Cloud Servers — hosted in Lagos (ng-1a)
Cloud Hosting in Nigeria
A region inside the country, not an edge location near it.
Open any hyperscaler's map of West Africa and Nigeria has points of presence on it, but no cloud region. The country with 189.68 million mobile subscriptions, eight subsea landings and a payments regulator that has now put a date on where transaction data may live is served, for compute, from another jurisdiction. ng-1a is in Lagos. Build a server by the vCPU, the gigabyte of RAM and the gigabyte of SSD, from NGN 13,890 a month, quoted and settled in Naira, live in under 60 seconds and resizable the day the workload changes.
1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 20 GB SSD · IPv4 included — build exactly the server you need.
- Lagos region (ng-1a) — compute in Nigeria, not near Nigeria
- Priced per vCPU, per GB of RAM and per GB of SSD — from NGN 13,890/month
- Quoted, invoiced and settled in Naira
- Data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA) — your data stays in-country
- Deploy in under 60 seconds, resize on demand, 99.9% uptime SLA
No credit card required · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN
Pricing calculator
Build exactly the server you need
No fixed plans — pay per vCPU, per GB of RAM and per GB of SSD. Linux images are free; Windows Server adds a license fee. In your currency, no forex.
Operating system
Minimum 20 GB for Linux images.
Your server
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- Compute2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM
- Storage40 GB Universal SSD
- Public IPv41 address
- ImageLinux (free)
Unit rates
| Resource | Unit | Price /mo |
|---|---|---|
| vCPU | per vCPU | NGN 4,330 |
| RAM | per GB | NGN 3,060 |
| Storage — Universal SSD | per GB | NGN 250 |
| Public IPv4 | per address | NGN 1,500 |
| Windows Server 2019 Standard | per server | From NGN 8,000 |
| Windows Server 2022 Standard | per server | From NGN 10,000 |
| Windows Server 2025 Standard | per server | From NGN 12,000 |
| Bandwidth | 1 Gbps port, unlimited local traffic | Free |
| IPv6 (/64) | per server | Free |
| Linux images | Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky, AlmaLinux | Free |
Prices exclude VAT and any applicable taxes. Annual billing gives you two months free. Local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout.
Network
Nigeria has the cables. It does not have a cloud region.
Nigeria is not short of connectivity. Eight subsea systems come ashore here — MainOne, SAT-3, GLO-2, ACE, WACS, Equiano, 2Africa and the Nigeria Cameroon Submarine Cable System — with Equiano landing on the Lagos coast in 2022 and 2Africa at Lekki, which makes Lagos the densest landing point in West Africa. What the country does not have is a full cloud region. Amazon's African region is Cape Town; Microsoft's is in South Africa. What the hyperscalers operate in Lagos is edge: a local zone, content delivery and interconnect points of presence. Edge is genuinely useful and it is not a region. It caches responses; it does not run your database, hold your ledger or store the records a Nigerian regulator may ask about.
So the standard architecture sold to a Lagos company puts the compute in one country, the cache in Nigeria, and the dashboard that measures the result in a third. It works, and it has a fixed cost baked into it that no instance size buys back: every cache miss, every write, every authenticated API call and every database round trip leaves the country and comes back. A region in Lagos closes the expensive half of that gap, because the origin is the part a CDN cannot stand in for.
What Nigeria does have, domestically, is the infrastructure that makes local traffic behave like local traffic. IXPN — the neutral national exchange founded in 2006 by the NCC with the Internet Service Providers Association of Nigeria — runs 13 points of presence across 7 states, more than 130 connected networks over 170 ports, and 400G-capable core switching at three Lagos sites. Peak domestic traffic across it passed 1 Tbps in April 2025 and 2 Tbps by March 2026. For years two Nigerian networks exchanged packets by hauling them to Europe and back; that volume is what moved onto the exchange.
And the users are where you would expect. Nigeria counted 189.68 million active mobile subscriptions in May 2026, with MTN and Airtel holding about 86% of active lines between them, Globacom on 12.39% and T2 the remainder. Licensed fixed and wireless ISPs are a smaller layer at 352,006 subscribers, led by Spectranet, Starlink and FiberOne. A cloud region inside Nigeria is domestic to all of them at once, which is a claim no arrangement with any single carrier could make.
