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AFRICLOUD
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AFRICLOUD
@africloudhost
Powerful Virtual Server Hosting on AMD EPYC + NVMe. Lisbon & Johannesburg data centres. Highly‑peered dual‑stack network. 99.9% uptime. Instant provisioning.
- If you could place a data centre anywhere in Africa, where would it be, and what would you build first?
- First 10 minutes on a new VPS: update every package, create a non-root sudo user, disable root SSH login, switch to SSH keys, enable the firewall. Hardening is a deployment step, not an incident response. What is on your day-one checklist?
- Something shifted this year: real visitors are arriving from AI assistants, not just search. ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity now send genuine, engaged traffic to infrastructure sites. If your docs and pages are not legible to them, you are invisible in a channel that did not exist
- Picking where to host? Match the data centre to your users, not your map. North or West Africa and Europe lean Lisbon; Southern and East Africa lean Johannesburg; Brazil and LATAM also lean Lisbon over the short Atlantic path. Where are most of your users actually sitting?
- Dakar to Lisbon: 42 ms. Direct submarine route, no continental hops. For developers across UEMOA (CI, SN, BJ, BF, ML, NE, TG, GW), Lisbon is the closest commercial cloud destination. Closer than London, closer than Paris, closer than Frankfurt.
- Abidjan to Lisbon: 66 ms. Dakar to Lisbon: 42 ms. Cloud hosting that doesn't detour through London or Paris just because your provider's nearest data centre is in the wrong hemisphere. AFRICLOUD: Lisbon and Johannesburg, serving francophone Africa from both ends.
- Casablanca to our Lisbon data centre: 11 ms. The submarine cable between Morocco and Iberia is one of the best-routed network paths in the world. Most clouds with a "global" footprint don't have a presence close enough to take advantage. We do.
- A quarter of every AFRICLOUD order settles in crypto. Not "we accept Bitcoin" with an asterisk. Actual revenue, across 300+ coins, paid by builders who don't have an international card or a banking corridor that respects them. The internet doesn't need a Visa relationship to
- 50NEW is the AFRICLOUD promo code that gives you 50% off every renewal, not just the first month. Most cloud "discount codes" expire at the second invoice. This one doesn't. Cloud VPS from Lisbon or Johannesburg. Pay with Bitcoin, card, PayPal, or Mobile Money.
- If you could have a data centre anywhere in Africa, where would it be and why?
- 11 OS templates. NVMe on every plan. AMD EPYC processors. Snapshots. Web console. Firewall. DDoS protection. 99.9% uptime SLA. Dual-stack networking. All for $20/month. What does your provider include at this price? africloud.com/cloud-servers
