Rocky Linux VPS Hosting in Kenya

That's exactly what Rocky was created for, by one of CentOS's original founders. dnf, systemd, SELinux and the file layout all work the way your CentOS runbooks expect.

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

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

Yes. Every Rocky Linux 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. 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.

Technically it is built to be bug-for-bug compatible, so software documented for RHEL 9 behaves the same on it. Commercially, that is your vendor's call — ask them to confirm in writing which rebuilds they support before you build the production environment, because a support statement that names Red Hat specifically is a contractual fact rather than a technical one.

Rocky if the argument you may one day have to make is about faithfulness to Red Hat: it was founded by one of the original CentOS creators and is held by the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, which is a straightforward thing to write into a change record. AlmaLinux if the estate is hosting infrastructure with a control panel on it — that is what its ecosystem is built around, and our AlmaLinux page argues its own case.

It buys you the right not to do anything. A major release supported for a decade means the migration you dread is a patching routine instead, and the platform outlasts the vendor contract, the auditor's cycle and usually the person who signed for it.

It occasionally makes an installation take an hour longer, and that is the point of it. Enterprise software written for this family expects SELinux to be on and ships the policy it needs; leaving it enforcing is one of the reasons the family gets specified in the first place.

On the volume of an instance in ke-1a, in Nairobi. That matters more here than in most sectors: Kenya's Data Protection Act reaches a controller or processor handling the personal data of people in Kenya even when they sit outside the country, so hosting abroad never took you outside it. Keeping the data in Nairobi simply means the cross-border question never arises for it.

Yes. Every instance has a dedicated public IPv4 address and full root, so you can grant a partner SSH access, watch what they do, and remove the key when the project closes. The machine stays in your account and in Nairobi throughout.

Bare metal. LineServe Core 3 is 32 cores, 128 GB of RAM and 2 × 1.92 TB of RAID-1 SSD at KES 79,350 a month with a one-time KES 22,350 setup, and the line runs further up from there. Talk to sales for a sized configuration rather than guessing from a table.

By quote and bank transfer, usually annually, invoiced in KES by Lineserve Limited, which is registered for VAT in Kenya. Prices exclude VAT and 16% is added at checkout. Customer references are available under NDA if your procurement process needs one.

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.