Hosted in Kampala — ug-1a
VPS Hosting in Uganda
Linux or Windows, live in 60 seconds, priced in shillings.
A virtual private server in Kampala, on NVMe storage, with full root on Linux or administrator rights over RDP on Windows, a dedicated IPv4 and a free /64 IPv6 on every plan. Linux starts at UGX 81,750 a month and Windows at UGX 119,000 with the Server 2022 Standard licence already activated. You are quoted in shillings, invoiced in shillings and you settle from MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money, a bank transfer or a card — and the machine your customers reach is in the same city most of them are, on the near side of a border they no longer have to cross.
- Deploy in under 60 seconds
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- Four locally-hosted regions — Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- Data residency for Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act — your data stays in-country
- Free DDoS protection
No credit card required · Billed in UGX
Pricing
Linux and Windows plans, billed in your currency
Windows licensing included on every Windows plan. Pay in local currency — no cards, no forex surprises. 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.
Network
The request that stops leaving the country
Someone opens your link on an MTN handset in Nakawa. The request reaches a machine in Kampala, and the reply comes back. That is the whole journey. Now run the same tap against a VPS in Frankfurt or London. It leaves Kampala on terrestrial fibre, crosses a border at Malaba, Busia or Mutukula, runs the length of Kenya or Tanzania to the coast, joins a submarine cable at Mombasa or Dar es Salaam, travels the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea or goes round the Cape, crosses the Mediterranean, enters a European carrier network — and then does all of it again in reverse with the answer.
Repeat that for the DNS lookup, the TCP handshake, the TLS negotiation, the HTML, every image and script the browser did not already hold, every API call behind the page, and every database round trip each of those calls makes. A modern page is not one journey, it is dozens, and each one pays the full distance twice. This is where Uganda's geography stops being trivia. Kenya's traffic reaches the sea inside Kenya; Tanzania's reaches it inside Tanzania. Uganda has no coastline at all, so a Ugandan request bound for Europe pays for an overland haul of roughly 900 to 1,000 kilometres through somebody else's country before the ocean even starts. A VPS in ug-1a is not a marginally shorter path. It is the removal of two legs of the journey.
Your users are not on one network, and copy that pretends otherwise was written for a different country. MTN Uganda and Airtel Uganda hold more than 90% of Ugandan mobile subscriptions between them, roughly balanced, and the UCC counted 49 million active subscriptions and 19.7 million active mobile internet subscriptions in the quarter ending June 2026, with average consumption at 3.7 GB per user per month. There is no favoured-carrier trick in any of this. There is an origin that is domestic to both of them at the same time.
If your customers are offices rather than handsets, they arrive over the enterprise layer instead — Roke Telkom, CSquared's Kampala metro fibre, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, BCS Group, Tangerine, Africell and Paratus, with RENU carrying the universities and NITA-U carrying government connectivity. Most of that layer meets in Kampala at UIXP, the exchange that has run since 2001 with 26 participating networks and 380G of connected capacity on PeeringDB. Traffic exchanged between two Ugandan networks in Kampala is traffic that did not travel to Mombasa and back to get across town.
Upcountry is the other half of the coverage question, and it is answered by fibre rather than by a second region. The UCC put Uganda's national fibre optic network at 80,257 km in June 2026, up from 71,740 km three months before, and NITA-U's National Backbone Infrastructure reaches regional centres and the border posts. Gulu, Mbarara, Mbale, Jinja, Arua, Hoima and Fort Portal reach a Kampala server over domestic infrastructure. A field team on a thin link in the north is uploading into the same country it is standing in, which is the difference between a slow upload and a failed one.
UGX 81,750
Linux VPS, entry plan, per month, excluding VAT
60s
Typical time from order to a booted machine
0
Submarine cables landing in Uganda — capacity arrives overland
49M
Active mobile subscriptions in Uganda (UCC, Q2 2026)
Build for a mid-range Android, and for a feature phone
Uganda counted 58.3 million active mobile device connections in early 2026 — 20.3 million smartphones against 24.7 million feature phones and 13.3 million basic phones. The person waiting on your login screen is on a mid-range handset on mobile data. The person hitting your USSD menu is not on a browser at all. Page weight, round trips and origin location are the three things you control, and only one of them takes an afternoon.
Two callback endpoints, not one
If your application takes money, it is receiving webhooks from MTN and from Airtel, and both of those callbacks originate inside Uganda. An endpoint in Europe means each of them makes the overland-plus-subsea trip before your server acknowledges it, and again for the acknowledgement. Collections traffic is short, frequent and unforgiving of a long path — which is exactly the workload that gains the most from moving.
