Partners in Nigeria
Sell Lagos hosting under your own name
Resell cloud servers, VPS, dedicated hardware and object storage in ng-1a under your own brand, refer business and earn on it, or build your product on the platform. You buy at wholesale in Naira and set your own retail, so you can publish a price list to Nigerian clients and still recognise your margin twelve months later. Your clients stay yours — your brand, your invoice, your relationship — with a Lagos region behind you and two more on the same account.
Ways to partner
Find the program that fits you
Reseller partners
White-label hosting and cloud you sell under your own brand. Wholesale pricing, your retail, your margin — with local billing you can pass straight to your clients.
For: agencies, IT firms, web professionals.
Become a resellerReferral partners
Send business our way and earn on what you refer. No support burden — you make the introduction, we handle delivery.
For: consultants, freelancers, communities.
Join the referral programTechnology partners
Build your product or service on Lineserve, integrate with our platform, and go to market together.
For: ISVs, SaaS builders, systems integrators.
Explore technology partnershipsWhat you are reselling
A Lagos region you can name in a proposal
The first question a Nigerian client asks a reseller is where the site will actually be, and it is asked more often now than three years ago. ng-1a is in Lagos — the city where Nigeria's eight subsea systems come ashore, and where the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria has kept domestic traffic domestic since the Nigerian Communications Commission founded it with the ISP association in 2006. Elsewhere in the region, capacity lands in a port city and is hauled inland to the racks. You can put that in a proposal, and your client can check it with a traceroute.
Underneath whatever brand you put on it, the product is infrastructure rather than a resold control panel: an API and a CLI, snapshots and scheduled backups, private networking, live resize of vCPU, RAM and storage, a dedicated IPv4 and a free /64 IPv6 on every instance, always-on DDoS mitigation, and a published 99.9% uptime SLA with service credits. Lagos, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam sit on one account, so a client with a regional footprint is a second region rather than a second supplier.
The whole catalogue, one relationship
Cloud servers and VPS on Linux or Windows, dedicated servers, and S3-compatible object storage on a per-region endpoint. A client who starts small and grows into dedicated hardware never has to leave your book to do it — and colocation in Lagos is quoted when a client arrives with their own equipment.
An argument a foreign platform cannot make
Nigeria's grid collapsed in December 2025 and again in January 2026, and twenty-four companies listed on the Nigerian Exchange spent ₦400.83 billion on diesel, gas and alternative energy in the first quarter of 2026 alone. A client running one server in a cupboard is buying fuel, inverters and generator maintenance to keep it alive. Moving that machine is a cost conversation before a technology one, and you are better placed to have it than anyone abroad.
Money
You get paid the way Nigeria pays, and so do we
Nigeria is a bank-transfer market before it is a card market, and any page that assumes otherwise is describing somewhere else. Instant interbank transfer has been the country's default since NIBSS launched the scheme in 2011: an account number, an amount, a reference, a confirmation in seconds. That is how your clients will settle with you, and your side of the chain runs on the same idea.
Bank transfer
The rail a Nigerian book of business actually runs on. A partner carrying twenty client instances, or committing annually at ten months for twelve, is writing a transfer rather than pushing a card payment — and it arrives with a reference your accounts team can reconcile without a phone call.
Card
Visa and Mastercard, in Naira, for partners who would rather keep a card on file for a recurring monthly line. It is simply not the assumption this market runs on — worth knowing when you design your own checkout for your own clients.
One currency on both sides of your margin
You are quoted and invoiced in Naira, and you invoice your clients in Naira. Cost and revenue therefore do not move at all against each other, and the gap between them is a number you can still recognise at the end of the year.
The advantage
Built to make partners money, locally
Real margin
Wholesale pricing with room to set your own retail and keep the difference.
White-label
Sell hosting and cloud under your brand, not ours, where it counts.
Local billing
Pay in KES, TZS, or NGN and invoice your clients in the currency they actually use — no forex eating your margin.
One platform
Hosting, cloud servers, storage, and dedicated hardware for every client, from a single relationship.
Local support
Back your clients with a support team in your region and timezone.
Grow without limits
Start with a handful of clients and scale into a full book of business on the same terms.
How it works
From application to earning
Apply
Tell us about your business and how you want to partner. We review and get back to you quickly.
Onboard
Get set up with wholesale pricing, white-label configuration, and everything you need to sell.
Sell & earn
Bring on clients under your brand, bill them locally, and grow your recurring revenue.
Who it's for
Made for the people building the region's web
Web & digital agencies
Bundle hosting and cloud into your client projects.
IT service providers & MSPs
Offer managed infrastructure without building your own.
Consultants & freelancers
Refer clients and earn, or resell under your name.
ISVs & SaaS builders
Run and ship your product on local infrastructure.
