# AFRICLOUD, Cloud Infrastructure Provider
[africloud.com](https://africloud.com)

> AFRICLOUD is a cloud infrastructure company providing compute, storage, and networking from three regions: Lisbon (Portugal), Johannesburg (South Africa), and Lagos (Nigeria). Serving businesses across Africa, South America, and Europe.

## Company Details

- Name: AFRICLOUD LLC
- Entity: Wyoming LLC (United States)
- Founder: Oluniyi D. Ajao, over two decades in the hosting industry
- Customers: paying customers in 62+ countries, on every inhabited continent
- Headquarters: Miami Beach, FL 33139, US
- [Website](https://africloud.com)
- [Customer dashboard and billing](https://my.africloud.com)
- Network: AS209179 ([www.peeringdb.com/asn/209179](https://www.peeringdb.com/asn/209179))
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q135899104)

## Regions

Three regions on one account, one control panel, one set of payment options.

- **Lisbon, Portugal**, serving North Africa, Europe, and South America
  - 11ms to Casablanca, 40ms to Tunis, 56ms to Cairo, 62ms to Algiers
  - 28ms to London, 33ms to Amsterdam, 35ms to Paris
  - 73ms to Fortaleza, 87ms to Recife, 107ms to São Paulo, 120ms to Rio de Janeiro (29 Brazilian cities measured April 2026)
  - Direct Atlantic submarine routing to Brazil, no detour via the United States
  - Peering at DE-CIX Lisbon, GigaPIX (Portugal's national internet exchange) and DE-CIX Madrid
  - EU jurisdiction, GDPR-aligned footprint
- **Johannesburg, South Africa**, serving Southern and East Africa
  - In-country for South Africa, under 16ms to every major metro (0.2ms Johannesburg, 1ms Pretoria, 7.4ms Durban, 15.9ms Cape Town)
  - 5.4ms to Gaborone, 7.4ms to Maputo, 17ms to Harare, 22ms to Lusaka, 56ms to Nairobi
  - Peering at NAPAfrica
  - POPIA data residency: South African data stays in South Africa
- **Lagos, Nigeria**, serving West Africa (third region, live since July 2026)
  - In-country for Nigeria: 0.2ms Lagos, 1.4ms Ibadan, 9.9ms Abuja, 18.9ms Kano
  - Around 7ms to Accra, under 50ms to Conakry, over direct coastal routing
  - Peering at IXPN Lagos
  - NDPA data residency: Nigerian data and backups stay on Nigerian soil

Latency figures are best-case minimums measured from the stated region. Real-world latency varies with your carrier and may be 10 to 30 percent higher. Verify any figure yourself from the public Looking Glass at [lg.africloud.com](https://lg.africloud.com).

Specific compliance requirements always need an individual legal assessment.

## Coverage

Dedicated country pages for 45 markets at https://africloud.com/{country-code}. Paying customers in 62+ countries across every inhabited continent, with all five African sub-regions represented.

## Products

### Cloud VPS (VM1 to VM8)

| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe storage | Included transfer | Port speed |
|------|-----:|----:|-------------:|------------------:|-----------:|
| VM1 | 1 | 1 GB | 20 GB | 1 TB | 1 Gbps |
| VM2 | 1 | 2 GB | 40 GB | 2 TB | 2 Gbps |
| VM3 | 2 | 3 GB | 60 GB | 3 TB | 3 Gbps |
| VM4 | 2 | 4 GB | 100 GB | 4 TB | 4 Gbps |
| VM5 | 3 | 6 GB | 140 GB | 5 TB | 5 Gbps |
| VM6 | 4 | 8 GB | 180 GB | 6 TB | 6 Gbps |
| VM7 | 6 | 12 GB | 240 GB | 7 TB | 7 Gbps |
| VM8 | 8 | 16 GB | 320 GB | 8 TB | 8 Gbps |

