Windows Server 2022 — deployed in Kampala
Windows Server 2022 VPS Hosting in Uganda
The version to pick when nothing is forcing your hand.
Most Ugandan Windows workloads have no version requirement at all. The software runs on anything current, nobody has written a year into a contract, and the real question is how long you want to leave the machine alone. That is where 2022 lands: the release vendor support matrices list first, hardened, supported to October 2031, licensed and activated in ug-1a before you open your first RDP session. UGX 9,300 per vCPU per month on a four-core minimum, and the 2 GB plan starts at UGX 119,000.
- Windows Server 2022 Standard, licensed and activated at first boot
- UGX 9,300 per vCPU per month on a four-core minimum
- Microsoft extended support to October 2031
- The release most software vendors certify first
- Deployed in ug-1a, Kampala, and billed in UGX
No credit card required · Billed in UGX
Pricing
Simple plans, billed in your currency
Windows licensing included on every plan. Pay in local currency — no cards, no forex surprises. Annual billing gets you two months free.
Windows VPS – 2 GB RAM
Windows Server for web applications.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 40 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 4 GB RAM
Windows Server for production apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 2 vCPU
- 4 GB RAM
- 80 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 8 GB RAM
Windows Server for high-traffic apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 4 vCPU
- 8 GB RAM
- 160 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 16 GB RAM
Windows Server for enterprise apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 8 vCPU
- 16 GB RAM
- 320 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 32 GB RAM
Windows Server for large-scale apps.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 16 vCPU
- 32 GB RAM
- 640 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Windows VPS – 64 GB RAM
Windows Server at maximum scale.
Hosted in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Lagos & Kampala
- 32 vCPU
- 64 GB RAM
- 1280 GB NVMe
- 1 Gbps · unlimited local traffic
- 1 dedicated IPv4
- /64 IPv6 included
- Windows Server 2022 license included
Prices exclude VAT. Local currency figures are indicative and settled at checkout. Need a custom configuration? Talk to Sales.
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Where the estate sits
Your servers talk to each other far more than they talk to you
A Windows estate is rarely one machine. It is an application server, a database behind it, a file server beside that, a reporting instance somebody stood up for month-end, and increasingly a build agent. The traffic between them dwarfs the traffic between any of them and a human being: a single user action can trigger dozens of internal calls, and a nightly job triggers millions. Where those machines sit relative to each other is therefore a bigger architectural decision than where they sit relative to your desk — and it is the one people make by accident, one instance at a time, until half the estate is in Kampala and half is somewhere else.
Keep them together in ug-1a and that internal traffic runs on private networking between your own instances, inside one region, at no charge and with no journey to speak of. Split them and every one of those calls goes the long way, which in Uganda is longer than the map suggests. There is no coastline and no cable landing station here, so anything leaving the country is hauled overland first — through Malaba or Busia toward the Mombasa landings, or through Mutukula toward Dar es Salaam — before it reaches an ocean at all. An application server in Kampala talking to a database in Frankfurt pays that haul and that ocean twice for every query, all day. Nobody designs an estate that way on purpose. Plenty of estates end up that way.
The people using the estate are the second half of the geometry, and Uganda gives you one country and one clock to work with. UCC put the national fibre optic network at 80,257 km in June 2026, up from 71,740 km three months earlier, and NITA-U's National Backbone Infrastructure links Kampala with regional centres and the border posts. A branch in Mbarara, a depot in Jinja, a project office in Gulu, an auditor visiting for a fortnight and a manager on MTN or Airtel mobile data all reach the same environment over domestic infrastructure. Everyone runs on East Africa Time, UTC+3, year-round with no daylight saving — so the second Tuesday of the month is the second Tuesday everywhere, and a maintenance window agreed for 22:00 is 22:00 in every office that will be affected by it.
UGX 9,300
Windows Server 2022 Standard, per vCPU per month
UGX 37,200
Licence on the four-core minimum, per month
Oct 2031
Microsoft extended support for Server 2022
80,257 km
National fibre optic network (UCC, June 2026)
One version is a feature, not a preference
The argument for a default is not that it is the best release for any single machine. It is that a fleet on one version is a fleet you can patch, document and hand over once. A vendor patch applies the same way everywhere. A runbook written in March is still accurate in November. A new engineer learns one build rather than three. And when something behaves oddly on one instance, the difference you are hunting is genuinely in that instance rather than in the platform underneath it.
What every plan carries
NVMe-backed 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 — you choose the release and the size, and nothing else is gated behind a larger plan.
Payments
Four rails, and which one an estate actually uses
A single Windows instance is a wallet payment. Eight of them is not. All four Ugandan rails are wired — MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money, bank transfer and card — and all four settle in shillings, so a UGX 1,560,000 monthly estate is a domestic transaction from a Ugandan account rather than an international one, whichever you use.
Bank transfer, for anything at estate scale
The natural rail for a business amount. Uganda settles high-value and time-critical transfers through UNISS, the Bank of Uganda's interbank settlement system, and clears EFTs through the Kampala Automated Clearing House. One transfer, one reference, one document your accounts team reconciles line by line — and the obvious way to take a year up front at ten months for twelve.
