Managed Databases — hosted in Dar es Salaam
Coming soonManaged Databases
Production databases without the pager duty.
Fully managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and MariaDB — we handle backups, patching, monitoring and failover.
- PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · Redis · MariaDB
- Multi-AZ failover under 60s
- Three locally-hosted regions — Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- Data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act — your data stays in-country
- 99.99% uptime SLA
Launching soon · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN
Pricing
One flat price per instance
Pick a size and engine — every plan includes automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and multi-AZ high availability. In your currency, no forex.
Small
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 20 GB SSD included
- 100 connections
- Daily backups, 35-day PITR
Medium
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 2 vCPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 50 GB SSD included
- 200 connections
- Daily backups, 35-day PITR
Large
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 100 GB NVMe included
- 500 connections
- Daily backups, 35-day PITR
XLarge
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 8 vCPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 200 GB NVMe included
- 1000 connections
- Daily backups, 35-day PITR
Every plan includes automated backups with 35-day point-in-time recovery, and multi-AZ high availability is available on all sizes. Additional storage is billed per GB. Prices exclude VAT; local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout.
The platform
Everything a production database needs
High availability, backups, security, and observability come wired in — so day two looks like day one.
Five engines
PostgreSQL 14–16, MySQL 8.0/8.1, MongoDB 6/7, Redis 6.2/7, and MariaDB 10.11/11 — your choice.
Multi-AZ high availability
Synchronous standbys across zones with automatic failover in under 60 seconds and zero data loss.
Automated backups & PITR
Daily backups plus continuous archiving — restore to any second within the last 35 days.
Read replicas
Add up to five read replicas with sub-second lag to scale reads and offload analytics.
Encryption everywhere
AES-256 encryption at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, on by default for every instance.
VPC isolation
Private by default — databases live inside your VPC, reachable only from your own services.
Connection pooling
Built-in PgBouncer and ProxySQL keep thousands of client connections efficient and stable.
Performance insights
Slow-query analytics and live metrics surface the queries that need your attention.
Automated patching
Minor versions and security fixes applied during the maintenance window you choose.
Regions
tz-1a is home. Nairobi and Lagos are on the same account.
Deploy in Dar es Salaam and your data stays in Tanzania, in the same city as most of the people using it. ke-1a in Nairobi and ng-1a in Lagos are one API call away on the same console and the same shilling bill, so a standby or an offsite copy is a line in a config file rather than a supplier to onboard. Typical in-metro round trips are around 6 ms in Dar es Salaam, ~2 ms in Nairobi and ~4 ms in Lagos.
Traffic between Tanzanian networks is exchanged in Dar es Salaam. The Tanzania Internet eXchange has run there since 2003 as a project of TISPA, the Tanzanian ISP association; PeeringDB records 32 networks and 798G of connected capacity there, with Akamai, Meta, Cloudflare and TTCL among them, and no fee to join. The point of a local exchange is a plain one: a packet from one Tanzanian network to another changes hands in the city, instead of being hauled to Europe and back to travel four kilometres.
International capacity comes ashore in the same city: SEACOM, EASSy and SEAS land at Dar es Salaam, a named landing point on 2Africa as well. Inland, the National ICT Broadband Backbone carries it onward — government fibre managed by TTCL, 13,820 km laid of a 16,280 km target as of FY2024/25, reaching every region and crossing into Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. One origin in Dar es Salaam therefore has a real answer for a user in Mwanza, a site office outside Geita and a clearing agent at Tunduma.
TCRA's count for the quarter ending March 2026 tells you who is at the other end: Vodacom 36.19 million subscriptions, Yas 31.85 million, Airtel Tanzania 23.75 million, Halotel 18.32 million, against 58.9 million internet subscriptions nationally, roughly 99% of them mobile wireless. The largest reaches under a third of the country: no carrier arrangement covers a Tanzanian audience, and being inside Tanzania covers all of them at once.
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
~6 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Tanzania
Kenya
Nairobi
~2 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Kenya
Nigeria
Lagos
~4 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Nigeria
Use cases
Built for what you're building
Web & mobile backends
Managed PostgreSQL or MySQL that scales with you, so your app team never babysits a database.
