Load Balancers — hosted in Dar es Salaam
Coming soonLoad Balancers
One IP in front, healthy servers behind.
Distribute HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and UDP traffic across your servers with smart health checks, SSL termination and automatic failover — at a flat monthly price with no per-request charges.
- HTTP, HTTPS, TCP & UDP
- SSL termination with auto-renewal
- 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, no per-request fees
Pick a size for your traffic. Data transfer between the load balancer and same-region backends is unlimited and included. In your currency, no forex.
Small
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 10,000 concurrent connections
- 250 Mbps throughput
- Up to 20 backends
- Basic health checks
- Unlimited same-region transfer
Medium
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 50,000 concurrent connections
- 1 Gbps throughput
- Up to 50 backends
- Advanced health checks
- Unlimited same-region transfer
Large
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 100,000 concurrent connections
- 2.5 Gbps throughput
- Up to 100 backends
- Health checks with SSL verification
- Unlimited same-region transfer
Enterprise
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
- 250,000+ concurrent connections
- 5+ Gbps throughput
- Unlimited backends
- Custom-script health checks
- Unlimited same-region transfer
Flat monthly pricing with no hidden fees and no per-request charges. Upgrade or downgrade tiers anytime with zero downtime. Prices exclude VAT; local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout.
The platform
Everything between your users and your servers
Termination, health checks, persistence, and protection — handled at the edge of your stack so your backends just serve.
Automatic failover
Failing backends drop out of the pool instantly and traffic reroutes to healthy servers — no manual intervention.
Smart health checks
Probe backends over HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, or ICMP with custom intervals, timeouts, and recovery thresholds.
SSL/TLS termination
TLS 1.2 and 1.3 with SNI for multiple certificates, automatic renewal, and encryption offloaded from your backends.
Four balancing algorithms
Round Robin, Least Connections, Source IP Hash, and Weighted Round Robin — match the algorithm to the workload.
Session persistence
Cookie-based or source-IP sticky sessions keep stateful clients pinned to the same backend.
DDoS protection built in
Rate limiting and connection throttling at the balancer, before traffic ever reaches your servers.
IPv4 & IPv6
Full dual-stack support on every load balancer, at every tier.
Real-time monitoring
Live traffic, connection counts, backend health, and access logs with request-level detail.
API & Terraform
Create and manage balancers from a REST API or the Terraform provider — wired into your CI/CD.
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 applications
Spread HTTP and HTTPS traffic across your web servers for high volume with zero downtime.
APIs & microservices
A single entry point routing requests across API instances and containerized services.
Database read scaling
Balance read queries across replicas while writes go straight to the primary.
Gaming & streaming
Low-latency TCP and UDP balancing for player connections and high-bandwidth media.
How it works
In front of your traffic in three steps
Create a load balancer
Pick a region and a size tier — live in under 60 seconds from the console or API.
Add backends & health checks
Point it at your servers, choose an algorithm, and set the health check that fits.
Point your DNS at it
One record change and traffic flows through — failover and monitoring are already on.
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
+255 761 847 121
Sales
Why Lineserve
Managed beats maintaining your own proxy
Running NGINX or HAProxy on a VPS means one more machine to patch, monitor, certify, and fail over — and it's usually the single point of failure in front of everything else.
FAQ
Questions, answered
It sits in front of your servers on a single IP and distributes incoming traffic across them. If a backend fails, traffic reroutes to healthy servers automatically — better availability, better performance, no single point of failure.
A flat monthly rate per size tier — Small, Medium, Large, or Enterprise. Data transfer between the load balancer and backends in the same region is unlimited and included. No per-request charges, no hidden fees.
Yes. Backends can be Lineserve Cloud Servers, VPS, dedicated servers, Kubernetes nodes — or servers hosted anywhere else, as long as the load balancer can reach them over the network.
Upload certificates to the load balancer and it terminates SSL/TLS for you, offloading encryption from your backends. TLS 1.2 and 1.3 are supported, with SNI for serving multiple certificates from one load balancer and automatic renewal.
The load balancer probes each backend over HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, or ICMP on an interval you set. Servers that fail their threshold are removed from the pool automatically and re-added once they recover.
Sticky sessions route a returning client to the same backend — essential for apps that keep session state locally. Choose cookie-based or source-IP persistence per load balancer.
Round Robin for evenly matched servers, Least Connections for long-lived connections, Source IP Hash to pin clients to a server, and Weighted Round Robin to send more traffic to bigger machines.
Yes. Upgrade or downgrade anytime with zero downtime — your configuration, certificates, and backend pools carry over unchanged.
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.
Put a load balancer in front of it — soon
Load Balancers 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