Everything on the plan, on every plan
NVMe storage, a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, one dedicated public IPv4 and a free /64 of IPv6, always-on DDoS mitigation, on-demand snapshots and scheduled backups, private networking between your instances, a browser console, and a full API and CLI. There are no feature tiers here — you choose the operating system and the size, and nothing else is gated behind a bigger plan.
Payments
A VPS you can pay for from a wallet
A monthly VPS bill is exactly the size of payment Uganda already makes 2.55 billion times a quarter. The UCC counted 37.8 million active mobile money users in the quarter ending June 2026, and the market runs on two wallets rather than one: MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money, on the two networks that carry more than 90% of subscriptions. Both are accepted, alongside bank transfer and card. Whatever you use, the amount is a shilling amount that settles inside Uganda.
MTN Mobile Money
A UGX 81,750 Linux VPS or a UGX 119,000 Windows plan is an ordinary MoMo payment, authorised with a PIN on your own handset. No card on file, no bank onboarding, no forex. VAT at 18% is calculated and shown at checkout.
Airtel Money
The same purchase from the other wallet, as a first-class method rather than an afterthought. Roughly half of Uganda's mobile base is on Airtel, and a supplier that only takes MTN is a supplier half this market has to work around.
Bank transfer
What a Ugandan business reaches for once the number outgrows a wallet limit — a 32 GB plan at UGX 1,224,000 a month, several instances at once, or a year taken up front at ten months for twelve. One transfer, one reference, and a document your accounts team can reconcile without asking anybody what it was for.
Card
Visa and Mastercard, charged in shillings, for the finance teams that would rather keep a card on file than authorise a payment every thirty days. Ugandan card use concentrates in Kampala and in banked segments, so it sits fourth here for a reason — but a virtual Mastercard issued through MTN MoMo also means a subscriber without a bank card can still clear a card-only checkout.
Displayed prices exclude VAT; Uganda's 18% is calculated and shown separately at checkout. Annual billing runs ten months for twelve on eligible plans, and you can start without a payment method on file and add one later.
Pick your OS
Same servers, your operating system
Every plan runs on the same NVMe-backed platform — choose the operating system that fits your stack, or dig into the dedicated page for each.
Linux VPS
Full root and SSH from first boot, with free images kept current — for web servers, containers, databases, and everything open source.
- Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky, AlmaLinux & Fedora
- Cloud-init ready on deploy
- Images free on every plan
Windows VPS
A licensed, activated Windows Server with full administrator rights over RDP — for .NET applications, SQL Server, and trading platforms.
- Windows Server 2022 license included
- Full admin rights over RDP
- Sized for SQL Server workloads
Trading forex? There's a dedicated Forex VPS page for MT4, MT5 & trading bots.
What's included
Everything on every plan
No feature tiers, no upsell traps. Every VPS ships with the full stack — you only choose the operating system and how much compute you need.
NVMe SSD storage
Enterprise NVMe drives for fast boot, quick builds, and low-latency databases.
Live in 60 seconds
Your server provisions and comes online in under a minute, Linux or Windows.
Full root or admin
Complete root access with SSH on Linux, full administrator rights over RDP on Windows.
Dedicated IPv4 & free IPv6
One dedicated public IPv4 plus a free /64 IPv6 block on every plan.
1 Gbps networking
Fast ports with unlimited local traffic — serve your region without metering anxiety.
Free DDoS protection
Always-on network-layer mitigation included on every plan at no extra cost.
Snapshots & backups
Capture point-in-time snapshots and schedule automated backups in a click.
Private networking
Isolated internal networks to connect your instances securely, region by region.
API & CLI
Automate everything through a clean API and command-line tool. Infrastructure as code, natively.
Tax & invoicing
What a Kampala finance team needs from a hosting invoice
This is the part an overseas provider cannot help you with. Uganda's standard VAT rate is 18%, administered by the Uganda Revenue Authority, and hosting is squarely inside the net — URA's published list of taxable electronic services begins with the words "web hosting", ahead of software, streaming and databases. Since July 2021 non-residents supplying those services to non-taxable persons in Uganda charge and remit the 18%, while VAT-registered Ugandan businesses account for it themselves under the reverse charge. Prices on this page exclude VAT, so a UGX 310,000 plan is UGX 310,000 of infrastructure spend in your forecast, with the tax on its own line where your accountant expects to find it.
