Forex VPS in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam or Lagos
Forex VPS Hosting in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria
Your power goes. Your terminal doesn't.
MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader or your own code, on a machine in the region you choose — ke-1a in Nairobi, tz-1a in Dar es Salaam or ng-1a in Lagos. Full RDP or SSH, one dedicated IPv4 that stays yours, a licensed Windows Server image on every Windows plan, and a 99.9% uptime SLA behind all of it. From $31.95 a month on Windows with the licence included, or $21.95 on Linux if your strategy never needs a desktop. Install the platform once, log off, and the terminal carries on without you.
- MT4, MT5, cTrader — or your own bots on Linux
- Runs 24/7, independent of your power and your router
- A dedicated static IPv4 your broker sees on every login
- Windows Server licence inside the price · quoted in USD
- Choose Nairobi, Dar es Salaam or Lagos · 99.9% uptime SLA
No credit card required · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN
Pricing
Linux and Windows plans, billed in your currency
Windows licensing included on every Windows plan. Pay in local currency — no cards, no forex surprises. Annual billing gets you two months free.
Windows VPS – 2 GB RAM
Windows Server for web applications.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 40 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 4 GB RAM
Windows Server for production apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 2 vCPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 80 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 8 GB RAM
Windows Server for high-traffic apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 160 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 16 GB RAM
Windows Server for enterprise apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 8 vCPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 320 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 32 GB RAM
Windows Server for large-scale apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 16 vCPU
- 32 GB RAM
- 640 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 64 GB RAM
Windows Server at maximum scale.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 32 vCPU
- 64 GB RAM
- 1280 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Prices exclude VAT. Local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout. Need more cores or memory? Talk to Sales.
Uptime
Two things take a terminal off the market, and neither is the market
You know the evening. The strategy is doing what it was built to do, the session is live, and the power goes. The backup carries the flat for a while, then it does not. When the supply comes back the router takes four minutes, Windows has a view about updates, and by the time the terminal reconnects the position it was managing has been open and unmanaged for two hours. Nothing about that evening was a trading decision, and no amount of skill at the screen prevents it.
The second dependency fails on its own schedule and is easier to forget. A home connection is one line, one router and one power supply; a mobile connection is a handset that needs charging; a satellite dish needs power too. Whichever you use, it is a single path sitting in the same building as the machine that depends on it. Two dependencies, one failure, and both of them are in your flat.
A VPS moves the terminal out of the flat. The platform runs in a data centre on a fixed line, on a machine carrying a 99.9% uptime SLA, and it keeps running whether or not you are connected. Your laptop and your handset stop being what the trade rests on and become a pane of glass you look through. When the power goes now, what you lose is the view — the expert advisor is still at its desk, managing the trailing stop, taking the partial, closing the basket at the session end, exactly as it was told to.
Where you put it is then a question about you rather than about the market. All three regions run the same hardware, the same plans and the same prices, so pick the one your own connection reaches most comfortably — that is the path your RDP session takes every time you look at a chart. Nairobi is the oldest interconnection hub of the three, exchanging domestic traffic at KIXP since 2002 across 136 peer networks, and published research on regional latency puts Kenya's paths to its neighbours among the shorter ones on the continent. Dar es Salaam sits on 13,820 km of national backbone fibre that crosses into Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. Lagos is the densest landing point in West Africa, with IXPN running 13 points of presence across seven states. Pick by where you sit; you can move later.
24/7
The terminal runs whether or not you are connected
99.9%
Uptime SLA on every plan
1
Dedicated static IPv4, plus a free /64 of IPv6
3
Regions — Nairobi (ke-1a), Dar es Salaam (tz-1a), Lagos (ng-1a)
Why the static IPv4 earns its place
One dedicated IPv4 belongs to your instance and holds still. The broker sees that address at this morning's login and the identical one when an expert advisor reconnects at 02:00 on a Sunday. Set that against how most people connect: mobile data issues a new address most sessions, a hotspot issues another, an office line a third. From the broker's side every one of those looks like a login from somewhere new. Hold the address still and logins become uneventful, which is the only thing anyone wants from a login.
Unlimited local traffic, and why it matters here
Every plan runs on a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic. Years of tick history, a full set of backtest data, a platform reinstall at midnight and a folder of custom indicators are downloads you make without doing arithmetic first. Your own data bundle stays where it is — the server does not have one.
