Colocation in Tanzania

Yes. Ship your equipment to the facility and our team receives it, racks it, cables it, and brings it online. Remote hands handle changes after that.

Each footprint includes a power allowance — 500 W on a quarter rack, 1 kW on a half rack, 3 kW on a full rack. Draw above the allowance is billed at $500 per kW per month, and larger footprints include redundant A+B feeds.

Yes. You can cross-connect to multiple carriers and peers, or use our blended local IP transit — you're never locked to a single upstream.

Yes. That's a core reason teams colocate with us. Your hardware and data stay physically in the region you choose, on the continent.

Colocation is offered on standard commitment terms that scale with your footprint. Talk to sales for terms on quarter, half, full racks, and cages.

Yes. Connect colocated hardware to Lineserve Cloud Servers, Dedicated Servers, and Object Storage over private networking within a region for a hybrid setup.

In Dar es Salaam, in our tz-1a region — the same city where the country's international capacity lands and where the Tanzanian networks interconnect.

Colocation is quoted rather than listed, because footprint, power draw, connectivity and term all move the number. Send [email protected] an equipment list with the rated draw per unit, the space it occupies, what you want cross-connected, and how long you want the term to run, and you will get a TZS figure per month.

From a single U for a box or two, through a quarter rack at 10U and a half rack at 21U, to a full rack at 42U — and private cages and suites for larger environments. Each footprint carries a power allowance sized to it, with draw above the allowance metered.

Larger footprints take A and B feeds, so a single feed failure does not take your equipment down. Your quote states the allowance for the footprint you take and how draw above it is metered — tell us the rated draw per unit and it is sized from that rather than estimated.

Ship them to Dar es Salaam. Hardware entering Tanzania is an import, so your clearing agent handles duty and import VAT at the port — worth starting before the boxes leave the supplier. Tell us when the shipment is due and what is in it, and our engineers receive it, rack it, cable it and label it against the elevation you sent.

The physical work you would otherwise drive in for: reboots, reseating a drive or a card, swapping a failed part you have couriered in, recabling, moving a cross-connect, and racking new equipment. Remote hands are included from a half rack up and available on smaller footprints.

Yes — site access is arranged in advance and your nominated staff go on the authorised list. Set that up as part of the move-in plan with [email protected], along with who may authorise changes to the list later.

Peering at TIX itself carries no port, cross-connect or membership fee, which is unusually favourable and is the reason most Tanzanian operators peer locally. Talk to [email protected] about the cross-connect to reach it from your footprint and how quickly it can be provisioned.

Yes. Colocated hardware can reach Lineserve Cloud Servers, Dedicated Servers and Object Storage over private networking inside tz-1a — which is how most hybrid builds here work: owned hardware for the steady base load, rented capacity for the peaks, and S3-compatible storage as the backup target.

In TZS, by bank transfer, M-Pesa and other mobile money, or card. For a rack contract most Tanzanian finance teams settle by transfer. Nothing converts, and no international transaction appears on the statement.

No — quoted figures exclude VAT, and mainland VAT of 18% is added on the invoice.

Tanzanian law requires a business paying a non-resident for services to withhold 15% of the gross consideration unless a double taxation agreement reduces it, irrespective of where the service is performed. Lineserve invoices Tanzania from LINESERVE, INC. On a multi-year contract this is worth settling with your tax adviser before signature — and worth raising with us at the same time, so the invoicing matches how you remit.

Yes. Your equipment is in Dar es Salaam and the data on it stays in-country, giving you data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act. Cross-border transfer under the Act needs a permit from the Personal Data Protection Commission in advance; keeping the hardware here means no transfer occurs.

Compliance is yours — registration with the Commission, notices, lawful basis, breach reporting — and in a colocation arrangement you operate the systems, so more of it sits with you than it would with a managed service. What Lineserve supplies is the location, the power, the cooling, the network and the hands.

No. Public institutions in Tanzania are directed to the government-approved hosting environment under the e-Government Act. What we serve is the private layer around it — contractors, integrators, programme implementers, and firms that submit data into government systems.

Yes. Dar es Salaam, Nairobi and Lagos are all live regions, and a common pattern is a production footprint in tz-1a with a disaster-recovery copy in another. Bear in mind that replicating personal data out of Tanzania is a cross-border transfer, and the Commission's permit regime applies to that copy.

+255 761 847 121, with [email protected] for quotes and contracts. Tanzania is on East Africa Time, UTC+3, all year with no daylight saving, so business hours mean one thing all year round.