Windows Server 2025 VPS Hosting in Kenya

Yes — it's Microsoft's current generally available server OS, released in late 2024, and it's what we recommend for new deployments that should outlive the older versions' support windows.

The newest license carries the highest rate, so each plan runs $2–$16/month above the same plan on Server 2022. In exchange you get the newest platform and roughly three extra years of support.

Microsoft supports Windows Server 2025 with extended support to October 2034 — the longest runway of any version we offer.

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.

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

On the four-core minimum the difference is KES 200 a month — KES 1,200 against KES 1,000 — or about KES 2,400 a year for roughly three extra years of support. On an eight-vCPU plan it is KES 2,400 against KES 2,000. Set against the cost of re-platforming an application in 2031, it is a small line.

Check the matrix before you build. Kenyan vendors and the international ones behind them certify at their own pace, and a good number still stop at 2022. If yours does, start there — our Server 2022 page is written for that, and moving to a newer version later is a fresh instance rather than a licence purchase.

Reaching a file share from a branch, a site office or someone's home connection without building a VPN to each one. It runs over a single UDP port with TLS 1.3, which behaves better on a mobile link than a tunnel usually does, and in Standard edition it is included rather than an upgrade.

You keep the platform that long, not the machine. Instances get resized, rebuilt and snapshotted throughout, but the version of Windows underneath them is what decides when you next have to test every application you own against something new.

Deploy a fresh 2025 instance, install the application on it, bring the data across and retire the old one. The licence is inside the plan price at both ends, so there is nothing to buy twice and nothing to key in — and you keep the old instance running until the new one has done real work.

No. The compute is identical across all three versions — same cores, same RAM, same NVMe storage. Only the licence component moves, which is why the price difference between the 16 GB Windows plan on 2022 at KES 18,510 and on 2025 at KES 18,910 is exactly eight cores of licence.

In ke-1a, in Nairobi. The file shares your branches open, the database behind the application and anything a user drops on the desktop are all held on a volume in Kenya — data residency for Kenya's Data Protection Act, on a machine in the same city as the team using it.

In KES, by M-Pesa, bank transfer or card, on a monthly or annual basis — annual billing charges for ten months and runs for twelve. Prices exclude VAT, with 16% added at checkout, and the invoice comes from Lineserve Limited.

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.