Then the mechanics, which in Uganda are unusually decisive. EFRIS — URA's real-time Electronic Fiscal Receipting and Invoicing Solution — governs what a claimable purchase document looks like, and it binds every VAT-registered business plus twelve designated sectors regardless of registration, with information technology and communications named among them. The document carries a Fiscal Document Number, an invoice identification number, a verification code and a QR code, and it identifies the buyer by TIN, business registration number or national ID. URA lists claiming a VAT credit on a purchase not supported by an e-invoice as non-compliance it rejects. A Ugandan buyer therefore keeps a checklist and applies it to every supplier: the supplier's registered name and identifiers, the buyer's own TIN, a unique invoice number, the service and the period, the taxable value, and the VAT stated separately.
Bring that checklist to the order rather than to the year end. It takes five minutes at the start of a relationship and considerably longer afterwards, and it is the one part of a hosting purchase that a Ugandan finance function will remember in April.
Ask before you order, not at the year end
Send [email protected] your TIN, your registered name exactly as URA holds it, and any purchase-order reference your system needs, and it is on the invoice from the first billing run. If you are buying against a grant line or an annual budget, ask for the annual invoice at the same time: ten months for twelve, one approval, one payment, one document for the file.
Withholding, for the CFO who asks first
Uganda replaced its 5% digital services tax on 1 July 2025 with a 15% final withholding tax on non-residents' income from digital services supplied to users in Uganda, and sections 83 and 84 of the Income Tax Act apply 15% to international payments and to non-resident service contracts, subject to treaty relief. Your tax adviser will want to place your particular purchase against those; ask [email protected] for whatever paperwork that conversation needs.
Prices on this page exclude VAT. The full Ugandan billing treatment — the 18%, URA's electronic-services rules and what a claimable invoice carries — is on the pricing page.
Data residency
In Uganda, the paperwork follows the data across the border
Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019 — Chapter 97 of the Laws of Uganda — has been in force since May 2019, with regulations following in March 2021 and the Personal Data Protection Office, seated within NITA-U, operational since August 2021. Data collectors, processors and controllers register with the Office annually, and the duty is written to reach entities outside Uganda that process Ugandan citizens' personal data as well as those inside it.
Section 19 decides where your VPS should live. Personal data may leave Uganda where the destination country offers protection at least equivalent to the Act, or where the data subject has consented, and Regulation 30 requires consent for onward transfers. Uganda does not operate a per-transfer permit, which is a lighter regime than some of its neighbours — but the Office expects you to hold records of the legal basis, the safeguards and the justification for each cross-border transfer, and to produce them during an audit, a compliance check or an investigation. That file has to exist for as long as the data keeps leaving, and it has to be good enough to survive being read by a regulator that has already shown it will ask.
Run the application in ug-1a and your data is held in Kampala, under Ugandan law, where your regulator can see it — and the cross-border file does not have to exist for it. That is data residency for Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act. The controller obligations stay yours, registration included. They are simply a shorter pile of work when nothing crossed a border.
The penalties are published
Fines under the Act reach 245 currency points, or up to 2% of annual gross turnover for a corporation, with imprisonment of up to ten years available alongside. A controller must notify the Office immediately on reasonably believing personal data has been accessed by an unauthorised person, and registered entities file annual breach reports. A regime that publishes numbers like those is one whose questions turn up in due diligence, donor audits and bank onboarding.
A second region is a decision, not a default
Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Lagos are one API call away on the same account and excellent for standby, backups and redundancy. Make the call deliberately: a copy of Ugandans' personal data in ke-1a, tz-1a or ng-1a is a transfer out of Uganda and belongs in the section 19 record. Plenty of workloads — application images, build artefacts, logs without personal data, static assets — carry no such question at all.
Who runs here
What Ugandan teams run on a VPS in Kampala
Mobile money and fintech backends
Collections and disbursement endpoints taking callbacks from MTN and Airtel in parallel, USSD gateway backends serving sessions from feature phones, KYC document stores, loan books, credit scoring, and reconciliation against two wallet providers rather than one. Uganda has roughly 196 fintech startups and 2.55 billion wallet transactions a quarter behind them. Most of these workloads start on a UGX 158,000 or UGX 310,000 plan and grow a dimension at a time.
