Vikalink review

Vikalink's entry price is GHS 8.33. Across the site's hosting listings the median entry price is €2.99 and renewals sit at a median of €5.99, so buyers usually pay more after the first term than at signup.

The catalogue covers shared hosting, WordPress hosting and reseller hosting. Shared hosting suits small sites, WordPress hosting is tuned for that platform, reseller hosting supports people who host sites for others, and VPS hosting hands over a server of your own. Plans are aimed at beginners, small business and enterprise.

The number of websites allowed depends on the plan. Starter holds the smallest allowance, Starter Plus and Business allow more, and Go-Monthly plans place no cap on how many sites you run. Pick the plan to match the number of properties you need online.

Included extras are free ssl, backups and cdn, so certificates, backups, CDN delivery and email come as standard rather than as paid add-ons. Plans are aimed at beginners, small business and enterprise, with the smaller ones built for a first site and the larger ones suited to running several properties.

Servers sit in Frankfurt, Germany, London, United Kingdom and New York, United States, which gives decent coverage for visitors in Europe and North America. The company itself is based in Ghana as Vikalink Domain And Hosting. Visitors further from those regions may see more latency than a local provider would give.

Support runs on email, chat and phone. Phone and chat suit urgent problems, email works for anything that needs a written trail, and a help centre covers the routine questions. Reach for phone when a site is down and the help centre otherwise.

Vikalink offers a money-back period of 30 days, the same window as the median of 30 across the site's listings. It ranks 35 of 275 brands on that measure, so the guarantee is average rather than outstanding.

The published guarantee is 99.95% under a service level agreement, which is the promise to lean on if a site goes dark. Support on email, chat and phone gives you a route to raise it, and plan features such as free ssl, backups and cdn sit alongside that commitment.

Vikalink registers domains alongside its hosting, with 50 top-level domains listed. Buyers who need a wider extension range should look at a dedicated registrar instead. Keeping hosting and domain in the same basket suits a first purchase.