
Opened our 24/7 support desk, staffed by real people.
2018
Became an accredited domain registrar, with .com, .net, .org and more at checkout.
June 2019
Added managed WordPress hosting with staging and automatic daily backups.
2019
Launched .ng domain registration and local billing for Nigerian customers.
2020
Introduced cloud VPS hosting with NVMe storage and instant resource upgrades.
2021
Free website migration on every plan, handled by our team.
2022
Launched business and enterprise email on our own mail platform.
2022
Acquired Cenehost, welcoming its hosting customers to the Sailexhost platform.
2023
Dedicated servers added for customers who outgrow shared and VPS hosting.
2023
Released our WHOIS lookup and domain name suggestion tools.
2024
Acquired Intefury, expanding our hosting footprint.
2024
Launched the website builder, so anyone can publish a site in an afternoon.
2025
Acquired Oplinix, adding its hosting and domain customers to the Sailexhost family.
2026
Relaunched cloud hosting with auto-scaling CPU, RAM and storage.

A better online world, for less

The Story of Sailexhost

Our Purpose

We were one of the first companies to bring true cloud hosting to Africa.

How We Have Grown Over the Years

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