Load Balancers — Nigeria, LOS1 · launching soon
Coming soonLoad Balancers in Nigeria
Nigeria produces the sharpest bursts on this site. Kickoff, and a betting backend takes ninety seconds of bet placement. A settlement window, and every ledger write in a fintech arrives inside the same few minutes. A pool survives that by addition rather than by upgrade.
- Launching soon in LOS1, our Lagos region — join the waitlist
- HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and UDP, with SSL terminated at the balancer
- A backend that fails its health check leaves the rotation, not the checkout
- Flat monthly pricing in Naira, indicatively from ₦12,000, with no per-request charges
Launching soon · Billed in NGN
Pricing
One flat price, no per-request fees
Pick a size for your traffic. Data transfer between the load balancer and same-region backends is unlimited and included. In your currency, no forex.
Small
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 10,000 concurrent connections
- 250 Mbps throughput
- Up to 20 backends
- Basic health checks
- Unlimited same-region transfer
Medium
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 50,000 concurrent connections
- 1 Gbps throughput
- Up to 50 backends
- Advanced health checks
- Unlimited same-region transfer
Large
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 100,000 concurrent connections
- 2.5 Gbps throughput
- Up to 100 backends
- Health checks with SSL verification
- Unlimited same-region transfer
Enterprise
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 250,000+ concurrent connections
- 5+ Gbps throughput
- Unlimited backends
- Custom-script health checks
- Unlimited same-region transfer
Flat monthly pricing with no hidden fees and no per-request charges. Upgrade or downgrade tiers anytime with zero downtime. Prices exclude VAT; local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout.
Network
A Nigerian burst is 190 million subscriptions arriving in the same minute
Nigeria counted 189.68 million active mobile subscriptions in May 2026, with MTN on 96.98 million and 51.19% of active lines and Airtel on 65.45 million and 34.55% — roughly 86% of the country across two networks. When a fixture kicks off or a sale opens, the arrival is concentrated on a handful of carriers and compressed into minutes. There is no time-zone spread to smooth it and no geographic ramp to hide behind.
Where those requests land is the part you control. Eight subsea systems come ashore in Nigeria — MainOne, SAT-3, GLO-2, ACE, WACS, Equiano, 2Africa and the Nigeria Cameroon system — which is why Lagos is where international capacity arrives, and why a server sitting anywhere else puts that subsea path in the critical route of every call your page makes. Lagos to the European hosting hubs typically runs around 110 to 125 ms before your application does any work, and a burst multiplies that by every asset, every API call and every database round trip.
Domestic traffic has its own home. IXPN, the neutral national exchange set up in 2006 by the NCC with the Internet Service Providers Association of Nigeria, now runs 13 points of presence across 7 states with more than 130 connected networks over 170 ports and 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. A single public address in los1 sits on the right side of that — reached by Nigerian networks over Nigerian infrastructure.
Behind the address, capacity becomes arithmetic instead of a rebuild. Add backends before the fixture list or the October peak, take them away in January, with the entry point unchanged and no DNS edit on the day. Transfer between the balancer and same-region backends is unlimited and included, so the health checks, the retries and the fan-out of a burst across twenty machines stay inside Lagos and inside the flat monthly figure.
189.68M
Active mobile subscriptions in Nigeria (NCC, May 2026)
86%
Share of active lines held by two operators (NCC, May 2026)
2 Tbps
Peak domestic traffic exchanged at IXPN (March 2026)
8
Subsea cable systems landing in Nigeria
The day four cables failed
On 14 March 2024, WACS, ACE, MainOne and SAT-3 all went down near Côte d'Ivoire at once. Thirteen countries were disrupted, Nigerian bank customers could not transact, and MainOne declared force majeure with an estimate of up to eight weeks to repair. Every Nigerian business whose systems lived in Europe spent that period learning how much of its architecture was a length of fibre on the Atlantic seabed. Traffic from a Nigerian user to a Lagos pool never needed that fibre.
Redundancy is not an abstraction here
The national grid collapsed on 29 December 2025 and again on 23 January 2026, and NERC put the plant availability factor at 36% in January 2026 — about 4,901 MW available against an estimated 30,000 MW of demand. Nigerian business carries that gap itself, at a cost that tracks the diesel price. A team that has spent a year keeping one server alive behind an inverter wants the pool somewhere it is not also paying for the fuel.
Pricing & payment
What it will cost, in Naira
A balancer is priced the way the rest of the platform is: one flat monthly figure per balancer, in Naira, with no per-request charge and no metered fee for traffic to same-region backends. The NGN figures below are indicative launch pricing — the shape of the bill rather than an amount payable today — and they are Nigeria's own price list rather than a dollar rate converted when the page loads.
