Block Storage — hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
Block Storage
Volumes that outlive your servers.
Attachable SSD, NVMe, and HDD volumes from 10 GB to 16 TB, with live resizing, instant snapshots, and 99.999% durability. Move them between instances, grow them without downtime, and keep the data when the server is gone.
- Attach, detach, reattach anywhere
- Resize live, no downtime
- Three locally-hosted regions — Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- Data sovereignty — your data stays in-country
- 99.999% durability
Launching soon · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN
Pricing
Three tiers, one per-GB price
Pick SSD, NVMe, or HDD to match your workload, then pay only for the size you provision. In your currency, no forex.
| Tier | Price /GB/mo | IOPS | Throughput | Volume sizes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard SSDPopular | $0.253 | Up to 10,000 IOPS | 250 MB/s | 10 GB – 16 TB |
| High-Performance NVMe | $0.425 | Up to 64,000 IOPS | 1 GB/s | 10 GB – 16 TB |
| Standard HDD | $0.15 | Up to 500 IOPS | 200 MB/s | 50 GB – 16 TB |
Volumes are billed on their provisioned size, metered hourly and totalled monthly — detached volumes are still billed until deleted. Snapshots are $0.15/GB/mo, and cross-region snapshot copies are $0.02/GB one-time. Prices exclude VAT; local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout.
The platform
Everything a production volume needs
Provisioning, snapshots, encryption, and monitoring come wired in — so your data outlives any single server.
Instant provisioning
Create a volume and have it ready to attach in seconds, straight from the console or API.
Live resizing
Grow a volume on the fly and extend the filesystem with no downtime and no reattach.
Instant incremental snapshots
Point-in-time snapshots capture only changed blocks, so backups are fast and cheap.
99.999% durability
Every block is replicated three times within the region to survive hardware failure.
Encryption at rest
Volumes are encrypted with AES-256, with optional bring-your-own-key management.
Flexible attachment
Detach a volume from one instance and reattach it to another in the same region.
Boot volume support
Use a block volume as a bootable root disk, or as extra data disks alongside it.
Full API access
Create, attach, resize, and snapshot volumes from Terraform, the CLI, or your CI.
Monitoring & alerts
Track IOPS, throughput, and latency per volume, with alerts when they cross a threshold.
Regions & latency
Three live regions. More on the way.
Deploy close to your users and keep traffic on the continent. Single-digit latency within each metro, measured to nearby peering points.
Kenya
Nairobi · ke-1a
2 ms
Nairobi metro
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam · tz-1a
6 ms
Dar es Salaam metro
Nigeria
Lagos · ng-1a
4 ms
Lagos metro
Use cases
Built for what you're building
Database storage
Consistent IOPS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, with the durability transactional data demands.
Kubernetes persistent volumes
Our CSI driver provisions volumes straight from your PVCs, so stateful pods keep their data.
Logs & analytics
HDD throughput at a low per-GB price for append-heavy logs, media, and analytics stores.
Backup & DR
Instant snapshots plus cross-region copies give you point-in-time backups and disaster recovery.
How it works
From zero to mounted in three steps
Create a volume
Pick a tier and a size from 10 GB to 16 TB, and your volume is ready in seconds.
Attach & format
Attach it to an instance and format it as ext4, XFS, or NTFS — then mount and go.
Grow as you go
Resize the volume live as you fill it, and snapshot it on demand for backups.
Uptime SLA
99.9%
- Service credits applied automatically when we miss the SLA
- Measured monthly, per region, on network and power availability
- Tier III colocation facilities across all live regions
Support & reliability
Local support, in your timezone
Reach a real engineer who understands your region and works your hours — not a queue three continents away. Backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA on every plan.
Kenya & region
+254 777 002 001
Tanzania
+255 761 847 121
Why Lineserve
Beyond the local disk
An instance's local disk disappears the moment the instance does, can't move, and can't grow. Block volumes are independent, portable, and durable — while still keeping your data on the continent.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Your instance's local storage lives and dies with the instance. A Block Storage volume is independent — detach it, reattach it to another instance, resize it live, and snapshot it. Delete the server and the volume, and your data, survives.
Standard SSD delivers up to 10,000 IOPS and suits web apps, dev environments, and small databases. High-Performance NVMe reaches 64,000 IOPS and 1 GB/s for demanding databases and real-time analytics. Standard HDD favours cheap throughput for logs, media, and backups.
Yes. Volumes resize instantly while attached and in use — then you extend the filesystem (resize2fs for ext4, xfs_growfs for XFS). Volumes can only grow, not shrink.
Snapshots are instant and incremental — only changed blocks are stored after the first one. Restore a volume to any snapshot, or clone a snapshot into a new volume. Snapshot storage bills at $0.15/GB per month.
Every volume is replicated three times across separate physical drives, and failed drives are reconstructed automatically. That yields 99.999% durability with a 99.99% availability SLA.
Yes. Use volumes as boot disks with custom OS images, resize the boot disk as you grow, and move a bootable volume between instances.
Yes. Volumes are encrypted with AES-256 before data touches disk, using platform-managed keys or your own via KMS. Data in transit is encrypted too.
You pay for provisioned size, metered hourly, whether or not the volume is attached — a 100 GB Standard SSD volume costs $25.30 a month. Billing stops when you delete the volume.
Volumes range from 10 GB (50 GB on HDD) up to 16 TB, with up to 16 volumes attached per instance. Account limits are raised on request.
Your data stays in the region you deploy to. Across our data centres in Nairobi (Kenya), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and Lagos (Nigeria) it never has to leave the continent — deploy in the country closest to your users and your data is held there.
In whichever of our three regions you choose — Nairobi (ke-1a), Dar es Salaam (tz-1a), or Lagos (ng-1a). Your content is stored and served from that in-country facility.
Pay in USD by card or bank transfer — or switch to our Kenya, Tanzania, or Nigeria market to pay locally in KES, TZS, or NGN with methods like M-Pesa.
You can view and pay in USD, or switch to a local market to pay in KES (Kenya), TZS (Tanzania), or NGN (Nigeria). You're settled in the currency you choose at checkout.
Persistent volumes are almost here
Block Storage is launching soon, close to your users and billed in local currency. Talk to us to line up early access and be first to attach a volume.
Launching soon · 99.999% durability · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN