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Hosted in Dar es Salaam — tz-1a

VPS Hosting in Tanzania

Linux or Windows, live in 60 seconds, priced in shillings.

A VPS in Dar es Salaam, on NVMe storage, with full root on Linux or administrator rights over RDP on Windows, a dedicated IPv4 and a free /64 IPv6 on every plan. Linux starts at TZS 43,900 a month and Windows at TZS 63,900 with the Server 2022 licence already activated. You are quoted in shillings, invoiced in shillings and you pay in shillings — so the figure finance approved in March is the figure that clears in November, and the machine your customers reach is in the same city most of them are.

Starting atTZS 43,900/month
  • Deploy in under 60 seconds
  • 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Three locally-hosted regions — Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos
  • Data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act — your data stays in-country
  • Free DDoS protection

No credit card required · Local billing in KES, TZS & NGN

Pricing

Linux and Windows plans, billed in your currency

Windows licensing included on every Windows plan. Pay in local currency — no cards, no forex surprises. Annual billing gets you two months free.

S2

Small workloads and personal projects.

TZS 43,900/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos

  • 1 vCPU
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 40 GB SSD
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
Deploy S2

M1

Web servers and small databases.

TZS 84,800/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos

  • 2 vCPU
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 80 GB SSD
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
Deploy M1
Most popular

L1

Production web applications.

TZS 166,600/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos

  • 4 vCPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 160 GB SSD
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
Deploy L1

XL1

High-traffic applications.

TZS 330,200/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos

  • 8 vCPU
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 320 GB SSD
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
Deploy XL1

XXL

Enterprise applications.

TZS 657,400/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos

  • 16 vCPU
  • 32 GB RAM
  • 640 GB SSD
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
Deploy XXL

XXXL

Massive workloads and consolidation.

TZS 1,311,800/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam & Lagos

  • 32 vCPU
  • 64 GB RAM
  • 1280 GB SSD
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
Deploy XXXL

Prices exclude VAT. Local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout. Need more cores or memory? Talk to Sales.

Network

The request that never crosses an ocean

Someone taps your link on a Vodacom handset in Kariakoo. The request reaches a machine in Dar es Salaam. That is the whole journey — there and back, on domestic infrastructure, in a city where both ends of the conversation are having lunch at the same time. Now run the same tap against a VPS in Frankfurt: down the Tanzanian coast, into a subsea cable, up the length of the Red Sea or around the Cape, across the Mediterranean, through a European carrier network, and then the entire distance again with the reply. Repeat for every image, every script, every API call, every database round trip your page makes. Distance is not a rounding error in web performance. It is the largest fixed cost in the whole stack, and it is the one thing no amount of CPU buys back.

Your users are not on one network, either. In the quarter ending March 2026 the TCRA counted Vodacom at 36.19 million subscriptions, Yas at 31.85 million, Airtel Tanzania at 23.75 million, Halotel at 18.32 million and TTCL at 1.80 million — 111.9 million in total, at 159.8% penetration. The biggest of the four holds 32.3%. Whichever of them your customer is on, they are inside Tanzania, and so is tz-1a. That is the argument: not a favoured carrier deal, but an origin that is domestic to all of them at once.

Traffic between Tanzanian networks is exchanged in Dar es Salaam, at TIX. The Tanzania Internet eXchange has run since 2003 as a project of TISPA, the Tanzanian ISP association. PeeringDB lists 32 networks, 33 connections and 798G of connected capacity there, at roughly 90% IPv6 — with Akamai at 200G, Meta and TTCL at 100G each, Cloudflare at 30G. Peering costs nothing: no port fee, no cross-connect fee, no membership fee. Five further TISPA exchanges cover Arusha, Dodoma, Mbeya, Mwanza and Zanzibar, and TISPA puts aggregate traffic across them above 100 Gbps.

Upcountry, the National ICT Broadband Backbone does the rest. It is government fibre managed by TTCL — 13,820 km laid of a 16,280 km target as of FY2024/25, with TZS 73 billion allocated to extend it in FY2025/26 — reaching every region of Tanzania and crossing into Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. A single VPS in Dar es Salaam therefore serves Mwanza, Arusha, Dodoma, Mbeya and the border corridors over domestic fibre. International capacity lands in the same city: SEACOM, EASSy and SEAS come ashore at Dar es Salaam, and Dar es Salaam is a named landing point on 2Africa. Everything your traffic needs arrives in the city your server is in.

