Fedora — deployed in Lagos
Fedora VPS Hosting in Nigeria
This year's toolchain, on a machine the grid cannot switch off.
Fedora in ng-1a with the current kernel, compilers and language runtimes, Podman built in, and cloud-init on first boot. Two kinds of Nigerian engineer buy this: the one who needs something that shipped last month rather than three years ago, and the one whose real problem is that their laptop is on a power strip in Lagos. From NGN 21,950 a month, in Naira, and a machine you can destroy on Friday and rebuild on Monday.
- The current Fedora release, kept up to date and free on every plan
- Podman, Buildah and rootless containers out of the box
- Full root, SSH keys and cloud-init on first boot
- Deploys in under a minute — build it, use it, destroy it
- Runs in ng-1a, Lagos, on generator-backed power
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 Fedora
Why Fedora on Lineserve
Fedora is where tomorrow's enterprise Linux is built: new kernels, GCC, Python and container tooling land here first — ideal when you need what shipped last month, not three years ago.
- The newest kernels, compilers and language runtimes in mainstream Linux.
- Upstream of RHEL — what you build here is where the RHEL family is heading.
- First-class container tooling with Podman built in.
- The image is free on every plan — you only pay for the server.
Fedora images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on Fedora
Development environments
Build against the toolchain versions your team will standardise on next.
Latest-kernel workloads
Features and drivers that haven't reached LTS distros yet — eBPF, new filesystems, fresh hardware support.
Podman & containers
Rootless containers with Podman and Buildah, no daemon required.
CI & build runners
Disposable, always-current build machines — snapshot, run, destroy.
Testing before RHEL family
Validate your stack against what's coming to Rocky and AlmaLinux later.
Modern language stacks
Current Python, Go, Rust and Node without third-party repos or version managers.
Who runs Fedora here
Six reasons a Lagos engineer keeps one of these
Fedora is the distribution people choose for themselves rather than for the company. In Nigeria it picks up a second job that has nothing to do with package versions: it is somewhere to work from that is not affected by what happened to the power at 15:40.
A development machine that stays on
The national grid collapsed on 29 December 2025 and again on 23 January 2026, and even running normally, generation sits far below what the country needs. A build that takes twenty minutes on a laptop running off an inverter takes twenty minutes here and finishes whether or not the estate has light. Connect over SSH from an editor, keep the long-running process in tmux, and stop treating your own power as part of the toolchain.
Current runtimes without third-party repositories
Recent Python, Go, Rust, Node and the compilers under them, from the distribution's own packages rather than from a version manager, a vendor repository and a shell script you half trust. For a Nigerian team shipping to Nigerian users on a short cycle, that is the difference between an afternoon of setup and a morning of it.
Podman and rootless containers
Podman and Buildah are in the base, so containers run without a daemon and without root. It is a clean way to build images on a small plan — the 2 GB plan at NGN 21,950 with 2 GB of RAM handles more than people expect when nothing is running that you did not start — and the images you produce run anywhere your production estate does.
Seeing what the RHEL family does next
Nigerian fintech and enterprise workloads run on the Red Hat family, and Fedora is where that family's next version is assembled. Build against it now and you find out in September what breaks, rather than in the middle of a migration onto Rocky or AlmaLinux eighteen months later. One small instance, on the same account as the production estate, in the same Lagos region.
Kernel features that have not reached the LTS distributions
eBPF tooling, newer filesystems, current tracing and observability stacks — the things an ISP's network engineer or a fintech's platform team wants to try before committing an estate to them. Fedora carries them first, and a machine you can rebuild in under a minute is the right place to find out whether they hold up.
Boxes you fully intend to throw away
A build runner for a fortnight, a demo environment for a pitch, a reproduction of a bug on a clean install, an experiment that gets destroyed either way. Deploys take under a minute, cloud-init brings the machine up configured, snapshots let you keep the interesting state, and the billing is a Naira monthly figure rather than a foreign charge you have to justify twice.
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
The current Fedora release, kept up to date — Fedora ships a new major roughly every six months, and our image tracks it. You can also bring your own image with a custom ISO.
Fedora releases are supported for about 13 months, so they suit servers you actively maintain and upgrade. For boxes you want to set up and leave for years, Ubuntu LTS, Debian, Rocky or AlmaLinux are the better fit — we offer them all.
Yes. All Linux images, Fedora included, are free on every plan — the plan price is the full price of the server.
Yes. Every Fedora 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. Fedora's dnf system-upgrade moves you to the next release in place — snapshot first so you can roll back in a click. Or rebuild fresh; deploys take under a minute.
Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
Only if somebody is genuinely going to upgrade it. Fedora releases are supported for around 13 months, which suits machines you maintain actively and suits Nigerian teams badly when they are stretched thin. For a server you want to set up and leave alone, Ubuntu LTS, Debian, Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux are the better home, and all of them are free here too.
Power and continuity. A hosted instance runs on generator-backed infrastructure with a 99.9% uptime SLA, so the long build, the training run and the overnight job all survive an outage that would have stopped your flat. It also means your work follows you between the office, home and a client's boardroom without moving a laptop between them.
In Naira, by card or bank transfer, settled inside Nigeria. The 2 GB plan is NGN 21,950 a month and the 4 GB plan NGN 42,400. Displayed prices exclude VAT; Nigerian VAT is 7.5% and is calculated at checkout.
Yes, and it is a common shape for a small Nigerian team: one instance per engineer on a single account, one invoice, each one built from the same cloud-init definition so they are all identical. Destroy and rebuild whenever a machine gets untidy — it takes under a minute.
Yes — the instance runs in ng-1a, our Lagos region, and stays there unless you move it. It is worth noticing what accumulates on a box like this: the production extract somebody pulled to reproduce a bug, the CSV of real users left in the home directory, the database dump from last month. That is personal data, and residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA) covers it here just as it covers production.
As the early-warning machine. Fedora is upstream of RHEL, so what lands here is what reaches the rebuilds later. Keeping one small Fedora instance beside the estate turns a future migration into a series of small surprises now instead of one large one later.
Either way works: dnf system-upgrade moves the machine in place, or you rebuild fresh and re-run your cloud-init. Snapshot before either. Given how quickly a deploy completes here, plenty of people simply rebuild — it is often less work than reading the upgrade notes.
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 Fedora 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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