Payments
Priced in dollars, like the rest of your trading costs
Trading accounts are usually denominated in dollars, and so is this. You are quoted, invoiced and settled in USD by card or bank transfer, from a dollar price list rather than a conversion applied at checkout — the 2 GB Windows plan is $31.95 this month and $31.95 next month, with the Windows Server licence inside it at $2.50 per vCPU per month on a four-core minimum. One less number that moves for reasons unrelated to your strategy.
Card
Visa and Mastercard, charged in USD, when you want a terminal running before the next session opens. The usual choice for a single instance on monthly billing.
Bank transfer
For a year taken up front at ten months for twelve, or for several instances if you run more terminals than one machine should carry. It arrives with a reference that matches the invoice.
Or pay locally, if you are in one of the three
Traders in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria have their own market on this site, priced and settled in shillings or Naira. Kenya and Tanzania add M-Pesa alongside bank transfer and card; Nigeria settles in Naira by transfer or card, which keeps the charge off a Naira card's bank-set international spending cap.
Monthly while you are testing, annual when you are not
Monthly suits a setup you are still proving — size up, size down or stop. Annual runs ten months for twelve and suits a strategy you have been running for a year and expect to keep running. An instance moves between them at renewal without touching the platform on it.
Displayed prices exclude tax; where VAT applies it is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
Platforms
Run any trading platform
Connect over RDP or SSH, install your platform in minutes, and it keeps running when you disconnect. Most traders pick a Windows plan; algorithmic traders running their own code often pick Linux.
MetaTrader 4
The classic. Install your broker's MT4 terminal over RDP and let your Expert Advisors trade around the clock.
MetaTrader 5
Multi-asset trading with more timeframes and a faster strategy tester — runs exactly as it does on your desktop.
cTrader & broker terminals
cTrader, NinjaTrader, or whatever desktop platform your broker provides — if it runs on Windows, it runs here.
Bots & broker APIs
Headless algos in Python or any language on a Linux plan, talking straight to your broker's API — no desktop needed.
One 2 GB Windows plan comfortably runs one or two terminals with a few EAs — resize up any time as your setup grows.
Built for trading
Everything a trading desk needs
The same NVMe platform behind our VPS range, tuned to what matters when real money is on the line: uptime, a stable connection, and a server that's always where your broker expects it.
Always-on, 24/7
Your terminals and EAs keep trading when your laptop is off — backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA.
Low-latency network
1 Gbps ports with unlimited local traffic, on data-centre connectivity — not home broadband.
Dedicated IPv4
A fixed public IP your broker always recognises — no flagged logins from changing addresses.
NVMe SSD storage
Fast disks keep charts, ticks, and backtests responsive even with several terminals open.
Full RDP or SSH access
Full administrator rights on Windows over RDP, or full root with SSH on Linux. Your server, all of it.
Windows license included
Windows plans ship with licensed, activated Windows Server 2022 — the price you see is the full price.
Free DDoS protection
Always-on network-layer mitigation included on every plan at no extra cost.
Snapshots & backups
Snapshot a working setup before changing an EA, and roll back in a click if it misbehaves.
Deploy in 60 seconds
Your server is live in under a minute — you can be charting on it within the hour.
Regions
Nairobi, Dar es Salaam or Lagos — and what decides it
The rule is unglamorous and it holds nearly everywhere: put the workload in the country whose users and whose records it serves. Per-unit prices are identical in all three regions, so the decision is geography and law rather than cost — and there is no useful midpoint, because traffic between the three cities is still commonly carried through Europe.
ke-1a is for Kenyan users and Kenyan records, and for regional teams whose head office is already in Nairobi. Every Kenyan subsea cable — TEAMS, SEACOM, EASSy, LION2, DARE1 and PEACE — comes ashore at Mombasa, and that capacity is carried roughly 480 km inland to the city where the carriers and the customers are. Domestic traffic never makes that trip: it is exchanged inside Nairobi at KIXP, the neutral exchange TESPOK has run since 2002, with 136 peer networks and 2.9 Tbps of connected capacity. Lineserve peers there.
tz-1a is for Tanzanian users, and it is where moving an origin changes the most: Tanzania has no content-delivery edge of its own, so a Dar es Salaam viewer is served from another country however the CDN is configured. There is no inland haul either — SEACOM, EASSy and SEAS come ashore in the city itself, and Dar es Salaam is a named landing point on 2Africa. Tanzanian networks meet at TIX, run since 2003 by the country's service-provider association, and 13,820 km of state fibre carries one origin on to Mwanza, Arusha and Dodoma.