111.9M

Telecom subscriptions in Tanzania (TCRA, Q1 2026)

58.9M

Internet subscriptions — 84.2% penetration (TCRA, Q1 2026)

798G

Capacity connected at TIX, Dar es Salaam (PeeringDB)

13,820 km

National backbone fibre laid (NICTBB, FY2024/25)

Build for a phone on mobile data

Mobile wireless is roughly 99% of Tanzanian internet connections — 34.3 million mobile broadband subscriptions — with smartphone penetration at 42.5% and 4G covering 94.2% of the population. The person waiting on your login screen is on a mid-range Android on a cell. Server location, page weight and time-to-first-byte are the three things you control, and hosting in Dar es Salaam is the one that takes an afternoon.

Enterprise carriers are here too

SimbaNET, Habari Node and Liquid Intelligent Technologies sell enterprise connectivity into Tanzanian businesses, alongside TTCL's national backbone and the business divisions of all four mobile operators. If your customers are offices in Dar es Salaam rather than handsets, they are still reaching you across Tanzanian networks — and still reaching a server on the same side of the ocean.

Where the CDN is not

The published African edge locations of the large content networks sit in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos and Mombasa. Tanzania has none. A cache in Mombasa or Nairobi is a foreign hop for a Dar es Salaam user, which is exactly the gap a Dar es Salaam origin fills.

Payments

Pay the way Tanzania pays

Tanzanian mobile money is a genuine four-way market, and a page that assumes a single wallet is describing somewhere else. TCRA's March 2026 count puts M-Pesa — operated here by Vodacom Tanzania, a separate company under a separate regulator from the Kenyan product of the same name — at 40.97% of registered accounts, Mixx by Yas at 31.02%, Airtel Money at 17.79%, with HaloPesa taking most of the remainder: 80.98 million accounts and 1.99 billion transactions in one quarter. Behind them the Bank of Tanzania runs TIPS, the instant payment system that connects banks, wallets and licensed providers and moved US$11.6 billion in 2024. This is a country where money settles instantly and settles in shillings. So does your VPS bill.

M-Pesa

Pay with M-Pesa in shillings. TZS 43,900 on the pricing card is TZS 43,900 on the invoice: nothing converts, no international transaction appears on your statement, and your bank adds no foreign-transaction fee. VAT at 18% is calculated and shown at checkout.

Bank transfer

The rail a Tanzanian business buyer actually reaches for on anything sizeable. An XXL plan at TZS 657,400 a month, or a year taken up front at ten months for twelve, is a transfer rather than a wallet payment — and it lands with a reference your accounts team can reconcile.

Card

Visa and Mastercard are accepted, in shillings. Tanzanian card use runs heavily through ATMs rather than online checkouts, so the card is here for the finance teams that prefer one — not because it is what this market is expected to use.

Pick your OS

Same servers, your operating system

Every plan runs on the same NVMe-backed platform — choose the operating system that fits your stack, or dig into the dedicated page for each.

Linux VPS

Full root and SSH from first boot, with free images kept current — for web servers, containers, databases, and everything open source.

  • Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky, AlmaLinux & Fedora
  • Cloud-init ready on deploy
  • Images free on every plan
Explore Linux VPS

Windows VPS

A licensed, activated Windows Server with full administrator rights over RDP — for .NET applications, SQL Server, and trading platforms.

  • Windows Server 2022 license included
  • Full admin rights over RDP
  • Sized for SQL Server workloads
Explore Windows VPS

Trading forex? There's a dedicated Forex VPS page for MT4, MT5 & trading bots.

What's included

Everything on every plan

No feature tiers, no upsell traps. Every VPS ships with the full stack — you only choose the operating system and how much compute you need.

NVMe SSD storage

Enterprise NVMe drives for fast boot, quick builds, and low-latency databases.

Live in 60 seconds

Your server provisions and comes online in under a minute, Linux or Windows.

Full root or admin

Complete root access with SSH on Linux, full administrator rights over RDP on Windows.

Dedicated IPv4 & free IPv6

One dedicated public IPv4 plus a free /64 IPv6 block on every plan.

1 Gbps networking

Fast ports with unlimited local traffic — serve your region without metering anxiety.

