Lineserve provides cloud infrastructure with data center regions located inside Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria, enabling businesses to deploy workloads in the country where their customers or regulators require. The platform offers cloud servers, VPS, and dedicated machines on a single account with one API and unified USD billing, with local currency payment options. It addresses the gap left by hyperscalers that lack regions in these countries, with typical round-trip latency of 5 ms within major cities.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data & Analytics
- Financial Technology
- Regulatory & Compliance Technology
- Software Only
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Problem
Businesses serving customers in East and West Africa are forced to host their infrastructure in distant regions like South Africa, Europe, or the US, because no major hyperscaler operates a cloud region in Kenya, Tanzania, or Nigeria. This geographic distance increases latency, complicates compliance with local data-residency regulations, and makes it difficult to meet regulatory deadlines such as Nigeria's Central Bank directive requiring payment data to be stored in-country by January 2027.
Solution
Lineserve operates three cloud regions — ke-1a in Nairobi, tz-1a in Dar es Salaam, and ng-1a in Lagos — each physically located inside the country it serves. The platform provides compute, storage, and dedicated servers through a single account, one API, and one consolidated invoice in US dollars, with optional local billing in KES, TZS, or NGN. This setup allows developers to select a deployment country as simply as choosing a field on a form, while keeping existing providers for other workloads. Every service includes a 99.9% uptime SLA and free DDoS protection, and data is held within the country where it is deployed.
Target Audience
Primary customers are software companies, fintechs, and enterprises serving users in Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria that need low-latency, in-country hosting to meet performance expectations and regulatory data-residency requirements.
Features
- Three in-country regions: Nairobi (ke-1a), Dar es Salaam (tz-1a), and Lagos (ng-1a), each connected to local internet exchanges like TIX and IXPN
- Cloud servers starting at $13.89/month, Linux VPS at $21.95/month, Windows VPS at $31.95/month with license included, and dedicated LineServe Core 1 at $309/month
- Unified billing in USD via card or bank transfer, with an option to pay locally in KES, TZS, or NGN
- Single API and CLI for managing resources across all three regions, documented in a comprehensive developer portal
- Free DDoS protection and 99.9% uptime SLA on every service, with typical round-trip latency of ~5 ms within Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos, and Kampala
- Data residency compliance: workloads are stored in the country of deployment, supporting regulated industries and meeting local data-protection requirements