Ubuntu — deployed in Lagos
Ubuntu VPS Hosting in Nigeria
The distribution Lagos already knows, in a Lagos region.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on NVMe in ng-1a, with your SSH key loaded and cloud-init finished before you open a terminal. It is the distribution nearly every Nigerian engineer has muscle memory for: the one the bootcamps teach, the one the guide you are following at 01:00 assumes, the one your next hire has been running since university. From NGN 21,950 a month on a Naira price list.
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or 22.04 LTS — the image is free on every plan
- Full root, SSH keys and cloud-init on first boot
- Deployed in ng-1a, Lagos, and priced in Naira
- Card or bank transfer, settled inside Nigeria
- Resize from 1 to 32 vCPU without changing distribution
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 Ubuntu
Why Ubuntu on Lineserve
Ubuntu LTS pairs five years of security updates with the largest package ecosystem in Linux — and on Lineserve it lands on NVMe hardware in your region, ready the moment it boots.
- The image is free on every plan — you only pay for the server.
- LTS releases get five years of security updates from Canonical.
- Cloud-init runs your setup on first boot — packages, users, and keys, done.
- apt and the Ubuntu ecosystem: almost everything you'll ever install is a package away.
Ubuntu images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on Ubuntu
Web hosting & WordPress
Nginx or Apache with PHP and a database — the classic LAMP/LEMP stack Ubuntu is famous for.
Docker & containers
Ubuntu is the most common Docker host in the world. Install the engine and compose your stack in minutes.
Node.js, Python & Go apps
First-class toolchains via apt and snap; run your API or app server behind a reverse proxy.
PostgreSQL & MySQL
NVMe-backed databases with predictable performance, snapshots before risky migrations.
Dev & staging boxes
Spin up a disposable environment per branch, then snapshot or destroy it when you're done.
VPN & network edge
WireGuard or OpenVPN on a dedicated IPv4 in your region, with a free /64 IPv6 block.
Who runs Ubuntu here
What Lagos actually builds on Ubuntu
Defaults matter more in Nigeria than they look. The engineer you hire in Yaba has run Ubuntu since university, the deploy script they wrote at their last job already works on it, and the person answering your 02:00 question in a Nigerian developer group is answering about apt. These are the workloads that end up on it.
The first server a Nigerian startup buys
Django, Rails, Laravel or Node behind Nginx, Postgres on the same box, TLS from certbot, and a deploy script somebody wrote on a Sunday. A startup buying its first machine is usually buying it before anyone on the team has servers in their job title — which is exactly when the largest package ecosystem in Linux earns its price. The 2 GB plan at NGN 21,950 a month carries that stage, and the machine grows when the traffic does.
Betting and iGaming backends, built for kickoff
One of Nigeria's largest online sectors, and the least forgiving traffic shape in the country. Nothing happens for an hour, then a match starts and odds ingestion, bet placement and settlement all peak inside the same ninety seconds. Teams build these on Ubuntu because the answer to a burst is more identical machines — same image, same cloud-init, same package versions, up in under a minute and gone on Monday. The agent and retail terminal backends run on the same stack.
Payment APIs and the containers around them
Ubuntu is the most common Docker host in the world, and in Nigerian fintech it is usually what sits under the payment API, the webhook receiver taking instant-payment callbacks, and the sandbox a partner bank gets pointed at. Nothing exotic — the engine from apt, compose files in Git, Redis beside Postgres. What has changed is that where those containers run now has a date attached: the CBN directs that payment transaction data generated in Nigeria be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027.
Agency fleets, where every box is the same box
Lagos has a dense agency market and it survives on standardisation. WordPress and Laravel client sites, Git runners, staging that mirrors production because it is the same cloud-init definition. One runbook covers the whole fleet, and anyone on the team can fix any machine at 22:00. Size each client to its own plan — the 2 GB plan at NGN 21,950 for a brochure site, the 4 GB plan at NGN 42,400 for a store that trades — rather than stacking twelve sites onto one overloaded box.
Edtech through an exam window
A national exam date is the one peak in Nigerian capacity planning you can write into a calendar months ahead. Video lessons, question banks, progress databases, and a registration flow that meets a large share of the country in a single morning. Ubuntu LTS gives five years of security updates, so the platform you build for this intake is still patched for the one after it, and vCPU, RAM and storage each resize for the fortnight that matters and come back down afterwards.
Build runners, staging, and the branch you throw away
A box per branch, an Ubuntu runner for the pipeline, a staging environment that matches production because it was built from the same image. Nigerian teams put these in Lagos for a reason that has nothing to do with distance: a laptop in a Lagos flat loses power at the wrong moment, and a build running in ng-1a is indifferent to what the grid did that afternoon.
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.
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Questions, answered
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is the default image, with 22.04 LTS also available at deploy time — both kept current. You can also bring your own image with a custom ISO.
Yes. All Linux images, Ubuntu included, are free on every plan — the plan price is the full price of the server.
Yes. Every Ubuntu 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. Run Ubuntu's standard do-release-upgrade in place, or deploy a fresh 24.04 server and migrate. Either way, snapshot first so you can roll back in a click.
Yes. Resize to a larger plan as your workload grows, with minimal downtime. Compute and storage scale together across the tiers.
Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
Hiring and habit. Ubuntu is what Nigerian bootcamps teach, what the guides your team follows assume, and what almost every new hire has already run. That turns into fewer surprises on a Friday evening: the error message you paste into a search box has thousands of answers behind it, and every one of them assumes apt.
In ng-1a, our Lagos region. The instance and its NVMe volume 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. Transfer is what most Nigerian buyers reach for, particularly when several instances sit on one account; card suits a single machine you want running in the next ten minutes.
A real Naira price, taken from our own per-currency price list rather than derived from a dollar figure at checkout. The number you put in a budget in February is the number that leaves the account in September. Displayed prices exclude VAT; Nigerian VAT is 7.5% and is calculated at checkout.
Those two networks carry roughly 86% of Nigeria's 189.68 million active mobile lines, and both of them are inside Nigeria — as is ng-1a. The request has a Nigerian origin and a Nigerian destination with no ocean in between. Your Ubuntu box is the part of that journey you control.
Yes, in two ways. vCPU, RAM and storage each resize independently up to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM on the same instance, and identical Ubuntu images deploy in under a minute behind a balancer when the answer is more machines rather than a bigger one. Both are the same account and the same Naira invoice.
Ubuntu is the wrong tool for that job and there is no need to force it. Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux are RHEL-compatible, free on every plan, and available in the same Lagos region — common in Nigerian fintech and anywhere a support matrix names RHEL. Both have their own pages.
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 Ubuntu 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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