MTN Mobile Money
Wired, in shillings, and the right rail for a first instance or a small pair of them. A UGX 119,000 plan is an ordinary MoMo payment authorised with a PIN on your own handset; a UGX 689,000 machine usually is not, which is why the bank rail sits first in this list rather than last.
Airtel Money
The other half of Uganda's wallet market, as a first-class method rather than an afterthought. UCC counted 37.8 million active mobile money users in the quarter ending June 2026, split across two networks that hold more than 90% of subscriptions between them.
Card
Visa and Mastercard, charged in shillings, for finance teams that would rather keep a card on file than authorise a payment every thirty days. No foreign card, no forex conversion, and nothing arriving on the statement as an international transaction.
Displayed prices exclude VAT; Uganda's 18% is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
Why Windows Server 2022
Why Windows Server 2022
Server 2022 is the sweet spot: years of production maturity, modern security hardening, and support running into the next decade — the default choice unless you have a reason otherwise.
- The version most current Windows software targets and vendors certify first.
- Modern security baseline — TLS 1.3 by default and hardened protocols.
- Licensed and activated under SPLA — nothing to bring or key in.
- Microsoft extended support runs to October 2031.
Windows Server 2022 images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on Windows Server 2022
.NET & IIS applications
Current ASP.NET and IIS workloads on the platform they're built for today.
SQL Server workloads
NVMe-backed database hosting sized for SQL Server — licensing quoted separately.
Trading platforms
MT4/MT5 and broker terminals running 24/7 with a dedicated IPv4.
Line-of-business apps
The version modern vendor support matrices list first.
Remote work & admin
An always-on Windows desktop over RDP with full administrator rights.
File & application servers
Dependable SMB shares and app servers on a hardened, current base.
Licence cost across a fleet
What the default costs when you buy eight of them
On one machine the version decision is small change. Windows Server Standard is licensed per vCPU on a minimum of four cores, and 2022 Standard is UGX 9,300 per vCPU per month — UGX 37,200 on every plan up to four vCPU, UGX 74,400 on an eight-core machine. Against 2019 Standard at UGX 7,450 that is UGX 7,400 a month more at four cores; against 2025 Standard at UGX 11,200 it is UGX 7,600 a month less. One instance, one direction, roughly the price of a tank of fuel.
Multiply it and the shape of the decision changes. An estate of eight 4 GB instances at UGX 195,000 each is UGX 1,560,000 a month, of which UGX 297,600 is Windows licensing — eight machines at the four-core minimum. Dropping that estate to 2019 would save UGX 59,200 a month, and would also shorten its supported life from October 2031 to January 2029, which is the part that costs money later rather than now. Taking it to 2025 adds UGX 60,800 a month for roughly three more years of runway. Those are the three numbers to put in front of whoever signs, and 2022 is where most Ugandan estates land because it is the only one of the three that requires no argument in either direction.
The commercial point underneath all of it is that the licence is a shilling figure inside the plan price rather than a separate dollar purchase somebody in your office has to source. One supplier, one invoice, one rail, one currency — and an amount your finance team can check against the Linux price list rather than take on trust. Uganda's standard VAT rate is 18%, administered by URA, whose published list of taxable electronic services opens with web hosting, so whether the line is a taxable supply is not a judgement anyone has to make. Displayed prices exclude VAT and it is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
Standardising an estate that is currently mixed
Do it application by application rather than all at once. Deploy a fresh 2022 instance, move one application, run both for a month, then retire the old machine. Instances deploy in under a minute, so the constraint is your testing rather than the provisioning, and there is nothing to migrate on the licensing side because each new machine is licensed and activated before you connect to it. Send [email protected] your TIN and registered name as URA holds it once, and every invoice across the fleet carries them.
Displayed prices exclude VAT; Uganda's 18% is calculated at checkout. Annual billing runs ten months for twelve. Talk to [email protected] about a fleet on one account or a sized SQL Server quote.
Who runs 2022 here
The Ugandan estates that standardise on it
A Kampala agency or ISV's client estate
The highest-value segment on this page, because it is one buyer with many servers. A dozen instances carrying .NET and IIS sites for a dozen Ugandan clients, all on the same build, so a vendor patch applies once and a runbook stays true across the whole estate. Put the build agent on the same release and what you tested is what you shipped. One account, one shilling invoice, and a client who never has to hear the word platform.
SQL Server for a mid-sized business
The database behind a distributor's stock system, a manufacturer's production reporting or an importer's landed-cost workbook, on NVMe with a nightly job and a snapshot before every schema change. Current SQL Server releases list 2022 first in their own support matrices, which keeps the database vendor and the platform vendor pointing in the same direction — a small thing until the week you need both of them on a call.
Line-of-business software bought this year
ERP, HR, logistics, dispatch and field-service software sold into the Ugandan market today is certified on 2022 and supported there for the life of most contracts. If the purchase is new and nobody has given you a specific reason to go elsewhere, this is where it should land — and it is the release your implementation partner will assume unless you tell them otherwise.