SACCOs and Tier 4 microfinance
The Uganda Microfinance Regulatory Authority licenses Tier 4 — SACCOs, non-deposit-taking MFIs, community institutions and moneylenders — under the 2016 Act, while the Bank of Uganda supervises the tiers above. Member portals, agent-banking and USSD frontends, loan management, month-end and dividend runs that spike for three days, and wallet reconciliation the rest of the month. A large VPS covers most of this before a dedicated machine becomes the right answer.
NGOs and donor programmes
A structurally heavy segment here, with the NGO Bureau regulating the sector and Kampala carrying a large United Nations and international NGO presence. DHIS2 and other health and monitoring platforms, KoboToolbox and ODK form servers taking submissions from teams in Gulu, Arua and the west, offline-tolerant file sync, donor dashboards, ERPNext or Odoo for grant accounting. An M&E server usually lands between UGX 158,000 and UGX 310,000 a month, and annual billing lines up with the grant year rather than cutting across it.
ISPs, WISPs and network operators
RADIUS and AAA, recursive resolvers and authoritative zones, mail relays, billing and provisioning portals, NetFlow collectors, Zabbix and LibreNMS, looking-glass and speed-test endpoints, IPAM. These workloads are meaningless outside the country they serve, and the people running them will check where the machine is with a traceroute before they read a word of this. Small instances, several of them, from UGX 81,750 each.
Oil, gas and Albertine contractors
With first oil targeted for the second half of 2026 across Tilenga, Kingfisher and the EACOP pipeline, the buyers are the Ugandan service firms around Hoima, Buliisa and Kikuube — contractors, logistics, HSE and compliance consultancies, surveyors, camp operators — headquartered in Kampala. Contractor and local-content systems, incident reporting, document control, tender portals, and telematics ingest from vehicles and equipment aggregating into a server on the same side of the border.
Coffee, agri-export and traceability
Coffee and gold are Uganda's two leading foreign exchange earners, and export buyers increasingly want to know exactly which garden a lot came from. Cooperative membership and payout systems, geolocation and traceability datasets, warehouse receipt systems, exporter portals, extension platforms running over SMS and USSD. The load follows the harvest and the shipping calendar, so the ability to add capacity for a season and give it back matters more here than a bigger baseline.
Agencies, ISVs and resellers
Kampala's agency and freelance developer scene is the densest reseller channel in the country — one buyer, many client sites. Multi-tenant hosting for several client WordPress or Laravel installations, staging environments, CyberPanel or Plesk stacks, Git-based deploys, client mail. They buy every quarter, resell onward, and grow by adding instances rather than by changing supplier.
Universities, research and edtech
RENU connects Uganda's higher education sector and is one of the larger participants at the Kampala exchange. Moodle and other learning platforms at term-start scale, student information systems, institutional repositories, research data stores, e-library proxies. Term start is a date in the diary rather than a forecast, which makes independent resize the feature this segment actually uses.
Linux VPS plans: UGX 81,750, UGX 158,000, UGX 310,000, UGX 615,000, UGX 1,224,000 and UGX 2,443,000 a month, from 1 vCPU and 2 GB up to 32 vCPU and 64 GB. Windows VPS with the Server 2022 Standard licence included: UGX 119,000, UGX 195,000, UGX 348,000, UGX 689,000, UGX 1,373,000 and UGX 2,741,000. Prices exclude VAT; annual billing is ten months for twelve.
Regions
Kampala is home. The other three are a border you choose to cross.
Deploy in ug-1a and the machine is in Kampala, in the country its users are already standing in. The region is chosen per instance rather than per account, so nothing about this decision is permanent or global: a production database in Kampala, a build runner wherever is convenient, a backup target somewhere else entirely, all on the same key and the same API.
The other three are Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Lagos, on that same account, the same API and the same shilling invoice. Here is where a Ugandan buyer has to read the map differently from everyone else on it. For a business in Nairobi, ke-1a is home. For you it is abroad twice over: a copy of Ugandan personal data held there is a transfer out of Uganda that belongs in your section 19 record, and a request served from there still crosses the border at Malaba or Busia before it reaches your customer. Regional is not the same word as local, and Uganda is the market where the difference is easiest to see.
That said, the corridor is real and some businesses genuinely live on it. Trade moves between Kampala, Kisumu, Nairobi and Mombasa; the crude pipeline out of the Albertine region runs 1,443 km to Tanga on the Tanzanian coast; freight, agri-export, logistics and contracting firms bill customers in three countries. When your operation is actually in two markets, tz-1a or ke-1a stops being a distant region and becomes the second half of your own footprint. And when what you want is somewhere to put a standby, a replica or an offsite copy, another region on the same account is a configuration change rather than a second supplier to onboard.
