Garanntor : The First Nigerian Web Hosting Company to Host All Its Infrastructure in Nigeria.

If you are in need of a web hosting company in Nigeria that could meet your hosting requirements, allows you pay in Naira for website hosting services & domain name registration, has a physical office which you can walk into and is always there to provide 24/7 support, then you need to give Garanntor a try. I was at their office at Opebi Lagos, in December 2015 and to be honest with you, I was impressed with their offerings.

Garanntor is an accredited domain registrar and the first web hosting company in Nigeria to host all its infrastructure in Nigeria without ever hosting outside the country, and it offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions to developers, SMEs, NGOs, corporate and government organizations.

With Garanntor, Nigerians now have access to affordable, fast, premium data hosting services which include, but are not limited to – domain names, virtual private servers, cloud servers, web hosting, web security, cloud solutions, content delivery network, application hosting, cloud storage, disaster recovery and co-location.

Garanntor’s infrastructure is engineered to deliver services that are in line with global standards and their pricing is affordable. Web hosting services at Garanntor Nigeria starts from N125 per month as seen here.

If you're also looking for where you can pay for cheap domain name registration in Nigeria, you should also try Garanntor. As at the time of publishing this post, you can buy .com.ng domain for as low as N1,150 and .ng domain for as low as N9,500.

I am currently subscribed to Garanntor reseller web hosting plan which simply allows me to create a number of cPannel administrator interface systems and then rent them out to those that pay me for web design and management.

With the number of hosting companies we have in the world today, it is commendable to see a Nigerian company doing things differently.

You can check out Garanntor at : www.garanntor.ng

If you prefer to pay in USD, you can check out : www.garanntor.com

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How to host and manage you wordpress webpage.

Yesterday, I successfully restored a softaculous backup of a client's WordPress site to a new domain and host.

So, if you are moving WordPress site to new domain ( from www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com) and to another host (eg from domainking.ng to garanntor.ng), this tutorial will help you provided you've used softaculous to back up the site files and database.

First thing you have to do is to ensure that you create a new cPanel account on the new host with the same username used for the cPanel account on the old host. You can do this easily via WHM if you are subscribed to reseller web hosting. Else, you can send the username to your host and insist they use it when setting up your account.

Thereafter, sign in to your cPanel, navigate to "File Manager" and create a softaculous backup directory.

Next step is to upload the softaculous backup file you downloaded from your old host to the newly created softaculous folder/directory.

Once the upload completes, navigate to "Softaculous apps installer" section in cPanel and click on "WordPress".

Click on the "backups and restore" icon.  You should see the softaculous back up file you uploaded right there.

Click on the restore icon as seen in the screenshot above.

Select both options as seen above.

Click "restore installation" and chill till the process completes.

Once completed, go back to your cPanel, navigate to "databases" section and click on "PhpMyAdmin" icon.

Once in phpMyAdmin, click on the site WordPress database and click on the table "wp_options". Find the options siteurl and home and change their values to the new domain name.

That's all.

Sign in to the WordPress admin area to ensure everything is OK.  Also check your theme settings and update settings (eg logo URL) that contain the old URL.

If you come across any issues with the migration, you can check out WpBeginner's guide on the most common WordPress errors and how to fix them.

If you would like to redirect your old pages for SEO reasons, you should use 301 redirects, which are permanent redirects as explained in step 6 of the article here.

NB : If you want to move WordPress site to a new host or server but same domain, read this guide,

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