Windows Server 2025 VPS — hosted in Dar es Salaam
Windows Server 2025 VPS Hosting in Tanzania
A server you are not re-platforming until the 2030s.
If what you are building now has to be supported for a decade, this is the version that gets you there: Microsoft extended support runs to October 2034, the newest security hardening in the family, and SMB over QUIC in Standard edition for reaching files from a site upcountry without standing up a VPN. Licensed at TZS 6,000 per vCPU per month, pre-activated, inside the plan price, in tz-1a. The 2 GB Windows plan starts at TZS 67,900 a month.
- Windows Server 2025 Standard, pre-activated, in tz-1a
- Microsoft extended support runs to October 2034 — the longest runway we offer
- SMB over QUIC in Standard edition for file access without a VPN
- RDP and full administrator rights 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
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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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 2025 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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Why Windows Server 2025
Why Windows Server 2025
For new deployments built to last: Server 2025 carries Microsoft's newest security work and the longest support horizon of any version we offer — a server you won't have to re-platform this decade.
- The longest runway — Microsoft extended support to October 2034.
- Newest security hardening and protocol improvements in the family.
- SMB over QUIC in Standard edition for secure file access without a VPN.
- Licensed and activated under SPLA — nothing to bring or key in.
Windows Server 2025 images
Updated regularly
Use cases
What people run on Windows Server 2025
New long-lived deployments
Green-field servers you want supported into the 2030s without re-platforming.
Security-sensitive workloads
The newest hardening in the Windows Server family, current from day one.
Modern .NET applications
Current .NET and IIS stacks on Microsoft's latest server platform.
SMB over QUIC file access
Serve files securely over the internet without standing up a VPN.
SQL Server 2022+
Pair the newest database releases with the newest OS — licensing quoted separately.
Future-proof AD & infrastructure
Directory and infrastructure services on the version with the longest horizon.
Licensing & invoicing
The licence, and the decade it covers
Windows Server Standard is licensed per vCPU on a minimum of four cores, under a Services Provider License Agreement, billed per active instance and pre-activated on first boot. The 2025 rate is TZS 6,000 per vCPU per month, so the licence inside any plan up to four vCPU is TZS 24,000 a month, and TZS 48,000 at eight vCPU.
Set that against what it buys. At four cores, 2025 costs TZS 8,000 a month more than Server 2019 and TZS 4,000 more than 2022 — and it carries support to October 2034 against January 2029 and October 2031. Roughly five extra years, for less than a single upgrade project. In plan terms, the 8 GB Windows plan is TZS 190,600 a month, the 16 GB Windows plan is TZS 378,200, and the 32 GB Windows plan is TZS 753,400.
Displayed prices exclude VAT; mainland VAT is 18% on digital and electronic services and is added at checkout. Annual billing runs ten months for twelve, fixing machine and licence together for a budget year.
Talk to [email protected] before you order about standardising a new estate on Server 2025, annual terms, or a purchase order raised against the account.
Who runs here
Who picks 2025 in Tanzania
This version is chosen by people planning further ahead than one budget cycle, and by people whose sites are a long way from Dar es Salaam.
Green-field systems built to last a decade
A new ERP rollout, a new document and workflow platform, the system replacing something in place since 2015. The cost of re-platforming is never the licence — it is the retraining, the revalidation and the weekend nobody gets back. Starting on the version supported to October 2034 buys the longest gap before that conversation returns.
Files reached from a mine site, a lodge or a depot
SMB over QUIC in Standard edition means a laptop at a site in Geita, a lodge in Arusha or a depot in Mwanza reaching a share on the server over the internet, with no VPN client to install, break and support. Tanzanian operations are rarely in one building, and the sites sit on the thinnest links in the company — which is also the argument for the share being in Dar es Salaam.
Financial services and insurers under audit
Banks, microfinance institutions and insurers get asked two questions on repeat: what hardening is in place, and how long the platform is supported. The newest release answers the first with current defaults rather than a list of things you configured yourself, and the second with a date past most current contracts. Dar es Salaam answers the third, about where the data physically is.
Tenders that specify a supported-until date
Procurement documents increasingly name an end-of-support date the platform has to clear, and October 2034 clears most of them without a variation letter later. For a systems integrator that is one fewer clause to negotiate, and a running cost quoted to the client as a shilling figure rather than a foreign-currency estimate.
Consolidating several ageing servers into one
Three under-used boxes in an office — a file server, an application server and something nobody wants to switch off — become one right-sized instance with room to grow. The 8 GB Windows plan at TZS 190,600 a month gives four vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 160 GB of NVMe, and you resize rather than repeat the exercise later.
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
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Questions, answered
Yes. Every plan on this page includes a licensed, activated Windows Server 2025 Standard under our SPLA. The price you see is the full price — nothing to bring or key in.
Yes — it's Microsoft's current generally available server OS, released in late 2024, and it's what we recommend for new deployments that should outlive the older versions' support windows.
The newest license carries the highest rate, so each plan runs $2–$16/month above the same plan on Server 2022. In exchange you get the newest platform and roughly three extra years of support.
Microsoft supports Windows Server 2025 with extended support to October 2034 — the longest runway of any version we offer.
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.
Every plan supports on-demand snapshots and scheduled automated backups. Snapshot storage is billed per GB beyond your included allowance.
Yes. Every plan on this page ships with a licensed, activated Windows Server 2025 Standard under our Services Provider License Agreement, billed per active instance. Nothing to buy separately, nothing to key in, nothing to renew.
TZS 6,000 per vCPU per month on a minimum of four cores — TZS 24,000 a month on any plan up to four vCPU, TZS 48,000 at eight vCPU, and proportionally from there.
The newer licence carries the higher rate: TZS 4,000 a month more at the four-core floor, more on larger machines. It is worth it when what you are building has to outlive October 2031 — a decade-long ERP deployment, or an estate going into a five-year contract with renewals expected after it. For a workload that will be rebuilt in three years anyway, 2022 is the cheaper answer.
Yes — it is Microsoft's current generally available server release and what we recommend for deployments meant to outlast the older versions' support windows. Where an application vendor has not yet certified it, follow the vendor: 2022 and 2019 sit on the same account, at TZS rates.
Encrypted file access to the server over the internet, over a single port, with no VPN. For a company with people at a site, a border post or a lodge rather than all in one office, that removes the VPN client from the list of things a remote user has to get working first — and the share itself stays on an instance in Dar es Salaam.
Yes. The database, the shared folders, the documents people save to the desktop and any local backup volume all sit in tz-1a, our Dar es Salaam region, and are not moved out of Tanzania without your instruction — data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act.
Bank transfer, M-Pesa or card, all charged in TZS, with bank transfer the usual rail at these amounts. 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 Windows Server 2025 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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