Windows VPS — hosted in Lagos
Windows VPS Hosting in Nigeria
The licence is inside the Naira price, and you can check the arithmetic.
A licensed Windows Server instance in Lagos with RDP, full administrator rights, NVMe storage and a dedicated IPv4, pre-activated before you first log in. The 2 GB Windows plan starts at NGN 31,950 a month for 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 40 GB of NVMe. Windows Server 2022 Standard is charged at NGN 2,500 per vCPU per month on a four-core minimum — NGN 10,000 — which is exactly the gap between the Linux 2 GB plan at NGN 21,950 and this one. One supplier, one Naira invoice, and nothing to key in on first boot.
- Windows Server 2019, 2022 or 2025 Standard, pre-activated
- Licence inside the Naira price — no separate purchase in dollars
- RDP and full administrator rights on every plan
- Data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA) — your data stays in-country
- Deploy in under 60 seconds · 99.9% uptime SLA
No credit card required · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN
Pricing
Simple plans, billed in your currency
Windows licensing included on every 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 a custom configuration? Talk to Sales.
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Network
A desktop is charged the distance on every keystroke
A website is a series of short errands. A remote desktop is a conversation that runs the length of the working day. The grid redraws when you scroll it, the dialog paints before you can click it, the lookup field completes while you are still typing, the report window refreshes twice because somebody pressed the button twice. Each of those is a round trip, and there are thousands of them between 08:00 and 17:00. That is why the map that barely matters for a static page decides everything for a hosted desktop, and why the answer to where the machine sits is the answer to whether the finance team stops complaining.
In Nigeria the people opening that session are spread across cities and across networks. Head office in Lagos, the auditor visiting for a fortnight, the branch in Abuja, the depot in Port Harcourt, a manager in Kano working from an apartment on mobile data. Two networks carry about 86% of the country's 189.68 million active mobile lines, MTN on 96.98 million and Airtel on 65.45 million, while the licensed fixed and wireless ISPs together account for 352,006 subscriptions — Spectranet, Starlink and FiberOne holding roughly 70% of that segment. There is no single carrier relationship that covers a Nigerian company's staff. What covers all of them at once is an instance that is domestic to every one of those networks, in a country whose networks now meet each other in Lagos rather than in London.
That last point is recent enough to be worth stating plainly. IXPN, founded by the NCC with the ISP association in 2006, runs 13 points of presence across seven states with more than 130 connected networks, and peak domestic traffic across it went from 1 Tbps in April 2025 to 2 Tbps by March 2026. Before that infrastructure existed, traffic between two Nigerian networks was carried to Europe and back — an intercontinental journey for a packet going a few kilometres, paid on every keystroke of a session like the one your accounts clerk is about to open. A Lagos-hosted desktop reached over a Nigerian network stays inside the country for the whole conversation.
189.68M
Active mobile subscriptions in Nigeria (NCC, May 2026)
352,006
Licensed ISP subscriptions, Q4 2025 (NCC)
13
IXPN points of presence, across seven states
UTC+1
West Africa Time, no daylight saving, all year
What a hosted desktop is really judged on
Not the benchmark. The file copies. The month-end trial balance pulled down to a laptop, the folder of scanned invoices pushed up, the 400 MB database backup dragged across at 16:45 on a Friday because the auditor wants it before the weekend. Every plan runs on a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, which is the difference between a hosted machine that feels like the PC that used to be in the corner and one that everybody quietly stops using.
One environment, several cities, one clock
Nigeria is on West Africa Time, UTC+1, with no daylight saving, and private-sector hours run roughly 08:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday, with government offices closing earlier and hours shifting during Ramadan in the north. A single hosted instance gives Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano the same desktop, the same version of the application and the same data, on the same working day — instead of one machine in one office that everybody else has to wait for.
Payments
A bigger ticket, settled the way Nigeria settles
Windows hosting is where foreign-currency pricing is most entrenched, because the licence underneath it usually is. Here the licence is already a Naira figure, so all that is left to choose is the rail. The 8 GB Windows plan at NGN 93,300 a month, the 16 GB Windows plan at NGN 185,100, the 32 GB Windows plan at NGN 368,700 — these are finance-department numbers, and Nigeria has a finance-department rail to match. NIBSS has run instant interbank payment here since 2011 and it is what a Nigerian business uses to pay a supplier. Lineserve accepts card and bank transfer, both in Naira.
