In-country VPS from our Johannesburg data centre, under 16 ms nationwide
AFRICLOUD runs from a data centre physically in Johannesburg, so South African traffic stays in the country, under 16 ms to every major metro. Enterprise NVMe storage, AMD EPYC processors, deployment in minutes. Pay by card, PayPal or 300+ cryptocurrencies.
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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
For users across Southern and East Africa, peered at NAP Africa, the continent's largest exchange with 580+ networks.
Your data stays in South Africa, relevant to the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
Deploy in JohannesburgNigeria · West Africa
Lowest latency for West-African users, served in-region from our newest location.
Deploy in LagosPortugal · Europe & the Americas
For a European or global audience: direct Atlantic routing to Brazil, on an EU, GDPR-friendly footprint.
Deploy in 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.
Minimum latency measured from our Johannesburg data centre to South African networks. Verify from your own connection any time via our Looking Glass at lg.africloud.com.
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* Included transfer is a soft cap: if you exceed it, network speed is reduced to 8 Mbps for the rest of the billing period. Your server stays online and there are no overage charges.
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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Join thousands of customers enjoying ultra-low latency hosting for South Africa.
Enterprise infrastructure designed for performance-critical workloads.
Top-tier enterprise-grade server hardware with fast NVMe storage by default.
Direct connections to local IXPs with robust global IP transit providers.
Highly intuitive and secure multilingual dashboard to manage all aspects of your virtual servers.
Choose from AlmaLinux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu, and more. Mount custom ISOs, enable two-factor authentication, and monitor bandwidth in real time.
AFRICLOUD is one of the few providers serving South Africa from inside South Africa. Our Johannesburg data centre puts your VPS on the same national network as your users: a measured 0.2 ms within Johannesburg, 1 ms to Pretoria, 4 ms to Bloemfontein, 7.5 ms to Durban and 15.9 ms to Cape Town, so every major metro responds in well under 16 ms. 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, the measured minimum latency is 0.2 ms within Johannesburg, 1 ms to Pretoria, 4 ms to Bloemfontein, 7.5 ms to Durban, 9.2 ms to East London, 14.7 ms to Port Elizabeth and 15.9 ms to Cape Town. Every major South African metro answers in well under 16 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 a two-region model on a single account. Johannesburg is the clear primary region for South African and Southern African workloads, while our Lisbon data centre is available as a second region for European audiences or geographic redundancy. You provision either from the same dashboard, with no separate contracts. See the full Johannesburg data centre specifications for the facility detail behind these numbers.
Every plan includes enterprise NVMe storage, AMD EPYC processors and full root access across all major Linux distributions, with Windows Server available on a bring-your-own-licence basis. Plans run from VM1 up to VM8 (16 vCPU, 32 GB RAM), 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. See crypto payment options 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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