Directory, file and print without a server room
Ugandan offices that never had anywhere sensible to put a server, and no longer want a tower under a desk with a UPS beside it and a cable to the wall. Directory services, file shares and print queues on an instance in Kampala with an uptime commitment behind it, reached by a branch network that is already on domestic fibre.
One environment, several towns
Finance in Kampala, a branch manager in Mbarara, a stores clerk in Jinja and two people working from home all open the same environment on the same build with the same version of the application. Consistency is the quiet feature here: nobody spends an afternoon troubleshooting a difference between two machines that were supposed to be identical, and a new joiner needs an account rather than a purchase order and a delivery.
Lodges, tour operators and hospitality back offices
Uganda received roughly 1.65 million international arrivals and about USD 1.7 billion in receipts, and the software behind that trade is unfashionable Windows software: property management systems, channel managers, permit and itinerary tracking, operator CRMs and the reporting that sits on top of them. The operational geography is Entebbe and the western parks rather than central Kampala, and the guests are largely overseas — so the right shape is a Kampala origin your own staff and systems reach domestically, with a CDN in front of whatever the guest actually loads.
Oil and gas contractors standing up head-office systems
The Ugandan service contractors, logistics firms, HSE consultancies and local-content suppliers working around Hoima, Buliisa and Kikuube and headquartered in Kampala. Contractor management, document control, procurement and tender portals, incident reporting — much of it Windows-only, most of it bought in the last two years, and nearly all of it certified on the current default rather than on anything older.
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
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
Yes. Every plan on this page includes a licensed, activated Windows Server 2022 Standard under our SPLA. The price you see is the full price — nothing to bring or key in.
It balances maturity and runway: years of production hardening, first-line vendor certification, and Microsoft extended support to October 2031. Pick 2019 for older certified software or 2025 for the longest support horizon.
Microsoft's extended support for Windows Server 2022 runs to October 2031, with security updates until then.
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.
Yes. Resize to a larger plan as your workload grows, with minimal downtime. You can also move to Server 2025 on a fresh instance whenever you're ready.
Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
Because support matrices lag releases. Plenty of vendors selling into Uganda have certified 2022 and have not yet certified 2025, and October 2031 is a long enough runway for most purchases. If your vendor does list 2025, or the deployment is meant to last into the 2030s, our Server 2025 page argues that case properly.
UGX 9,300 per vCPU per month on a four-core minimum: UGX 37,200 a month on the smaller plans and UGX 74,400 on an eight-vCPU plan. Server 2019 is UGX 7,450 per vCPU and 2025 is UGX 11,200, on the same minimum, so a version change moves a four-core machine by UGX 7,400 or UGX 7,600 a month and changes nothing else about it.
The licence, and only the licence — same compute, same NVMe, same port, same dedicated IPv4. That is why the gap between the two price lists tracks the four-core minimum rather than the plan size, and why it is worth paying when the software you need has no Linux build and worth reconsidering when it does.
Yes, and doing it application by application beats doing it all at once. Deploy a fresh 2022 instance, move one application, run both for a month, then retire the old machine. Instances deploy in under a minute, so the constraint is your testing rather than the provisioning.
Almost always, yes. The traffic between an application server, its database and its file server is far heavier than the traffic between any of them and a user, and inside ug-1a that runs over private networking between your own instances. An estate split between Kampala and an overseas host pays for the distance on every internal call, all day.
Yes. Each instance has a dedicated public IPv4 address and full administrator rights over RDP, so you can let an implementation engineer in, watch the install, and change the credentials when they are finished. The instance stays in your account, in ug-1a.
On the instance's own volume in ug-1a, in Kampala — the database files, the transaction logs and any backup you write beside them are all held in Uganda. That is data residency for Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act, expressed as a location your auditor can point at rather than a position anyone has to argue.
Mostly by bank transfer once the monthly figure gets past what anyone wants to push through a wallet — the 16 GB Windows plan is UGX 689,000 a month. MTN Mobile Money, Airtel Money and card are all available for smaller instances, and everything is priced in shillings with VAT added at checkout.
Yes, over domestic infrastructure. UCC put Uganda's national fibre optic network at 80,257 km in June 2026, and NITA-U's National Backbone Infrastructure links Kampala with regional centres and the border posts, so Mbarara, Gulu, Mbale, Jinja and Arua all reach a Kampala instance without leaving the country. Uganda is on East Africa Time throughout, so a maintenance window means the same hour everywhere.
Yes, a 99.9% uptime SLA, with on-demand snapshots and scheduled backups available on every plan. For a line-of-business application that a Ugandan branch network logs into all day, that commitment is usually the reason the tower in the office loses the argument.
Yes. vCPU, RAM and storage each resize independently up to 32 vCPU and 64 GB of RAM, with minimal downtime and the same IP address. The licence follows the core count at UGX 9,300 per vCPU per month above the four-core minimum, so a resize changes the bill by an amount you can work out beforehand.
No. Displayed prices exclude VAT. Uganda's standard rate is 18%, administered by URA, and it is calculated and shown separately at checkout. Send [email protected] your TIN and your registered name exactly as URA holds it before you order and they are on the invoice from the first billing run.
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.
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