Block Storage — hosted in Lagos
Block volumes in Lagos
Not every disk in a Nigerian stack deserves the same one. A ledger under heavy write wants NVMe at ₦425 a gigabyte; eight weeks of logs and media want HDD at ₦150. Block Storage lets each volume carry its own tier. Coming to LOS1 in Lagos.
- Launching soon in LOS1, our Lagos region — join the waitlist
- 10 GB to 16 TB, metered hourly on the gigabytes you provision
- Data stays in Nigeria — residency for the NDPA
- Grow a volume while it is mounted, without rebuilding the server under it
Launching soon · Billed in NGN
Pricing
Three tiers, one per-GB price
Pick SSD, NVMe, or HDD to match your workload, then pay only for the size you provision. In your currency, no forex.
| Tier | Price /GB/mo | IOPS | Throughput | Volume sizes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard SSDPopular | ₦253 | Up to 10,000 IOPS | 250 MB/s | 10 GB – 16 TB |
| High-Performance NVMe | ₦425 | Up to 64,000 IOPS | 1 GB/s | 10 GB – 16 TB |
| Standard HDD | ₦150 | Up to 500 IOPS | 200 MB/s | 50 GB – 16 TB |
Volumes are billed on their provisioned size, metered hourly and totalled monthly — detached volumes are still billed until deleted. Snapshots are $0.15/GB/mo, and cross-region snapshot copies are $0.02/GB one-time. Prices exclude VAT; local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout.
The platform
Everything a production volume needs
Provisioning, snapshots, encryption, and monitoring come wired in — so your data outlives any single server.
Instant provisioning
Create a volume and have it ready to attach in seconds, straight from the console or API.
Live resizing
Grow a volume on the fly and extend the filesystem with no downtime and no reattach.
Instant incremental snapshots
Point-in-time snapshots capture only changed blocks, so backups are fast and cheap.
99.999% durability
Every block is replicated three times within the region to survive hardware failure.
Encryption at rest
Volumes are encrypted with AES-256, with optional bring-your-own-key management.
Flexible attachment
Detach a volume from one instance and reattach it to another in the same region.
Boot volume support
Use a block volume as a bootable root disk, or as extra data disks alongside it.
Full API access
Create, attach, resize, and snapshot volumes from Terraform, the CLI, or your CI.
Monitoring & alerts
Track IOPS, throughput, and latency per volume, with alerts when they cross a threshold.
Regions
Lagos is home. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are one API call away.
Deploy in los1 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.
nbo1 in Nairobi and dar1 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
Use cases
Built for what you're building
Database storage
Consistent IOPS for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, with the durability transactional data demands.
Kubernetes persistent volumes
Our CSI driver provisions volumes straight from your PVCs, so stateful pods keep their data.
Logs & analytics
HDD throughput at a low per-GB price for append-heavy logs, media, and analytics stores.
Backup & DR
Instant snapshots plus cross-region copies give you point-in-time backups and disaster recovery.
How it works
From zero to mounted in three steps
Create a volume
Pick a tier and a size from 10 GB to 16 TB, and your volume is ready in seconds.
Attach & format
Attach it to an instance and format it as ext4, XFS, or NTFS — then mount and go.
Grow as you go
Resize the volume live as you fill it, and snapshot it on demand for backups.
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]Why Lineserve
Beyond the local disk
An instance's local disk disappears the moment the instance does, can't move, and can't grow. Block volumes are independent, portable, and durable — while still keeping your data on the continent.
Pricing & invoicing
A Naira line that does not move when anything else does
Block storage bills on the size you provisioned rather than the size you filled. A 500 GB volume is a 500 GB volume whether the filesystem is empty or full, metered hourly and totalled monthly, and it is still billed while it sits detached after the instance is deleted; billing stops when you delete the volume. That is the rule to know before you size anything, and it is also what makes this the most forecastable line in a storage estate: the charge does not move when your traffic does, because nothing about it depends on how well the product is doing.