Four sizes, one flat monthly figure
Small is indicatively NGN 12,000 a month for 10,000 concurrent connections and 250 Mbps across up to 20 backends. Medium is NGN 24,000 for 50,000 connections and 1 Gbps. Large is NGN 40,000 for 100,000 connections and 2.5 Gbps. Enterprise is NGN 80,000 for 250,000-plus connections, 5-plus Gbps and unlimited backends.
Bank transfer first, card second
Nigeria settles by transfer, and a balancer will settle the same way as everything else on a Nigerian account: a Naira amount, by bank transfer or card. NIBSS has run the NIP instant scheme since 2011 and it carried 5.63 billion transactions worth ₦476.89 trillion in the first half of 2024 alone. A purchase with an approval behind it goes as one transfer with one reference.
The allowance you are not spending
A Naira card carries a bank-set ceiling on international spending, reopened during 2025 with caps that differ by bank and are revised often. A monthly dollar bill from an overseas provider takes a bite out of that twelve times a year. Settling here is a domestic Naira transaction, so the headroom is still there in November for whatever genuinely needs a foreign card.
The waitlist costs nothing
No card, no commitment. Tell [email protected] what you would put behind a balancer, how many backends, and the burst you are sizing for — a fixture list, a Black Friday, a settlement window — and that shapes what ships in los1 first.
Displayed prices exclude VAT; Nigerian VAT on cloud and hosting services is 7.5%, administered by the Nigeria Revenue Service, and it is shown separately at checkout. Local-currency figures are indicative until launch. Send your TIN and registered name to [email protected] and the billing account is configured once rather than corrected later.
The platform
Everything between your users and your servers
Termination, health checks, persistence, and protection — handled at the edge of your stack so your backends just serve.
Automatic failover
Failing backends drop out of the pool instantly and traffic reroutes to healthy servers — no manual intervention.
Smart health checks
Probe backends over HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, or ICMP with custom intervals, timeouts, and recovery thresholds.
SSL/TLS termination
TLS 1.2 and 1.3 with SNI for multiple certificates, automatic renewal, and encryption offloaded from your backends.
Four balancing algorithms
Round Robin, Least Connections, Source IP Hash, and Weighted Round Robin — match the algorithm to the workload.
Session persistence
Cookie-based or source-IP sticky sessions keep stateful clients pinned to the same backend.
DDoS protection built in
Rate limiting and connection throttling at the balancer, before traffic ever reaches your servers.
IPv4 & IPv6
Full dual-stack support on every load balancer, at every tier.
Real-time monitoring
Live traffic, connection counts, backend health, and access logs with request-level detail.
API & Terraform
Create and manage balancers from a REST API or the Terraform provider — wired into your CI/CD.
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
Web applications
Spread HTTP and HTTPS traffic across your web servers for high volume with zero downtime.
APIs & microservices
A single entry point routing requests across API instances and containerized services.
Database read scaling
Balance read queries across replicas while writes go straight to the primary.
Gaming & streaming
Low-latency TCP and UDP balancing for player connections and high-bandwidth media.
How it works
In front of your traffic in three steps
Create a load balancer
Pick a region and a size tier — live in under 60 seconds from the console or API.
Add backends & health checks
Point it at your servers, choose an algorithm, and set the health check that fits.
Point your DNS at it
One record change and traffic flows through — failover and monitoring are already on.
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
Managed beats maintaining your own proxy
Running NGINX or HAProxy on a VPS means one more machine to patch, monitor, certify, and fail over — and it's usually the single point of failure in front of everything else.
Data residency
For part of this economy, the entry point has a deadline attached
A load balancer is the first thing in your architecture that touches a Nigerian request. TLS terminates there, the user's connection ends there, and the access log with request-level detail is written there. In los1 all of that is held in Lagos, in the same country as the backends behind it.
For one sector that is now a dated requirement rather than a preference. On 15 June 2026 the Central Bank of Nigeria issued circular PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004, directing 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, and the affected data is reported to reach merchant records, transaction identifiers, timestamps, settlement information and processing logs. If your traffic enters through something outside the country, that entry point is part of the architecture the assessment covers.
Around that 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 effective from 19 September 2025. Section 41 governs transfers of personal data out of Nigeria, permitting them where the recipient is covered by an adequate law, binding corporate rules, contractual clauses, a code of conduct or a certification mechanism. Keep the balancer and the pool in Lagos and the section 41 analysis does not arise for the request path.
