Hosting prices in Ethiopia in Birr (2026)

It depends on what you are hosting. Prices fall into three groups, and they aren't interchangeable:

Every price below was read on the provider's own site on November 3, 2026. Dollar prices are converted at the National Bank of Ethiopia's indicative mid rate for November 2, 2026: USD 1 = ETB 160.9988. A card payment will cost a little more after your bank's exchange margin.

ethio telecom's page lists prices without a period but says the minimum plan is one year, renewed every year, so we read them as yearly. Its larger plans are Gold (50 GB, 5 sites) at ETB 3,800 and Platinum (100 GB, 10 sites) at ETB 5,200. Zergaw's page says a pricing update is in progress, so check before you pay.

Shared hosting runs PHP and MySQL behind a control panel. It is the cheapest way to put a WordPress site or a company page online. It generally can't run a Node.js, Python or Go server that stays running.

ethio telecom is the cheapest by a wide margin if a yearly payment suits you. Most local resellers sell servers that sit in the US or Europe. Yegara says so plainly, and HahuCloud says its VPS is “powered by DigitalOcean”. That is fine for most sites, but it means the server is no closer to your users than one you rent abroad yourself. Zergaw says its servers are in Ethiopia; note the 2 Mbps uplink on its smallest plan.

With any VPS you install the operating system updates, the web server, TLS certificates, the database and backups yourself.

If you are deploying a Node.js, Python, Go or PHP app from GitHub, compare app platforms, not shared hosting. These build and run your code on every push and handle TLS and restarts:

The dollar platforms are cheap on paper, but each needs a card that can pay in US dollars, which most people in Ethiopia don't have. See how to pay for Vercel, AWS and hosting from Ethiopia for which cards work. Render's price also covers one service: an app plus a database is two bills.

EthioDeploy Pro is usage-based and covers roughly 6 small sites or 2 mid-sized apps, with the database included. You pay the plan price by telebirr transfer, and each payment covers 30 days (or a year on yearly billing) without renewing on its own. CBE transfers are paused for now. Full details are on the pricing page.

ethio telecom runs the .et registry and sells the domains directly. Prices for one year:

Paying for several years at once is discounted, from 5% for two years up to 10% for five or more. Notice that the Birr price is far below the dollar price at today's exchange rate, so paying in Birr is the better deal. Shared Bronze includes a free domain for the first year.

• ethio telecom: order on its customer portal, then deposit Birr at a CBE branch into the account it gives, or pay in USD by PayPal. telebirr isn't listed for hosting.
• Yegara: Dashen, CBE or United Bank, by mobile or internet banking or a cash deposit.
• HahuCloud: CBE, Bank of Abyssinia or Dashen.
• Techno Bros: telebirr, card, or cash or cheque at its Addis Ababa office.
• EthioDeploy: telebirr transfer, checked automatically against the transaction number; or an international card in USD.