Uganda
Kampala
~3 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Uganda
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
Migrating
Moving your VPS to Kampala
From an overseas provider
The move itself is routine: provision, rsync, dump and restore the database, run both for a day, cut the DNS. What changes afterwards is bigger than the server. Your users stop paying for an overland haul across Kenya or Tanzania and an ocean crossing on every request, twice. Your bill stops moving with the exchange rate and the card issuer's margin and becomes one shilling figure you can put in a twelve-month forecast. You stop needing a foreign card to buy infrastructure, because a wallet or a domestic transfer settles it. And your data stops being an entry in a section 19 record, because it no longer leaves the country.
From a Uganda-branded product hosted elsewhere
Several products marketed for this country are served from Nairobi, Johannesburg or Europe with a Ugandan name on the tin and a .ug domain in front. That is a legitimate way to sell hosting, and it is your job to know which one you have bought, because it decides how far your customers' packets travel and which country's law your data sits under. One question settles it: which building is the machine in, and in which country is that building? For a Lineserve VPS the answer is ug-1a, Kampala. Ask the same question everywhere else you are quoted.
From another Ugandan host, the reason to move is never the location — they have it too. It is the product underneath: an API and a CLI instead of a control panel, snapshots and scheduled backups, private networking, live resize up to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM, a published 99.9% SLA with automatic service credits, and object storage, dedicated hardware and three more regions on the same account.
Uptime SLA
99.9%
- DDoS filtering is included, and so is the traffic
- Service credits applied automatically when we miss the SLA
- Measured monthly, per region, on network and power availability
Support
East Africa Time all year, and a queue that already knows Uganda
Two channels with two different jobs. A signed-in ticket arrives already carrying the account, the region and the instance, so the first reply is about the fault rather than about which machine you meant. [email protected] is the commercial door: a quotation against a purchase order, transfer details ahead of a payment run rather than during it, a billing account configured with your TIN and registered name before the first invoice, and the SLA terms and credit process in writing while you are still choosing.
Ahead of both sits status.lineserve.net. A region-wide event is published there while a reply is still being typed, and thirty seconds on it turns "the site is down" into "my instance is unreachable and the status page is clear" — a different ticket, and a far shorter one.
What that ticket should carry, in the order it is read: the region and the instance, the EAT time the behaviour started, the last thing that changed before it, the actual error text rather than a description of it, and whether it reproduces from more than one Ugandan network. That last one carries more weight here than almost anywhere. Uganda is a two-operator market, and an MTN handset, an Airtel handset and an office fibre line disagreeing about your service is a completely different fault from all three failing together — it is worth thirty seconds of your time and it can save an hour of everyone's.
Uganda runs on East Africa Time, UTC+3, and has never observed daylight saving, so a change window agreed in EAT means the same thing in January and in July. You share that clock exactly with Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and sit two hours ahead of Lagos, which matters when you are scheduling work across regions. The Ugandan commercial day generally runs 08:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday. One scheduling detail that catches people out: a Ugandan public holiday falling on a weekend stays on that date rather than moving to the Monday, so the calendar is not the same shape as some of its neighbours'.
The last part of local support is vocabulary rather than hours. The person reading your ticket knows what an operator collections callback is and why it retries, knows what the border crossing at Malaba has to do with the traceroute you are staring at, and knows why your finance office wants a TIN on the document before the first billing run. None of that has to be explained before the actual problem can be. Buy from somewhere that has never sold into Uganda and the first twenty minutes of every serious ticket go on describing the country.
Sales
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Questions, answered
Every plan — Linux or Windows — ships with NVMe SSD storage, 1 Gbps networking with unlimited local traffic, one dedicated public IPv4 address, and a free /64 IPv6 block. No feature tiers: you only choose how much compute you need.
Pick Linux for web servers, containers, databases, and anything built on open-source tooling — images are free and you get full root with SSH. Pick Windows for .NET applications, RDP desktops, SQL Server, and trading platforms — every Windows plan includes a licensed, activated Windows Server.
Yes. Windows plans include a fully licensed, activated Windows Server 2022 Standard, provided under a Services Provider License Agreement. There's nothing to bring or key in — the price you see is the full price.
Yes. Linux plans give you full root access with SSH key authentication; Windows plans give you full administrator rights over RDP. It's your server to configure however you like.
They're the same platform. VPS plans are ready-sized bundles at a fixed monthly price; the Cloud Server page lets you build a custom machine priced per vCPU, GB, and SSD. Pick whichever entry point suits you.