Free DDoS protection

Always-on network-layer mitigation included on every plan at no extra cost.

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.

API & CLI

Automate everything through a clean API and command-line tool. Infrastructure as code, natively.

Tax & invoicing

What a Dar es Salaam finance team needs from a hosting invoice

This is the part an overseas provider cannot help you with. Mainland VAT is 18%, administered by the Tanzania Revenue Authority, and it applies to digital and electronic services; Zanzibar administers its own VAT on digital services through the Zanzibar Revenue Authority. Prices here exclude VAT and the tax is calculated and shown separately at checkout, so a plan at TZS 166,600 is TZS 166,600 of infrastructure spend in your forecast, with the tax on its own line where your accountant expects it.

Then the mechanics. Tanzania is unusually exact about what a claimable receipt looks like: mainland suppliers turning over TZS 14 million or more issue receipts through an Electronic Fiscal Device, and under EFD protocol 2.1 every invoice carries a verification code — no code, no acceptance by the EFD Management System, no input tax. A VAT-registered buyer therefore keeps a checklist, and it is the same checklist whoever the supplier is: our registered name and identifiers, your own TIN, a unique invoice number, the service and the period, the taxable value, and the VAT stated separately. Bring that checklist to the order rather than to the year-end.

Ask before you order, not at year end

Send [email protected] your TIN, your registered name exactly as the TRA holds it, and any purchase-order reference your system needs, and it is on the invoice from the first billing run. If you are buying against a grant line, ask for the annual invoice at the same time: ten months for twelve, one approval, one payment, one document for the file.

Withholding, for the CFO who asks first

A Tanzanian business paying a non-resident for services withholds 15% of the gross consideration unless a double tax agreement reduces it, and since the 2016 amendment that applies irrespective of where the service is performed. There is also a 2% digital service tax on gross payments to non-resident providers inside the electronic-services rules. Your tax adviser will want to place your particular purchase against both; ask sales for whatever paperwork that conversation needs.

Prices on this page exclude VAT. Talk to [email protected] about invoicing requirements before you order — it is a five-minute conversation at the start and an awkward one in April.

Data residency

In Tanzania, taking data out needs a permit first

Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act, 2022 — Chapter 44 — has been in force since 1 May 2023, and the Personal Data Protection Commission has been fully operational since 3 April 2024. Controllers and processors alike register with the Commission before processing, five years at a time; the deadline for entities already trading expired on 30 April 2025.

The clause that decides where your VPS lives is the cross-border one. Personal data leaves Tanzania on a permit from the Commission, supported either by adequacy in the destination country or by safeguards evidenced in an international agreement, a bilateral agreement or contractual provisions. The Regulation 20 application asks for the applicant and the recipient, the data subjects, the categories of personal data, the purpose and duration of the transfer, the destination country and entity, and the security arrangements there. The Commission may approve, ask for more, or refuse — and it monitors the conditions afterwards.

That is prior authorisation, which is a different animal from a self-assessment. It is the difference between a task you can finish on your own timetable and one that finishes when a regulator says so. Host your application in tz-1a and your data is held in Dar es Salaam, under Tanzanian law, where your regulator can see it — and the transfer question simply does not arise for it. Data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act is what the region supplies. The controller obligations stay yours, and they are lighter when the data never left.

The penalties are published

Administrative penalties under the Act run to TZS 100,000,000, and criminal fines reach TZS 5,000,000,000 for corporations. A regime that publishes numbers like those is a regime whose questions get asked in due diligence, in donor audits and in bank onboarding.

A second region is a decision, not a default

Nairobi and Lagos are one API call away and excellent for standby, backups and redundancy. Just make the call deliberately: putting personal data about Tanzanians into ke-1a or ng-1a is a transfer out of Tanzania, and that is the permit conversation above. Plenty of workloads — application images, logs without personal data, static assets — carry no such issue.

Who runs here

What Tanzanian teams run on a VPS in Dar es Salaam

NGOs and donor programmes

The heaviest single segment in the Tanzanian buyer mix — TANGO alone counts over 485 member organisations, and the large international programmes run country operations from Dar es Salaam. DHIS2 and other health and M&E platforms, KoBoToolbox and ODK form servers collecting submissions from field teams on mobile data, file sync for staff who go offline upcountry for days, donor reporting dashboards, ERPNext or Odoo for grant accounting. An M&E server usually lands in the TZS 84,800 to TZS 166,600 band, and annual billing lines up with the grant year instead of cutting across it.