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Hyperscale cloud regions inside Nigeria
8
Subsea cable systems landing in Nigeria
2 Tbps
Peak domestic traffic exchanged at IXPN (March 2026)
189.68M
Active mobile subscriptions in Nigeria (NCC, May 2026)
The four-cable day
On 14 March 2024, WACS, ACE, MainOne and SAT-3 failed near Côte d'Ivoire simultaneously. Thirteen countries were disrupted, Nigerian bank customers could not transact, mobile data degraded badly, and MainOne declared force majeure with an estimate of up to eight weeks to repair. Applications hosted in Europe went dark for their Nigerian users because every request crossed the break. Applications hosted in Lagos and serving Nigerian users over Nigerian networks kept the subsea path out of the route entirely.
One honest note about Starlink
Starlink went from nothing to 91,991 Nigerian subscribers by the end of 2025, second only to Spectranet in the licensed-ISP segment. A satellite link carries its own floor before any terrestrial hop, so an origin in Lagos improves the ground half of that customer's path and leaves the space half where it is. Worth knowing when you size the expectations, and still an improvement over an origin two continents away.
Payments
Naira first, on the rail the country actually uses
Nigeria is a transfer-and-card market. NIBSS has operated the NIP instant payment scheme for the Central Bank and the banks since 2011, and it carried 5.63 billion transactions worth ₦476.89 trillion in the first half of 2024 alone. Cards run on Visa, Mastercard and Verve, the domestic scheme Interswitch operates, and the wallets a Nigerian consumer holds — Opay, PalmPay, Moniepoint — reach merchants over that same transfer rail underneath. That is the market a cloud bill has to fit into, and a per-resource cloud bill fits it well: it is monthly, it moves when you resize, and it belongs in the currency the business earns in rather than one that re-prices itself between the day you size the instance and the day the payment clears.
Bank transfer
The default for Nigerian business. A production environment, a fleet of instances across two regions, or a year taken up front at ten months for twelve goes as one transfer with a reference your finance team reconciles against the invoice.
Card
Visa and Mastercard, charged in Naira. Suited to a single server, a development environment or a monthly renewal — the NGN 13,890 build rather than the NGN 463,500 one.
Domestic settlement, and the allowance it protects
A bill that moves with your usage is a poor fit for a rationed budget, and in Nigeria foreign-card spending is exactly that. Naira cards carry bank-set caps on international transactions — suspended across the major banks between 2022 and 2023, reopened during 2025 with limits that differ by bank and are reviewed often. An overseas cloud invoice draws on that cap every month, and draws harder the month you add instances. A Naira payment settles inside Nigeria and never reaches it, at any size.
A Naira price list, per resource
NGN 4,330 per vCPU, NGN 3,060 per GB of RAM, NGN 250 per GB of SSD, NGN 1,500 per IPv4. Those are Nigerian prices set per currency, not a dollar rate converted when the configurator loads, so the arithmetic you do in a planning meeting is the arithmetic on the invoice. VAT at 7.5% is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
The platform
A full cloud, not just a server
Every Cloud Server sits on a platform built to grow with you — automate it, resize it, connect it, and protect it, all from one place.
Deploy in 60 seconds
Provision a production-ready instance in under a minute, from console or API.
Resize on demand
Scale vCPU, RAM, and storage up as you grow, with minimal downtime.
NVMe SSD storage
Enterprise NVMe throughout for fast boot, quick builds, and low-latency databases.
Snapshots & backups
Capture point-in-time snapshots and schedule automated backups in a click.
Private networking
Isolated internal networks to connect your instances securely, region by region.
Free DDoS protection
Always-on network-layer mitigation included on every instance at no extra cost.
Full API & CLI
Manage everything as code — create, resize, snapshot, and destroy through a clean API.
IPv4 & IPv6
A dedicated IPv4 address plus native IPv6 on every instance.
Console access
Reach your server directly through a browser console when SSH or RDP isn't enough.
Regions
Lagos is home. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are one API call away.
Deploy in ng-1a and the machine sits in Lagos, in the same city as most of the traffic it will ever serve. Nigeria makes that easy to reason about: 189.68 million active mobile subscriptions in May 2026, with MTN and Airtel together carrying about 86% of active lines and Globacom and T2 — the operator formerly branded 9mobile — behind them. Whichever of the four your customer is on, they are in Nigeria, and typical in-metro round trips here run around 4 ms.
