Fedora — six months ahead
Fedora VPS Hosting in Kenya
A small, specific group of Kenyan developers, each with a good reason.
Fedora is not the server you set up and leave for five years, and the people who choose it know that already. It is the box a Nairobi developer keeps because their laptop runs Fedora too, the build runner that needs a compiler no long-term release ships yet, and the machine a careful team points at next year's Red Hat before their production estate has to meet it. Deploy the current release in ke-1a and rebuild it whenever you feel like it.
- Deploy in under 60 seconds
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- Four locally-hosted regions — Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- Data residency for Kenya's Data Protection Act — your data stays in-country
- Free DDoS protection
No credit card required · Billed in KES
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 Fedora
Why Fedora on Lineserve
Fedora is where tomorrow's enterprise Linux is built: new kernels, GCC, Python and container tooling land here first — ideal when you need what shipped last month, not three years ago.
- The newest kernels, compilers and language runtimes in mainstream Linux.
- Upstream of RHEL — what you build here is where the RHEL family is heading.
- First-class container tooling with Podman built in.
- The image is free on every plan — you only pay for the server.
Fedora images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on Fedora
Development environments
Build against the toolchain versions your team will standardise on next.
Latest-kernel workloads
Features and drivers that haven't reached LTS distros yet — eBPF, new filesystems, fresh hardware support.
Podman & containers
Rootless containers with Podman and Buildah, no daemon required.
CI & build runners
Disposable, always-current build machines — snapshot, run, destroy.
Testing before RHEL family
Validate your stack against what's coming to Rocky and AlmaLinux later.
Modern language stacks
Current Python, Go, Rust and Node without third-party repos or version managers.
Who runs here
Who actually deploys Fedora in Nairobi
The developer whose laptop is already Fedora
Same dnf, same SELinux behaviour, same Podman, same package names. For a developer who works this way the server is an extension of the desk rather than a second environment to learn, and the gap where bugs hide — it works locally, it fails on the server — narrows to almost nothing.
Build and CI runners
Current Go, Rust, Node and Python toolchains without third-party repositories or a version manager per language, on a runner that is yours rather than a queue you share with strangers. Running it in ke-1a also means the source, the artefacts and the signing keys stay on a machine in Kenya.
An early warning for a conservative estate
This is the strongest reason a cautious Kenyan team keeps one. Fedora is upstream of Red Hat, so the package that will argue with your Rocky or AlmaLinux fleet argues here first. One small instance is a cheaper way to find that out than a production release weekend.
University and research groups
Project boxes at Kenyan universities and technical institutes, where the work needs a kernel, a filesystem or a library that no long-term release has picked up yet, and where the machine is expected to be rebuilt at the end of the semester anyway.
Experiments with an end date
Something you intend to break: a proof of concept for a client, a spike on a new runtime, a container stack you want to test rootless. Deploy it, learn from it, snapshot if it turns out to matter, destroy it when it does not.
Regions
Nairobi is home. The other two are there when you need them.
ke-1a is in Nairobi, and for a Kenyan business that is most of the argument. Your customers arrive on Safaricom, on Faiba, on Zuku, on Poa — 2.65 million fixed subscriptions and 84.1 million active SIMs, nearly all of them inside the country. Lineserve peers at KIXP, the neutral exchange TESPOK runs across four Nairobi facilities, so traffic between your instance and another of its 136 networks is handed over a few kilometres away. A round trip that starts and finishes inside the metro is typically around 2 ms.
That matters because of where Kenya's bandwidth comes ashore. Every international subsea cable lands at Mombasa — SEACOM, EASSy, TEAMS, PEACE, DARE1 and LION2 — and the capacity is hauled roughly 480 km inland before it reaches a Nairobi rack. Anything leaving the country still makes that trip. Domestic traffic takes the other route entirely, exchanged in Nairobi between networks in the same city, and choosing ke-1a decides which of those two journeys your checkout depends on.
Dar es Salaam and Lagos sit on the same account, the same API and the same shilling invoice. Open tz-1a when you start selling into Tanzania and want the data held there under Tanzanian law, or ng-1a when Lagos becomes a market rather than a pin on a map. They are also where a copy goes when you want one outside Kenya — a standby database, a backup bucket — which makes disaster recovery a configuration change instead of a second supplier.