Our ecosystem
Built on trusted foundations
Lineserve runs on carrier-neutral, Tier III facilities and local connectivity across the region — the partners whose infrastructure underpins ours. These are suppliers to Lineserve, not resellers.
Three in-country regions
Nairobi (ke-1a), Dar es Salaam (tz-1a) and Lagos (ng-1a) — each in the country it serves, so your client's data sits where their regulator expects to find it.
On the local exchange
KIXP carries 136 peer networks across four Nairobi facilities, and Lineserve peers there — so traffic between your client and another Kenyan network is handed over inside Nairobi rather than in Europe.
Get started
Let's build something together
Tell us how you'd like to partner and we'll take it from there.
Prefer email? Reach us at [email protected].
FAQ
Partnership questions, answered
There's no cost to apply. Reseller partners buy at wholesale rates and set their own retail; referral partners earn on what they refer.
Yes. Reseller partners get white-label hosting and cloud, so your clients see your brand, not ours.
However you like. You pay Lineserve at wholesale in local currency and invoice your clients in the currency and on the terms you choose.
You own the client relationship; we back you with infrastructure support in your timezone. Managed options are available if you want us closer to the front line.
We aim to review applications and respond within two business days.
Yes. Many partners resell some services and refer others. Tell us your model and we'll set it up.
Nothing to apply and nothing to hold the status. Reseller partners buy at wholesale rates in Naira and set their own retail; referral partners earn on what they refer. Ask [email protected] for the current wholesale terms.
Yes. The reseller programme is white-label, so your clients see your brand rather than ours. You own the client relationship, the pricing and the invoice.
Because your retail price is a promise and your wholesale cost is a variable. Your Nigerian client expects a Naira quote that holds; if your cost is denominated in a foreign currency, every exchange-rate move is a margin change on business you have already closed. You buy at wholesale in NGN and pay by card or bank transfer, so cost and revenue are denominated in the same thing.
However you like. You buy at wholesale, set retail, and invoice on your own terms. Most Nigerian partners bill in Naira and collect by bank transfer, because an account number and a reference is the country's default settlement pattern rather than a fallback.
Your TIN, your registered name exactly as it is held, and any purchase-order reference your system uses. Send them to [email protected] and they are on the invoice from the first billing run rather than reconstructed later.
In ng-1a, our Lagos region, unless you choose otherwise. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are available on the same account, and the region is chosen per instance rather than per account — so one client can sit in Lagos while another runs a standby in Nairobi.
You own the client relationship and the front line; we back you with infrastructure support by ticket, and a signed-in ticket arrives with the account, region and instance attached. Managed options exist if you want us closer to your clients — raise it during onboarding.
Yes. Cloud servers, VPS on Linux or Windows, dedicated hardware and S3-compatible object storage all sit on one account, so a client can move up the range without leaving your book. Colocation in Lagos is quoted rather than listed.
That their data is held in Lagos, which gives them data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act and keeps the section 41 cross-border instruments out of their architecture. Their registration with the Commission and their duties as a controller remain theirs — telling them that plainly builds more trust than claiming otherwise.
That the Central Bank's circular of 15 June 2026 directs payment transaction data generated within Nigeria to be stored and managed in Nigeria from 1 January 2027, covering banks, mobile money operators, fintechs, switching companies, payment service providers and super agents. You supply the location; their compliance function maps their own systems and retention onto the circular.
No minimum and no sales target — start with one client and grow the book on the same terms, with annual billing at ten months for twelve if you would rather match a client's contract year. We aim to review applications within two business days, and onboarding covers wholesale pricing, white-label configuration, invoicing and API access. Many partners resell for some clients and refer others; describe your model on the application and it is set up that way.
Turn local infrastructure into your advantage
Resell it, refer it, or build on it — under your brand, billed locally, supported in your timezone.
No cost to apply · Local billing · Response within 2 business days
Margin, tax and the document
Why a Naira cost is worth more than a discount
A reseller whose wholesale cost is denominated in dollars cannot publish a price list and mean it. Every move in the exchange rate is a margin change on a book of clients you have already sold and already priced, and it arrives without warning. Buy in Naira and the arithmetic goes still: your cost per instance is a fixed figure, your retail is a figure you choose, and the difference between them in November is the difference you signed up for in March.
Then the document, which changed shape for everyone in Nigeria on 1 January 2026. The Nigeria Tax Act 2025 and the Nigeria Tax Administration Act 2025 are in force, the Federal Inland Revenue Service is now the Nigeria Revenue Service, and the Tax Identification Number sits at the centre of far more than it used to. VAT is 7.5% on cloud and hosting — a good deal lower than the 16% and 18% charged on the same class of service in Kenya and Tanzania, worth knowing if your book crosses borders. Send [email protected] your TIN, your registered name and any purchase-order reference before the first order.
