South Africa
South African cloud for South African businesses: in-country servers, POPIA-relevant residency, rand billing
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Deploy · South Africa
For South Africa users, Johannesburg is the fastest of our three regions. Each region is fast to the market it serves, and every one runs the same plans at the same price, so you can deploy in one or run across all three from a single account.
South Africa · Southern & East Africa
Reach Southern and East African users, on the same account.
Your data stays in South Africa, relevant to the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
Deploy in JohannesburgNigeria · West Africa
West African reach
Reach Nigeria and West Africa in-region from Lagos, our newest region.
Add LagosPortugal · Europe & the Americas
European reach
Serve European customers under EU law from Lisbon, on the same account and at the same prices.
Add LisbonEach figure is best-case measured latency from that region to a representative city in the market it serves. The city-by-city table below compares every region to every destination, or check any route on our Looking Glass. Real-world latency varies with your carrier and may be 10 to 30 percent higher. Compute, storage and pricing are identical in every region.
Best-case round-trip times from our regions, from our own continent-wide measurements. Real-world latency typically runs 10 to 30 per cent higher.
| City | Johannesburg (ms) Your region | Lisbon (ms) | Lagos (ms) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg | 0.1 | 112.4 | 71.9 |
| Pretoria | 0.9 | 112.5 | 72.1 |
| Bloemfontein | 4.0 | 125.3 | 73.6 |
| Durban | 7.3 | 131.5 | 78.6 |
| Port Elizabeth | 13.0 | 112.5 | 68.2 |
| Cape Town | 12.6 | 112.4 | 55.0 |
| Johannesburg (Bagleyston) | 0.1 | 142.1 | – |
| Randburg | 0.1 | 113.1 | 71.9 |
| Alberton | 0.2 | 131.1 | 71.9 |
| Boksburg | 0.2 | 131.3 | 81.7 |
| Edenvale | 0.2 | 131.1 | 72.0 |
| Midrand | 0.2 | 130.0 | 73.4 |
| Modderfontein | 0.2 | 130.3 | 71.8 |
| Riverlea | 0.2 | 131.1 | 74.0 |
| Roodepoort | 0.2 | 113.7 | 80.8 |
| Sandton (Bryanston) | 0.2 | 113.5 | – |
| Benoni | 0.3 | 129.7 | 70.7 |
| Roodepoort (Allen's Nek) | 0.3 | – | – |
| Sandton (Sunninghill) | 0.3 | 133.7 | – |
| Soweto | 0.3 | 131.4 | 159.7 |
| Tokoza | 0.3 | 130.2 | 82.1 |
| Centurion | 0.4 | 112.6 | 70.6 |
| Centurion (Highveld) | 0.4 | 112.7 | – |
| Thembisa | 0.4 | 130.2 | 81.1 |
| Vanderbijlpark | 0.7 | 129.6 | 70.6 |
| Randburg (Fairland) | 0.9 | 113.1 | – |
| Midrand (Midridge Park) | 1.0 | 131.3 | – |
| Vereeniging | 1.0 | 132.0 | 72.6 |
| Vereeniging (Three Rivers) | 1.0 | 162.6 | – |
| Rustenburg | 1.1 | 129.6 | 70.6 |
| Kroonstad | 2.7 | 131.1 | 171.7 |
| Middelburg | 2.7 | 131.1 | 72.8 |
| Emalahleni | 2.9 | 131.0 | 83.2 |
| Newcastle | 3.2 | 134.6 | 79.4 |
| Mbombela | 3.4 | 131.1 | 94.4 |
| Polokwane | 3.4 | 125.9 | 72.0 |
| Ntuzuma | 5.0 | 132.9 | 77.7 |
| Ballitoville | 5.4 | 138.4 | 80.1 |
| KwaDukuza | 6.6 | 136.4 | 84.6 |
| Berea | 7.3 | 136.0 | 79.6 |
| Pinetown | 7.3 | 132.6 | 79.8 |
| Magabeni | 7.4 | 136.9 | – |
| eMdloti | 7.5 | 129.6 | 78.6 |
| Pietermaritzburg | 8.0 | 132.0 | 78.3 |
| East London | 9.6 | 113.5 | 82.2 |
| Cape Town (Century City) | 12.6 | 114.0 | – |
| Stellenbosch | 14.4 | 112.5 | 55.1 |
| Century City | 15.8 | 112.5 | 55.0 |
| Durbanville | 15.9 | 113.2 | 55.0 |
| Melkbosstrand | 16.1 | 112.5 | 54.9 |
| Paarl | 16.2 | 112.7 | 55.1 |
| Retreat | 16.2 | 112.5 | 55.2 |
| Rondebosch | 16.2 | 112.5 | 55.2 |
| Kraaifontein | 16.5 | 112.6 | 55.5 |
| Somerset West | 16.7 | 113.5 | 55.2 |
| Struisbaai | 17.4 | 116.3 | 146.3 |
| Bredasdorp | 17.9 | 113.8 | 172.2 |
| Simon's Town | 18.4 | 116.9 | 56.5 |
| Malmesbury | 18.8 | 112.6 | 55.4 |
| Cape Town (Milnerton Rural) | 19.6 | 140.1 | – |
