AlmaLinux — deployed in Lagos
AlmaLinux VPS Hosting in Nigeria
The operating system Nigerian hosting runs on.
AlmaLinux 9 in ng-1a: RHEL-compatible, governed by a non-profit foundation rather than a vendor, and one of cPanel's supported operating systems. If your business is other people's websites — an agency with forty client sites, a reseller with a .ng portfolio, a small host with a panel and a support inbox — this is the base almost all of it now runs on. From NGN 21,950 a month, so a client retainer in Naira has a cost line in the same currency.
- AlmaLinux 9 — application-compatible with RHEL 9, free on every plan
- A cPanel-supported OS — bring your own panel licence
- Full root, SSH keys and cloud-init on first boot
- One account, many client instances, one Naira invoice
- Deployed in ng-1a, Lagos — client data stays in Nigeria
No credit card required · Billed in NGN
Pricing
Simple plans, billed in your currency
Pay in local currency — no cards, no forex surprises. Every plan is full root, full network, no throttling. Annual billing gets you two months free.
Linux VPS – 2 GB RAM
Small workloads and personal projects.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 40 GB SSD
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
Linux VPS – 4 GB RAM
Web servers and small databases.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 2 vCPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 80 GB SSD
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
Linux VPS – 8 GB RAM
Production web applications.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 160 GB SSD
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
Linux VPS – 16 GB RAM
High-traffic applications.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 8 vCPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 320 GB SSD
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
Linux VPS – 32 GB RAM
Enterprise applications.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 16 vCPU
- 32 GB RAM
- 640 GB SSD
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
Linux VPS – 64 GB RAM
Massive workloads and consolidation.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 32 vCPU
- 64 GB RAM
- 1280 GB SSD
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
Prices exclude VAT. Local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout. Need more cores or memory? Talk to Sales.
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Paying for a fleet
Many small machines, one Naira account
A hosting business does not buy a server; it buys another server, and then another one in March when a client signs. NIBSS has run instant interbank payment here since 2011 and it is what a Nigerian business uses to pay a supplier — which is what our Nigerian checkout accepts alongside card, both in Naira.
Bank transfer for the fleet
One transfer against one invoice covering every client instance on the account — what your bookkeeper wants, and what a card statement will never give you. It also carries the sizes a card can struggle with: a year taken up front at ten months for twelve, or six machines added in a single month when a contract lands.
Card for the one you need this afternoon
Visa and Mastercard, charged in Naira, for the instance a new client needs before the kick-off call. NGN 21,950 on the plan card is NGN 21,950 on the invoice, with VAT calculated and shown separately at checkout.
Keep the international allowance for what you actually import
Your panel licence is bought abroad. So, probably, are a theme licence, a backup service and two or three tools your team cannot replace locally. A Naira card carries a bank-set cap on international spending — suspended across the major banks between 2022 and 2023, reopened during 2025 with limits that vary by bank and get revised. Every dollar-billed server renews against that cap each month. The servers are the one part of that stack that does not have to.
A price list your client quote can survive
The NGN figures here are set in Naira on our own per-currency price list rather than converted at checkout — which is what lets you quote a Nigerian client a fixed retainer for twelve months and still recognise your margin in month nine.
Displayed prices exclude VAT; 7.5% is calculated at checkout. Talk to [email protected] about annual terms or a single account across a set of client instances.
Why AlmaLinux
Why AlmaLinux on Lineserve
AlmaLinux picked up where CentOS left off: enterprise Linux owned by a non-profit foundation, compatible with RHEL, and the platform web hosts standardised on.
- Compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
- Officially supported by cPanel — the hosting industry's default panel OS.
- Governed by a community non-profit — no single vendor controls it.
- The image is free on every plan — you only pay for the server.
AlmaLinux images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on AlmaLinux
cPanel/WHM hosting
AlmaLinux is a cPanel-supported OS — build your hosting business on it. Panel license sold separately.
CentOS replacements
The other natural successor to CentOS — your existing runbooks carry over.