Yes. Resize to a larger plan as your workload grows, with minimal downtime — and you can move up the range from the smallest plan to 32 vCPUs and 64 GB of RAM without migrating providers.
Under 60 seconds for both operating systems. Linux servers run any cloud-init user data you provide; Windows servers come activated and ready for RDP.
In ug-1a, our Kampala region. The instance and its storage are created there and stay there unless you move them yourself.
Linux plans run from UGX 81,750 a month (1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD) through UGX 158,000, UGX 310,000, UGX 615,000 and UGX 1,224,000 to UGX 2,443,000 for 32 vCPU and 64 GB. Windows plans run from UGX 119,000 to UGX 2,741,000 with the Windows Server 2022 Standard licence included. Prices exclude VAT, and annual billing is ten months for twelve.
UGX. Prices can be viewed in USD, KES, TZS, NGN or UGX, but as a Ugandan customer you are quoted, invoiced and settled in shillings — no conversion, no card-issuer margin, no foreign transaction on the statement.
Both. Uganda is a two-wallet market and both are supported methods here, alongside bank transfer and card, with everything billed in UGX. A monthly VPS plan is an ordinary wallet-sized payment; a year taken up front usually goes by transfer instead.
No. Displayed prices exclude VAT. Uganda's standard rate is 18%, administered by the Uganda Revenue Authority, and it is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
Send [email protected] your TIN and your registered name as URA holds it before you order, along with any purchase-order reference, and it appears on the invoice from the first billing run. Ugandan input VAT recovery turns on the purchase being supported by the right document, so it is worth five minutes up front.
Faster than the same site in Europe, for the reason that decides most of it: the request has a Ugandan origin and a Ugandan destination, and it never leaves the country. Both operators are in Uganda and so is ug-1a. Against a European host, every request first crosses a border and a national backbone to reach the sea, then crosses the sea — and repeats both with the reply.
They reach Kampala over domestic fibre. The UCC put Uganda's national fibre optic network at 80,257 km in June 2026, and NITA-U's National Backbone Infrastructure reaches regional centres and the border posts. That is why one origin in Kampala covers upcountry Uganda without a second region.
Both, at the same click. Linux gives you root and SSH from first boot on current Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky, AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream and Fedora images, cloud-init ready, and the images cost nothing. Windows gives you full administrator rights over RDP on a licensed, activated Windows Server 2022 Standard, sized for SQL Server and .NET. Both provision in under 60 seconds.
Yes. vCPU, RAM and storage each resize independently up to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM, with minimal downtime and no change of provider. Size for the traffic you have and grow into the traffic you get.
NVMe storage, a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, one dedicated public IPv4 and a free /64 IPv6, always-on DDoS mitigation, on-demand snapshots and scheduled backups, private networking between your instances, a browser console, and a full API and CLI. There are no feature tiers — you choose the operating system and the size, and nothing else is gated.
Yes. Data in ug-1a is held in Kampala and is not moved out of the country without your instruction, which gives you data residency for Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act.
It does not arise for data that stays. Section 19 governs personal data leaving Uganda, and the Personal Data Protection Office expects records of the legal basis, safeguards and justification for each transfer, available on audit. Data held in Kampala needs no such entry. Your own obligations as a controller, registration included, are unchanged.
Yes, on the same account and API. Treat personal data deliberately when you do: a copy in ke-1a, tz-1a or ng-1a is a transfer out of Uganda under the Act. Backups of non-personal data, application images and static assets raise no such question.
It helps the part you control. Operator callbacks originate in Uganda, so an endpoint in Kampala receives and acknowledges them without either direction leaving the country. Collections traffic is short, frequent and chatty — the exact profile that suffers most on a long path.
Yes. A domain registered with any .ug registrar points at a Lineserve instance like any other — set the A and AAAA records and you are live. The same goes for .com.ug, .or.ug, .ac.ug and a second-level .ug name.
Not in Uganda, and not next door. Amazon's African region is Cape Town, Microsoft's are Johannesburg and Cape Town, and Google's is Johannesburg. The nearest edge infrastructure is in Nairobi, on the far side of the border. For a Ugandan workload the realistic comparison is between a machine in Kampala and a machine on another continent.
[email protected] and the ticket system. Uganda runs on East Africa Time, UTC+3, all year with no daylight saving, so business hours mean the same thing in January and in July.
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Linux or Windows, 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 UGX