Debian VPS Hosting in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria

Yes. All Linux images, Debian included, are free on every plan — the plan price is the full price of the server.

Both use apt and feel familiar. Debian favours stability and a minimal base, which suits long-lived servers; Ubuntu LTS ships newer packages and more tooling out of the box. If you're unsure, either will serve you well — and you can rebuild to the other any time.

Yes. Every Debian VPS gives you complete root access and SSH key authentication from the moment it boots. It's your server to configure however you like.

Yes. Provide cloud-init user data at deploy and your server bootstraps itself on first boot — packages installed, users created, keys in place before you ever log in.

Yes. Debian's in-place release upgrade via apt is well documented and reliable — or deploy a fresh 12 server and migrate. Either way, snapshot first so you can roll back in a click.

Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.

Less than the one in your own building, because there is less on it. A stable release takes security updates without changing behaviour, unattended-upgrades applies them, and the package set stays whatever you chose on day one. Most teams touch these machines when they deploy and at release-upgrade time.

You do, from the console, wherever you are — every plan has a browser console for the evening SSH stops answering, on-demand snapshots to roll back to, and scheduled backups underneath. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam run on UTC+3 and Lagos on UTC+1, and neither observes daylight saving, so a maintenance window means the same thing to them all year.

12. Bookworm is the current stable release and gives you the full support horizon from today rather than a shortened one, and Debian's in-place release upgrade through apt is well documented when the next one lands. Snapshot before you run it and the rollback is one click.

Technically yes, and it is worth thinking about before you do. The users furthest from it get the worst experience of it, and the other two countries' personal data then sits outside them — a cross-border transfer before anyone opens a file. One instance per country removes both questions, on the same account, API and invoice.

You build a fresh instance in the new region and move the workload across — on a Debian box, usually an rsync, a database dump and a DNS change. Where personal data is involved, that copy is a transfer under the origin country's law, and Tanzania requires a permit from its Commission before it leaves.

Yes. There is no forced migration between platforms or hardware generations, no re-pricing tied to the age of the instance, and no lifecycle event that takes the machine away from you. Pay annually at ten months for twelve and the yearly cost is the monthly figure times ten, before VAT.

Yes — the instance, its volume, its backups and its logs are created in that region's city and are not moved out of the country without your instruction. That is data residency for Kenya's Data Protection Act, Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act or Nigeria's Data Protection Act, depending on the region you chose. Your own obligations as a controller stay yours.

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, Nigeria or Uganda market to pay locally in KES, TZS, NGN or UGX with methods like M-Pesa and MTN Mobile Money.

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.