You are searching for web hosting priced in Egyptian pounds because you opened a foreign provider’s site and found the price in dollars, then opened a local one and found the site running on a server whose location nobody states. Perhaps you need a domain and hosting for a WordPress site for a client in Cairo or Alexandria, and you want to pay by card and receive an invoice in your own currency without conversion arithmetic. This article explains plainly what it means to buy hosting from a UAE company and pay in pounds: where your site actually lives, what you get, how renewal and refunds work, and how long the purchase takes.
Quick Answer
Yes, you can buy web hosting and a domain priced in Egyptian pounds from our UAE company: the portal shows hosting, WordPress and domain prices in pounds when you select the currency, you pay by bank card, and the invoice is issued in the same currency with tax as shown on it. Your site is hosted on servers in Europe or in Dubai depending on the plan, on cPanel and LiteSpeed with daily backups, Imunify360 malware scanning and Arabic support around the clock. We register .com, .ae and others, and we do not sell .eg. The plans are on our hosting services page, and the differences between them are in cheapest shared hosting.
Why You See Prices in Pounds
The portal shows six currencies, and the pound is one of them. When you open the hosting store with the ?currency=4 parameter, every plan appears in Egyptian pounds, and you can switch from the top menu to US dollars, dirhams, Saudi riyals, euros or pounds sterling. The price you see is the price booked on the invoice, and you will not find any price in this article because the reference is the current price on the portal.
Card payment, not bank transfer. You pay with a bank card enabled for online purchases, and the amount is charged in pounds as shown on the invoice. No international remittance and no foreign-currency account are needed, which is exactly the point small companies and freelancers in Egypt look for when they compare providers.
An invoice from a UAE company, with tax as shown on it. The invoice is issued by BIGBANG ITS, a company registered in the UAE since 2003, and tax is stated on it as it applies. Keep it for your accountant: it is a technology-expense document in your currency, not a dollar receipt that needs manual conversion.
Where Your Site Is Actually Hosted
The pound is the invoice currency, not the server location. This is the most important thing to know before you buy. Our shared and WordPress hosting plans run on servers in Europe, our Dubai Hosting plans are served from a data centre in Dubai, and managed cloud servers are available in the UAE, Germany and the United States. There is no server in Egypt, and we say so clearly because some providers do not.
Does distance affect speed? Yes, but less than many people think. The user-experience metrics Google measures are three, as the Core Web Vitals page explains: the largest element on the page appearing within 2.5 seconds, a response to interaction within 200 milliseconds, and layout shift of 0.1 or less. Cairo to Europe is a shorter network path than Cairo to North America, and most of the load time comes from page weight, plugins and caching, not from distance. A server in Europe with LiteSpeed and server-level caching produces better numbers than a nearby server with no cache.
Where your visitors’ data is kept. Our company is subject to the UAE’s data protection law, Federal Decree Law No. 45 of 2021 on the protection of personal data. If your site collects customer data in Egypt, you are responsible for complying with Egyptian law on your side, and we are responsible for protecting the server and the backups on ours, which is the normal division of responsibility for any hosting outside your own country.
The Domain: .com, .eg or .ae
We do not sell .eg, and we say so upfront. .eg is a country-code domain with an Egyptian registry and its own conditions, and it is not listed in the domain checker on our portal. If you already hold a .eg registered there, no problem: we connect it to the hosting through DNS records only and it stays registered where it is.
.com is what we recommend to most people who ask. It is easy to type, understood by a client in Cairo, Riyadh or Dubai alike, needs no documents, and is registered from the portal in pounds within minutes. Egyptian companies selling to the Gulf usually choose it because it does not tie the brand to one country.
.ae when your client is in the UAE. If you are an agency or developer building sites for UAE clients, a .ae extension tells the visitor the company is local, and we register it for them on our domain registration page. Choose the domain before the plan, because the site name and the email are built on it and cannot be changed later without cost.
What You Get for the Subscription
cPanel from an authorised partner. We are a cPanel Authorized Partner, and every shared or WordPress plan comes with the full cPanel panel: files, databases, email, DNS records and one-click WordPress installation. Plan details are on our Linux shared hosting page.
LiteSpeed and server-level caching. The servers run the LiteSpeed web server with server-level caching, which is what makes up for the distance discussed above. The WordPress plans are tuned specifically for it and include free migration from your current provider, as shown on our WordPress hosting page. They meet what WordPress asks for on its official requirements page: PHP 8.3 or greater, MariaDB 10.11 or MySQL 8.0 or greater, and HTTPS support.
