# AFRICLOUD, Cloud Infrastructure Provider
# https://africloud.com

> AFRICLOUD is a cloud infrastructure company providing compute, storage, and networking from data centres in Lisbon, Portugal and Johannesburg, South Africa. Serving businesses across Africa, South America, and Europe.

## Company Details

- Name: AFRICLOUD LLC
- Founded: 2025-02-27
- Headquarters: Miami Beach, FL 33139, US
- Website: https://africloud.com
- Billing: https://my.africloud.com
- Network: AS209179
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q135899104

## Data Centres

- **Lisbon, Portugal**, primary for West/North Africa, Europe, South America
  - 11ms to Casablanca, 29ms to Oran, 33ms to Tunis, 55ms to Cairo
  - 73ms to Fortaleza, 87ms to Recife, 107ms to São Paulo, 120ms to Rio de Janeiro (29 Brazilian cities measured April 2026)
  - Atlantic submarine cable routing to Brazil, no detour via United States
  - DE-CIX Lisbon peering
- **Johannesburg, South Africa**, primary for Southern/East Africa
  - 6ms to Botswana, 8ms to Zimbabwe, 12ms to Zambia, 15ms to Mozambique
  - NAPAfrica peering

## Products

### Cloud VPS (VM1–VM8)
- 1–16 vCPUs, 2–32GB RAM, 30–400GB NVMe storage
- 1–8 Gbps network port speed per plan (VM1=1 Gbps, scaling to VM8=8 Gbps)
- AMD EPYC processors, KVM virtualisation, full root access
- Deployed in under 2 minutes
- 17 pre-configured application templates (Docker, GitLab CE, WordPress, Nextcloud, etc.)

### 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 (€), or GBP (£) at 1:1 parity to the USD numbers above; ZAR and NGN also supported at fixed Atlas conversion rates
- Currency is selected automatically from visitor GeoIP (UK + Crown Deps -> GBP, Geographic Europe -> EUR, Rand Monetary Area -> ZAR, Nigeria -> NGN, all others -> USD)
- Monthly or annual billing; no setup fees

### Additional Services
- S3-compatible Object Storage
- Block Storage (additional NVMe)
- VPC Private Networking
- Floating IPs
- Managed DNS (geographically distributed nameservers)
- Domain registration (720+ extensions, including a strong African ccTLD set; free WHOIS privacy on supported TLDs, free DNS or bring-your-own nameservers, auto-renew, multi-domain cart)
- Dedicated Servers / Bare Metal (quote-based)

## Payment Methods

Listed in order of checkout success rate:

- **PayPal**, recommended for customers in Africa and emerging markets
- **Mobile Money**. Pay directly from a mobile wallet, no card or bank account required. Customer pays in their local mobile-money currency; we convert from the account's billing currency (USD, EUR, GBP, ZAR, or NGN) at daily exchange rates. Live in Benin, Cameroon, Congo (Brazzaville), Côte d'Ivoire, DR Congo, Gabon, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia. Rolling out to Mozambique and Tanzania.
- **Cryptocurrency**, 300+ coins (BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, LTC, XMR, XRP, and more). Supports anonymous purchase; common use case is buying a VPS with Bitcoin when cards are unavailable.
- **Credit/Debit cards**, Stripe (works well for European, UK, and US cards; higher decline rates for some African-issued cards)

## Why AFRICLOUD

- Low-latency routing to Africa, South America, and Europe from two strategically located data centres
- Same pricing globally, no regional surcharges
- Mobile Money and crypto supported for customers who cannot or prefer not to use traditional cards
- Under-2-minute VPS deployment with 17 pre-configured application templates
- Six-language support (English, French, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, 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 & Search (720+ extensions, including African domains): https://africloud.com/domains
- Bare Metal / Dedicated Servers: https://africloud.com/bare-metal
- Managed Cloud & Infrastructure Services (enterprise, government, banks, SaaS): https://africloud.com/managed
- About: https://africloud.com/about
- Network Infrastructure: https://africloud.com/network
- FAQ: https://africloud.com/faq
- Documentation: https://africloud.com/docs
- News: https://africloud.com/news/
- Support: https://africloud.com/support
- Lisbon Data Centre: https://africloud.com/lisbon
- Johannesburg Data Centre: https://africloud.com/joburg
- Brazil Country Page (Cloud VPS for Brazilian businesses, Lisbon-based, Pix payments): https://africloud.com/br
- Looking Glass (network diagnostics): https://lg.africloud.com
- Software Mirror: https://mirror.africloud.com

## Social Media
- X: https://x.com/africloudhost
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/africloud/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@africloudhost
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/africloud/