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Windows Server 2022 in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam or Lagos

Windows Server 2022 VPS Hosting in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria

One build, three countries, supported to October 2031.

Windows Server 2022 Standard is the version most current Windows software is certified against first, and the one regional groups standardise their image on. It is licensed here at $2.50 per vCPU per month on a four-core minimum — $10 — so the 2 GB Windows plan is $31.95 and the 8 GB Windows plan $93.30, pre-activated with RDP and full administrator rights. Build it once, then deploy that build into ke-1a in Nairobi, tz-1a in Dar es Salaam or ng-1a in Lagos, on one account and one invoice.

Starting at$31.95/month
  • Deploy in under 60 seconds
  • 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Four locally-hosted regions — Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
  • Data sovereignty — your data stays in-country
  • Free DDoS protection

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

Pricing

Simple plans, billed in your currency

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

Windows VPS – 2 GB RAM

Windows Server for web applications.

$31.95/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 1 vCPU
  • 2 GB RAM
  • 40 GB NVMe
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
  • Windows Server 2022 license included
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Windows VPS – 4 GB RAM

Windows Server for production apps.

$52.40/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 2 vCPU
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 80 GB NVMe
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
  • Windows Server 2022 license included
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Windows VPS – 8 GB RAM

Windows Server for high-traffic apps.

$93.30/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 4 vCPU
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 160 GB NVMe
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
  • Windows Server 2022 license included
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Windows VPS – 16 GB RAM

Windows Server for enterprise apps.

$185.10/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 8 vCPU
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 320 GB NVMe
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
  • Windows Server 2022 license included
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Windows VPS – 32 GB RAM

Windows Server for large-scale apps.

$368.70/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 16 vCPU
  • 32 GB RAM
  • 640 GB NVMe
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
  • Windows Server 2022 license included
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Windows VPS – 64 GB RAM

Windows Server at maximum scale.

$735.90/mo

Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala

  • 32 vCPU
  • 64 GB RAM
  • 1280 GB NVMe
  • 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
  • 1 dedicated IPv4
  • /64 IPv6 included
  • Windows Server 2022 license included
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Prices exclude VAT. Local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout. Need a custom configuration? Talk to Sales.

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Why Windows Server 2022

Why Windows Server 2022

Server 2022 is the sweet spot: years of production maturity, modern security hardening, and support running into the next decade — the default choice unless you have a reason otherwise.

  • The version most current Windows software targets and vendors certify first.
  • Modern security baseline — TLS 1.3 by default and hardened protocols.
  • Licensed and activated under SPLA — nothing to bring or key in.
  • Microsoft extended support runs to October 2031.

Windows Server 2022 images

Updated regularly

2022 StandardExtended support to Oct 2031
Custom ISO upload supported on all plans.

Use cases

What people run on Windows Server 2022

.NET & IIS applications

Current ASP.NET and IIS workloads on the platform they're built for today.

SQL Server workloads

NVMe-backed database hosting sized for SQL Server — licensing quoted separately.

Trading platforms

MT4/MT5 and broker terminals running 24/7 with a dedicated IPv4.

Line-of-business apps

The version modern vendor support matrices list first.

Remote work & admin

An always-on Windows desktop over RDP with full administrator rights.

File & application servers

Dependable SMB shares and app servers on a hardened, current base.

Who runs here

What a standard 2022 build ends up doing in these three countries

The same image, deployed three times

A group operating in more than one of these countries usually wants one build — same hardening, same agents, same group policy, same version — and one instance of it per country. That is the arrangement this page exists for: identical machines, three cities, one console, one API token, one monthly invoice.

RDP for staff who work in the country

A grid that redraws when you scroll it, a dialog that paints before you can click it, a lookup that completes while you type. Thousands of round trips between 08:00 and 17:00, and each one crosses whatever distance you chose. Put the instance in the city the staff are in and the whole day happens between two points in that city.

Current .NET and IIS applications in-country

ASP.NET Core and IIS workloads answering domestic traffic, including endpoints that receive callbacks originating inside the country. Administrator rights are the point: your runtime versions, your app pools, your restart schedule.