The tier is the cost decision rather than the size. Indicative launch pricing puts Standard HDD at NGN 150 per GB a month, Standard SSD at NGN 253 and High-Performance NVMe at NGN 425, so a log volume and a ledger volume of the same size are deliberately different numbers. Every figure is a Naira figure from Nigeria's own price list rather than a dollar rate converted when the page loads, which is what makes a twelve-month forecast possible — and it means the charge settles inside Nigeria, leaving the bank-set international allowance on your Naira card for the things that genuinely have no Nigerian alternative.
Nigerian VAT on cloud and hosting is 7.5%, administered by the Nigeria Revenue Service — the lowest rate of the three markets Lineserve operates in, against Kenya's 16% and mainland Tanzania's 18% on the same class of service. Displayed prices exclude VAT and it is shown separately at checkout. The framework around it changed on 1 January 2026, when the Nigeria Tax Act 2025 and the Nigeria Tax Administration Act 2025 took effect: a TIN is now central to how a transaction is evidenced, and large taxpayers above ₦5 billion in turnover sit inside the Revenue Service's mandatory e-invoicing regime, enforced from 1 July 2026 with a 31 July 2026 deadline and onboarding through an approved Access Point Provider.
Five fields, sent once
Your TIN, your registered name exactly as the Revenue Service holds it, the billing address, a billing email that reaches finance rather than an engineer, and any purchase-order or cost-centre reference that has to appear on the document. Send those to [email protected] before you order and the billing account is configured once instead of corrected in the third quarter.
Volumes grow, they do not shrink
Resizing up happens live while the volume is attached and in use, then you extend the filesystem. There is no equivalent in the other direction, so the discipline on a provisioned-size product is to start close to what you need and grow into it — and to keep the seasonal headroom on compute, which does give it back.
The withholding question, raised early
A Nigerian corporate buyer will ask whether it must withhold on a payment to a non-resident supplier, and its withholding agent files a monthly electronic schedule listing each supplier's TIN and address, the nature of the transaction, the amount withheld and the invoice number. Lineserve invoices Nigeria from LINESERVE, INC. On a storage line it is a small number that recurs indefinitely, so put it in front of your adviser at account opening and copy [email protected] so the invoicing matches how you remit.
Prices are indicative launch pricing and exclude VAT; Nigeria's 7.5% is calculated and shown at checkout. Nigeria's tax framework changed on 1 January 2026, so guidance written before that date is worth re-reading before you rely on it.
Data residency
Stored and managed. Read the second verb.
On 15 June 2026 the Central Bank of Nigeria issued circular PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004, covering market structure requirements, data localisation, ultimate beneficial ownership disclosure and systemic oversight across the Nigerian payments system. It directs that payment transaction data generated within Nigeria be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027. In scope are deposit money banks, microfinance banks, mobile money operators, fintechs, switching companies, payment service providers and super agents — most of the Nigerian financial internet.
The archive is the obvious half of that. The other half is the word managed. Managing payment transaction data is what a running system does to it: the database that writes a record when a transfer lands, the reconciliation job that reads across a day of them, the dispute tool that pulls one back up six weeks later. All of that happens against a live disk, and on a cloud a live disk is a block volume. A Nigerian business can move its archives in-country and still be running the ledger on a volume in another jurisdiction, which is a gap worth finding on your own architecture diagram rather than in somebody else's assessment.
Around the circular sits the general regime. The Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 is the statute and the Nigeria Data Protection Commission the regulator, with the General Application and Implementation Directive — issued 20 March 2025, effective 19 September 2025 — operationalising it, and section 44 requiring controllers and processors of major importance to register within six months of becoming one. Section 41 restricts transfer of personal data out of Nigeria, permitting it where the recipient is covered by an adequate law, binding corporate rules, contractual clauses, a code of conduct or a certification mechanism. Keep the live data on a volume in Lagos and that analysis does not arise for it, because nothing crossed a border.
