Whogohost
| Private company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Web hosting |
| Founded 📆 | 2007 |
| Founder 👔 | Opeyemi Awoyemi |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Lagos Nigeria |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Opeyemi Awoyemi (Founder & CEO 2007-2010) Toba Obaniyi (CEO 2010-present) |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | whogohost |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Whogohost is a web hosting service and cloud solutions company in Lagos, Nigeria. It is the largest web hosting company.[1] in West Africa hosting over 70,000 active domains. It was founded by Opeyemi Awotoye in 2007.
The company operates from Omole Estate Phase 1 in Lagos, Nigeria with over 70 employees[2]
Whogohost offers web hosting[3], cloud solutions services[4] and other solutions like shared hosting, WordPress hosting[5], email hosting, python hosting, Cloud hosting & Managed services, Node js hosting, G suite and Office 365.
The company is an accredited NiRA .ng registrar[6] and also a Google G Suite accredited reseller.
History[edit]
In 2007, at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Opeyemi Awoyemi, a web developer started a web hosting service for his web design clients. The web hosting service became a web reseller for anyone in need of web hosting services. The service which was a subsection of the parent company ennovateNIGERIA lasted for 2 years before rebranding to Whogohost. In 2010, Toba Obaniyi joined Opeyemi as a partner and whogohost became a web solutions company. In 2011, the company registered as a corporate entity and Toba Obaniyi took over as CEO shortly after.
In 2015, Whoghost organised free entrepreneurship trainings[7] for job seekers and entrepreneurs in partnership with Jobberman and NiRA.
In 2016, whogohost acquired iHost Africa[8] and The Expert host[9] in a series of mergers and acquisitions[10]. In 2018, whogohost launched a “take it online” campaign to promote Nigerian SMEs[11]. The promotion was to help small and medium enterprises get online through web solutions and cloud hosting services.
In 2019, Whogohost won the award for the best .NG ccTLD registrar at Platinum category. In a big to helping small and medium enterprises in Nigeria and west africa, whogohost created awareness for online SME clinic[12] at Computer Village in the same year.[13] In 2020, Whogohost recently launched its services in Ghana and Kenya and is looking to expand to other parts of Africa[14]. Due to Covid 19, whogohost also offered free one month hosting to all entrepreneurs migrating online[15]
Controversies[edit]
In August 2016, Whogohost reported a hardware failure on one of its servers called “chicken server” which led to thousands of websites on the server becoming unavailable for days. The Chicken server failure led to the irrevocable loss of customer files and data.[16] This created a lot of backlash from the tech community. The company later took further measures to ensure data protection and back up, and to also curb further issues by hiring a new CTO Spencer Candland who was the former Vice President, Technical Infrastructure at Bluehost.
References[edit]
- ↑ whtop (2020), Nigeria Top 10 Webhosting companies 2020, best providers NG, retrieved 25 October 2020
- ↑ "Organization: WhoGoHost". CrunchBase. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ↑ Buzznigeria (2020). "Whogohost: Here's all you need to know about whogohost web hosting solutions". Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ↑ "Cloud-hosted services for SMEs, credit to MainOne, Intel and Whogohost". 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ↑ "Whogohost unveils their latest product plus 30% discount - wordpress hosting". 2018. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ↑ NiRA (2020), Whogohost - Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), retrieved 25 October 2020
- ↑ "Whogohost hosts Free Entrepreneurship Trainings". 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ↑ "Whogohost has acquired iHost Africa". 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
- ↑ "Web hosting company acquires TheExpertHost". 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
- ↑ "Nigerian Web hosting company Whogohost, acquired TheExpertHost". 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ↑ "How Whogohost plans to shape Nigerian Business owners' future with takeitonline campaign". 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
- ↑ "Whogohost to host Online SME Clinic At Lagos Computer Expo". 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ "Whogohost plans online SME clinic at CVE 2019". 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ↑ "Whogohost Kenya Plans and pricing". 2020. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
- ↑ "Whogohost:Hosting company offers 100% free one-month hosting". 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ↑ "Whogohost Server downtime failure, an open letter to whogohost". 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
External links[edit]
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