SQL Server for the stack you run today

The database behind the ERP, the reporting instance analysts hammer at month end, agent jobs rebuilding indexes at 02:00 on East Africa Time. The 8 GB Windows plan at $93.30 or the 16 GB Windows plan at $185.10, on NVMe, resizing to 32 vCPU and 64 GB without changing supplier. SQL Server licensing is quoted separately from the Windows licence.

Off a shared regional desktop on another continent

One Windows environment in Frankfurt or Virginia that everybody remotes into, including the people furthest from it. The fix is rarely to abandon it — it is to give each country its own instance from the same build and leave the rest where it is.

Vendor applications certified on 2022 first

Line-of-business software whose support matrix lists 2022 at the top, deployed into the market its users are in. If it installs on a Windows machine in your own building it installs here, and the entitlements for everything above the operating system stay in your name.

Windows Server 2022 plans run from 2 GB Windows plan at $31.95/month to 64 GB Windows plan at $735.90 for 32 vCPU, 64 GB of RAM and 1,280 GB of NVMe, licence included at every size. Prices exclude VAT.

Regions

Nairobi, Dar es Salaam or Lagos — and what decides it

The rule is unglamorous and it holds nearly everywhere: put the workload in the country whose users and whose records it serves. Per-unit prices are identical in all three regions, so the decision is geography and law rather than cost — and there is no useful midpoint, because traffic between the three cities is still commonly carried through Europe.

ke-1a is for Kenyan users and Kenyan records, and for regional teams whose head office is already in Nairobi. Every Kenyan subsea cable — TEAMS, SEACOM, EASSy, LION2, DARE1 and PEACE — comes ashore at Mombasa, and that capacity is carried roughly 480 km inland to the city where the carriers and the customers are. Domestic traffic never makes that trip: it is exchanged inside Nairobi at KIXP, the neutral exchange TESPOK has run since 2002, with 136 peer networks and 2.9 Tbps of connected capacity. Lineserve peers there.

tz-1a is for Tanzanian users, and it is where moving an origin changes the most: Tanzania has no content-delivery edge of its own, so a Dar es Salaam viewer is served from another country however the CDN is configured. There is no inland haul either — SEACOM, EASSy and SEAS come ashore in the city itself, and Dar es Salaam is a named landing point on 2Africa. Tanzanian networks meet at TIX, run since 2003 by the country's service-provider association, and 13,820 km of state fibre carries one origin on to Mwanza, Arusha and Dodoma.

ng-1a is for scale and for regulated Nigerian workloads. Eight subsea systems land in and around Lagos, among them MainOne, SAT-3, WACS, Equiano and 2Africa, which comes ashore at Lekki. Nigerian networks exchange domestic traffic at IXPN, founded in 2006 to stop domestic packets being hauled to London and now running 13 points of presence across seven states. Lagos also has a date attached: a Central Bank circular directs payment transaction data generated in Nigeria to be stored there from 1 January 2027.

All three give a buyer based elsewhere the same pair of things: a request from a user in the city reaches a machine in that city, typically in single-digit milliseconds, and the records it touches sit under one named country's law.

Live

Kenya

Nairobi

~2 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Kenya

Live

Tanzania

Dar es Salaam

~6 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Tanzania

Live

Nigeria

Lagos

~4 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Nigeria

Live

Uganda

Kampala

~3 ms

typical, within metro · Data stays in Uganda

Expansion zonesSouth Africa · za-1aGhana · gh-1a

Uptime SLA

99.9%

  • Service credits applied automatically when we miss the SLA
  • Measured monthly, per region, on network and power availability
  • Tier III colocation facilities across all live regions

Support

You are on a different continent from your infrastructure

That is the real reservation, and it is answerable with what exists. Architecture, quotes, contracts, a data processing agreement, the registered names and tax identifiers that have to appear on your invoices: [email protected], in writing, in a thread you can forward to your own legal and finance people. Running services are driven from the console, the API and the ticket system on your account. Two phone lines are published for the region — +254 119 039 063 in Kenya and +255 761 847 121 in Tanzania.

