Designers, developers, writers, photographers — get your own yourname.co.ke from KSh 80$0.62/month. Fast, looks professional on Upwork, paid via M-Pesa.
View Plans Search Your NameStop sending clients to a free Wix subdomain. A real .co.ke portfolio is one of the cheapest investments you can make in your freelance career — and it pays back every time a client Googles you.
The cheapest plan handles a single portfolio comfortably.
Most freelancers build the portfolio first and think about email later. It is usually the wrong way round. A prospective client sees your address before they see your work, on the proposal, the invoice and the first reply, and an address at your own domain reads differently from a free one.
It is not about looking corporate. It is that [email protected] tells a client you have been doing this long enough to set something up, that you are contactable at an address that will still work next year, and that your business is separate from your personal life. A quote from a Gmail address competes on price. The same quote from your own domain competes on credibility.
It is also practical. You keep the address when you change email provider, you can add hello@ or accounts@ later without telling anyone a new address, and you can hand a project address to a collaborator without giving away your personal inbox.
If you build sites for other people, the number of websites your plan allows matters more than its storage. Each client site needs its own slot, so the jump from one plan to the next is usually about client count rather than disk space.
Two things worth deciding early. Keep each client on their own domain and their own database, even when they share your account, so that handing one over later is a clean operation rather than an untangling. And be clear from the start about whose name the domain is registered in. Registering a client domain in your own name is convenient at the time and becomes a difficult conversation the day they want to leave.
If you reach the point where you are billing clients for hosting and want it under your own brand and your own nameservers, that is reseller hosting rather than a larger shared plan. Talk to us about it when you get there.
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Building a freelancer profile site in KenyaDomain + hosting + email + SSL — under KSh 4,000 for the full year.