Nigerian networks now hand traffic to each other in Nigeria. IXPN, the neutral national exchange founded in 2006 by the NCC, runs 13 points of presence across 7 states and more than 130 connected networks, with 400G-capable core switching at three Lagos sites; peak domestic traffic across it passed 1 Tbps in April 2025 and 2 Tbps by March 2026. Before it existed, two Nigerian networks exchanged packets by way of London — an intercontinental journey for a packet crossing one city.
Eight subsea systems come ashore in the country, Equiano landing on the Lagos coast in 2022 and 2Africa at Lekki, which is how Lagos became West Africa's arrival point for international capacity. Aim a request at Frankfurt or Virginia instead and that subsea path joins the critical route of every call the page makes, at typically around 110 to 125 ms before your application does any work. From Lagos, Accra and Nairobi typically sit further away in round-trip terms than London, because traffic between African networks still frequently transits Europe.
ke-1a in Nairobi and tz-1a in Dar es Salaam run on the same account and the same API, which makes a standby or a disaster-recovery plan a configuration rather than a second supplier. Make that call deliberately where personal data is involved: a copy of Nigerian personal data held abroad is a cross-border transfer under section 41 of the NDPA. Machine images and telemetry raise no such question.
Nigeria
Lagos
~4 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Nigeria
Kenya
Nairobi
~2 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Kenya
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
~6 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Tanzania
Use cases
Built for what you're building
Web apps & APIs
Host Node, Python, Go, PHP, or .NET behind a load balancer with room to scale.
Databases
Run PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or Redis on fast NVMe with the memory they need.
Containers & CI
A clean host for Docker, Compose, and build runners, close to your team and users.
Business systems
ERPs, internal tools, and line-of-business apps on Linux or Windows, run reliably.
How it works
Live in three steps
Choose region, OS & size
Pick a region, Linux or Windows, and the instance that fits your workload.
Deploy in under 60 seconds
We provision your server and run your setup — no manual first-run steps.
Connect & scale
Log in over SSH or RDP, then resize or snapshot anytime from the console or API.
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
West Africa Time, and a ticket that arrives with the facts
Two channels, doing different jobs. A ticket opened while signed in arrives carrying your account, your region and the instance, so the first reply is about the problem rather than about which machine you mean. [email protected] is the commercial address: a quotation against a purchase order, transfer details before a payment run, the billing account configured with your TIN and registered name before the first invoice, and the SLA terms and credit-claim process in writing while you are still choosing.
Before either, status.lineserve.net. Anything affecting a whole region is posted there faster than a reply could reach you, and checking it turns "my site is down" into "my instance is unreachable and the status page is clear" — a different ticket, and a much shorter one.
What to put in it, in the order it gets read: the region and the instance, the time the behaviour started in WAT, what changed just before it, the actual error text rather than a description of it, and whether it reproduces from more than one Nigerian network. An MTN handset and an office fibre line disagreeing is a different fault from both failing together.
Some of the fastest resolutions need nobody at all, and are worth knowing before the night you need them. Restore an on-demand snapshot. Roll back to a scheduled backup. Open the browser console when SSH is the thing that has broken. Resize or rebuild from the API. Migration planning and assistance are included at no extra charge.
Nigeria runs on West Africa Time, UTC+1, and does not observe daylight saving — two hours behind Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. A change window agreed in WAT means the same thing in January and in July. Note the offset when you schedule across regions.
Sales
Why Lineserve
Decided on what actually matters here
Billing & tax
Metered by the resource, invoiced in Naira
A cloud server is priced as the sum of its parts, per month: NGN 4,330 per vCPU, NGN 3,060 per GB of RAM, NGN 250 per GB of Universal SSD, NGN 1,500 per public IPv4, and a /64 of IPv6 for nothing. The smallest real Linux server — 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 20 GB of SSD and one IPv4 — is NGN 13,890 a month. From there it goes to 32 vCPU, 128 GB of RAM and 16 TB of storage, and every dimension moves on its own. There are no tiers to jump: an e-commerce team that needs eight extra cores from late October gives them back in January, and the bill follows the machine rather than the machine following a plan. Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 Standard are licensed per vCPU on a minimum of four cores, from NGN 2,000 per vCPU; Linux images are free. Annual billing is ten months for twelve.