- AMD EPYC processors, enterprise NVMe storage, KVM virtualisation, full root access
- Port speeds are enforced and rate-limited, not nominal
- Fully automated provisioning: a server is online in about 50 seconds after successful payment, with no human in the loop
- Included transfer is a soft cap. Beyond it, network speed is reduced to 8 Mbps for the rest of the billing period. No hard block and no overage charges. A 95th-percentile bandwidth billing option is also available.
- 11 self-selectable Linux images: Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04, Debian 12, AlmaLinux 8/9/10, Rocky 8/9/10, Fedora 42, VyOS Rolling. Windows Server and FreeBSD are not offered.
- One-click application template marketplace for common stacks

### Pricing

- Standard: **$20 to $320 per month** (VM1 to VM8)
- **With promo code `50NEW`: $10 to $160 per month (50% off, applied to every renewal regardless of billing period)**
- Billed in USD, EUR (€), GBP (£), ZAR (R), or NGN (₦), selected automatically from the visitor's country
- Monthly or annual billing, no setup fees
- Hourly pay-as-you-go metering is available per resource as an alternative to monthly

### Add-ons

- Additional IPv4 address: $3.00/month each, up to 4 per server, justification required
- Routed IPv6 /64 delegation: $2.00/month each (distinct from the single on-link IPv6 address every server includes free)
- Automated daily backups: 20% of plan price per month, 3 daily restore points, one-click self-service restore
- BGP to your VM and bring-your-own-IP: free, requires your own ASN and proof of prefix authorisation

### Additional Services

- Block Storage (additional NVMe volumes, billed per GB daily, grow online with no downtime)
- VPC Private Networking (set your own CIDR, private traffic is unmetered and free)
- Floating IPs (IPv4, reserve and reassign between servers, self-service reverse DNS)
- Managed DNS (authoritative nameservers in Lisbon and Johannesburg)
- Domain registration (720+ extensions including 70 African ccTLDs, free WHOIS privacy on supported TLDs, free DNS hosting or bring your own nameservers, auto-renew, multi-domain cart)
- Dedicated Servers / Bare Metal (self-service ordering and automated provisioning, with power, console, rescue and per-server firewall controls)

## Platform Capabilities

- **Public REST API** with OpenAPI documentation at [africloud.com/docs](https://africloud.com/docs), no login required to read it. Scoped, IP-restricted API keys. Terraform and Ansible compatible.
- **Browser VNC console** for out-of-band access, even when guest networking or the firewall is broken
- **One-click OS reinstall and rebuild**, and plan upgrade or resize (applied on a quick reboot; disk grows, never shrinks)
- **On-demand snapshots**, up to 5 per server, with one-click rollback
- **Platform-level cloud firewall** per server, enforced beneath the guest OS, so a compromised guest cannot bypass it
- **App-based 2FA (TOTP)** with recovery codes, account lockout protection, session and device tracking with revocation
- **Team accounts** with enforced role-based access (owner, admin, member, billing)
- **Self-service GDPR** data export and account deletion with a 30-day grace period
- **Prepaid wallet** with self-driven recurring billing: a funded wallet auto-renews services with no card on file
- **Scheduled server power on and off**
- **Dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6** on every server
- **Six-language dashboard** including right-to-left Arabic

