Recently, our company(the Laini Group) has been working on improving a web property for a large corporation, and our work was rudely interrupted by an error that implied there was no more space on the servers to work with. We were surprised at this because we had only just begun work on the website. Upon quick investigation, we discovered that the website had been allocated ONLY 10 MEGABYTES OF SPACE on Access Kenya's servers. Not people to be shocked easily, we assumed a minor error in the server was the cause of this. Wetook to the Access Kenya website to get some clarification, only to find that they actually offer ONLY 10 MEGABYTES OF SPACE FOR... 15, 000 BOB!!!

PROOF: http://www.accesskenya.com/smartpackages.html

Compare that to Sasahost, who has managed to host the Laini Group's flagship web property(KenyanLyrics.com) for 2 years. The same price gets you TENS OF THOUSANDS times the space that Access offers!

http://www.sasahost.com/website-hosting


Needless to say, we encouraged the corporation to migrate from Access, and we were out of there in less than 24 hours.

This is without a doubt, the most worthless webhosting package around! And I challenge my fellow web developers to dispute that claim!

Upon checking how on earth somebody could have been duped into such a deal, I discovered that it was the brand strength of Access that had driven the corporation's decision to host with them. The purpose of this message is to not let anybody else be duped by this image Access Kenya has created about being the provider of choice for corporate internet. They also use this ruse to con people into buying advertising on their portal, but that is a story for another day

They didn't put a gun to your head. It says very clearly that they give 10MB for ksh 15,000, public information that you were aware of when signing as it is in black and white (yellow and blue!!) on their web site. So quit beating on Access.

Seems Access Kenya web hosting is firmly stuck in the 90s. 10 MB! For 15K a year you could get unlimited disk space!

@ KenyanLyrics you are quite mistaken. Access does not deal in web hosting, the 10MB is just an additional incentive.

What you are actually paying for is the internet link. Make sure to read the fine print...

@ jguru, note my comment above..

I agree but think of the 10MB as free hosting for purchasing 15K worth of internet. Simple really...

There is absolutely nothing you can do with 10MB in this day and age.

For all those talking about a willing buyer and willing seller sort of situation, this is a zero value offer which they need to put a stop to. This post applies the sort of pressure that's meant to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. I'm already recieving e-mails from concerned parties, which shows that it's working. I have also contacted leading tech bloggers from Kenya to add pressure on Access

Its not even fine print. It is very clearly spelt out on their website. Someone didnt do their job when buying that package. Any time your signature is required on a piece of paper, it makes sense to read and understand what you're signing up for.