Localisation in Nigeria is also written by sector and by named system rather than across the board. NITDA's frameworks are reported to require sensitive data in finance, healthcare and government to be held in-country, and the Designation and Protection of Critical National Information Infrastructure Order 2024 designates systems including the BVN, the NIN and NIBSS itself. Build against any of those and the residency question arrives through a partner bank's procurement long before a regulator raises it — usually as a single line on a form, asking where the database is.
At launch, a volume created in los1 will be held in Lagos and will not leave Nigeria without your instruction. That is data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act. What Lineserve supplies is the location; the assessment, the registration and the sign-off stay with your compliance function, and they are a shorter pile of work when the live records never left.
1 Jan 2027
CBN full-compliance date for Nigerian payment data
15 Jun 2026
Date of circular PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004
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Full public cloud regions inside Nigeria
16 TB
Largest single volume planned for the first release
The snapshot is where a position quietly moves
Snapshots are instant, cheap and trivially easy to point at another region, which makes them the part of a design that undoes a residency decision without a meeting. A snapshot kept in los1 is durability. A snapshot copied to Nairobi or Dar es Salaam is Nigerian data in another country, with section 41 in play for personal data and the circular's position following anything inside its scope. Build artefacts and logs carrying neither raise no question at all.
Who feels this first
Anyone holding ledgers, settlement records and transaction logs under a CBN licence, and then the layer around them: KYC and BVN verification, fraud scoring, partner-bank sandboxes, and the switching and reconciliation systems between a merchant and a bank. If your product touches Nigerian payment data, which country the disk is in stopped being an infrastructure detail and became a board question with a date on it.
A volume is not a backup
Replication inside the region survives a failed drive. It does not survive a dropped table, a bad migration or a script run at the end of a long night, and it is not a second copy in a second place. Snapshots and dumps into object storage in los1 cover those without leaving Nigeria, and each of them is a separate decision about where a copy lives.
Who is asking for this
The Nigerian systems that are really waiting on a volume
Block storage gets bought for a specific problem rather than a strategy: a disk that is filling, a database that wants more from it than it is getting, or a machine that has become too important to rebuild. These are the Nigerian versions of that.
Fintech ledgers and settlement data
Nigeria's largest startup category, and the one with a circular behind its infrastructure decision. Underneath a payment product is a transactional database held to sub-second expectations: balances, entries, webhook payloads from instant-payment callbacks, reconciliation runs across a day of transfers, and an audit trail that grows and never shrinks. High-Performance NVMe is the tier this workload is describing when it complains about the disk, and the volume it wants is one that outlives every instance rebuild between now and January 2027.
Betting platforms, and ninety seconds at kickoff
One of Nigeria's largest online sectors and the most abrupt workload in this market: odds ingestion all day, then a bet-placement spike at kickoff that the punter feels directly, plus thousands of retail agent terminals reconciling against the same backend and per-state reporting since a November 2024 Supreme Court ruling moved regulation to the states. Read replicas each want their own volume, provisioned for the peak rather than the average, and the settlement database wants the tier with the most IOPS in it.
E-commerce, and the difference between capacity and history
Nigerian retail has the sharpest seasonal shape on this site — a peak from late October through Black Friday and the December weeks, holding into January. Two things grow in that window and only one of them comes back. The vCPU and RAM you add in October you give back in January. The order history, the payment references and the dispatch records you add in October you keep forever, on a volume that grows with the business rather than with the traffic. Snapshot before every peak, because the worst week to discover a schema problem is the one that pays for the year.
Media and streaming working sets
Nigeria produces an unusual amount of its own film and music. The finished renditions belong in a bucket; what belongs on a volume is the part in progress — mezzanine files on the encoder, transcode scratch, project state, and the database of assets and rights underneath the catalogue. Those are big, sequential and rewritten constantly, which is the HDD tier's shape when the pipeline is throughput-bound and the NVMe tier's when it is not.
