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Windows Server 2025 in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam or Lagos

Windows Server 2025 VPS Hosting in Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria

Stand it up this quarter and it is still supported in 2034.

Windows Server 2025 Standard is licensed here at $3 per vCPU per month on a four-core minimum — $12 — which is why the 2 GB Windows plan is $33.95 against $31.95 on 2022. What the difference buys is roughly three more years of support, to October 2034, the newest hardening in the family, and SMB over QUIC in Standard edition. Pre-activated with RDP and full administrator rights, in ke-1a in Nairobi, tz-1a in Dar es Salaam or ng-1a in Lagos.

Starting at$33.95/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.

$33.95/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 2025 license included
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Windows VPS – 4 GB RAM

Windows Server for production apps.

$54.40/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 2025 license included
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Windows VPS – 8 GB RAM

Windows Server for high-traffic apps.

$95.30/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 2025 license included
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Windows VPS – 16 GB RAM

Windows Server for enterprise apps.

$189.10/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 2025 license included
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Windows VPS – 32 GB RAM

Windows Server for large-scale apps.

$376.70/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 2025 license included
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Windows VPS – 64 GB RAM

Windows Server at maximum scale.

$751.90/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 2025 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 2025

Why Windows Server 2025

For new deployments built to last: Server 2025 carries Microsoft's newest security work and the longest support horizon of any version we offer — a server you won't have to re-platform this decade.

  • The longest runway — Microsoft extended support to October 2034.
  • Newest security hardening and protocol improvements in the family.
  • SMB over QUIC in Standard edition for secure file access without a VPN.
  • Licensed and activated under SPLA — nothing to bring or key in.

Windows Server 2025 images

Updated regularly

2025 StandardExtended support to Oct 2034
Custom ISO upload supported on all plans.

Use cases

What people run on Windows Server 2025

New long-lived deployments

Green-field servers you want supported into the 2030s without re-platforming.

Security-sensitive workloads

The newest hardening in the Windows Server family, current from day one.

Modern .NET applications

Current .NET and IIS stacks on Microsoft's latest server platform.

SMB over QUIC file access

Serve files securely over the internet without standing up a VPN.

SQL Server 2022+

Pair the newest database releases with the newest OS — licensing quoted separately.

Future-proof AD & infrastructure

Directory and infrastructure services on the version with the longest horizon.

Who runs here

What 2025 is for when the deployment is in another country

A market entry you do not want to re-platform

The first Windows machine in a new country tends to acquire everything else: the file share, the reporting job, the integration nobody documented. Deploying it on the version with the longest runway means the re-platform conversation happens after the market has proven itself rather than in the middle of proving it.

SMB over QUIC between head office and the country office

File access over the internet without standing up a site-to-site VPN first — which matters most when the office is thousands of kilometres from the network team who would have to build and maintain one. The share stays in ke-1a, tz-1a or ng-1a; the people reaching it can be anywhere.

Directory and infrastructure services for a new country operation

Domain controllers, DNS, DHCP, print and certificate services standing up an operation from nothing. These are the services that quietly become load-bearing, so a decade of support underneath them is worth $2 per vCPU a month.

Current .NET and SQL Server, green-field

A new application stack with no legacy to accommodate, on the newest platform its components were built against. The 8 GB Windows plan is $95.30 and the 16 GB Windows plan $189.10, on NVMe, resizing to 32 vCPU and 64 GB in place. SQL Server licensing is quoted separately from the Windows licence.

Security-sensitive back office

Reconciliation, settlement and regulatory reporting desktops carrying extracts nobody would want copied. The newest hardening and protocol defaults from day one, on a volume that stays in the country the records belong to.

Consolidating three ageing branch machines

Three towers under three desks in three countries, each on hardware nobody has budgeted to replace, each on a power supply the branch does not control. One licensed instance per country replaces them from a single build, with snapshots, scheduled backups and a 99.9% uptime SLA underneath.

Windows Server 2025 plans run from 2 GB Windows plan at $33.95/month to 64 GB Windows plan at $751.90 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 2025 Standard under our SPLA. The price you see is the full price — nothing to bring or key in.

Yes — it's Microsoft's current generally available server OS, released in late 2024, and it's what we recommend for new deployments that should outlive the older versions' support windows.

The newest licence carries the highest rate, so each plan runs $2–$16/month above the same plan on Server 2022. In exchange you get the newest platform and roughly three extra years of support.

Microsoft supports Windows Server 2025 with extended support to October 2034 — the longest runway of any version we offer.

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.

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

$3 per vCPU per month on a minimum of four cores, so $12 a month on any plan up to four vCPU. Against the Linux list that is the whole difference: the 2 GB plan is $21.95 and the 2 GB Windows plan is $33.95. At thirty-two cores it is 32 × $3, which is the gap between $655.90 and $751.90.

At the four-core minimum it is $2 a month — $12 against $10 — for about three additional years of support, to October 2034 rather than October 2031. On a machine you expect to keep, that is the cheapest way to buy a re-platform you never have to schedule. On a machine that retires with the application it hosts, it is not worth anything.

Yes — it is Microsoft's current generally available server release, and it is what makes sense for new deployments that should outlive the older versions' support windows. Where a vendor's support matrix has not caught up yet, 2022 is the safer landing spot until it does.

It lets staff reach a file share over the internet without a VPN in front of it, which removes the piece of infrastructure a small office is least equipped to run and a distant network team is least keen to support. The share itself still lives on an instance in that country, so the files stay where the office is.

Changing version is a fresh build rather than an in-place upgrade: new instance, install, copy, cut over. Both versions sit on the same account and in the same three regions, so you can run them side by side for as long as testing takes and keep the old one until the day you do not need it.

The country the users and the records are in — Kenyan in ke-1a, Tanzanian in tz-1a, Nigerian in ng-1a. Per-unit prices are identical across the three, and a regional group with staff in more than one country almost always ends up with an instance per country rather than one shared machine.

You are quoted, invoiced and settled in USD by card or bank transfer, licence included, with annual billing at ten months for twelve on eligible plans. The contract is with LINESERVE, INC., registered in Dover, Delaware; what is in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Lagos is the infrastructure. Switch to a local market and the same plan prices in KES, TZS or NGN.

Yes. The desktop, the shares, the exports, the mail archive, the local backups and the database alike are created in that region's city and are not moved out without your instruction — data residency for Kenya's Data Protection Act, Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act or Nigeria's Data Protection Act, depending on the region.

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 2025 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