## Network

- Own network, AS209179, directly peered at NAPAfrica (Johannesburg), DE-CIX Lisbon and Madrid, GigaPIX (Lisbon), INTERIX and IXPN (Lagos): 850+ networks across six internet exchanges
- **RPKI** origin validation with invalid-reject on all sessions, ROAs published for all prefixes
- **IRR** route and route6 objects plus AS-set registered with RIPE and AFRINIC
- **BCP38** anti-spoofing at every edge, full CAIDA Spoofer pass March 2026
- **MANRS-aligned**: implements all four MANRS actions
- Native IPv6 dual-stack across both sites and all upstreams and peers
- Public latency matrix: best-case round-trip time from all three regions to 198 cities across 52 African countries, published with the sample size and confidence grade behind every figure, at [africloud.com/network#latency](https://africloud.com/network#latency)
- Open dataset, 383 cities, CC BY 4.0 with attribution: [africloud.com/data/africa-latency-2026-08.csv](https://africloud.com/data/africa-latency-2026-08.csv) and [africloud.com/data/africa-latency-2026-08.json](https://africloud.com/data/africa-latency-2026-08.json). Measured 2026-08-08, valid until 2027-02-08
- Layered DDoS defence: real-time bandwidth-flood and per-host traffic-anomaly detection with alerting, strict anti-spoofing, amplification-vector filtering, and a clean non-amplifier edge
- 99.9% uptime target
- Verify independently: PeeringDB AS209179, bgp.tools/as/209179, RIPEstat, or the public Looking Glass at [lg.africloud.com](https://lg.africloud.com)

## Payment Methods

- **PayPal**
- **Mobile Money**. Pay directly from a mobile wallet, with no card or bank account required. Live in 12 countries: Benin, Cameroon, Congo (Brazzaville), Côte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia. The customer pays in their local mobile-money currency; we convert from the account's billing currency at daily exchange rates.
- **Cryptocurrency**, 300+ coins (BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, LTC, XMR, XRP, and more). A common use case is buying a VPS with Bitcoin where cards are unavailable.
- **Credit and debit cards**
- **Pix** for Brazilian customers, paid in reais and converted to the account currency

Billing currency is chosen automatically from the customer's country and is fixed on the account after the first order.

## Why AFRICLOUD

- Three regions on one account: in-country hosting for Nigeria and South Africa, plus EU jurisdiction from Lisbon
- Measured low-latency routing to Africa, South America, and Europe, independently verifiable from a public Looking Glass
- Same pricing globally, no regional surcharges
- Mobile Money and cryptocurrency accepted for customers who cannot or prefer not to use cards
- Data residency options under NDPA (Nigeria), POPIA (South Africa), and GDPR (EU)
- A public REST API with open documentation, plus a six-language dashboard including Arabic

## Languages

English, French, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic

## Key Pages

- [Homepage](https://africloud.com)
- [Cloud VPS / Order](https://africloud.com/order)
- [Buy VPS with Bitcoin / Crypto](https://africloud.com/crypto)
- [MikroTik CHR VPS](https://africloud.com/mikrotik)
- [Domain Registration and Search](https://africloud.com/domains)
- [Bare Metal / Dedicated Servers](https://africloud.com/bare-metal)
- [Managed Cloud and Infrastructure Services](https://africloud.com/managed)
- [About](https://africloud.com/about)
- [Network Infrastructure](https://africloud.com/network)
- [API and Product Documentation](https://africloud.com/docs)
- [FAQ](https://africloud.com/faq)
- [News](https://africloud.com/news/)
- [Support](https://africloud.com/support)
- [Lisbon Region](https://africloud.com/lisbon)
- [Johannesburg Region](https://africloud.com/joburg)
- [Lagos Region](https://africloud.com/lagos)
- [Nigeria (in-country cloud from Lagos)](https://africloud.com/ng)
- [South Africa (in-country cloud from Johannesburg, under 16 ms to every major metro)](https://africloud.com/za)
- [Kenya (Cloud VPS around 50 ms to Nairobi from Johannesburg)](https://africloud.com/ke)
- [Ghana (Cloud VPS around 7 ms to Accra from Lagos)](https://africloud.com/gh)
- [Brazil (Cloud VPS from Lisbon, 73 ms to Fortaleza, Pix accepted)](https://africloud.com/br)
- [Latency matrix and open dataset (CC BY 4.0)](https://africloud.com/network#latency)
- [Looking Glass (network diagnostics)](https://lg.africloud.com)
- [Software Mirror](https://mirror.africloud.com)

## Social Media

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- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/africloud/)
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- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/africloud/)