AFRICLOUD

Cloud servers, VPS and dedicated servers in Lisbon (Portugal), Johannesburg (South Africa) and Lagos (Nigeria). Pay by card, PayPal or 300+ cryptocurrencies.

Compute, storage and networking for Africa, South America and Europe. NVMe VPS Hosting on AMD EPYC. Lisbon & Johannesburg data centres. Dual‑stack network. 99.9% uptime. Instant Provisioning.

08/28/2026

Three regions, one account: Lisbon, Johannesburg and Lagos.
You pick per server, not per contract. Nigerian workloads in Lagos for residency, European reach from Lisbon, South African systems in Johannesburg, all on one invoice with one set of keys.
And every page says whether a country is hosted in-country or served from a nearby region, because those are two different products with two different compliance answers. Ask any provider to put the same distinction in writing.

08/27/2026

Things you should be able to do on any cloud platform, and often cannot:
Grow a disk while it is in use. Restore yesterday's backup yourself at 2am without raising a ticket. Reach a broken server through a browser console after locking yourself out of SSH. Reassign an IP from one server to another yourself. Give finance a login that sees invoices and nothing else.
None of it is exotic. All of it is the difference between a four-minute incident and a four-hour one, and none of it appears on a pricing page.

08/25/2026

Data residency has stopped being a legal footnote and become an infrastructure decision.
Nigeria's NDPA, South Africa's POPIA and the GDPR all point the same way: some data has a place it is meant to live, and "in the cloud" is not a satisfying answer to a regulator.
Our Lagos region keeps Nigerian workloads, storage and backups on Nigerian soil. Johannesburg keeps data in South Africa. Lisbon keeps it in the EU. One account, three answers.
Specific compliance still needs your own legal assessment, and any provider who tells you otherwise is selling something.

08/21/2026

The question nobody asks until it blocks a sale: how does the customer actually pay?
In 2024 Africa accounted for 74 percent of all global mobile money activity by transaction count, and 40 percent of adults in Sub-Saharan Africa now hold a mobile money account (GSMA). Yet plenty of cloud providers still offer one payment method, issued by a bank somewhere else.
We take cards, PayPal, over 300 cryptocurrencies and mobile money in twelve African countries, and checkout runs in five currencies including rand and naira. In our own numbers no single method is more than about a third of transactions. There is no majority rail.

08/20/2026

A number we do not mention enough: AFRICLOUD exchanges traffic directly with more than 700 networks, at internet exchanges in Johannesburg, Lagos, Lisbon and Madrid. More than 500 of those networks are African, across 33 countries.
Every network you peer with directly is one less middleman between your server and somebody's customer, and one less chance for traffic between two African cities to detour through Europe.
Reach in Africa is built one connection at a time, and ours is a matter of public record: AS209179.

08/06/2026

Our third region is live in Lagos, alongside Lisbon and Johannesburg.
Nigerian workloads can now run inside Nigeria. Compute, storage and backups stay in-country.
Measured from the Lagos region: 0.2 ms across Lagos, 1.4 ms to Ibadan, 9.9 ms to Abuja, 18.9 ms to Kano.

07/23/2026

We've raised the included monthly transfer on every AFRICLOUD cloud server plan, from 500 GB on VM1 to 4 TB on VM8, at the same price. Existing customers have been moved automatically.

Transfer runs on a soft-cap model: exceed your allowance and network speed is reduced to 8 Mbps until the next billing period. Your server is never hard-blocked and there are no overage invoices.

Also quietly shipped in recent months: a public REST API with open docs, team accounts with role-based access, genuinely unmetered VPC private networking, wallet auto-renew with no card on file, and BGP to your VM with bring-your-own-IP.

07/14/2026

Backups rule of thumb: three copies of your data, on two kinds of storage, with one copy somewhere else entirely. And test a restore once a month. A backup you have never restored is just a hope with a schedule.

07/09/2026

From Lisbon, our network reaches Casablanca in about 11 ms, Dakar in about 42 ms and Fortaleza in Brazil in about 73 ms, straight across the Atlantic. Closer servers mean faster pages and happier customers. Host where your users are.

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Miami Beach, FL

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https://africloud.com/

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