E-commerce
Read replicas and connection pooling absorb traffic spikes without dropping a single order.
Caching & sessions
Managed Redis with sub-millisecond latency for sessions, queues, and hot data.
Content management
Run WordPress, Drupal, and custom apps on managed MySQL or PostgreSQL, kept patched and backed up.
How it works
From zero to database in three steps
Pick engine & size
Choose your engine, version, and instance size — from Small to XLarge.
Connect
Grab the connection string and connect — private by default, inside your VPC.
We keep it healthy
Backups, patching, failover, and monitoring — all handled, day and night.
Uptime SLA
99.9%
- When hardware fails
- When the region is the risk
- Service credits applied automatically when we miss the SLA
Support
A Tanzanian line, and a clock that already matches yours
Call +255 761 847 121. Tanzania is on East Africa Time all year with no daylight saving, so there is no drift to track and no arithmetic before you dial — business hours mean the same thing in March as in November. A ticket opened at the start of a Dar es Salaam morning lands inside a working day, rather than at the bottom of a queue that wakes up as yours is ending.
That match is worth the most at the moment you can least afford it. Month-end, last Friday, 16:40: the reconciliation job has stalled, the settlement file has not written, and the deadline is Monday. What you want then is an engineer who is awake and at work with your instance ID in front of them — a resize that needs a reboot window, a snapshot restored into a new instance, a routing question, a port that has stopped answering. Not a form, and not a five-hour wait for somebody's morning.
[email protected] takes the commercial half, and it is worth using before you order: your TIN and registered name as the TRA holds them, a purchase-order or grant code the invoice must carry, an annual invoice that fits the budget year. Migration planning and assistance come at no extra charge, from a rack in Frankfurt or from across town. Customer references are available under NDA.
Tanzania
+255 761 847 121Sales
[email protected]Why Lineserve
Managed beats midnight maintenance
Running your own database on a VPS means backups you hope work, manual failovers, and patching at 2 a.m. This is the option where we do all of that for you.
FAQ
Questions, answered
We run the database engine for you — provisioning, backups, patching, monitoring, and failover. You create an instance, get a connection string, and focus on your application.
PostgreSQL 14–16, MySQL 8.0 and 8.1, MongoDB 6.0 and 7.0, Redis 6.2 and 7.0, and MariaDB 10.11 and 11.0 — all with the same managed features.
HA instances replicate across availability zones. If the primary fails, an automatic failover promotes the standby — typically in under 60 seconds, with zero data loss — behind a 99.99% uptime SLA.
Daily automated backups are retained for 35 days with point-in-time recovery to any second in that window. You can also take manual snapshots whenever you like.
Up to five read-only copies of your primary that serve read queries, synced automatically with typically under a second of lag. Use them to scale read-heavy workloads without touching the primary.
Yes. Scale vertically to a larger size within a brief maintenance window, or horizontally by adding read replicas with no downtime at all.
Yes. AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, with platform-managed keys or your own via KMS.
Instances live in a private network with no public access by default. Reach them through security groups and database users, or peer your VPC and connect over VPN from on-premises.
Standard tools work directly — pg_dump and mysqldump for one-shot moves, or logical and binary-log replication for near-zero-downtime migrations. Our team helps plan the move at no charge.
Yes. Your data is hosted in Tanzania and stays in-country, giving you data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act. It isn't moved out of Tanzania without your instruction.
In our Dar es Salaam data centre (tz-1a). Your content is stored and served from Dar es Salaam, close to your users.
Pay in your local currency using M-Pesa and other mobile money, bank transfer, or card. No foreign card or forex conversion is required.
You're billed in TZS. Prices can be viewed in USD, KES, TZS, or NGN, but as a Tanzania customer you pay in TZS with no forex conversion.
Production databases, minus the ops
Managed Databases are launching soon. Talk to us to reserve early access and pricing in your local currency, with no card to start.
Launching soon · 99.99% uptime SLA · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN