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Storage Class
Volume Size
100 GB
10 GB2 TB+
Snapshot Storage
GB
Incremental backups of your volume data.
Estimated Cost / month
Standard SSD100 GB Provisioned
$25.30None$0.00
$25.30/mo
* Estimates exclude applicable taxes.
Global Infrastructure
Available Worldwide
Block Storage volumes deployed across Tier III data centers with 99.99% availability SLA.
Nairobi
KE-1A
TIER-3 Certified
99.99% Uptime SLA
100 Gbps Network
Network Providers:
Safaricom
Liquid Telecom
+1
Lagos
NG-1A
TIER-3 Certified
99.99% Uptime SLA
100 Gbps Network
Network Providers:
MainOne
MTN
+1
Dar es Salaam
TZ-1A
TIER-3 Certified
99.99% Uptime SLA
100 Gbps Network
Network Providers:
TIGO
Vodacom
+2
Coming Soon: Johannesburg & Frankfurt
Expanding to Southern Africa and Europe in 2025 with Tier IV infrastructure.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about Lineserve Block Storage.
The storage included with your VPS (local storage) is tied to the instance — if you delete the instance, you lose the data. Block Storage volumes are independent and persist even if you delete the instance. You can also detach Block Storage volumes and attach them to different instances, resize them on the fly, and create snapshots.
Block Storage is available in all our Tier III data centers: Nairobi (Kenya), Lagos (Nigeria), and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). All volumes are stored with redundancy across multiple storage nodes within each datacenter for maximum durability and 99.99% availability SLA.
Currently, a volume can only be attached to one instance at a time (single-attach). Multi-attach support for shared storage scenarios is coming soon. For shared storage needs today, consider using our File Storage (NFS) service or Object Storage.
You can increase the size of a volume without detaching it: 1. In the console, select the volume and click "Resize", 2. Enter the new size (must be larger than current), 3. The volume is resized instantly, 4. SSH into your instance and extend the filesystem. For ext4: sudo resize2fs /dev/vdb. For xfs: sudo xfs_growfs /mount/point. Note: You can only increase volume size, not decrease it.
All Block Storage volumes are replicated three times across different physical drives in the same availability zone. If a drive fails, your data is automatically reconstructed from the replicas with no action required from you. This provides 99.999% durability.
Snapshots capture the state of your volume at a specific point in time. They are: Instant (created in seconds regardless of volume size), Incremental (only changed blocks are stored, saving space and cost), Consistent (uses copy-on-write technology for consistency), Restorable (you can restore a volume to any snapshot or create a new volume from a snapshot).
Yes, you can use Block Storage volumes as boot volumes for your instances. This allows you to: Create custom OS images, Resize your boot disk, Create bootable snapshots, Move boot volumes between instances.
Block Storage volumes are raw block devices. You can format them with any filesystem your operating system supports: Linux: ext4, xfs, btrfs, ext3. Windows: NTFS, ReFS. We recommend ext4 for most Linux workloads and NTFS for Windows.
Yes, all Block Storage volumes are encrypted at rest using AES-256 encryption. Encryption keys are managed by our Key Management Service (KMS). You can also bring your own keys (BYOK) for additional control. Data in transit between your instance and the volume is also encrypted.
You cannot directly move a volume to another region, but you can: 1. Create a snapshot of the volume, 2. Copy the snapshot to the target region, 3. Create a new volume from the snapshot in the target region. Cross-region snapshot copy costs $0.02/GB (one-time transfer fee).
Standard SSD: Up to 10,000 IOPS, $0.253/GB/month, Best for: Web apps, dev environments, small databases. High-Performance NVMe: Up to 64,000 IOPS, $0.425/GB/month, Best for: High-traffic databases, real-time analytics, OLTP. Choose High-Performance NVMe if you need consistent low-latency I/O for database or transactional workloads.
Block Storage is billed hourly based on provisioned size: You pay for the size you provision, not the data you store. Billing starts when you create the volume. Billing stops when you delete the volume. Detached volumes still incur storage charges. Snapshots are billed separately at $0.15/GB/month. Example: A 100GB Standard SSD volume costs $0.253 × 100GB = $25.30/month (or ~$0.035/hour).
Volume size limits: Minimum: 10 GB (Standard SSD/NVMe) or 50 GB (HDD), Maximum: 16 TB per volume, Volumes per instance: Up to 16, Total volumes per account: 100 (can be increased), Total storage per account: 100 TB (can be increased). Need higher limits? Contact support to request an increase.
Volume metrics are available in Cloud Monitor: Read/Write IOPS, Read/Write throughput (MB/s), Read/Write latency, Queue depth, Utilization percentage. You can set up alerts when metrics exceed thresholds. Metrics are also available via API for integration with external monitoring tools.