Ports, transit and freight forwarding

Dar es Salaam is the transit gateway for six land-linked countries, and the Standard Gauge Railway is reshaping inland movement. Transport management and freight-forwarding systems, customs and TANCIS integration middleware, GPS and telematics ingest from truck fleets, EDI, container tracking portals refreshed all day by clients and drivers. Telematics is a steady, unglamorous stream of small writes — which is exactly the workload that hates a long path and loves unlimited local traffic.

ISPs, WISPs and network operators

RADIUS and AAA, recursive resolvers and authoritative zones, mail relays, billing and provisioning portals, NetFlow collectors, Zabbix and LibreNMS, looking-glass and speed-test endpoints. These workloads are meaningless outside the country they serve, and the buyers running them will check where your machine is with a traceroute before they read a word of this. Small instances, several of them, from TZS 43,900 each.

Mining and its contractors

Gold exports reached USD 4,968.4 million in 2025, up around 35.8%, and the hosting buyer is very often the service contractor rather than the mine. Site-to-cloud aggregation from remote operations on thin links, geological and survey data stores, contractor and HSE compliance systems, procurement portals. A Dar es Salaam origin keeps the upload path domestic all the way from the site.

Tourism and hospitality

2.29 million international arrivals and USD 3.9 billion in travel receipts in 2025, with Arusha and Zanzibar as the operational centres. Booking engines, channel managers, property management integrations, safari operator CRMs, itinerary and payment pages. The guests are mostly overseas, so the right shape is an origin in Dar es Salaam with a CDN in front — and the staff, the rates and the reservations desk, which touch the system all day, are local.

Financial services and fintech

Agent-banking backends, USSD gateways, KYC document stores, reconciliation and settlement jobs against TIPS, reporting into the Bank of Tanzania. Sensitive data, audited invoices and a regulator who may ask where the records are held — this segment cares about every block on this page simultaneously.

Agencies, ISVs and resellers

Dar es Salaam holds 66.5% of Tanzanian startups, clustered on the Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road corridor. Multi-tenant client hosting, staging environments, CyberPanel or Plesk stacks, Git-based deploys, client mail. They buy every quarter, resell onward, and grow by adding instances rather than by changing supplier.

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.

Live

Tanzania

Dar es Salaam

~6 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Tanzania

Live

Kenya

Nairobi

~2 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Kenya

Live

Nigeria

Lagos

~4 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Nigeria

Expansion zonesUganda · ug-1aSouth Africa · za-1aGhana · gh-1a

Migrating

Moving your VPS to Dar es Salaam

From an overseas provider

The move itself is routine: provision, rsync, dump and restore the database, run both for a day, cut the DNS. What changes afterwards is bigger than the server. Your users stop paying an ocean crossing on every request. Your bill stops moving with the exchange rate and the card issuer's margin, and becomes one shilling figure you can forecast for twelve months in a country running 3.6% inflation. Your invoice starts speaking the language your finance system files in. And when something breaks at 02:00, you are calling +255 761 847 121 rather than emailing a queue eight time zones away.

From a Tanzania-branded product hosted elsewhere

Several products marketed for this country are served from Johannesburg or Europe with a Tanzanian name on the tin. That is a legitimate way to sell hosting, and it is your job to know which one you have bought, because it decides how far your customers' packets travel and which country's law your data sits under. There is one question that settles it: which building is the machine in, and in which country is that building? For a Lineserve VPS the answer is tz-1a, Dar es Salaam. Ask the same question everywhere else you are quoted.

From another Tanzanian host, the reason to move is never the location — they have it too. It is the product underneath: an API and CLI instead of a control panel, snapshots and scheduled backups, private networking, live resize up to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM, a published 99.9% SLA with service credits, and object storage, dedicated hardware and two more regions on the same account.

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

FAQ

Questions, answered

Every plan — Linux or Windows — ships with NVMe SSD storage, 1 Gbps networking with unlimited local traffic, one dedicated public IPv4 address, and a free /64 IPv6 block. No feature tiers: you only choose how much compute you need.

Pick Linux for web servers, containers, databases, and anything built on open-source tooling — images are free and you get full root with SSH. Pick Windows for .NET applications, RDP desktops, SQL Server, and trading platforms — every Windows plan includes a licensed, activated Windows Server.