Kenya
Nairobi
~2 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Kenya
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
~6 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Tanzania
Nigeria
Lagos
~4 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Nigeria
Uganda
Kampala
~3 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Uganda
Uptime SLA
99.9%
- DDoS filtering is included, not an upsell
- Service credits applied automatically when we miss the SLA
- Measured monthly, per region, on network and power availability
Support
A Nairobi number, and East Africa Time all year
Kenya has its own line: +254 119 039 063. Alongside it are [email protected] and the ticket system, and Lineserve Limited keeps an office on Utalii Lane, View Park Towers, in the Nairobi CBD. A supplier with a street address in your own city is a different kind of counterparty from a web form and a billing address in another hemisphere.
Kenya runs on East Africa Time, UTC+3, and has never observed daylight saving. That reads like trivia until you are the one holding the phone. Business hours here mean the same thing in January and in July; nothing slides by an hour twice a year because another country changed its clocks. When your checkout starts throwing 502s at 09:20 on a Tuesday, it is 09:20 for whoever picks up — an ordinary working morning in the same city, rather than the small hours of somebody's Monday night, eight time zones west.
The other half of local support is vocabulary, not hours. The person you reach knows what a Safaricom callback is, what KIXP has to do with the trace you are staring at, and why your finance team wants a KRA PIN on the invoice. None of that has to be explained before the actual problem can be. Buy from somewhere that has never sold into Kenya and the first twenty minutes of every serious ticket go on describing the country.
Kenya
+254 119 039 063Sales
[email protected]FAQ
Questions, answered
The current Fedora release, kept up to date — Fedora ships a new major roughly every six months, and our image tracks it. You can also bring your own image with a custom ISO.
Fedora releases are supported for about 13 months, so they suit servers you actively maintain and upgrade. For boxes you want to set up and leave for years, Ubuntu LTS, Debian, Rocky or AlmaLinux are the better fit — we offer them all.
Yes. All Linux images, Fedora included, are free on every plan — the plan price is the full price of the server.
Yes. Every Fedora 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. Fedora's dnf system-upgrade moves you to the next release in place — snapshot first so you can roll back in a click. Or rebuild fresh; deploys take under a minute.
Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
Usually not. A Fedora release is supported for about thirteen months, so it fits machines you actively tend rather than ones you want to forget. For a Kenyan business putting up a server that has to keep running, Ubuntu LTS, Debian, Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux are the better homes — every one of those images is free on the same plans, in the same Nairobi region.
By treating the box as rebuildable. Keep your cloud-init user data in the same repository as the code, so a fresh instance on the new release is a deploy rather than a project, and use the in-place upgrade path when you would rather not. Snapshot first either way.
Because a laptop closes, moves and loses power. A build that takes forty minutes keeps running when your office does not, a teammate in Mombasa or Kisumu reaches the same machine you do, and the instance has a dedicated public IPv4 address that a webhook or a client demo can actually point at.
Yes, and for some Kenyan clients that is the deciding detail. The runner, the checkout of their code and the artefacts it produces all live on an instance in ke-1a — data residency for Kenya's Data Protection Act applies to a build server holding source and test data as much as to a production database.
Probably not — most Kenyan developers arrive having used Ubuntu. The skills that do transfer are the ones that matter for the rest of your estate: dnf, systemd and SELinux here are dnf, systemd and SELinux on Rocky and AlmaLinux, so a Fedora box quietly trains people for the enterprise family.
One Fedora instance and a long-term release carrying the actual workload. The Fedora box is where you find out what changes; the LTS or enterprise box is where nothing is allowed to.
No. Every Linux image here is free, Fedora included, so a Fedora instance costs the same as the identical Ubuntu one — a 2 GB plan at KES 2,195 a month, a 4 GB plan at KES 4,240. Kenyan customers pay in KES by M-Pesa, card or bank transfer, and 16% VAT is added at checkout.
Yes. Deploys take under a minute with cloud-init doing the setup on first boot, so destroying and recreating is a normal working rhythm here rather than an event. That is most of the reason the short support window bothers Fedora users so little.
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.
Deploy your Fedora 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 KES
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