ng-1a is for scale and for regulated Nigerian workloads. Eight subsea systems land in and around Lagos, among them MainOne, SAT-3, WACS, Equiano and 2Africa, which comes ashore at Lekki. Nigerian networks exchange domestic traffic at IXPN, founded in 2006 to stop domestic packets being hauled to London and now running 13 points of presence across seven states. Lagos also has a date attached: a Central Bank circular directs payment transaction data generated in Nigeria to be stored there from 1 January 2027.
All three give a buyer based elsewhere the same pair of things: a request from a user in the city reaches a machine in that city, typically in single-digit milliseconds, and the records it touches sit under one named country's law.
Kenya
Nairobi
~2 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Kenya
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
~6 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Tanzania
Nigeria
Lagos
~4 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Nigeria
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
You are on a different continent from your infrastructure
That is the real reservation, and it is answerable with what exists. Architecture, quotes, contracts, a data processing agreement, the registered names and tax identifiers that have to appear on your invoices: [email protected], in writing, in a thread you can forward to your own legal and finance people. Running services are driven from the console, the API and the ticket system on your account. Two phone lines are published for the region — +254 119 039 063 in Kenya and +255 761 847 121 in Tanzania.
Scheduling across the distance is the practical problem, and the arithmetic is friendlier than it looks. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam run on East Africa Time, UTC+3; Lagos on West Africa Time, UTC+1. Neither observes daylight saving, so the gap between your clock and theirs moves only when your own clocks change, and a window agreed in June still means what you thought it meant in December. From London, Nairobi is three hours ahead in winter and two in summer, and Lagos an hour ahead in winter and level in summer. From New York in July, a 09:00 call is 14:00 in Lagos.
Most of what would be a phone call elsewhere is a call you make yourself. Building, resizing, rebooting, snapshotting and rebuilding an instance are API and console operations that behave identically at three in the morning your time or theirs, and a browser console reaches a machine that has lost its own networking. What needs a person in the building is a physical fault — and that person is there already.
What it costs
Windows or Linux, and where the licence sits
If you run a desktop platform — MT4, MT5, cTrader, or whatever branded terminal your broker ships — you need Windows, and the licence is inside the plan price rather than a separate purchase from another vendor in another currency. Windows Server Standard is licensed per vCPU on a four-core minimum, supplied under a Services Provider License Agreement, billed per active instance and activated before you first connect. At $2.50 per vCPU per month for the 2022 release, that is $10 a month on any plan up to four cores — which is exactly the gap between the Linux 2 GB plan at $21.95 and the 2 GB Windows plan at $31.95. Nothing to key in, nothing to renew, nothing to reconcile against a second invoice.
If what you run is headless code against a broker API — Python, C#, Go, anything that never needs a desktop — there is no licence component at all. Linux starts at $21.95 a month with full root, your SSH key, systemd keeping the process up and restarting it if it falls over, and a snapshot of the whole thing before you deploy a change.
For a trader on their own account that is the whole of the paperwork. It changes if you trade through a registered company, run a training room or a signals business, or need the cost to land correctly in books somebody else will read. Displayed prices exclude tax, and where VAT applies it is calculated and shown separately at checkout. Send [email protected] your registered name and tax identifier before you order and the invoice carries them from the first billing run.
One account, several terminals
If you run separate instances for separate strategies, brokers or traders, they sit on one account with one login, one API and one set of invoices. Each keeps its own dedicated IPv4 and its own platform install, which is the point — the machines are separate, the paperwork is not, and an instance in a second region is the same order form with a different region code.
Windows plans run from 2 GB Windows plan at $31.95/month to 64 GB Windows plan at $735.90, licence included. Linux plans run from $21.95. Annual billing is ten months for twelve.
Data residency
If anyone else's details are on that server
Trading your own account, what is on the machine is yours — your terminal, your credentials, your history, your strategy files — and where it sits is a decision you make on your own terms. That changes the moment somebody else's information is on there. A copy-trading service with subscribers. A signals room with a member list and payment references. A training business holding student names, phone numbers and photographs of identity documents. An account-management arrangement with a spreadsheet of clients open on the desktop.
