Fedora VPS — hosted in Dar es Salaam
Fedora VPS Hosting in Tanzania
Current toolchains, on a machine you can throw away in a month.
Fedora is for the boxes that are not meant to last. The build runner, the demo you stand up the week before a pitch, the environment where you find out what the compiler does with your code before your customer does. Billing is monthly and in shillings, so a machine that exists for three weeks costs three weeks of a plan — and while it exists it is in Dar es Salaam, a short hop from the terminal you are typing into.
- The current Fedora release in tz-1a, our Dar es Salaam region
- Newest kernels, compilers and language runtimes in mainstream Linux
- Monthly billing in TZS — build it, use it, destroy it
- Podman and rootless containers, with full root on every plan
- Data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act — your data stays in-country
No credit card required · Billed in TZS
Pricing
Simple plans, billed in your currency
Pay in local currency — no cards, no forex surprises. Every plan is full root, full network, no throttling. 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.
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Why Fedora
Why Fedora on Lineserve
Fedora is where tomorrow's enterprise Linux is built: new kernels, GCC, Python and container tooling land here first — ideal when you need what shipped last month, not three years ago.
- The newest kernels, compilers and language runtimes in mainstream Linux.
- Upstream of RHEL — what you build here is where the RHEL family is heading.
- First-class container tooling with Podman built in.
- The image is free on every plan — you only pay for the server.
Fedora images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on Fedora
Development environments
Build against the toolchain versions your team will standardise on next.
Latest-kernel workloads
Features and drivers that haven't reached LTS distros yet — eBPF, new filesystems, fresh hardware support.
Podman & containers
Rootless containers with Podman and Buildah, no daemon required.
CI & build runners
Disposable, always-current build machines — snapshot, run, destroy.
Testing before RHEL family
Validate your stack against what's coming to Rocky and AlmaLinux later.
Modern language stacks
Current Python, Go, Rust and Node without third-party repos or version managers.
Who runs here
What Tanzanian developers use it for
Nobody in Dar es Salaam puts a payroll system on Fedora. These are the jobs it does get, and they have a short half-life.
The server that matches the laptop
A developer running Fedora locally wants the same Python, the same Go, the same container tooling on the far end of an SSH session — not a distribution two years behind that turns every dependency into a version negotiation. One instance in tz-1a, the same packages as the workstation, and a connection that stays inside the country while you work in it.
Build and CI runners
A runner that compiles, tests and pushes, always current, and disposable when it stops being. Build machines accumulate state and opinions; the cure is to rebuild them often, which is easy when a deploy takes under a minute and the plan is billed by the month in shillings rather than committed for a year.
Testing what the enterprise family ships next
If your customers are Tanzanian banks, insurers or ISPs, their servers are Rocky and AlmaLinux and their upgrade windows are somebody else's decision. Fedora is where you see the kernel, the OpenSSL and the systemd behaviour that will reach those machines later — which turns a support call in two years into a fix you already made.
Podman, rootless containers and new kernel features
Container work without a daemon, eBPF tooling, a filesystem or driver that has not reached the long-term releases yet. This is work that wants the newest base available and does not need it to still be there in 2030. Run it on NVMe with full root and a dedicated IPv4, and rebuild on the next release when it lands.
Short-lived project boxes
The proof of concept before a tender response, the demo environment for a client meeting on Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road, the hackathon weekend that needs somewhere real to deploy. Stand it up on Friday, hand over a URL on Monday, destroy it when the decision is made. A month of 2 GB plan is TZS 43,900 and nothing has been committed to.
Regions
tz-1a is home. Nairobi and Lagos are on the same account.
Deploy in Dar es Salaam and your data stays in Tanzania, in the same city as most of the people using it. ke-1a in Nairobi and ng-1a in Lagos are one API call away on the same console and the same shilling bill, so a standby or an offsite copy is a line in a config file rather than a supplier to onboard. Typical in-metro round trips are around 6 ms in Dar es Salaam, ~2 ms in Nairobi and ~4 ms in Lagos.
Traffic between Tanzanian networks is exchanged in Dar es Salaam. The Tanzania Internet eXchange has run there since 2003 as a project of TISPA, the Tanzanian ISP association; PeeringDB records 32 networks and 798G of connected capacity there, with Akamai, Meta, Cloudflare and TTCL among them, and no fee to join. The point of a local exchange is a plain one: a packet from one Tanzanian network to another changes hands in the city, instead of being hauled to Europe and back to travel four kilometres.