The tax side is short and worth settling at the start. Nigerian VAT on cloud computing and hosting is 7.5%, administered by the Nigeria Revenue Service — the authority most buyers still call FIRS — and it is the lowest rate of the three markets on this site, against 16% in Kenya and 18% in Tanzania. Displayed prices exclude VAT and the tax is shown separately at checkout, so a capacity forecast and a quote carry the same figure. Nigeria's framework changed on 1 January 2026 with the Nigeria Tax Act 2025 and the Nigeria Tax Administration Act 2025, which is worth knowing because most published guidance predates it: a TIN is now central to how transactions are evidenced, and large taxpayers above ₦5 billion in turnover are inside a mandatory e-invoicing regime enforced since 1 July 2026.
What the price includes
NVMe-backed storage, a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, private networking within the region, on-demand snapshots and scheduled backups, always-on DDoS mitigation, a browser console for when SSH or RDP will not open, and a full API and CLI so create, resize, snapshot and destroy are all things your pipeline can do. No bandwidth line, no support tier, no per-request charge.
Set up the invoice before the first server
Send [email protected] your TIN, your registered name exactly as the Revenue Service holds it, the billing address and any purchase-order or cost-centre reference, and the billing account is configured once rather than corrected later. A Nigerian buyer claiming input VAT wants both parties' identifiers, an invoice number and date, the service described, and the Naira amount with VAT shown as a separate 7.5% line.
Data residency
Where the compute runs is now a regulated question in Nigeria
This is the part that separates Nigeria from every other market on this site. On 15 June 2026 the Central Bank of Nigeria issued circular PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004 — Introduction of Market Structure Requirements, Data Localisation, Ultimate Beneficial Ownership Disclosure, and Systemic Oversight Measures in the Nigeria Payments System. It directs that payment transaction data generated within Nigeria be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027. Named participants include deposit money banks, microfinance banks, mobile money operators, fintechs, switching companies, payment service providers and super agents. Reporting on the circular describes the affected data as reaching merchant records, transaction identifiers, timestamps, settlement information and processing logs — which is to say the working contents of a payments platform, not an archive of it.
Everywhere else, in-country hosting is an argument about performance, cost and prudence. For a CBN-licensed Nigerian business it is a directive with a reference number and a deadline, and the infrastructure decision it drives has to be made, tested and evidenced before that date rather than on it. What a hosting provider can supply is the location: ng-1a, in Lagos. The assessment of your own architecture against the circular is your compliance function's, made with your advisers and your regulator.
The general regime sits around it. The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 is the statute, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission is the regulator, and the General Application and Implementation Directive of 2025 has operationalised the Act since 19 September 2025. Section 41 governs transfers of personal data out of Nigeria, permitting them where the recipient is covered by an adequate law, binding corporate rules, contractual clauses, a code of conduct or a certification mechanism, with the Commission able to issue adequacy decisions and standard contractual clauses of its own. Keep the workload in ng-1a and the data is held in Lagos, under Nigerian law, and that analysis does not arise for it. Section 44, which requires controllers and processors of major importance to register with the Commission, is a separate question that belongs to you and does not change with the region you pick.
Design the copy, not just the primary
Backups, replicas, log shipping, analytics exports and third-party monitoring are all places a copy of Nigerian data quietly leaves the country. If you are inside the CBN perimeter or handling personal data at scale, the map of where copies land is the document a review will ask for. ng-1a can hold the primary and the copies on the same account and the same API.
Multi-region, on purpose
ke-1a in Nairobi and tz-1a in Dar es Salaam are one API call away, which makes standby and disaster recovery a configuration rather than a project. Make the call deliberately for anything personal or payment-related, and use the other regions freely for what carries neither: machine images, build artefacts, static assets and telemetry with the personal data stripped out.
Who runs here
What Nigerian teams deploy into ng-1a
Fintech and payments
The largest startup category in the country, and the one with a circular behind its architecture. Payment API gateways held to sub-second expectations, ledger and reconciliation databases, webhook receivers taking NIP callbacks, KYC and BVN verification services, fraud scoring, transaction logs, long-retention audit archives and sandbox environments for partner banks. Per-resource pricing suits the shape: a sandbox is two cores, a fraud scorer is memory-bound, and neither should be paying for the other's profile.
