CentOS VPS Hosting in Tanzania

For most workloads, yes — it's the same enterprise base as RHEL with continuously delivered, tested updates. Teams that want fixed point releases with a ten-year lifecycle usually pick Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux instead; all three are free on every plan.

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

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

Yes. Every CentOS Stream 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. The cleanest route is to deploy a fresh Rocky or AlmaLinux server and migrate your workload — deploys take under a minute, and your runbooks carry over almost unchanged. Snapshot first, as always.

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

Two decisions, taken one at a time. First the country: stand up the replacement in Dar es Salaam, copy the data, run both for a week, cut the DNS. Then the distribution: Stream, Rocky or AlmaLinux, whichever your software and your team prefer. Doing both in one weekend is how outages happen — and the country move is the one your users notice immediately.

Let something else choose for you. If a vendor's support matrix names a release, follow it. If you run cPanel or a hosting panel, AlmaLinux is the well-trodden path. If procurement wants a fixed release with a ten-year lifecycle, Rocky or AlmaLinux. Stream suits teams who want to track where the family is heading rather than sit on a point release. All three are free on every plan.

Yes, and you should. Billing is monthly, so a parallel run costs one extra month of one plan — the 2 GB plan is TZS 43,900 a month — which is cheap insurance against a cutover you have to reverse at 02:00.

No. Each instance gets a dedicated IPv4 and you hold root, so your vendor connects exactly as before. What changes is which side of the ocean their work lands on — and that the people using the application every day are now in the same city as it.

In both places, for as long as the parallel run lasts — which is the honest reason to keep that window short and to delete the old volume once the cutover holds. From then on the working copy is on an instance in Dar es Salaam, giving you data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act.

Only if you want to track the Red Hat family closely — for testing, for tooling, for seeing what lands next. For a new production system that somebody else will inherit, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Debian or Ubuntu LTS are the more comfortable homes, and we run all of them in Dar es Salaam at the same shilling prices.

M-Pesa, bank transfer or card, all in TZS. Displayed prices exclude VAT; mainland VAT is 18% on digital and electronic services and is added at checkout.

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

In our Dar es Salaam data centre (tz-1a). Your content is stored and served from Dar es Salaam, 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 TZS. Prices can be viewed in USD, KES, TZS, or NGN, but as a Tanzania customer you pay in TZS with no forex conversion.