Daily backups and Imunify360 scanning. A daily backup of the account is taken, and Imunify360 scans the files continuously for malware and quarantines it. The support requests we see most from WordPress site owners trace back to a compromised plugin or a pirated theme, which is why we consider continuous scanning and a daily backup more important than any storage figure in a plan table.
Free SSL and unmetered bandwidth. Every site gets an SSL certificate, and bandwidth on the shared and WordPress plans is not capped by a monthly meter, as the store shows. What limits a plan is storage space and the number of sites, so choose on that basis.
Arabic support around the clock. The support team works 24/7 in Arabic and English through portal tickets, and the office is open Saturday to Thursday. Cairo and the UAE are only two hours apart, so you get a reply within your working hours.
Payment, Renewal and Refunds
The price is locked for 36 months. We hold the price you subscribed at for three years and give 30 days’ notice before any increase after that. This matters specifically to anyone paying in pounds: the price shown in your currency at sign-up is what you renew at, not a new figure on every invoice.
Renewal by invoice, not by surprise charge. The renewal invoice reaches your email before the expiry date and you pay it from the portal. If it goes unpaid, the account passes through suspension stages before deletion, which we described in what happens when hosting expires. Our advice from experience: put the billing email on an address two people read, not one.
No refunds. Payments for all our services are final and non-refundable, so check the plan details or ask us before you order. If you cancel, the service runs until the end of the period you have paid for and is not renewed.
Buying in 10 Minutes, Step by Step
1. Choose the currency. Open the hosting store and select Egyptian pounds from the currency menu at the top of the page, or use the link that carries ?currency=4 directly.
2. Check the domain. Type the name into the domain checker. If it is available, add it to the cart; if you already hold a domain registered elsewhere, choose “I will use my existing domain” and you will later point its DNS records to us.
3. Choose the plan and billing cycle. A single WordPress site is fine on the smallest WordPress plan; an agency running several sites needs a multi-site plan. Longer cycles give a lower monthly price, and the figure is in front of you in the store.
4. Create your account and pay by card. Register with your email and phone number and enter the card details on the payment page. Your card is not tied to an automatic charge without an invoice.
5. Receive your cPanel details. A message arrives with your login details and the panel link. Install WordPress from the panel, or open a migration ticket and we move your site from your current provider.
6. Point the domain. If the domain is registered with us it is pointed automatically; if it is elsewhere, change the nameservers or the A record to what the welcome message says. Wherever you get stuck, open a ticket and the team replies in Arabic.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I pay for hosting in Egyptian pounds with an Egyptian bank card?
Yes. Select Egyptian pounds from the currency menu on the portal; prices and the invoice then appear in pounds, and you pay with a bank card enabled for online purchases. No international remittance or foreign-currency account is needed. The invoice comes from our UAE company with tax as shown on it, and your price stays locked for 36 months.
Where is my server if I buy hosting from the UAE?
Shared and WordPress plans run on servers in Europe, the Dubai Hosting plans are served from a data centre in Dubai, and managed cloud servers are available in the UAE, Germany and the USA. There is no server in Egypt. Cairo to Europe is a short network path, and LiteSpeed with server-level caching makes up the difference.
Do you sell .eg domains?
No. The .eg extension has an Egyptian registry with its own conditions and is not listed in our domain checker. We recommend .com to most people who ask: it is easy to type, needs no documents and is registered in pounds within minutes. Or .ae if your client is in the UAE. An existing .eg we connect through DNS only.
What happens if I am late paying the renewal invoice?
The renewal invoice reaches your email before expiry. After the date the account enters a suspension period in which your site and data are kept but the site does not run, then deleted after a period defined in the portal terms. Pay during suspension and the site returns with nothing lost. The full stages are in our expiry article.
Sources
- Hosting store on our portal in Egyptian pounds (accessed 2026-10-18)
- Domain checker on our portal (accessed 2026-10-18)
- Core Web Vitals, web.dev (accessed 2026-10-18)
- WordPress official requirements (accessed 2026-10-18)
- Data protection laws, the UAE official portal (accessed 2026-10-18)
Where We Are
BIGBANG ITS has planned and run technology for UAE businesses since 2003, headquartered at the Sharjah Research, Technology and Innovation Park with a branch in Business Bay, Dubai. Support runs 24/7 and the office is open Saturday to Thursday, 09:00–18:00 Gulf time. Contact us or message us on WhatsApp.
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