E-commerce and marketplaces
The Nigerian retail calendar has a hard shape — late October through Black Friday and the December festive weeks, holding into January. Catalogue and search, cart and checkout, callbacks from several payment gateways at once, dispatch integration and image serving all have to hold for weeks rather than for one day. Add vCPU at NGN 4,330 and RAM at NGN 3,060 for the season and release them afterwards; the machine changes, the plan does not.
Edtech
A national exam window is a capacity event with a date, not a forecast. Video lesson delivery, question banks and progress databases, priced against household incomes rather than Western subscription levels. Cost per user in Naira is the buying criterion, and building the exact machine the maths supports beats buying the tier above it.
Streaming and media
A large domestic content industry and heavy video consumption make this an origin-storage-plus-egress workload. Encoding queues and origin servers on cloud instances, S3-compatible object storage behind them with transfer in, transfer out and API requests all free. Every megabyte served from Lagos is a megabyte that did not cross a subsea cable — which, after March 2024, is not an abstract benefit.
Enterprise systems moving off-premise
ERP, internal line-of-business applications, file and print, the reporting database and the accounting system that currently runs on hardware in a locked office with an inverter beside it. The workload does not need to be anywhere in particular. It does need to be somewhere with power, and in Nigeria that is the argument that closes the deal.
ISPs and network operators
RADIUS and AAA, recursive resolvers and authoritative DNS, mail relays, billing and provisioning portals, IPAM, NetFlow collectors, monitoring, looking-glass and speed-test nodes that mean nothing unless they sit where the network is. Several small instances built to size at NGN 4,330 a core, with unlimited local traffic mattering more than any headline price.
Agencies, ISVs and resellers
Lagos has a dense agency market reselling infrastructure to SME clients. Client sites, staging environments, reseller stacks, Git runners and client mail — bought repeatedly and sized by the resource rather than by the plan, which is exactly why a per-vCPU price list beats a tier ladder for this buyer.
Migrating
Moving a workload into Lagos
From a global cloud
Three things change, and none of them is the console. The origin moves inside Nigeria, which takes an ocean out of every request your Nigerian users make and closes the gap that an edge tier without a region leaves open. The price moves into Naira, which removes the drift between the day you sized the instance and the day the invoice is paid — and moves the payment itself onto domestic rails, off the bank-set international allowance a Naira card carries. And the residency question stops being a section 41 analysis for the data that stays — and, if you are CBN-licensed, starts answering the part of the 1 January 2027 circular that is about location. The migration itself is the ordinary one: build the instance, sync the data, dual-run for a day, move the DNS.
From your own hardware
Nigeria's national grid collapsed on 29 December 2025 and again on 23 January 2026, with further collapses through the year; NERC put the plant availability factor at 36% in January 2026, an average of 4,901 MW available for dispatch. Business covers the difference itself — an estimated 14 to 20 GW of self-generation, and ₦400.83 billion spent on diesel, gas and alternative energy by 24 listed companies in the first quarter of 2026 alone. A server in your building is a share of that: diesel, inverters, battery replacement and a generator maintenance contract, with a cost that tracks the diesel price rather than your workload. A cloud server is NGN 13,890 a month and stays NGN 13,890 next month.
One question separates a Nigerian cloud from a Nigeria-branded one: which building is the machine in, and in which country is that building? Ask it of every provider you shortlist, this one included. The answer here is ng-1a, Lagos.
FAQ
Questions, answered
None — they're the same product. "Cloud Server" is our name for the virtual machine; the Linux VPS and Windows VPS pages are just that server viewed by operating system. Pick whichever entry point suits you.
Yes. Choose your operating system at deploy time. Linux images (Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky, AlmaLinux) are free; Windows Server adds a license fee from $8/month that scales with the size of your server — the calculator shows the exact figure for your configuration.
Your server is the sum of its parts: $4.33 per vCPU, $3.06 per GB of RAM, $0.25 per GB of SSD storage, and $1.50 per public IPv4, each per month. IPv6 is free. There are no fixed plans — change any dial independently.
Yes. Scale vCPU, RAM, and storage up as you grow, with minimal downtime — every resource moves independently, so you never pay for a bundle you don't need.
