Debian — deployed in Lagos
Debian VPS Hosting in Nigeria
For the Lagos machine that has to outlast the person who built it.
Debian 12 on NVMe in ng-1a, with a minimal base, conservative updates and cloud-init on first boot. This is the distribution Nigerian teams pick when the server is not the product — when it is the mail relay, the resolver, the monitoring host or the database that simply has to be there in three years, on the same IP, doing the same job. From NGN 21,950 a month, in Naira.
- Debian 12 (Bookworm) or 11 (Bullseye) — free on every plan
- A lean base: more of a 2 GB plan goes to your workload
- Full root, SSH keys and cloud-init on first boot
- Deployed in ng-1a, Lagos, and priced in Naira
- Annual billing runs ten months for twelve
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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Why Debian
Why Debian on Lineserve
Debian stable is the benchmark for servers that just keep running — a lean base, conservative updates, and the apt ecosystem, on NVMe hardware in your region.
- The image is free on every plan — you only pay for the server.
- Famously stable releases with conservative, well-tested updates.
- Minimal footprint — more of your RAM goes to your workload.
- Cloud-init runs your setup on first boot — packages, users, and keys, done.
Debian images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on Debian
Long-lived production boxes
Servers you set up once and expect to run for years — Debian's home turf.
Web & mail servers
Nginx, Apache, Postfix and Dovecot, all a clean apt install away.
Docker & containers
A lean, stable host under your containers — nothing running that you didn't put there.
PostgreSQL & MySQL
NVMe-backed databases on a base OS that doesn't surprise you mid-quarter.
Self-hosted apps
Nextcloud, Gitea, Vaultwarden — the self-hosting community's default distro.
DNS, proxies & edge
HAProxy, Unbound or WireGuard on a dedicated IPv4 with a free /64 IPv6 block.
What it costs over its life
A machine you keep for years is a line item you keep for years
Debian gets chosen for a long horizon, so it is worth pricing over one. The relevant question is not what the box costs this month but what the same box costs in the fourth budget cycle you carry it through — and that answer is only stable if the price is set in the currency your revenue arrives in. The NGN figures here come from our own per-currency price list: the 2 GB plan at NGN 21,950 for a resolver or a mail relay, the 4 GB plan at NGN 42,400 for a monitoring host with real retention, the 8 GB plan at NGN 83,300 where the database has grown teeth. The figure is the same next quarter as it is today.
Annual billing runs ten months for twelve, which is the natural fit for this kind of machine: one approval, one document for the file, one renewal date landing in the same month every year. Across a set of infrastructure boxes a Nigerian ISP or institution keeps permanently, two months back on each is a meaningful share of the line. Displayed prices exclude VAT; Nigerian VAT is 7.5% on cloud and hosting services and is calculated at checkout.
Resize rather than rebuild
The expensive part of a long-lived box is never the monthly charge; it is the migration you were forced into when it ran out of room. vCPU, RAM and storage each resize independently up to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM, on the same instance and the same dedicated IPv4 — so a growing resolver or database gets bigger without a new address to allowlist or a weekend spent moving data.
Prices exclude VAT. Talk to [email protected] about annual terms or a single account covering a set of infrastructure instances.
Who runs Debian here
The Nigerian boxes nobody wants to think about again
Every one of these has the same shape: it is infrastructure rather than product, the people who depend on it never see it, and the day it needs attention is a bad day for somebody else. Debian is what they run on because the update that arrives next quarter is the one you expected.
ISP and WISP service infrastructure
Spectranet, ipNX, Tizeti, FiberOne and the operators around them run their own networks and still need the machines beside them: RADIUS and AAA, recursive resolvers and authoritative zones, mail relays, NetFlow collectors, Zabbix and LibreNMS, IPAM, a looking glass and a speed-test endpoint. These are meaningless outside the country they serve, they are expected to run for years without a re-platform, and this is the buyer who runs a traceroute before reading a paragraph.
Mail, DNS and the services a business is judged by
Postfix and Dovecot, an authoritative zone for a .ng or .com.ng domain, a secondary that answers when the primary does not. Nigerian businesses feel a mail outage faster than a website outage, because the invoice, the purchase order and the delivery note all travel that way. Nothing about the box should change unless you changed it.
Databases that outlast the team that built them
PostgreSQL, MySQL or MariaDB on NVMe, with a replica beside it and a backup volume behind that. Handover is the real risk in a Nigerian engineering team — the person who set the machine up has moved on, and the runbook is whatever was written at the time. Debian's stable release is the version that runbook still describes accurately two years later, because the base did not move underneath it.
Self-hosted platforms for institutions and programmes
A university faculty running its own Nextcloud, a training organisation on Moodle, a nonprofit keeping Gitea in-house because the data is not going anywhere else. Budgets here are approved once and expected to hold, and the operator is often one part-time administrator with other duties. Debian's minimal footprint helps twice over: less to patch, and more of a 2 GB plan's 2 GB of RAM going to the application rather than to things nobody installed on purpose.
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
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Questions, answered
Debian 12 (Bookworm), the current stable release, and Debian 11 (Bullseye) are both available at deploy time. You can also bring your own image with a custom ISO.
Yes. All Linux images, Debian included, are free on every plan — the plan price is the full price of the server.
Both use apt and feel familiar. Debian favours stability and a minimal base, which suits long-lived servers; Ubuntu LTS ships newer packages and more tooling out of the box. If you're unsure, either will serve you well — and you can rebuild to the other any time.
Yes. Every Debian 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. Provide cloud-init user data at deploy and your server bootstraps itself on first boot — packages installed, users created, keys in place before you ever log in.
Yes. Debian's in-place release upgrade via apt is well documented and reliable — or deploy a fresh 12 server and migrate. Either way, snapshot first so you can roll back in a click.
Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
Both use apt and both are free on every plan, so the question is what the machine is for. If it is the product — an application your team ships to weekly — Ubuntu's newer packages and larger local familiarity usually win. If it is infrastructure that has to be uneventful for years, Debian's conservative base is the safer home. Plenty of Nigerian teams run both, one for each job.
In ng-1a, our Lagos region. The instance, its volume and your backups on it are created there and stay there unless you move them, which gives you data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA).
In Naira, by card or bank transfer. Annual billing runs ten months for twelve, which suits a machine you already know you are keeping; bank transfer is the usual rail for that size of payment and gives your accounts team a movement to match against an invoice.
No. The address belongs to the instance for its lifetime, through reboots, resizes and rebuilds of the software on top. That matters for exactly the workloads Debian tends to run here — mail relays with reputation attached, resolvers, and endpoints a partner has allowlisted.
Yes. You have full root, a dedicated IPv4 and a free /64 of IPv6, so Postfix and Dovecot install exactly as they would anywhere. Set your PTR, SPF, DKIM and DMARC records properly before you send anything in volume — deliverability is decided by that configuration far more than by which country the machine is in.
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 Debian 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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