AlmaLinux VPS Hosting in Uganda

Yes. AlmaLinux is one of cPanel's officially supported operating systems — it's the OS most cPanel servers run today. You bring your own cPanel license; the OS itself is free.

They're close cousins: both free, RHEL-compatible CentOS successors. AlmaLinux is the safer pick for cPanel and web-hosting stacks; otherwise the choice mostly comes down to which community you prefer. We offer both.

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

Yes. Every AlmaLinux 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.

No — the AlmaLinux image is free on every plan, and the panel licence is bought separately from the panel vendor or through a reseller. That is the ordinary arrangement in this market and it keeps the licence in your name rather than ours, which matters when you move an estate.

For a first estate of a dozen small client sites, the 8 GB plan at UGX 310,000 a month is the usual landing spot — four vCPU and 160 GB of NVMe leaves room for the panel's own overhead, which is heavier than people expect. The 4 GB plan at UGX 158,000 works for a handful of brochure sites. You can resize up without rebuilding.

Because the panel vendors say so. Support for control panels is written against the Red Hat family, and running the base the vendor documents is what keeps a support ticket about your actual problem. Where there is no panel involved and you are deploying your own application, Ubuntu or Debian are perfectly reasonable and both are free here too.

Largely, yes. Build the new Alma instance in ug-1a, restore the panel backups account by account, verify each site against a temporary hostname, then move DNS. Because you cut over one client at a time, nobody has a bad week — and the old server stays up as a fallback for as long as you keep paying for it.

On anything the cache cannot serve, they do — the contact form, the search, the logged-in editor your client uses to update their own page. Uganda is landlocked, so an overseas server puts an overland haul to the coast and an ocean crossing into each of those, twice. A Kampala server does not.

In shillings, on one account. Most Ugandan resellers settle on a bank transfer once there are several boxes, because it reconciles as a single monthly figure. MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money and card all work too, and they suit the instance you added mid-month.

Yes. Every instance has a dedicated IPv4 address and a free /64 IPv6 block, so any name you or your client holds — .ug, .co.ug, .or.ug, .com — points at it with an ordinary record at the registrar. You keep the domains wherever they are registered.

In ug-1a, in Kampala — the databases, the uploads, the mailboxes and any panel backup you write beside them. That is data residency for Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act, and it is a straightforward thing to be able to tell a client who asks where their customers' details are held.

Put the origin in Kampala and a CDN in front of it. A tour operator or an exporter selling abroad gets cached delivery to their overseas visitors and a Ugandan origin they and their agency can reach quickly — which is the right shape rather than a compromise.

Yes. The same AlmaLinux image deploys into ke-1a in Nairobi, tz-1a in Dar es Salaam and ng-1a in Lagos, so an agency with clients across the region can put each client's estate in the country its visitors are in, all under one console and one invoice.

Often, once a client is big enough to notice each other's neighbours. Give them a 4 GB plan at UGX 158,000 a month with their own panel account, their own PHP version and their own backup schedule, and price it as a managed line rather than a hosting line. It also makes the eventual conversation about them taking the estate in-house a clean one instead of an untangling exercise.

There is a 99.9% uptime SLA on the infrastructure, with snapshots and scheduled backups available on every plan. What you promise your clients on top of that is your commercial decision — but having a written commitment underneath your own is a reasonable thing to build a retainer on.

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

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

Pay in Uganda Shillings using MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money, bank transfer, or card. No foreign card or forex conversion is required.

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