Under 60 seconds. Your instance provisions and runs any setup you provide, so it's ready to use — not just powered on.
Yes. Every action — create, resize, snapshot, destroy — is available through a clean API and command-line tool, so you can manage infrastructure as code.
Every instance supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
Yes. Our team assists with moving existing workloads into Lineserve at no extra charge. Reach out to support to plan the move.
In ng-1a, our Lagos region. The instance and its storage are created there and stay there unless you deploy elsewhere yourself.
No. Amazon's African region is Cape Town and Microsoft's is in South Africa. Lagos carries edge infrastructure — a local zone, content delivery and interconnect points of presence — but the compute behind it runs outside the country. A Nigerian business on a global cloud is generally served from another jurisdiction.
From NGN 13,890 a month for 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 20 GB of SSD and one IPv4. After that it is NGN 4,330 per vCPU, NGN 3,060 per GB of RAM, NGN 250 per GB of Universal SSD and NGN 1,500 per additional IPv4, each per month. IPv6 is free and prices exclude VAT.
1 to 32 vCPU, 1 to 128 GB of RAM, and storage from 20 GB on Linux or 32 GB on Windows up to 16 TB, with up to eight IPv4 addresses. Each dimension resizes independently with minimal downtime, so you size for today and grow the same machine.
In Naira, by bank transfer or card. Transfer is how most Nigerian businesses settle anything sizeable; a card suits a single instance or a monthly renewal.
It leaves it alone. The charge settles in Nigeria as a domestic Naira transaction, by card or bank transfer, so it sits outside the international spending cap a Nigerian bank applies to a Naira card — the cap that returned in 2025 after the major banks suspended international transactions on Naira cards between 2022 and 2023. An overseas cloud bill is charged against that cap every month, and by more as the account grows.
No. Displayed prices exclude VAT. Nigerian VAT on cloud and hosting services is 7.5%, and it is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
Send [email protected] your TIN, your registered name as the Revenue Service holds it, the billing address and any purchase-order reference before you build the first server, so the billing account is configured from the start. A Nigerian buyer claiming input VAT wants both parties' identifiers, an invoice number and date, the service described, and the Naira amount with VAT on its own line.
Yes. Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 Standard are available, licensed per vCPU on a minimum of four cores from NGN 2,000 per vCPU and billed in Naira alongside the compute. Linux images are free, with root and SSH from first boot on current Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky, AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream and Fedora.
Under 60 seconds, from the console, the API or the CLI. Snapshots, resize and destroy run the same way, so a whole environment can be described in code and rebuilt on demand.
Yes. Data in ng-1a is held in Lagos and is not moved out of the country without your instruction — data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act.
Hosting in ng-1a puts the data in Nigeria, which is the part infrastructure supplies. Circular PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004 takes full effect on 1 January 2027 and applies to your organisation, not to your supplier, so the assessment of your architecture against it is yours to make with your advisers and your regulator.
The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 governs personal data, with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission as regulator and the 2025 implementation directive in force since 19 September 2025. Section 41 governs transfers out of the country and permits them through specified routes; keeping the data in Lagos means that analysis does not arise for it. Registration under section 44, your lawful basis and your breach procedures remain your obligations as controller.
Yes — ke-1a in Nairobi and tz-1a in Dar es Salaam are on the same account and API, billed on the same Naira invoice. Be deliberate with personal data and with anything inside the CBN perimeter; machine images, build artefacts and non-personal telemetry raise neither question.
NVMe-backed storage, a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, private networking in the region, on-demand snapshots and scheduled backups, always-on DDoS mitigation, a browser console, and a full API and CLI. No bandwidth charge, no support tier, no per-request billing.
Those two networks carry about 86% of Nigeria's active mobile lines, and all of them are inside the country. A request from an MTN handset in Lagos to a server in Lagos starts and finishes in the same city, instead of crossing a subsea cable twice for every asset on the page.
The contracting entity is LINESERVE, INC. What is in Nigeria is the infrastructure: region ng-1a in Lagos, billing in Naira, and data held in the country.
Yes — [email protected], and the ticket system once you have an account. Nigeria runs on West Africa Time, UTC+1, with no daylight saving, which is two hours behind Nairobi and Dar es Salaam if you are coordinating across regions.
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