CentOS VPS Hosting in Kenya

For most workloads, yes — it's the same enterprise base as RHEL with continuously delivered, tested updates. Teams that want fixed point releases with a ten-year lifecycle usually pick Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux instead; all three are free on every plan.

CentOS Stream 9 is available at deploy time and kept current. You can also bring your own image with a custom ISO.

Yes. All Linux images, CentOS Stream included, are free on every plan — the plan price is the full price of the server.

Yes. Every CentOS Stream 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. The cleanest route is to deploy a fresh Rocky or AlmaLinux server and migrate your workload — deploys take under a minute, and your runbooks carry over almost unchanged. Snapshot first, as always.

Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.

Sort the estate into three piles. Boxes with a software vendor behind them go to Rocky Linux, which is the like-for-like RHEL rebuild. Boxes with a hosting panel go to AlmaLinux, which the panel vendors support. Boxes that exist to test or track what Red Hat ships next belong on CentOS Stream. All three images are free on every plan.

If you are public-sector or funded by someone who is, the financial year runs 1 July to 30 June, which puts the money for a migration in the April-to-June window and the calm to actually do it in July and August. Private-sector budgets usually settle in the last quarter for the following January. Either way, book the cutover for a week nobody is closing accounts.

Ask them which RHEL 9-compatible distribution they will support, and get the answer in writing before you build anything. In practice most vendors who wrote CentOS in 2018 write Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 today, which Rocky and AlmaLinux are both built to be compatible with.

Longer than moving one and much less than ten times as long, because the first migration is where you write the runbook. Budget a fortnight for the first service, then a couple of days each. Keep every old machine running until its replacement has served real traffic for a week.

No. The old instance and the new one both sit in ke-1a in Nairobi, so the dump, the rsync and the verification pass all happen inside Kenya. Your data residency position on the day after the move is the same as on the day before it.

It depends what the old box was. A modest CentOS 7 web or reporting server usually maps to a 4 GB plan at KES 4,240 or an 8 GB plan at KES 8,330 a month; consolidating several tired machines onto one instance tends to land around a 16 GB plan at KES 16,510. Prices exclude VAT, with 16% added at checkout.

Mostly. It is the same family: dnf where you may still be typing yum, systemd, SELinux enforcing by default, firewalld, and the file layout your scripts expect. What changes is package versions, so the work is in your application's dependencies rather than in relearning the system.

Yes, and you should. Run both, drop your DNS TTL a day ahead, cut over, and keep the old instance for a month before you destroy it. An extra month of a small plan is the cheapest insurance in this project.

No. Rocky, AlmaLinux, Stream, Ubuntu and Debian all deploy from the same account in the same region, priced the same, with the image free in every case. Deploy the replacement beside what you have and move when it is proved.

Yes. Your data is hosted in Kenya and stays in-country, giving you data residency for Kenya's Data Protection Act. It isn't moved out of Kenya without your instruction.

In our Nairobi data centre (ke-1a). Your content is stored and served from Nairobi, close to your users.

Pay in your local currency using M-Pesa and other mobile money, bank transfer, or card. No foreign card or forex conversion is required.

You're billed in KES. Prices can be viewed in USD, KES, TZS, or NGN, but as a Kenya customer you pay in KES with no forex conversion.