| Kleinmond | 20.2 | 115.7 | 142.7 |
| Swellendam | 22.8 | 116.0 | 58.3 |
| Cape Town (Ndabeni) | – | 112.6 | – |
| Stellenbosch (Stellenbosch Central) | – | 112.6 | – |
| Centurion (Highveld Techno Park) | – | 131.2 | – |
| Cape Town (Helena Heights) | – | 162.0 | – |
66 cities measured · All three regions, every measured city · Check the path yourself
Enterprise & Government
For South Africa organisations that need more than a self-service VM. Managed private cloud, VPS fleets, dedicated servers, and geo-redundant backup from Lisbon, Johannesburg and Lagos. One contract, one technical account owner, commercial terms that fit procurement.
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AFRICLOUD is one of the few cloud providers serving South Africa from inside South Africa. Our Johannesburg data centre puts your VPS on the same national network as your users, with every major metro responding in well under 13 ms and the per-city figures in the table on this page. There is no detour through Europe and no overseas round-trip, which also means South African personal data can stay in-country, simplifying data-residency considerations under POPIA.
AFRICLOUD serves South Africa from a data centre physically located in Johannesburg, which makes it materially different from the many providers that market to South Africa but actually host in Europe or North America. With our facility on home soil, every major metro is measured and listed in the table on this page. Every major South African metro answers in well under 13 ms, the kind of responsiveness that only in-country hosting can deliver.
That proximity matters beyond raw speed. Because traffic never leaves the country to reach us, South African personal data can remain in-country, which simplifies data-residency considerations under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). For fintech, healthcare, public-sector suppliers and any business handling personal information, keeping the workload local is a concrete compliance and governance advantage rather than a marketing line.
Our Johannesburg facility peers at NAPAfrica, the largest internet exchange on the continent, with multi-homed transit through tier-1 carriers. Traffic from South African fixed-line and mobile networks reaches our network over short, diverse domestic fibre paths, so performance stays consistent for Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town and the secondary centres alike. You can confirm the latency from your own network before you commit using our public Looking Glass.
AFRICLOUD runs three regions on a single account. A VPS in Johannesburg is the clear primary choice for South African and Southern African workloads, while our Lisbon data centre serves European audiences or geographic redundancy and Lagos covers West Africa. You provision any of them from the same dashboard, with no separate contracts. Plans run from VM1 up to VM8 (16 vCPU, 32 GB RAM), every one of them on fast NVMe SSD storage with AMD EPYC processors, and you can upgrade at any time as your needs grow. We bill in USD and accept Visa and Mastercard, PayPal, and more than 300 cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT and Monero. Around a quarter of all AFRICLOUD orders settle in cryptocurrency, a practical option for businesses that hit friction with traditional cross-border card rails. Buy a VPS with Bitcoin or compare all plans.
AFRICLOUD has invested in top-tier enterprise-grade server hardware in Johannesburg to deliver excellent cloud hosting with ultra-low latency to South Africa.
AFRICLOUD ensures ultra-low latency connectivity to South Africa by maintaining direct connections to local IXPs and utilising robust global IP transit providers.
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