An access log is personal data
Request-level logging captures client IP addresses, timestamps and paths for every visitor, and inside the payments perimeter it can carry transaction identifiers alongside them. Held in los1 it stays in Lagos with the ledger it belongs to.
What a provider supplies, and what stays yours
Hosting in los1 means the data is in Nigeria, which is the part a hosting provider supplies. Whether an overall architecture satisfies the circular by 1 January 2027 is an assessment about your systems, made with your own advisers.
That is data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA) — data held in Lagos and moved out of the country only when you move it.
Who it is for
The Nigerian workloads with a burst in them
Two things make a business buy a load balancer: traffic that spikes, and traffic that cannot stop. Nigeria has the sharpest examples of the first on this site.
Betting and iGaming
The most abrupt workload in the country: odds ingestion all day, then bet placement compressed into the ninety seconds around kickoff, felt directly by the punter holding the slip. Add thousands of retail agent terminals reconciling against the same backend, and per-state reporting now that a November 2024 Supreme Court ruling moved regulation to the states. Read replicas behind one address, burst capacity added for a fixture list, and an entry point in the same country as the terminals.
E-commerce through the October–December peak
Nigerian retail has the longest seasonal peak of any market here — it starts in late October, runs through Black Friday and the festive weeks, and holds into January. Catalogue and search, cart and checkout, callbacks from several payment gateways at once, dispatch integration, image serving. Capacity you add in October and give back in January costs what those weeks cost, and the balancer tier moves up and down with it.
Fintech and payments
The largest startup category in the country, and the one with a circular behind its hosting decision. Payment API gateways held to sub-second expectations, ledger and reconciliation databases, webhook receivers taking NIP callbacks, KYC and BVN verification, fraud scoring. The peak is a settlement window rather than a season, and a webhook receiver is the classic case for a pool: something else decides when it is called, and it is called hardest when you are busiest.
Streaming and media
Nigeria produces an unusual amount of its own film and music. A release date is a scheduled stampede: the first hours after a drop carry a multiple of the ordinary load, over long-lived connections rather than short ones. TCP and UDP balancing across an origin pool in Lagos keeps those bytes on the domestic side of the subsea path.
Edtech and exam windows
A national exam window is not a forecast, it is a date in the diary. Video lesson delivery, question banks and progress databases sit quiet for months and then take the whole cohort inside a few days. The economics decide the purchase: a platform charging a few thousand Naira a month per learner needs the peak answered by cheap horizontal capacity rather than by one permanently oversized machine.
Agencies, ISVs and ISPs
Lagos has a dense agency market reselling infrastructure to SME clients, where one balancer in front of a pool turns a patching window into an ordinary afternoon. ISPs are a different buyer entirely — Spectranet, ipNX, Tizeti, FiberOne and the mobile operators run subscriber portals and billing systems whose outages are felt by their own customers.
Cloud servers, VPS, dedicated LineServe Core hardware and object storage are live in los1 today and are what a balancer will sit in front of. Load Balancers themselves are launching soon — join the waitlist through [email protected].
Before launch
What is carrying your traffic today
NGINX or HAProxy on a VPS you keep alive
The honest majority case, and it holds right up to the fixture that breaks it. That proxy is one machine to patch, monitor, renew certificates on and fail over, and everything behind it depends on it — the cheapest component in the stack and the single point of failure at the same time. It also needs somebody watching it at kickoff. A managed balancer takes that off the rota, and the preparation that pays before launch costs nothing: interchangeable backends, sessions out of local memory, and a health endpoint on each machine that tells the truth about whether it can serve.
A balancer in Europe in front of Lagos servers
This one is common because the balancer came with the old account and nobody unpicked it after the backends moved. Every Nigerian request then leaves the country to reach the thing that sends it back into the country — twice per round trip, on the busiest ninety seconds of your month, across a crossing that typically runs around 110 to 125 ms. The subsea path becomes load-bearing for domestic traffic that never needed it, which is precisely the dependency 14 March 2024 exposed. The fix is an entry point in the same region as the pool.
Three questions settle most of it, for any provider including this one. Which building is the machine in, and in which country? Is domestic traffic exchanged inside Nigeria? And what does the uptime SLA pay when it is missed, and who claims it?
FAQ
Questions, answered
It sits in front of your servers on a single IP and distributes incoming traffic across them. If a backend fails, traffic reroutes to healthy servers automatically — better availability, better performance, no single point of failure.