PHP hosting stacks
WordPress, WooCommerce and PHP apps on the RHEL family's predictable base.
Enterprise applications
Anything documented for RHEL 9 runs the same here — without the subscription.
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL or MariaDB on NVMe, with SELinux enforcing by default.
Reseller infrastructure
Agencies and resellers running many client sites on one hardened, familiar base.
Who runs AlmaLinux here
Lagos runs a lot of other people's websites
Nigeria's hosting market is built on agencies, resellers and small hosts, and their economics are nothing like a startup's: many small machines instead of one large one, margins set in Naira on a client retainer, and a support inbox that opens at 08:00 WAT. AlmaLinux is what that estate standardised on after CentOS.
cPanel and WHM hosting businesses
AlmaLinux is one of cPanel's officially supported operating systems and the base most cPanel servers now run. For a Nigerian host that means the familiar shape stays familiar — accounts, packages, backups, the transfer tool, the same layout your team has used for a decade — on a machine you have root on and can resize. You bring the panel licence; the operating system underneath is free on every plan, which keeps the per-client cost down to compute.
Agency client fleets on PHP
WordPress, WooCommerce and Laravel, one client per instance rather than forty crammed onto a box where one plugin update takes down the other thirty-nine. The 2 GB plan at NGN 21,950 carries a brochure site, the 4 GB plan at NGN 42,400 a store that trades, the 8 GB plan at NGN 83,300 the one that outgrew both — and each client's bill is legible on its own line rather than an estimate you had to invent at renewal.
Stores from late October to January
Nigerian retail has a hard seasonal shape: Black Friday running into the December weeks, capacity raised from late October and held into the new year. The right machine in August is smaller than the right machine in November. vCPU, RAM and storage each resize independently on the same instance, so a store that spent December on 8 GB plan goes back to 4 GB plan in January without touching DNS.
The hosting arm of an ISP or telco
Spectranet, ipNX, Tizeti, FiberOne and the operators around them sell connectivity and get asked for hosting in the same conversation. A shared or reseller platform on AlmaLinux sits beside the network services already running — the same family as the RADIUS and DNS boxes, the same runbooks, the same team.
Regions
Lagos is home. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are one API call away.
Deploy in ng-1a and the machine sits in Lagos, in the same city as most of the traffic it will ever serve. Nigeria makes that easy to reason about: 189.68 million active mobile subscriptions in May 2026, with MTN and Airtel together carrying about 86% of active lines and Globacom and T2 — the operator formerly branded 9mobile — behind them. Whichever of the four your customer is on, they are in Nigeria, and typical in-metro round trips here run around 4 ms.
Nigerian networks now hand traffic to each other in Nigeria. IXPN, the neutral national exchange founded in 2006 by the NCC, runs 13 points of presence across 7 states and more than 130 connected networks, with 400G-capable core switching at three Lagos sites; peak domestic traffic across it passed 1 Tbps in April 2025 and 2 Tbps by March 2026. Before it existed, two Nigerian networks exchanged packets by way of London — an intercontinental journey for a packet crossing one city.
Eight subsea systems come ashore in the country, Equiano landing on the Lagos coast in 2022 and 2Africa at Lekki, which is how Lagos became West Africa's arrival point for international capacity. Aim a request at Frankfurt or Virginia instead and that subsea path joins the critical route of every call the page makes, at typically around 110 to 125 ms before your application does any work. From Lagos, Accra and Nairobi typically sit further away in round-trip terms than London, because traffic between African networks still frequently transits Europe.
ke-1a in Nairobi and tz-1a in Dar es Salaam run on the same account and the same API, which makes a standby or a disaster-recovery plan a configuration rather than a second supplier. Make that call deliberately where personal data is involved: a copy of Nigerian personal data held abroad is a cross-border transfer under section 41 of the NDPA. Machine images and telemetry raise no such question.