ISPs, telcos and network operators
Spectranet, ipNX, Tizeti, FiberOne and the mobile operators run their own infrastructure and buy capacity for the systems around it: RADIUS and AAA, billing and provisioning, NetFlow collection, monitoring retention, IPAM, DNS. Continuous writes, unglamorous growth, and a hard requirement to be in Nigeria to be useful at all. One volume per system, resized when subscriber growth says so rather than when a plan expires.
The server in the corner of the office
Nigerian on-premises infrastructure carries a risk most markets do not price properly. The national grid collapsed on 29 December 2025 and again on 23 January 2026, and a database that loses power mid-write is not a downtime problem, it is a corruption problem — the kind that is discovered a week later, in the backup that turned out to be of the corrupt copy. Moving that data onto a volume in los1 puts it behind infrastructure power and a 99.999% durability design, and turns a diesel line into a fixed monthly Naira one.
Agencies, ISVs and resellers
Lagos has a dense agency market reselling infrastructure to SME clients — many client systems on one account, each with its own database and its own habit of outgrowing whatever it was put on. Independent volumes turn that from a rebuild per client into a resize per client, with a snapshot before every plugin update, framework upgrade and handover.
Indicative launch pricing in Naira: Standard SSD from NGN 253 per GB a month, High-Performance NVMe from NGN 425, Standard HDD from NGN 150, billed on provisioned size. Prices exclude VAT. These are the launch figures rather than a charge you can incur today.
Planning ahead
How your data gets onto a volume when it lands
From the disk your server came with
The most common Nigerian starting point and the quickest move, because the data is already in Lagos on a Lineserve instance — on storage that dies with the machine and cannot grow past the plan it arrived on. At launch, the move is to attach a volume, copy the directory across, remount it at the same path and carry on; the application never learns anything changed. What you gain is separation. The instance becomes something you can rebuild without a committee, and the database stops being the reason nobody touches it. Teams carrying a production database on instance storage because moving it was never anybody's Tuesday are exactly who this release is for.
From a provider outside Nigeria
Worth knowing early that this is not the bucket-to-bucket story. Two block volumes do not speak a protocol to each other; they are disks, and disks are copied at the filesystem level — bring the instance up in los1 with its volume attached and formatted, move the data with rsync, and cut over, or use the database's own replication if you would rather measure downtime in seconds. Snapshot the source first. Three things change afterwards that have nothing to do with disks: the bill becomes one Naira number you can forecast, the charge stops being an international one against your card allowance, and the live data comes inside Nigeria — which is the section 41 point, and for a CBN-licensed business the January 2027 one.
Tell [email protected] how much data you would put on a volume, what is reading it today and when you need it, and you will hear from us when there is something to attach. Migration planning and assistance are included at no extra charge.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Your instance's local storage lives and dies with the instance. A Block Storage volume is independent — detach it, reattach it to another instance, resize it live, and snapshot it. Delete the server and the volume, and your data, survives.
Standard SSD delivers up to 10,000 IOPS and suits web apps, dev environments, and small databases. High-Performance NVMe reaches 64,000 IOPS and 1 GB/s for demanding databases and real-time analytics. Standard HDD favours cheap throughput for logs, media, and backups.
Yes. Volumes resize instantly while attached and in use — then you extend the filesystem (resize2fs for ext4, xfs_growfs for XFS). Volumes can only grow, not shrink.
Snapshots are instant and incremental — only changed blocks are stored after the first one. Restore a volume to any snapshot, or clone a snapshot into a new volume. Snapshot storage bills at $0.15/GB per month.
Every volume is replicated three times across separate physical drives, and failed drives are reconstructed automatically. That yields 99.999% durability with a 99.99% availability SLA.
Yes. Use volumes as boot disks with custom OS images, resize the boot disk as you grow, and move a bootable volume between instances.
Yes. Volumes are encrypted with AES-256 before data touches disk, using platform-managed keys or your own via KMS. Data in transit is encrypted too.
You pay for provisioned size, metered hourly, whether or not the volume is attached — a 100 GB Standard SSD volume costs $25.30 a month. Billing stops when you delete the volume.
Volumes range from 10 GB (50 GB on HDD) up to 16 TB, with up to 16 volumes attached per instance. Account limits are raised on request.
In los1, our Lagos region. A volume is created in a region and stays there — it attaches to instances in that same region, and it does not leave Nigeria unless you copy a snapshot out yourself.
It is in build and there is no public date. Send [email protected] the workload and the rough size you would need and you go on the list, and you hear from us when there is something to attach rather than when a calendar says so.
Indicative launch pricing is NGN 253 per GB a month for Standard SSD, NGN 425 for High-Performance NVMe and NGN 150 for Standard HDD, billed on provisioned size and metered hourly, with snapshots billed separately. Prices exclude VAT. Those are the figures we expect to open with, published so you can plan against them.
Tell [email protected] what you would run on it, on which tier and at what size. Those conversations decide what ships first, and the teams having them are the ones we come back to when there is something to try.
Yes. Volumes created in los1 are held in Lagos and are not moved out of the country without your instruction, which gives you data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA).
The circular of 15 June 2026 directs that payment transaction data generated in Nigeria be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027, and it places that obligation on licensed participants. A volume in los1 is in Nigeria, so data on it is in Nigeria. Whether your overall arrangement satisfies the circular is an assessment about your systems and processes, made with your own advisers.
Because it lives and dies with the server, cannot move, and cannot grow past the plan it came with. A volume outlives the instance, detaches and reattaches to another machine in the same region, and resizes while it is mounted. The difference shows up on the day you want a bigger machine, and on the day you no longer want that one.
Object storage is an S3 API you write buckets to over HTTP — right for archives, KYC captures, media and anything a browser fetches. A block volume is a disk attached to one instance, with a filesystem on it, that your database reads and writes through ordinary file operations. Buckets hold what you keep; volumes hold what you are working on. Most Nigerian systems end up wanting both, in the same region.
No — a block volume attaches to one instance at a time. Shared access across a fleet is what File Storage is for, and it is on the same launch path.
Cross-region snapshot copies are planned, on the same account as los1. Make the call deliberately: a copy of Nigerian personal data in another country is a transfer out of Nigeria under section 41, and data inside the CBN circular's scope carries its own position with the copy.
In Naira, by bank transfer or card — the same methods as the rest of your account. Transfer is how most Nigerian business settles anything with an approval behind it; a card suits a single small volume or a monthly renewal.
No. It settles in Naira inside Nigeria, by card or bank transfer, so the international spending cap a Nigerian bank sets on a Naira card is untouched by it. A dollar invoice from a provider abroad sits inside that cap every month it renews.
No. Displayed prices exclude VAT. Nigerian VAT on cloud and hosting is 7.5%, administered by the Nigeria Revenue Service, and it is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
Say so at the order rather than at the quarter end. Enforcement for taxpayers above ₦5 billion in turnover began on 1 July 2026 with a 31 July 2026 deadline, and onboarding runs through an approved Access Point Provider. Tell [email protected] what your provider needs to see on a supplier invoice, and send your TIN with it.
Yes. Creating, attaching, resizing and snapshotting are API and CLI operations on the same account and credentials as the rest of the platform, so a volume is something your pipeline provisions rather than something somebody remembers to click.
Customer references are available under NDA for the products that are live today, object storage in los1 among them. Tell [email protected] what you are building and you will be pointed at the closest match.
Persistent volumes are almost here
Block Storage is launching soon, close to your users and billed in local currency. Talk to us to line up early access and be first to attach a volume.
Launching soon · 99.999% durability · Billed in NGN