Bank transfer, first
Built for this size of charge. It survives a purchase-order process, gives accounts payable a movement to match against an invoice, and handles an annual commitment across several instances in one go rather than a sequence of card attempts against a limit somebody set two years ago.
Card
Visa and Mastercard, charged in Naira, for teams whose procurement runs on a company card or who want a single instance up this afternoon. VAT is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
The whole charge is domestic, licence included
A licence is the component most likely to be denominated in a foreign currency somewhere else in your stack, and in Nigeria a foreign-currency charge carries a second cost. A Naira card has a bank-set cap on international spending — suspended across the major banks between 2022 and 2023, reopened during 2025 with limits that vary by bank and are revised often. An overseas Windows invoice, licence and all, is charged against that cap every month. Here the plan, the licence and the VAT line are one Naira amount settled inside Nigeria, and no part of it reaches the international allowance.
Annual terms and purchase orders
Annual billing runs ten months for twelve, which turns a monthly variable into one approval and one document for the file. If your process needs a quotation, a purchase-order reference or a specific Windows Server version across a fleet, raise it with [email protected] before you order rather than after the first invoice.
Nigerian VAT at 7.5% is added at checkout. Displayed prices exclude it.
What's included
Everything on every plan
No feature tiers, no upsell traps. Each Windows VPS ships with the full stack — you only choose how much compute you need.
RDP access
Full Remote Desktop out of the box, ready the moment your instance boots.
Full administrator rights
Complete control of your Windows environment — install anything, configure everything.
NVMe SSD storage
Enterprise NVMe drives for fast boot, snappy databases, and low I/O latency.
Free DDoS protection
Always-on network-layer mitigation included on every plan at no extra cost.
Licensed & activated
Windows Server ships fully licensed and activated — nothing to bring or manage.
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.
Dedicated IPv4
A dedicated public IPv4 address included, with more available on demand.
60-second deploy
Provision a production-ready Windows instance in under a minute, every time.
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
Licensing, made simple
Licensed and activated. Nothing to bring.
The most common Windows hosting headache is licensing. We remove it entirely — every instance is legitimately licensed and ready to run from first boot.
- Windows Server licensing is included in every plan price — no separate license to buy.
- Instances ship pre-activated. There's nothing to key in and nothing to renew.
- Licensing is provided under a Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) and billed per active instance.
- Choose Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022, or 2025 at deploy time, and change versions on a fresh build.
License status
Windows Server 2025 Datacenter
Deep dive: Server 2019 · Server 2022 · Server 2025
Use cases
Built for the way you use Windows
.NET & ASP.NET hosting
Run IIS, ASP.NET, and full .NET workloads on a platform built for them — no compatibility layers.
SQL Server databases
Host Microsoft SQL Server with fast NVMe storage and the RAM headroom real workloads need.
Trading & forex terminals
Low-latency Windows desktops for MetaTrader and trading platforms, running 24/7 close to home.
Remote desktops for teams
Give your team a shared, always-on Windows environment they can reach securely over RDP.
How it works
Live in three steps
Choose region & plan
Pick Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, or Lagos, then the compute size that fits your workload.
Deploy in under 60 seconds
We provision a fully licensed, activated Windows Server instance — no setup steps for you.
Connect over RDP
Log in with Remote Desktop and full admin rights. Your environment is ready to use.
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
[email protected]Why Lineserve
Decided on what actually matters here
Licensing & invoicing
You can price the licence before you open the configurator
Windows Server Standard here is licensed per vCPU on a minimum of four cores, provided under a Services Provider License Agreement, billed per active instance and pre-activated on first boot. In Naira, Windows Server 2022 Standard is NGN 2,500 per vCPU per month. The four-core minimum makes that NGN 10,000 a month on every plan up to four vCPU, and 8 × NGN 2,500 on an eight-core machine.
Now hold that against the two price lists. The Linux 2 GB plan — 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM, 40 GB — is NGN 21,950 a month. The 2 GB Windows plan is the same machine with Windows on it, at NGN 31,950. The difference is NGN 10,000, which is the licence, exactly where the arithmetic puts it. Go up a few sizes and it still holds: the 8 GB plan at NGN 83,300 against 8 GB Windows plan at NGN 93,300 is the same NGN 10,000 at four cores, and the 16 GB plan at NGN 165,100 against 16 GB Windows plan at NGN 185,100 is NGN 20,000 at eight. Version choice moves the component the way you would expect — Windows Server 2019 Standard is NGN 2,000 per vCPU per month and 2025 Standard is NGN 3,000. Nothing about the licence is a markup you have to take on trust.