A flat monthly rate per size tier — Small, Medium, Large, or Enterprise. Data transfer between the load balancer and backends in the same region is unlimited and included. No per-request charges, no hidden fees.
Yes. Backends can be Lineserve Cloud Servers, VPS, dedicated servers, Kubernetes nodes — or servers hosted anywhere else, as long as the load balancer can reach them over the network.
Upload certificates to the load balancer and it terminates SSL/TLS for you, offloading encryption from your backends. TLS 1.2 and 1.3 are supported, with SNI for serving multiple certificates from one load balancer and automatic renewal.
The load balancer probes each backend over HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, or ICMP on an interval you set. Servers that fail their threshold are removed from the pool automatically and re-added once they recover.
Sticky sessions route a returning client to the same backend — essential for apps that keep session state locally. Choose cookie-based or source-IP persistence per load balancer.
Round Robin for evenly matched servers, Least Connections for long-lived connections, Source IP Hash to pin clients to a server, and Weighted Round Robin to send more traffic to bigger machines.
Yes. Upgrade or downgrade anytime with zero downtime — your configuration, certificates, and backend pools carry over unchanged.
They are in build and there is no public date yet. Lagos (los1) is one of the regions in the first release. Join the waitlist through [email protected] and you will hear from us when there is something to point at.
Indicative launch pricing runs from NGN 12,000 a month for Small, NGN 24,000 for Medium, NGN 40,000 for Large and NGN 80,000 for Enterprise — flat monthly figures per balancer, with no per-request charges. Those numbers are indicative until launch and exclude VAT.
Early access is being allocated by workload rather than by queue position. Tell [email protected] what you would put behind a balancer, how many backends, which protocols and the burst you are sizing for, and that conversation is how a place is reserved.
Not yet. Load Balancers are launching soon, and this page shows what they will look like when they land. Cloud servers, VPS, dedicated hardware and object storage in los1 are live now and are what a balancer will sit in front of.
In the region you create it in. For a Nigerian deployment that is los1, Lagos — the same city as your backends, so the hop between the balancer and the pool stays inside the metro and is included in the flat price.
HTTP, HTTPS, TCP and UDP, dual-stack on IPv4 and IPv6 at every tier, across Round Robin, Least Connections, Source IP Hash and Weighted Round Robin. Session persistence is available as cookie-based or source-IP sticky sessions where a client has to stay pinned to one backend.
Yes. TLS 1.2 and 1.3 with SNI for multiple certificates, automatic renewal, and the encryption work taken off your backends.
Health checks probe your backends over HTTP, HTTPS, TCP or ICMP with intervals, timeouts and recovery thresholds you set. A backend that stops passing drops out of the pool and traffic reroutes to the healthy ones, with no manual intervention, and it returns to rotation once it passes again.
That is a sizing question, and it is the conversation worth having before launch. Tiers run to 250,000-plus concurrent connections and 5-plus Gbps with unlimited backends, and they move up or down without downtime. The preparation that matters is knowing your peak concurrency and making sure the pool behind the balancer can be widened on the day.
A load balancer serves a pool of backends in its own region, which is what the included unlimited same-region transfer covers. Teams wanting a presence in more than one of Lagos, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam run a balancer in each region and steer between them at the DNS layer, which stays under their control.
In Naira, by bank transfer or card, like everything else on a Nigerian account. Displayed prices exclude VAT and the 7.5% is shown separately at checkout.
No. It is a Naira amount settled inside Nigeria, by card or transfer, so it sits outside the international spending cap a Nigerian bank applies to a Naira card. A dollar invoice from a provider abroad sits inside that cap every month it renews.
Keeping the entry point in los1 means that part of the request path, and the logs it writes, are in Nigeria — which is the part a hosting provider supplies. Whether your overall architecture satisfies circular PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004 by 1 January 2027 is an assessment about your systems, made with your own advisers.
It stops being your problem to solve with diesel. The machines are not on your building's supply, so a grid failure at your address does not take the workload down — and a pool behind one address means losing a single backend does not either.
Yes — balancers are created and managed from a REST API and a Terraform provider as well as the console, so they belong in the same CI/CD pipeline as the rest of your infrastructure.
Nigeria runs on West Africa Time, UTC+1, with no daylight saving — two hours behind Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. Reach the team at [email protected] or through the ticket system, and note the offset when you diary a change window.
Put a load balancer in front of it — soon
Load Balancers are launching soon. Talk to us to reserve early access and pricing in your local currency, with no card to start.
Launching soon · 99.99% uptime SLA · Billed in NGN