Nigeria
Lagos
~4 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Nigeria
Kenya
Nairobi
~2 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Kenya
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
~6 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Tanzania
Uganda
Kampala
~3 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Uganda
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
West Africa Time, and a ticket that arrives with the facts
Two channels, doing different jobs. A ticket opened while signed in arrives carrying your account, your region and the instance, so the first reply is about the problem rather than about which machine you mean. [email protected] is the commercial address: a quotation against a purchase order, transfer details before a payment run, the billing account configured with your TIN and registered name before the first invoice, and the SLA terms and credit-claim process in writing while you are still choosing.
Before either, status.lineserve.net. Anything affecting a whole region is posted there faster than a reply could reach you, and checking it turns "my site is down" into "my instance is unreachable and the status page is clear" — a different ticket, and a much shorter one.
What to put in it, in the order it gets read: the region and the instance, the time the behaviour started in WAT, what changed just before it, the actual error text rather than a description of it, and whether it reproduces from more than one Nigerian network. An MTN handset and an office fibre line disagreeing is a different fault from both failing together.
Some of the fastest resolutions need nobody at all, and are worth knowing before the night you need them. Restore an on-demand snapshot. Roll back to a scheduled backup. Open the browser console when SSH is the thing that has broken. Resize or rebuild from the API. Migration planning and assistance are included at no extra charge.
Nigeria runs on West Africa Time, UTC+1, and does not observe daylight saving — two hours behind Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. A change window agreed in WAT means the same thing in January and in July. Note the offset when you schedule across regions.
Sales
[email protected]FAQ
Questions, answered
Yes — AlmaLinux 9 is built to be application-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Software documented or certified for RHEL runs on AlmaLinux without changes in practice.
Yes. AlmaLinux is one of cPanel's officially supported operating systems — it's the OS most cPanel servers run today. You bring your own cPanel license; the OS itself is free.
They're close cousins: both free, RHEL-compatible CentOS successors. AlmaLinux is the safer pick for cPanel and web-hosting stacks; otherwise the choice mostly comes down to which community you prefer. We offer both.
AlmaLinux 9 is available at deploy time and kept current. You can also bring your own image with a custom ISO.
Yes. Every AlmaLinux VPS gives you complete root access and SSH key authentication from the moment it boots. It's your server to configure however you like.
Yes. Resize to a larger plan as your workload grows, with minimal downtime. Compute and storage scale together across the tiers.
Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
No — you bring your own panel licence, and the operating system underneath is free on every plan. That is the usual arrangement for a Nigerian host or agency, because the licence tier you need depends on how many accounts you run, not on which server you bought.
Both work and the split is usually commercial. A per-client instance isolates the blast radius, lets you price each account honestly, and resizes for that client's December alone. One larger machine with a panel on top is cheaper per site and is how most reseller businesses start. Nothing stops you running both patterns on one account.
For hosting stacks, AlmaLinux — it is a cPanel-supported operating system and it is what the industry standardised on. Rocky is the more common pick when a software vendor's support matrix or an auditor is involved, which in Nigeria usually means fintech and enterprise workloads; it has its own page. Both are RHEL-compatible and free here.
In Naira, by bank transfer or card, on one account. Transfer suits a growing set of instances and an annual commitment, which runs ten months for twelve; card suits the single machine you need up in the next ten minutes.
No. It is a Naira charge settled inside Nigeria, so the bank-set cap on international spending never sees it. That is worth more to a hosting business than to most buyers, because the caps vary by bank, are reviewed regularly, and you have a panel licence and other foreign tools that genuinely need the room.
In ng-1a, our Lagos region. Instances, volumes, snapshots and scheduled backups are created there and stay there unless you move them, which gives you and your clients data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA) — a question your larger clients' compliance people increasingly ask before they sign.
Yes. Your data is hosted in Nigeria and stays in-country, giving you data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA). It isn't moved out of Nigeria without your instruction.
In our Lagos data centre (ng-1a). Your content is stored and served from Lagos, close to your users.
Pay in Naira by card or bank transfer. No foreign card or forex conversion is required.
You're billed in NGN. Prices can be viewed in USD, KES, TZS, or NGN, but as a Nigeria customer you pay in NGN with no forex conversion.
Deploy your AlmaLinux 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 · Billed in NGN
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