Each of the three countries has a data-protection statute with its own answer to where that information may go. Kenya's Data Protection Act 2019 permits a transfer out of the country on proof of appropriate safeguards. Nigeria's Data Protection Act 2023 permits one where the recipient is covered by an adequate law, binding corporate rules or contractual clauses. Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act 2022 requires a permit from its Commission before the data leaves at all — prior authorisation, which finishes when a regulator says so rather than when you do.
Keep the instance in one region and the transfer question never opens for anything on it: the member list, the identity scans, the exported chat logs, the folder of statements somebody sent you, the CRM spreadsheet nobody remembers creating. That is data residency for Kenya's Data Protection Act, Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act or Nigeria's Data Protection Act, depending on where you deployed. It is a fact about where a disk is rather than a position anyone has to argue, which is what makes it useful to your accountant and your lawyer at the same time.
Your data is held in the region you chose and is not moved out of that country without your instruction. Your own obligations as a controller, where you have them, remain yours.
Sizing
The setups these plans are built for
One trader, one or two terminals
MT4 or MT5 with a handful of expert advisors, left running while you are at work, asleep or somewhere with no power at all. The 2 GB Windows plan at $31.95 a month covers this comfortably — 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM, 40 GB of NVMe, a dedicated IPv4 and a licensed Windows Server image.
The sessions that fall outside your day
Nairobi and Dar es Salaam run on UTC+3 and Lagos on UTC+1, neither with daylight saving, so the offsets hold all year. The European session covers part of your working day, the American session runs into your evening and the Asian session runs while you are asleep. A machine that is up continuously is the difference between a strategy that trades its rules and one that trades whenever you happened to have a laptop open.
Trading around a job
Most retail traders have other work. The whole appeal of an automated strategy is that it does not need you at the screen — and that appeal collapses the moment the screen needs your mains supply to exist. Move the terminal onto a hosted machine and your working day stops being a constraint on the strategy.
Copy trading and signal following
A follower account has to be connected precisely when the account it mirrors is active, which is rarely when it is convenient to be at a desk. Take the terminal off your own power and your own line, and staying connected stops being something you have to remember to do.
Bots against a broker API
Anything headless that never opens a desktop runs on Linux from $21.95 a month: full root, your SSH key, systemd restarting the process if it falls over, cron for the scheduled parts, and a snapshot before every change you are not certain about.
Many charts, heavy indicators, a strategy tester
Backtesting competes with live charting for the same cores, and a machine that is fine with three charts is not fine with thirty plus a tester run. That is where the 4 GB Windows plan at $52.40 or the 8 GB Windows plan at $93.30 stops being an upgrade and becomes the correct size. Start smaller and move up — resizing takes minimal downtime and keeps the same IP address.
A desk with several traders
One instance per trader, each with its own dedicated IPv4 and its own platform install, all on one account and one invoice. The larger plans run to 16 GB Windows plan at $185.10 and the 32 GB Windows plan at $368.70 where a single setup genuinely needs sixteen cores rather than four.
Moving in
Off the machine at home, or off a VPS somewhere else
From the PC in your flat
This is the move most traders are actually making, and it is worth being blunt about what it removes. A PC trading at home depends on the mains, then on whatever backup you have, then on the router coming back, then on Windows not restarting itself at 02:00 while a position is open. Each of those is an independent way for a strategy to stop mid-trade, and none of them is a risk you were paid to take. The move itself is an afternoon: install your platform on the new instance, copy the MQL4 or MQL5 folder across so expert advisors, templates, presets and custom indicators travel with you, log into the broker account, and confirm the platform connects from the new address. Then take a snapshot while everything is working, so a bad edit next month is a rollback rather than an evening spent rebuilding from memory.
From a VPS in another region
The technical list is the same — platform, MQL folder, broker login, confirm the connection — and it is worth doing with both machines running for a few days rather than cancelling first and finding out afterwards. Traders usually move for one of two reasons: the RDP session to the old machine is uncomfortable enough that they avoid opening it, or they want the terminal in the same country as the rest of what they run. Both are things you can test in a week, and the plan sizes and prices are identical in all three regions.
Keep the old machine or the old subscription running until you are satisfied with the new one. There is no reason to cut over on the day you set it up.
FAQ
Questions, answered
A VPS keeps your trading platform running 24/7 on a stable server connection, independent of your own computer and power or internet outages. Expert Advisors and copy trading keep executing even when your laptop is off, and orders leave from a data centre connection rather than home broadband.