Yes. Windows plans include a fully licensed, activated Windows Server 2022 Standard, provided under a Services Provider License Agreement. There's nothing to bring or key in — the price you see is the full price.

Yes. Linux plans give you full root access with SSH key authentication; Windows plans give you full administrator rights over RDP. It's your server to configure however you like.

They're the same platform. VPS plans are ready-sized bundles at a fixed monthly price; the Cloud Server page lets you build a custom machine priced per vCPU, GB, and SSD. Pick whichever entry point suits you.

Yes. Resize to a larger plan as your workload grows, with minimal downtime — and you can move up the range from the smallest plan to 32 vCPUs and 64 GB of RAM without migrating providers.

Under 60 seconds for both operating systems. Linux servers run any cloud-init user data you provide; Windows servers come activated and ready for RDP.

In tz-1a, our Dar es Salaam region. The instance and its storage are created there and stay there unless you move them yourself.

Linux plans run from TZS 43,900 a month (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD) through TZS 84,800, TZS 166,600, TZS 330,200 and TZS 657,400 to TZS 1,311,800 for 32 vCPU and 64 GB. Windows plans run from TZS 63,900 to TZS 1,471,800 with the Windows Server 2022 Standard licence included. Prices exclude VAT, and annual billing is ten months for twelve.

TZS. Prices can be viewed in USD, KES, TZS or NGN, but as a Tanzanian customer you are quoted, invoiced and settled in shillings — no conversion, no card-issuer FX margin, no foreign transaction on the statement.

Yes. M-Pesa is a supported method for Tanzanian customers, alongside bank transfer and card, and everything is billed in TZS. M-Pesa in Tanzania is operated by Vodacom Tanzania, which is a separate deployment from the Kenyan one with its own merchant products.

No. Displayed prices exclude VAT. Mainland VAT on digital and electronic services is 18%, administered by the Tanzania Revenue Authority, and it is calculated and shown separately at checkout.

Send [email protected] your TIN and your registered name as the TRA holds it before you order, along with any purchase-order reference, and it appears on the invoice from the first billing run. Tanzanian input-VAT recovery turns on the receipt carrying the right identifiers and a verification code under EFD protocol 2.1, so it is worth five minutes up front.

Faster than the same site in Europe, for the reason that decides most of it: the request has a Tanzanian origin and a Tanzanian destination, with no ocean in between. All four networks are inside Tanzania and so is tz-1a.

They reach Dar es Salaam over the National ICT Broadband Backbone — 13,820 km of state fibre reaching every region — rather than over an international path. That is why one origin in Dar es Salaam covers upcountry Tanzania without a second region.

Both, at the same click. Linux gives you root and SSH from first boot on current Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky, AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream and Fedora images, cloud-init ready, and the images cost nothing. Windows gives you full administrator rights over RDP on a licensed, activated Windows Server 2022 Standard, sized for SQL Server and .NET. Both provision in under 60 seconds.

Yes. vCPU, RAM and storage each resize independently up to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM, with minimal downtime and no change of provider. Size for what you have and grow into the traffic.

NVMe storage, a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, one dedicated public IPv4 and a free /64 IPv6, always-on DDoS mitigation, on-demand snapshots and scheduled backups, private networking between your instances, a browser console, and a full API and CLI. There are no feature tiers — you choose the operating system and the size, and nothing else is gated.

Yes. Data in tz-1a is held in Dar es Salaam and is not moved out of the country without your instruction, which gives you data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act.

Not for data that stays in Tanzania — the Commission's permit regime governs transfers out of the country, and that question does not arise for data held in Dar es Salaam. Your own obligations as a controller, including registration, are unchanged.

Yes, on the same account and API. Treat personal data carefully when you do: a copy in ke-1a or ng-1a is a transfer out of Tanzania under the PDPA. Backups of non-personal data, application images and static assets raise no such question.

Yes. A domain registered with any .tz registrar points at a Lineserve instance like any other — set the A and AAAA records and you are live.

Yes: +255 761 847 121, alongside [email protected] and the ticket system. Tanzania is on East Africa Time year-round with no daylight saving, so business hours mean one thing all year.

Deploy your VPS in under 60 seconds

Linux or Windows, 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