Ubuntu VPS Hosting in Kenya

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

Yes. Every Ubuntu 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. Run Ubuntu's standard do-release-upgrade in place, or deploy a fresh 24.04 server and migrate. Either way, snapshot first so you can roll back in a click.

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.

It is one of the better ones. On a small Kenyan team the operating system is a staffing decision as much as a technical one: Ubuntu LTS is what Nairobi bootcamps teach, what most CVs list, and what the person covering for you during leave will recognise. Debian, Rocky and AlmaLinux are all here too, and all free — pick them when you have a specific reason, not by default.

Yes. It is the same Ubuntu image with the same apt sources, full root and SSH key access, and cloud-init on first boot, so the commands do not change. What changes is where the machine sits: your users reach it inside Kenya instead of across an ocean.

Most start smaller than they expect. A 2 GB plan at KES 2,195 a month carries a staging environment or a modest site; a 4 GB plan at KES 4,240 runs a small production application with its database; an 8 GB plan at KES 8,330 is where a product with real daily traffic tends to settle. You can resize between them as you grow. Prices exclude VAT, and 16% is added at checkout.

With planning, yes — and the Kenyan calendar gives you the dates in advance. Put a cache in front, snapshot before the event, resize to a larger plan for the week, and drop back after. The events that break Kenyan sites are rarely surprises; they are elections, budget day and results announcements.

On anything a cache cannot serve, yes — the logged-in page, the search, the form submission. Traffic between ke-1a and Kenyan networks is exchanged at KIXP in Nairobi, so it stays in the city. An overseas origin sends the same request to Mombasa, under the sea and back before your visitor sees a pixel.

It can be, and an LTS release gives you years of security updates to do it with. But if the box is one you intend to set up and leave alone, read our Debian page; if a software vendor has written Red Hat Enterprise Linux into your support matrix, read the Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux pages. All of those images are free on the same plans.

Yes. M-Pesa, card and bank transfer are all supported for Kenyan customers, everything is priced in KES, and the Ubuntu image itself costs nothing — the plan price is the whole price of the server.

Yes. The same Ubuntu images deploy into tz-1a in Dar es Salaam and ng-1a in Lagos from the same account, so the cloud-init user data and the deploy script you wrote for Nairobi carry across, and each market's traffic is served from its own region.

In Nairobi. The database volume, the uploads directory and the logs all live on an instance in ke-1a, inside the country your users are in. That is data residency for Kenya's Data Protection Act: your personal data is held in Nairobi, where your own regulator and your own auditors can reach it.

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.