Yes. Connect to your Windows VPS over RDP and install MT4, MT5, cTrader, or any terminal your broker provides, exactly as you would on a desktop. You can run more than one terminal on the same server — just size the plan to match.
Choose Windows for MT4, MT5, cTrader and other desktop terminals — it's what most traders need, and the license is included. Choose Linux if you run headless algorithmic bots or connect to broker APIs with your own code in Python or another language.
The 2 GB Windows plan comfortably runs one or two MetaTrader terminals with a few Expert Advisors. Running many terminals, heavy indicators, or backtesting alongside live trading? Step up to 4 GB Windows plan or the 8 GB Windows plan for more vCPU and RAM — you can resize later with minimal downtime.
Yes. The server keeps running when you close the RDP or SSH session — your terminals, Expert Advisors, and bots trade around the clock. You only reconnect to check in or make changes.
Yes. Windows plans include a fully licensed, activated Windows Server 2022 Standard. The price you see is the full price — nothing to bring or key in.
Yes — every plan includes one dedicated public IPv4, so your broker always sees you connecting from the same address. That keeps IP-based security checks and account protections happy, plus a free /64 IPv6 block.
To take it off your own power and your own connection. A platform at home stops when the supply does, when the router does, or when Windows restarts itself at 02:00 — each of which can land in the middle of an open position. A hosted machine runs on a fixed line with a 99.9% uptime SLA behind it, so your expert advisors keep managing positions whether or not you are connected.
Yes. Disconnecting closes your view of the desktop, not the machine. The platform stays logged in and the expert advisors keep working. You reconnect only when you want to look at something or change it.
No. Those come from your broker, your account type and your instrument, and they are the same wherever the terminal runs. Retail broker matching engines sit in London and New York, so this is not an execution-venue play. What changes is whether the terminal is running at all at the moment your strategy has something to do.
The one your own connection reaches most comfortably, because that is the path your RDP session takes. All three run the same hardware, the same plans and the same prices — ke-1a in Nairobi, tz-1a in Dar es Salaam, ng-1a in Lagos — so there is no cost to the choice, and you can rebuild in another region later.
Yes — one dedicated IPv4 per instance, plus a free /64 of IPv6. Your broker sees the same address on every login instead of a new one each time a mobile connection reconnects, which is precisely what IP-based account protections are looking for.
Yes, alongside cTrader or any other Windows platform your broker provides. Size the plan to the number of terminals, charts and indicators you actually run rather than the number you might one day.
The 2 GB Windows plan at $31.95 a month for one or two terminals with a few EAs. The 4 GB Windows plan at $52.40 or the 8 GB Windows plan at $93.30 if you run many charts, heavy custom indicators, or backtests alongside live trading. You can move up later without changing your IP address.
Windows if you run MetaTrader or any other desktop platform — the Windows Server licence is inside the plan price at $2.50 per vCPU per month for 2022 Standard on a four-core minimum. Linux if your strategy is your own code talking to a broker API and never needs a desktop, which costs less for the same compute because there is no licence component: $21.95 to start.
Yes. You get full administrator rights over RDP, so anything you would install on a Windows machine at home installs here — a branded terminal, third-party EAs, custom indicators.
In US dollars by card or bank transfer, from a dollar price list. If you are in Kenya, Tanzania or Nigeria, switching to that market prices and settles in KES, TZS or NGN instead, with M-Pesa available in the two East African markets.
Every plan carries a 99.9% uptime SLA. Separately, take a snapshot once your platform, EAs and presets are set up the way you want them — restoring one is far quicker than reassembling a trading setup from memory, and it is the right habit before you edit a working EA.
As long as you can get a phone online, yes — an RDP client on Android or iOS is enough to check a terminal, close a position or restart a platform. And if you cannot, the point stands anyway: the expert advisor is still working through the outage, whether or not anyone is watching it.
Yes. The instance and everything on it are held in that region's city and are not moved out of the country without your instruction. That matters most if you hold anyone else's details — subscribers, students, managed accounts — rather than only your own.
No. The account is yours wherever you are, billed in US dollars, and the region is a choice at deploy time. You contract with LINESERVE, INC., registered in Dover, Delaware.
At [email protected] and through the ticket queue in your console. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are on UTC+3 and Lagos on UTC+1, neither observing daylight saving, so the offsets hold all year.
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