Nigerian VAT is 7.5% and applies to cloud computing and hosting. Displayed prices exclude it and it is calculated at checkout. Worth knowing when a group finance function compares regions: Kenya charges 16% and mainland Tanzania 18%, so the Nigerian total lands lighter than either and the comparison should be run on the VAT-exclusive figures.
The invoicing regime around all of this changed on 1 January 2026, when the Nigeria Tax Act 2025 and the Nigeria Tax Administration Act 2025 took effect and the authority most Nigerian buyers still call the FIRS became the Nigeria Revenue Service. One consequence reaches large buyers directly: mandatory e-invoicing through the NRS electronic fiscal system, with taxpayers of ₦5 billion turnover and above inside the regime from 1 July 2026 against a 31 July 2026 compliance deadline, onboarded through an approved Access Point Provider. If you are in that phase, a supplier invoice that will not reconcile into your flow is a procurement problem rather than a formatting one — so raise it at the order, when it is a conversation, instead of at the quarter end, when it is a queue.
What arrives licensed
Windows Server Standard, picked at deploy time from the 2019, 2022 and 2025 releases, and activated by the time you first connect. No product key to source, no activation call, no renewal date in a calendar, no second vendor on the reconciliation, and no dollar line arriving separately from somewhere else in the stack. Switching release later is a fresh build rather than an upgrade in place, so treat it as you would any operating system change: new instance, install, copy, cut over.
What stays on your own paper
We license the operating system. Everything above it keeps the entitlements it already has, exactly as it would on a machine in your own office — the ERP, the accounting and payroll packages, the line-of-business application, any database engine you bring, and whatever client access licences those products ask for. Administrator rights are the whole point: if you hold the licence, it installs and it runs.
Send [email protected] your TIN and your registered name as the CAC holds it before you order, with any purchase-order reference, and talk to us then about annual terms or a fleet on one account.
Data residency
On a desktop, personal data is never only in the database
The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 governs, the Nigeria Data Protection Commission regulates, and the General Application and Implementation Directive that operationalises the Act took effect on 19 September 2025. Section 41 sets out the grounds on which personal data may leave Nigeria — an adequate legal regime covering the recipient, binding corporate rules, contractual clauses, a code of conduct, or a certification mechanism — each of which is something you commission, evidence and maintain. A desktop in Lagos never opens that file.
That matters more on Windows than anywhere else, for an unglamorous reason: in most Nigerian organisations the desktop is where personal data has quietly gone to live. Payroll kept as a workbook because the export is quicker than the report. Signed contracts as PDFs in a Documents folder. A debtors' listing pulled last Tuesday and never deleted. A mail archive on the local drive. A shared directory the field team drops photographs of identity documents into. A copy of everything on the second volume, made by someone sensible, on a schedule nobody wrote down. It is not in a database, it appears on no data map, and it is personal data in every line.
Nigeria then goes further than most for one sector in particular. The CBN's circular of 15 June 2026 directs that payment transaction data generated within Nigeria be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027, reaching banks, microfinance banks, mobile money operators, fintechs, switching companies, payment service providers and super agents. On a Windows estate the exposed workloads are the unglamorous ones: the reconciliation terminal, the settlement spreadsheet somebody exports every morning, the reporting desktop with a year of transaction extracts on its second drive. Put those in Lagos and they are inside the country, mapped or not, remembered or not.
What residency actually settles
Data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA), with the whole volume held in Lagos rather than only the database on it — desktop, file shares, exports, mail archives and local backups included. Your own registration with the Commission as a controller or processor stays yours wherever the machine sits. What the region decides is whether the cross-border question arises for the data at all, and in Lagos it does not.
Who runs here
Nigerian teams whose software only runs on Windows
Accounting, payroll and ERP with no Linux build
The package finance has used for nine years, the payroll module nobody wants to migrate, the fixed-asset register with a thick client and a licence key taped to a monitor. This is the most common reason a Nigerian business buys Windows hosting. One hosted instance replaces the shared PC everybody remotes into, gives head office in Lagos and the branch in Abuja the same company file at the same time, and turns an unbudgeted hardware replacement into a monthly Naira line item.
SQL Server and line-of-business databases
The database behind the ERP, the reporting instance the analysts hammer at month end, the agent jobs that rebuild indexes at 02:00 and email a report at 06:00. Windows-first stacks arrive as a set rather than a single machine, and they want NVMe underneath them, administrator rights over the service accounts, and the ability to grow to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM without a change of supplier.