Scheduling across the distance is the practical problem, and the arithmetic is friendlier than it looks. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam run on East Africa Time, UTC+3; Lagos on West Africa Time, UTC+1. Neither observes daylight saving, so the gap between your clock and theirs moves only when your own clocks change, and a window agreed in June still means what you thought it meant in December. From London, Nairobi is three hours ahead in winter and two in summer, and Lagos an hour ahead in winter and level in summer. From New York in July, a 09:00 call is 14:00 in Lagos.

Most of what would be a phone call elsewhere is a call you make yourself. Building, resizing, rebooting, snapshotting and rebuilding an instance are API and console operations that behave identically at three in the morning your time or theirs, and a browser console reaches a machine that has lost its own networking. What needs a person in the building is a physical fault — and that person is there already.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Yes. Every plan on this page includes a licensed, activated Windows Server 2022 Standard under our SPLA. The price you see is the full price — nothing to bring or key in.

It balances maturity and runway: years of production hardening, first-line vendor certification, and Microsoft extended support to October 2031. Pick 2019 for older certified software or 2025 for the longest support horizon.

Microsoft's extended support for Windows Server 2022 runs to October 2031, with security updates until then.

Yes. Connect over RDP with full administrator rights from the first boot. It's your server to configure however you like.

Yes. Plans are sized for SQL Server workloads with fast NVMe storage and generous RAM. SQL Server licensing is handled separately from the base Windows licence — talk to sales for a sized quote.

Yes. Resize to a larger plan as your workload grows, with minimal downtime. You can also move to Server 2025 on a fresh instance whenever you're ready.

Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.

Maturity and runway together. It has years of production hardening behind it, vendors certify against it first, and Microsoft's extended support runs to October 2031 — long enough that a machine you deploy for a market entry today will not need re-platforming while that market is still new to you.

$2.50 per vCPU per month on a minimum of four cores, so $10 a month on any plan up to four vCPU. The Linux 2 GB plan is $21.95 and the 2 GB Windows plan is $31.95 — the same machine, the same region, plus the licence. At sixteen cores it is 16 × $2.50, which is the gap between $328.70 and $368.70.

Yes. The region is a field on the instance rather than a separate account, contract or endpoint, so the same image, the same automation and the same token cover Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Lagos. Most groups get to the second country by changing one region code.

One per country, in almost every case. The staff furthest from a shared machine get the worst working day out of it, and the other two countries' personal data is then held outside them — a cross-border transfer before anyone has opened a file, and Tanzania requires a permit from its Commission before personal data leaves. Separate instances cost a little more and remove both.

Like a machine in the building, because for network purposes it is one: in-metro round trips in these cities are typically single-digit milliseconds. Every plan runs on a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, which is what makes the month-end file copies and the backup drag feel ordinary rather than deliberate.

Extended support runs to October 2031. Server 2025 runs to October 2034 for $3 per vCPU per month instead of $2.50 — $12 rather than $10 at the four-core minimum. Server 2019 is cheaper at $8 but ends in January 2029, which is the shorter end of most deployment plans.

You are quoted, invoiced and settled in USD by card or bank transfer, licence included, or you can switch to the Kenya, Tanzania or Nigeria market to settle in KES, TZS or NGN. Displayed prices exclude tax; where VAT applies it is calculated and shown separately at checkout, and the domestic rates differ — Kenya 16%, Tanzania 18% on the mainland, Nigeria 7.5%.

Yes, and on Windows that means the whole volume rather than only a database: the desktop, the documents, the shares, the exports, the mail archive and any local backup. Nothing is moved out of the country without your instruction — data residency for that country's data-protection law.

Your data stays in the region you deploy to. Across our data centres in Nairobi (Kenya), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), and Lagos (Nigeria) it never has to leave the continent — deploy in the country closest to your users and your data is held there.

In whichever of our three regions you choose — Nairobi (ke-1a), Dar es Salaam (tz-1a), or Lagos (ng-1a). Your content is stored and served from that in-country facility.

Pay in USD by card or bank transfer — or switch to our Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria or Uganda market to pay locally in KES, TZS, NGN or UGX with methods like M-Pesa and MTN Mobile Money.

You can view and pay in USD, or switch to a local market to pay in KES (Kenya), TZS (Tanzania), or NGN (Nigeria). You're settled in the currency you choose at checkout.

Deploy your Windows Server 2022 VPS in under 60 seconds

Full root, 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 & UGX