Managed Databases — hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
Coming soonManaged Databases
Production databases without the pager duty.
Fully managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and MariaDB — we handle backups, patching, monitoring and failover.
- PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · MariaDB
- Multi-AZ failover under 60s
- Three locally-hosted regions — Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- Data sovereignty — your data stays in-country
- 99.99% uptime SLA
Launching soon · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN
Pricing
One flat price per instance
Pick a size and engine — every plan includes automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and multi-AZ high availability. In your currency, no forex.
Small
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 20 GB SSD included
- 100 connections
- Daily backups, 35-day PITR
Medium
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 2 vCPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 50 GB SSD included
- 200 connections
- Daily backups, 35-day PITR
Large
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 100 GB NVMe included
- 500 connections
- Daily backups, 35-day PITR
XLarge
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 8 vCPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 200 GB NVMe included
- 1000 connections
- Daily backups, 35-day PITR
Every plan includes automated backups with 35-day point-in-time recovery, and multi-AZ high availability is available on all sizes. Additional storage is billed per GB. Prices exclude VAT; local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout.
The platform
Everything a production database needs
High availability, backups, security, and observability come wired in — so day two looks like day one.
Five engines
PostgreSQL 14–16, MySQL 8.0/8.1, MongoDB 6/7, Redis 6.2/7, and MariaDB 10.11/11 — your choice.
Multi-AZ high availability
Synchronous standbys across zones with automatic failover in under 60 seconds and zero data loss.
Automated backups & PITR
Daily backups plus continuous archiving — restore to any second within the last 35 days.
Read replicas
Add up to five read replicas with sub-second lag to scale reads and offload analytics.
Encryption everywhere
AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, on by default for every instance.
VPC isolation
Private by default — databases live inside your VPC, reachable only from your own services.
Connection pooling
Built-in PgBouncer and ProxySQL keep thousands of client connections efficient and stable.
Performance insights
Slow-query analytics and live metrics surface the queries that need your attention.
Automated patching
Minor versions and security fixes applied during the maintenance window you choose.
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
Web & mobile backends
Managed PostgreSQL or MySQL that scales with you, so your app team never babysits a database.
E-commerce
Read replicas and connection pooling absorb traffic spikes without dropping a single order.
Caching & sessions
Managed Redis with sub-millisecond latency for sessions, queues, and hot data.
Content management
Run WordPress, Drupal, and custom apps on managed MySQL or PostgreSQL, kept patched and backed up.
How it works
From zero to database in three steps
Pick engine & size
Choose your engine, version, and instance size — from Small to XLarge.
Connect
Grab the connection string and connect — private by default, inside your VPC.
We keep it healthy
Backups, patching, failover, and monitoring — all handled, day and night.
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
Managed beats midnight maintenance
Running your own database on a VPS means backups you hope work, manual failovers, and patching at 2 a.m. This is the option where we do all of that for you.
FAQ
Questions, answered
We run the database engine for you — provisioning, backups, patching, monitoring, and failover. You create an instance, get a connection string, and focus on your application.
PostgreSQL 14–16, MySQL 8.0 and 8.1, MongoDB 6.0 and 7.0, Redis 6.2 and 7.0, and MariaDB 10.11 and 11.0 — all with the same managed features.
HA instances replicate across availability zones. If the primary fails, an automatic failover promotes the standby — typically in under 60 seconds, with zero data loss — behind a 99.99% uptime SLA.
Daily automated backups are retained for 35 days with point-in-time recovery to any second in that window. You can also take manual snapshots whenever you like.
Up to five read-only copies of your primary that serve read queries, synced automatically with typically under a second of lag. Use them to scale read-heavy workloads without touching the primary.
Yes. Scale vertically to a larger size within a brief maintenance window, or horizontally by adding read replicas with no downtime at all.
Yes. AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, with platform-managed keys or your own via KMS.
Instances live in a private network with no public access by default. Reach them through security groups and database users, or peer your VPC and connect over VPN from on-premises.
Standard tools work directly — pg_dump and mysqldump for one-shot moves, or logical and binary-log replication for near-zero-downtime migrations. Our team helps plan the move at no charge.
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.
Production databases, minus the ops
Managed Databases are launching soon. Talk to us to reserve early access and pricing in your local currency, with no card to start.
Launching soon · 99.99% uptime SLA · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN