CentOS VPS Hosting in Nigeria

For most workloads, yes — it's the same enterprise base as RHEL with continuously delivered, tested updates. Teams that want fixed point releases with a ten-year lifecycle usually pick Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux instead; all three are free on every plan.

CentOS Stream 9 is available at deploy time and kept current. You can also bring your own image with a custom ISO.

Yes. All Linux images, CentOS Stream included, are free on every plan — the plan price is the full price of the server.

Yes. Every CentOS Stream 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. The cleanest route is to deploy a fresh Rocky or AlmaLinux server and migrate your workload — deploys take under a minute, and your runbooks carry over almost unchanged. Snapshot first, as always.

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

Three answers, all free on every plan and all deployable in ng-1a today. Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux are the fixed point-release rebuilds of RHEL with a ten-year lifecycle, which is what most CentOS estates actually want. CentOS Stream 9 keeps you in the family on a continuously delivered base. And if the application is yours rather than a vendor's, Ubuntu LTS is worth considering — a lot of Nigerian teams took that route because it is what their newer engineers already know.

By what runs on top. If a vendor certifies against RHEL, or the workload is a regulated one your auditors will look at, Rocky Linux is the usual pick and has its own page. If the machine is a hosting box with a panel on it, or one of a fleet of client sites, AlmaLinux is the safer home because cPanel supports it. Both are RHEL-compatible and free here, and neither locks you in.

A fresh instance is the cleaner route and it is what we would suggest: deploy the new distribution, install the application, bring the data across, run both for a week, then move DNS. Deploys take under a minute and you only pay for the overlap. Snapshot the old machine before you touch anything.

One extra instance for the length of the overlap, in Naira. The 2 GB plan is NGN 21,950 a month and the 4 GB plan NGN 42,400, billed monthly, and the old instance goes away when you are satisfied. Displayed prices exclude VAT; 7.5% is calculated at checkout.

In ng-1a, our Lagos region. The instance and its volume are created there and stay there unless you move them, which gives you data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA). If any of what you are migrating is Nigerian payment transaction data, note the CBN's direction that it be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027 — a reason a number of Nigerian teams are doing this migration now rather than next year.

Ask them a narrower question than the one you are probably asking: not "do you support CentOS", but "which of Rocky Linux 9 and AlmaLinux 9 will you support us on". Both are built to be compatible with RHEL 9, both are what the rest of that vendor's customers have moved to, and most support matrices have been quietly updated already.

In Naira, by card or bank transfer, settled inside Nigeria. Transfer is the usual rail when a migration means two or three instances on one account for a while; card suits a single machine you want up now.

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.