If your clients are large taxpayers, read this before you quote
Mandatory e-invoicing is rolling out through the Nigeria Revenue Service, and companies with turnover of ₦5 billion and above came under enforcement from 1 July 2026 with a 31 July 2026 compliance deadline. A partner selling into that tier is selling to a finance function with an electronic fiscal flow to reconcile into — so ask the client what their process needs before you issue the first invoice.
Price the year, not the month
Annual terms run at ten months for twelve. For a partner billing clients annually — most agency retainers and most institutional work — matching the two calendars turns twelve reconciliations into one.
Prices exclude VAT. Talk to [email protected] about wholesale terms and invoicing requirements before the first order.
What you can promise a client
“Your data is in Lagos” is a sentence that closes deals
Every Nigerian partner selling to a bank, a lender, an insurer, a hospital group or a school platform meets the same question in procurement: where is the data held. Nigeria's Data Protection Act 2023 is administered by the Nigeria Data Protection Commission, and the General Application and Implementation Directive of 2025 turned it into an administered regime with registration and filing attached. Section 41 puts moving personal data out of Nigeria onto named instruments — adequacy, binding corporate rules, contractual clauses, a code of conduct or a certification mechanism. Host the client in ng-1a and you have the short answer: the data is in Nigeria, and none of that machinery has anything to act on.
Where it bites hardest is payments, and it bites with a date attached. On 15 June 2026 the Central Bank of Nigeria issued a circular directing that Nigeria-generated payment transaction data be stored and managed in Nigeria from 1 January 2027, across banks, mobile money operators, fintechs, switching companies, payment service providers and super agents. If you build for anyone on that list, the region is a requirement on your client's calendar rather than a preference in your proposal — and a partner who can answer it in the first meeting is ahead of one who has to go away and ask.
Residency is what the region supplies. Registration with the Commission and the obligations of a data controller stay with your client, and saying so plainly is what makes the rest of your proposal credible.
Who this suits
The Nigerian businesses that make the best partners
The programme suits anyone who already owns a client relationship and currently sends the hosting revenue out of the country.
Web and digital agencies
Lagos has one of the densest agency markets anywhere, and hosting is usually the one line of the project handed to a supplier abroad. Multi-tenant instances, staging environments, control-panel stacks, Git-based deploys and client mail, billed to you in Naira and to your client under your own name. Provisioning is API-driven, so a client environment is a script rather than an afternoon.
IT service providers and MSPs
Managed infrastructure for a book of Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt clients without buying a rack or hiring a data-centre engineer. Backup targets in object storage, a standby region in Nairobi or Dar es Salaam, and dedicated hardware when a workload outgrows shared compute.
ISPs and WISPs
Behind the mobile operators sits a licensed ISP segment — Spectranet, Starlink, FiberOne, ipNX, Tizeti, Cyberspace and a long tail behind them — already selling connectivity to businesses that also need somewhere to run things. The systems you operate for yourself belong in Lagos anyway: RADIUS, resolvers, billing portals, monitoring, looking glass. Resell what you are already buying.
Fintech and payments integrators
If you implement switching, agent networks, lending platforms, reconciliation or KYC, your clients are supervised and the CBN circular puts a 1 January 2027 date on where their transaction data lives. Selling in-country infrastructure alongside the software answers a procurement question they were going to ask anyway.
ISVs and SaaS builders
Run your product in ng-1a and sell it to Nigerian customers without explaining a foreign region in every security review. Per-tenant infrastructure becomes a deployment step, and Naira pricing lets you calibrate your own plans to Nigerian budgets.
Consultants and referrers
If carrying support and billing is not the business you want to be in, refer the client and earn on what you refer. You make the introduction, we handle delivery, and the advisory relationship stays exactly where it is.
Getting started
Moving a book, or starting one
You already resell hosting from abroad
Move the clients who feel it first — the ones whose users are all in Nigeria. Each migration is ordinary work: provision, sync, dump and restore, run both for a day, cut the DNS. Do the commercial move alongside it: your cost stops being a foreign figure that shifts under a book you have already priced, and “which country is my data in” gets a one-word answer. Clients genuinely serving overseas users can stay where they are.
You sell software or connectivity, not hosting
Plenty of Nigerian integrators, agencies and ISPs hand the hosting line to the client to buy themselves, and watch a recurring revenue stream leave with it. Start narrow: one client, one instance, your brand on it, a price you set. Applying costs nothing, there is no minimum book, and the panel, backups, API and SLA are the same ones a large partner gets.
Apply with a short description of your business and how you want to partner — reselling, referring, or building on the platform. Most applications are reviewed within two business days, and onboarding covers wholesale pricing, white-label configuration and the invoicing setup above.