International capacity comes ashore in the same city: SEACOM, EASSy and SEAS land at Dar es Salaam, a named landing point on 2Africa as well. Inland, the National ICT Broadband Backbone carries it onward — government fibre managed by TTCL, 13,820 km laid of a 16,280 km target as of FY2024/25, reaching every region and crossing into Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. One origin in Dar es Salaam therefore has a real answer for a user in Mwanza, a site office outside Geita and a clearing agent at Tunduma.
TCRA's count for the quarter ending March 2026 tells you who is at the other end: Vodacom 36.19 million subscriptions, Yas 31.85 million, Airtel Tanzania 23.75 million, Halotel 18.32 million, against 58.9 million internet subscriptions nationally, roughly 99% of them mobile wireless. The largest reaches under a third of the country: no carrier arrangement covers a Tanzanian audience, and being inside Tanzania covers all of them at once.
Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
~6 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Tanzania
Kenya
Nairobi
~2 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Kenya
Nigeria
Lagos
~4 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Nigeria
Uganda
Kampala
~3 ms
typical, within metro · Data stays in Uganda
Uptime SLA
99.9%
- When hardware fails
- When the region is the risk
- Service credits applied automatically when we miss the SLA
Support
A Tanzanian line, and a clock that already matches yours
Call +255 761 847 121. Tanzania is on East Africa Time all year with no daylight saving, so there is no drift to track and no arithmetic before you dial — business hours mean the same thing in March as in November. A ticket opened at the start of a Dar es Salaam morning lands inside a working day, rather than at the bottom of a queue that wakes up as yours is ending.
That match is worth the most at the moment you can least afford it. Month-end, last Friday, 16:40: the reconciliation job has stalled, the settlement file has not written, and the deadline is Monday. What you want then is an engineer who is awake and at work with your instance ID in front of them — a resize that needs a reboot window, a snapshot restored into a new instance, a routing question, a port that has stopped answering. Not a form, and not a five-hour wait for somebody's morning.
[email protected] takes the commercial half, and it is worth using before you order: your TIN and registered name as the TRA holds them, a purchase-order or grant code the invoice must carry, an annual invoice that fits the budget year. Migration planning and assistance come at no extra charge, from a rack in Frankfurt or from across town. Customer references are available under NDA.
Tanzania
+255 761 847 121Sales
[email protected]FAQ
Questions, answered
The current Fedora release, kept up to date — Fedora ships a new major roughly every six months, and our image tracks it. You can also bring your own image with a custom ISO.
Fedora releases are supported for about 13 months, so they suit servers you actively maintain and upgrade. For boxes you want to set up and leave for years, Ubuntu LTS, Debian, Rocky or AlmaLinux are the better fit — we offer them all.
Yes. All Linux images, Fedora included, are free on every plan — the plan price is the full price of the server.
Yes. Every Fedora 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. Provide cloud-init user data at deploy and your server bootstraps itself on first boot — packages installed, users created, keys in place before you ever log in.
Yes. Fedora's dnf system-upgrade moves you to the next release in place — snapshot first so you can roll back in a click. Or rebuild fresh; deploys take under a minute.
Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
Usually not, and for a specific reason: a Fedora release is supported for around thirteen months, so the box needs an upgrade roughly every year and somebody has to own that. Plenty of Tanzanian systems are set up by a consultant and inherited by whoever is there next. For those, Ubuntu LTS, Debian, Rocky or AlmaLinux are the better homes — all in Dar es Salaam, all at the same plan prices.
Yes. Billing is monthly and in TZS, with no annual commitment required, so a build runner or a demo environment costs the months it exists. Snapshot it first if you might want it back.
Whatever the people maintaining it will recognise. If the stack is RPM-shaped, Rocky or AlmaLinux keeps your dnf and SELinux work intact with a ten-year lifecycle underneath it. If the team is apt-shaped, Ubuntu LTS. Deploy the replacement alongside the Fedora box, move the workload, then destroy the original — same account, same shilling invoice.
It does, and more than it does for a web page. A page pays the distance once; an interactive session pays it on every keystroke, every tab completion and every screen redraw. Working on a machine in the same city takes the ocean out of that loop entirely — which is most of the difference between a shell that feels local and one that does not.
Yes. A demo instance in tz-1a holds its data in Dar es Salaam and it is not moved out of Tanzania without your instruction, giving you data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act. That is worth remembering the next time somebody loads a production export into a throwaway box — the throwaway box has the same obligations as the real one.
Yes, side by side, on one shilling invoice. That is the normal shape for a team shipping software to Red Hat family customers: Fedora to develop and test on, Rocky or AlmaLinux to mirror what the customer runs.
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.
Deploy your Fedora VPS in under 60 seconds
Full root, 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 TZS
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