Fintech and payments back office
Nigeria's fintech sector is the country's largest startup category, and while the customer-facing APIs are usually Linux, the tooling wrapped around them frequently is not: reconciliation, settlement, regulatory reporting, the export a partner bank insists on receiving as a workbook. Where those extracts carry Nigerian payment transaction data, the CBN's 1 January 2027 date is a question about which building the desktop runs in.
.NET shops, agencies and ISVs
Lagos has a dense agency and software market shipping IIS and .NET to Nigerian clients. Production instances, a Windows build agent, a staging box that mirrors what the customer will actually run, and a demo environment you can hand a prospect a link to. Quote the client a Naira figure you will not have to re-quote next quarter, and keep the licence component visible inside it so the line survives their procurement.
A shared desktop a team actually shares
One always-on Windows environment several staff reach over RDP, instead of a machine in the office that has to be powered, connected and unlocked before anyone can work. It stays reachable when the office does not — during a public holiday, over a long weekend, or on any of the evenings a Nigerian office simply has no light.
Retail traders running MetaTrader
MT4, MT5, cTrader and any other Windows terminal a broker ships run here with full administrator rights, and Nigerian traders buy them for a specific reason: an expert advisor on a hosted machine keeps working through a blackout that would have taken a PC at home off the market. There is a whole page on that argument, on sizing a trading instance, and on the dedicated IPv4 a broker sees at every login.
Migrating
Off the tower in the corner, or off a dollar invoice
From the Windows machine in your own office
This is the strongest migration argument in Nigeria and it has nothing to do with packets. The national grid collapsed on 29 December 2025 and again on 23 January 2026, with further collapses reported through the year; even running normally, generation sits around 4,000 to 5,000 MW against an estimated 30,000 MW of need, and NERC's January 2026 factsheet put the plant availability factor at 36%, an average 4,901 MW available for dispatch. The country compensates with a shadow grid estimated at 14 to 20 GW of diesel sets, petrol standby, inverters and solar. 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, with separately disclosed electricity expenses up 81.5% and Band A tariffs up by more than 200%. Keeping one tower under a desk alive through that means diesel, batteries, an inverter, a generator service contract and a bill that moves with the fuel price — for a single point of failure everyone in the building already knows about. A hosted instance carries a 99.9% uptime SLA, NVMe instead of a five-year-old spinning disk, a door that opens over RDP whether or not the office does, and one fixed Naira line item. The staff experience barely changes: same application, same licence, same desktop.
From an overseas Windows VPS
The monthly charge is the part you can see. The parts you cannot are the rate on the day, the licence priced in a currency your business does not earn, and a Naira figure that differs between the quotation, the invoice and the bank statement for a plan that never changed — which is precisely what an annual budget has no room to absorb. There is a third thing the invoice never shows you: it is an international charge, so it is billed against the bank-set ceiling a Naira card carries on foreign spending — the ceiling the major banks reopened in 2025, bank by bank, after suspending international transactions on Naira cards between 2022 and 2023. A domestic Naira payment leaves that ceiling for the software your business genuinely has to import. Here the whole figure is Naira, licence included at NGN 2,500 per vCPU per month for 2022 Standard on a four-core minimum, so you can forecast it. Technically it is the dullest migration there is: build the instance, install the application, bring the data over, leave both running for a week, then move the users. The licensing side has nothing to migrate at all, because the new machine is licensed and activated before you connect to it — what crosses is the application and the data, never the entitlement.
Ask any provider you are weighing up, this one included: which building is the machine in and in which country, is the Windows licence inside the price or beside it, what does the SLA pay when it misses, and which currency does the invoice arrive in.
FAQ
Questions, answered
It's included. Every plan ships with a fully licensed, activated copy of Windows Server, provided under a Services Provider License Agreement and billed per active instance. There's nothing to bring or key in.
You can choose Windows Server 2016, 2019, 2022, or 2025 when you deploy. To move to a different version, spin up a fresh instance on the version you want.
Yes. You can resize to a larger plan as your workload grows, with minimal downtime. Storage and compute scale independently on the higher tiers.
Yes. Our plans are sized for SQL Server workloads, with fast NVMe storage and generous RAM. SQL Server licensing is handled separately from the base Windows license — talk to sales for a sized quote.
