Windows Server 2019 — deployed in Lagos
Windows Server 2019 VPS Hosting in Nigeria
For the Nigerian application whose vendor still says 2019.
A licensed, activated Windows Server 2019 Standard instance in ng-1a, with RDP and full administrator rights from first boot. Nobody starts here by preference — they start here because a payroll package, an ERP module or an application a Lagos agency built in 2018 is certified against this platform and nothing else. It carries the lowest Windows licence rate we charge: NGN 2,000 per vCPU per month on a four-core minimum, which is NGN 8,000. The 2 GB Windows plan starts at NGN 29,950 a month.
- Windows Server 2019 Standard, licensed and pre-activated
- Our lowest Windows licence rate — NGN 2,000 per vCPU per month
- Microsoft extended support runs to January 2029
- RDP and full administrator rights on every plan
- Hosted in ng-1a, Lagos, and billed in Naira
No credit card required · Billed in NGN
Pricing
Simple plans, billed in your currency
Windows licensing included on every plan. Pay in local currency — no cards, no forex surprises. Annual billing gets you two months free.
Windows VPS – 2 GB RAM
Windows Server for web applications.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 40 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2019 license included
Windows VPS – 4 GB RAM
Windows Server for production apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 2 vCPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 80 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2019 license included
Windows VPS – 8 GB RAM
Windows Server for high-traffic apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 160 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2019 license included
Windows VPS – 16 GB RAM
Windows Server for enterprise apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 8 vCPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 320 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2019 license included
Windows VPS – 32 GB RAM
Windows Server for large-scale apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 16 vCPU
- 32 GB RAM
- 640 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2019 license included
Windows VPS – 64 GB RAM
Windows Server at maximum scale.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 32 vCPU
- 64 GB RAM
- 1280 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2019 license included
Prices exclude VAT. Local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout. Need a custom configuration? Talk to Sales.
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Why Windows Server 2019
Why Windows Server 2019
Sometimes the right version is the one your software was certified against. Server 2019 is the mature choice for long-serving line-of-business stacks — at the lowest license price we offer.
- Our most affordable Windows Server license — every plan is $2–$16/mo less than 2022.
- Maximum compatibility with older .NET Framework and vendor apps.
- Licensed and activated under SPLA — nothing to bring or key in.
- Microsoft extended support runs to January 2029.
Windows Server 2019 images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on Windows Server 2019
Legacy .NET Framework apps
Applications built and certified on the 2016/2019 era run exactly as expected.
Line-of-business & ERP
Vendor software that specifies Server 2019 in its support matrix.
Older SQL Server versions
Host SQL Server releases that pair naturally with the 2019 platform.
IIS web applications
Classic ASP.NET and IIS sites on the platform they were deployed for.
File & application servers
Dependable SMB shares and app servers for a team or branch office.
Compatibility testing
Verify your software still behaves on the version your customers run.
Licence cost and runway
What the oldest licence saves, and how long you have
Windows Server Standard is licensed per vCPU on a minimum of four cores, and 2019 carries the lowest rate we charge in Naira: NGN 2,000 per vCPU per month, so NGN 8,000 on every plan up to four vCPU and NGN 16,000 on an eight-core machine. The arithmetic is visible in the plan list rather than folded into it — the 2 GB Windows plan on 2019 is NGN 29,950 a month against the Linux 2 GB plan's NGN 21,950, and the NGN 8,000 between them is the licence, exactly. The 8 GB Windows plan is NGN 91,300 at four cores; the 16 GB Windows plan is NGN 181,100 at eight.
Against 2022 Standard at NGN 2,500 per vCPU, a four-core 2019 instance runs NGN 2,000 a month lighter — NGN 24,000 over a year, and NGN 240,000 across a fleet of ten. The other half of the decision is time. Microsoft's extended support runs to January 2029: long enough to plan a platform move properly, short enough that a machine deployed today should have that move somewhere in its budget. If the application is genuinely tied to this version, run it here at the lower rate and spend the saving on the migration conversation with your vendor.
What is licensed, and what stays yours
We license the operating system: Windows Server 2019 Standard, supplied under a Services Provider License Agreement, billed per active instance and activated before you first connect. Everything above it keeps the entitlements it already has — the ERP, the accounting and payroll packages, any database engine you bring. With administrator rights, if you hold the licence, it installs and it runs.
Displayed prices exclude VAT; Nigerian VAT is 7.5% and is calculated at checkout. Talk to [email protected] about a fleet on one account, annual terms, or a sized SQL Server quote.
Who runs 2019 here
Nigerian software that has an opinion about the year
Every workload on this page has the same origin story. Somebody bought or built the application some years ago, it still does the job, and the people who support it will only do so on the platform they certified. That is a perfectly good reason to run a 2019 instance, and a bad reason to buy a newer one.
Line-of-business software from a Nigerian ISV
A great deal of Nigerian business software is written and maintained by small local software houses, and their support matrix is whatever they last tested against. When it says Server 2019, give them Server 2019 — a hosted instance behaves like the tower they installed it on, so the vendor's engineer connects over RDP, sees what they expect, and the support relationship stays intact.
Accounting, payroll and fixed-asset packages
The finance package the team has used for nine years, the payroll module nobody wants to migrate in the same quarter as a tax reform, the fixed-asset register with a thick client and a licence key. This is the most common reason a Nigerian business buys Windows hosting at all, and the least common place to want a platform change bundled in with it.
Older SQL Server releases
The database releases that pair naturally with the 2019 platform, still running the reporting the business actually uses. NVMe underneath, administrator rights over the service accounts, agent jobs that rebuild indexes at 02:00 and email a report at 06:00, and room to grow to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM without a change of supplier. SQL Server licensing stays separate from the Windows licence and is quoted per workload.
Classic ASP.NET and IIS applications
The portal, the intranet, the customer-facing form somebody built on the .NET Framework and which has quietly earned its keep ever since. It does not need rewriting to be moved. Build the 2019 instance, install it, bring the database across, run both for a week, then change DNS — the platform underneath is the one it was deployed for.
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
[email protected]FAQ
Questions, answered
Yes. Every plan on this page includes a licensed, activated Windows Server 2019 Standard under our SPLA — the price you see is the full price, and it's the lowest Windows license price we offer.
Compatibility and cost. If your application vendor certifies against Server 2019 — common for older .NET Framework and line-of-business software — it's the safest home, and each plan costs less than the same plan on a newer version.
Microsoft's extended support for Windows Server 2019 runs to January 2029, with security updates until then. For brand-new deployments with a longer horizon, consider our Server 2022 or 2025 plans.
Yes. Connect over RDP with full administrator rights from the first boot. It's your server to configure however you like.
Yes. Plans are sized for SQL Server workloads with fast NVMe storage and generous RAM. SQL Server licensing is handled separately from the base Windows license — talk to sales for a sized quote.
Yes. Resize to a larger plan as your workload grows, with minimal downtime. You can also move to Server 2022 or 2025 on a fresh instance whenever you're ready.
Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
Two reasons, in this order. Compatibility: if your vendor certifies against Server 2019 — common for older .NET Framework and Nigerian line-of-business software — it is the platform their support covers. Cost: it carries our lowest licence rate at NGN 2,000 per vCPU per month, so each plan is NGN 2,000 a month below the same machine on 2022 at four cores.
NGN 2,000 per vCPU per month on a minimum of four cores, which is NGN 8,000 a month on any plan up to four vCPU. You can check it against the Linux price list: Linux 2 GB plan is NGN 21,950 and the 2 GB Windows plan on 2019 is NGN 29,950, and the NGN 8,000 between them is the licence.
Microsoft's extended support runs to January 2029, with security updates until then. For a new deployment with a longer horizon and no compatibility constraint, 2022 or 2025 is the better starting point — both have their own pages and both run in the same Lagos region.
Yes, as a fresh build rather than an in-place upgrade: deploy the new instance, install the application, bring the data over, run both for a week, then move the users. The licensing side has nothing to migrate, because the new machine is licensed and activated before you connect to it.
In Naira, by bank transfer or card, settled inside Nigeria — licence component included, so no part of the charge is a foreign transaction. Displayed prices exclude VAT; Nigerian VAT is 7.5% on cloud and hosting services and is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
In ng-1a, our Lagos region — and on a Windows machine that means the whole volume, not only a database: the application, the shares, the exports, the mail archive and any local backup. That gives you data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA), and nothing moves out of Nigeria without your instruction.
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 Windows Server 2019 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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