Windows Server 2022 — deployed in Lagos
Windows Server 2022 VPS Hosting in Nigeria
The version to buy when nothing is forcing your hand.
A licensed, activated Windows Server 2022 Standard instance in ng-1a, with RDP and full administrator rights from first boot. It is what most Nigerian Windows workloads should be on: the release vendors certify against first, hardened, mature, and supported to October 2031. The licence is NGN 2,500 per vCPU per month on a four-core minimum — NGN 10,000, sitting inside the price. The 2 GB Windows plan starts at NGN 31,950 a month, in Naira.
- Windows Server 2022 Standard, licensed and pre-activated
- The release most current vendor matrices list first
- Microsoft extended support runs to October 2031
- RDP and full administrator rights on every plan
- One version across the whole fleet, on one Naira account
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 2022 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 2022 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 2022 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 2022 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 2022 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 2022 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 2022
Why Windows Server 2022
Server 2022 is the sweet spot: years of production maturity, modern security hardening, and support running into the next decade — the default choice unless you have a reason otherwise.
- The version most current Windows software targets and vendors certify first.
- Modern security baseline — TLS 1.3 by default and hardened protocols.
- Licensed and activated under SPLA — nothing to bring or key in.
- Microsoft extended support runs to October 2031.
Windows Server 2022 images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on Windows Server 2022
.NET & IIS applications
Current ASP.NET and IIS workloads on the platform they're built for today.
SQL Server workloads
NVMe-backed database hosting sized for SQL Server — licensing quoted separately.
Trading platforms
MT4/MT5 and broker terminals running 24/7 with a dedicated IPv4.
Line-of-business apps
The version modern vendor support matrices list first.
Remote work & admin
An always-on Windows desktop over RDP with full administrator rights.
File & application servers
Dependable SMB shares and app servers on a hardened, current base.
Who runs 2022 here
The standard build for a Nigerian Windows estate
The value of a default is that it is the same everywhere. One version across every instance means one patch schedule, one set of images, one answer when a new engineer asks what the estate runs, and one platform your vendors have all tested against. In Nigeria that consistency is worth more than it looks, because the team maintaining it is usually small and rarely in the same city.
The estate you standardise
Production, staging, the reporting box, the file server, the machine somebody stood up for a project and never turned off. Running them all on 2022 turns a set of individual servers into an estate: the same base image, the same hardening, the same monthly update window, and a support horizon to October 2031 that covers every one of them at once. New instances deploy in under 60 seconds, already licensed and activated, so the standard stays standard.
.NET and IIS production for Nigerian ISVs and agencies
Lagos has a dense software market shipping ASP.NET and IIS to Nigerian clients, and 2022 is the platform current tooling assumes. Production instances, a build agent, a staging box that mirrors what the customer will actually run, and a demo environment you can hand a prospect a link to — quoted to that client in Naira, on a figure that does not need re-quoting next quarter.
SQL Server and the reporting the business runs on
The database behind the ERP, the reporting instance the analysts hammer at month end, the agent jobs that rebuild indexes overnight and email a report before anyone arrives. NVMe underneath, administrator rights over the service accounts, and headroom to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM. SQL Server licensing sits separately from the Windows licence and is quoted per workload.
The payments and finance back office
Nigerian fintech's customer-facing APIs are usually Linux; the tooling wrapped around them frequently is not. Reconciliation, settlement, regulatory reporting, the extract a partner bank insists on receiving as a workbook. Where those carry Nigerian payment transaction data, the CBN's direction that it be stored and managed in Nigeria — full compliance from 1 January 2027 — is a question about which building the instance sits in, and ng-1a answers it in one sentence.
Directory, file and application services across cities
One environment that head office in Lagos, the branch in Abuja, the depot in Port Harcourt and a manager in Kano all reach the same way, on the same version, with the same data. A 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic is what makes the file half of that bearable — the month-end pack pulled down, the folder of scanned invoices pushed up, the backup dragged across at 16:45 on a Friday.
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 2022 Standard under our SPLA. The price you see is the full price — nothing to bring or key in.
It balances maturity and runway: years of production hardening, first-line vendor certification, and Microsoft extended support to October 2031. Pick 2019 for older certified software or 2025 for the longest support horizon.
Microsoft's extended support for Windows Server 2022 runs to October 2031, with security updates until then.
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 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.
It balances maturity against runway. Years of production hardening, first-line certification from most vendors, and Microsoft extended support to October 2031. Pick 2019 instead when your software specifies it, and 2025 when you are deliberately building something you want supported into the 2030s. All three run in the same Lagos region.
NGN 2,500 per vCPU per month on a minimum of four cores — NGN 10,000 a month on any plan up to four vCPU, and NGN 20,000 on an eight-core machine. The two price lists show it plainly: Linux 2 GB plan is NGN 21,950 and the 2 GB Windows plan is NGN 31,950, and the NGN 10,000 between them is the licence.
Where nothing forces otherwise, yes — that is the whole argument for a default. One patch window, one image, one set of vendor conversations. Keep a 2019 instance for the application that genuinely needs it rather than holding the entire estate back to its matrix.
Microsoft's extended support runs to October 2031, with security updates until then. That is comfortably longer than the life of most Nigerian line-of-business deployments, and long enough that a machine built today will not need re-platforming inside its budget horizon.
Yes. Plans are sized for it — NVMe storage, generous RAM, and administrator rights over the service accounts. SQL Server licensing is handled separately from the base Windows licence; send [email protected] the edition and core count you need and we will quote it.
In Naira, by bank transfer or card, licence component included and settled inside Nigeria. Bank transfer is the usual rail at these amounts and fits a purchase-order process. Displayed prices exclude VAT; Nigerian VAT is 7.5% and is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
In ng-1a, our Lagos region — the instance, its NVMe volume, the shares and exports on it, and its snapshots and scheduled backups. That gives you data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act (NDPA), and nothing moves out of Nigeria without your instruction.
Plans resize as the workload grows, from 2 GB Windows plan at NGN 31,950 a month to 64 GB Windows plan at NGN 735,900, and the licence component moves with the core count. Changing Windows version is a fresh build rather than an in-place upgrade — the new instance arrives licensed and activated, so only the application and the data have to move.
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 2022 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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