Yes. Our team assists with migrating existing Windows workloads into Lineserve at no extra charge. Reach out to support to plan the move.
Every plan includes at least one dedicated public IPv4 address. Higher tiers include additional addresses, and more are available on request.
In ng-1a, our Lagos region. The instance, its NVMe volume and everything saved on it are created there and stay there unless you move them.
Yes, on every plan. The licence is Windows Server Standard, supplied under a Services Provider License Agreement, charged per active instance and already activated when the machine first boots. Nothing to source, nothing to key in, nothing with a renewal date on it.
Windows Server 2022 Standard is NGN 2,500 per vCPU per month on a minimum of four cores — NGN 10,000 a month on any plan up to four vCPU. You can see it in the two price lists: the Linux 2 GB plan is NGN 21,950 and the 2 GB Windows plan, the same machine with Windows on it, is NGN 31,950. Windows Server 2019 Standard is NGN 2,000 per vCPU per month and 2025 Standard is NGN 3,000.
Windows Server 2019, 2022 or 2025 Standard, selected at deploy time. Changing version later means a fresh build rather than an in-place upgrade.
Yes, over RDP, on every plan including the smallest. Treat it as your own machine — install what you need, configure services, join it to your domain, and decide for yourself when it is allowed to restart.
Yes — if it installs on a Windows machine in your office it installs here, because you hold administrator rights. We license the operating system underneath; the entitlements for whatever you put on top stay in your own name and travel with the software.
A real Naira price. The NGN figures, licence component included, come from our own per-currency price list and are set in Naira rather than derived from a dollar amount when you check out.
No. Displayed prices exclude VAT. Nigerian VAT is 7.5% on cloud and hosting services and is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
In Naira, by bank transfer or card. Bank transfer is the usual rail at these amounts and the one a purchase-order process fits around; card suits a single instance on monthly billing.
No, because nothing about it is international. You settle a Naira amount inside Nigeria, by transfer or card, licence component included, and the limit never sees it. An overseas Windows VPS is charged against that limit every month — and the limit is one each Nigerian bank sets and revises for itself, after the major banks suspended international transactions on Naira cards between 2022 and 2023 and reopened them during 2025.
Raise it with [email protected] at the order rather than at the quarter end. Send your TIN, your registered name as the CAC holds it and any purchase-order reference, and describe what your Access Point Provider needs to see on a supplier invoice, so the first billing run already carries it.
Yes — and on a Windows instance that means the whole volume rather than just a database: the desktop, the documents, the file shares, the exports, the mail archive and any local backup. That gives you data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA), and nothing is moved out of Nigeria without your instruction.
The CBN's circular of 15 June 2026 directs that payment transaction data generated in Nigeria be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027. Putting the reconciliation desktop, the settlement exports and the reporting instance in ng-1a puts that data in Nigeria. Whether your overall architecture satisfies the directive is a question for you and your regulator — the region supplies the location.
They reach Lagos over Nigerian networks. MTN and Airtel alone carry about 86% of the country's 189.68 million active mobile lines, and Nigerian networks now interconnect domestically rather than through Europe — which matters far more for a remote desktop than for a web page, because a desktop session pays the distance continuously rather than once.
Yes. Windows plans run from 2 GB Windows plan (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe) at NGN 31,950 a month up to 64 GB Windows plan (32 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, 1,280 GB NVMe) at NGN 735,900, and you move up as the workload grows. The licence component moves with the core count, at NGN 2,500 per vCPU per month for 2022 Standard.
NVMe storage and a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, one dedicated IPv4 and a free /64 of IPv6, always-on DDoS mitigation, on-demand snapshots and scheduled backups, private networking between your instances, and a 99.9% uptime SLA. The whole thing builds and activates itself in under 60 seconds.
Yes — it is a Windows desktop with full administrator rights, so any terminal your broker ships installs here. If that is the whole reason you are buying, our Forex VPS page covers sizing, the dedicated IPv4 and why Nigerian traders host a terminal in the first place.
Dedicated servers give you the whole machine in Lagos, also billed in Naira. Cloud servers sit in between, letting you specify vCPU, RAM and storage individually rather than choosing a fixed size.
At [email protected] and through the ticket queue in your console. Nigeria runs on West Africa Time, UTC+1, with no daylight saving, so the working day means one thing all year.
Deploy your Windows VPS in under 60 seconds
Licensed, activated, and running close to your users. Pay in local currency, with no card required to start.
No credit card required · 99.9% uptime SLA · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN