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Cloud VPS · Addis Ababa
Linux virtual servers on hardware AletCloud owns and operates in Addis Ababa. Pick a size and a distribution and the machine is up in about ninety seconds, with full root access, paid by the minute from a prepaid wallet in ETB.
From 2,400 ETB a month before VAT. Top up with telebirr, a bank transfer or a card through Chapa.
Four things change when the machine is a drive across town and the provider is paid in Birr. Ethiopia's providers, and where each one hosts, are side by side on the comparison page.
The data centre is in Addis Ababa, so a request from an office here crosses town and back rather than going to Frankfurt or North Virginia. Typical round trip, in milliseconds.
Every figure is in ETB. Top up the wallet through Chapa with telebirr, a bank transfer or a card; usage is taken from the balance by the minute. 15% VAT is added on the top-up.
The hardware is AletCloud's own, operated by AletCloud, inside Ethio Telecom's Bole data centre. Your data stays in Ethiopian jurisdiction, the same jurisdiction as your customers' records.
Running software from Ethiopia used to mean a server in Frankfurt, an invoice in dollars and a forex approval before either. Nothing here is paid in foreign currency, and signing up is a phone number and one SMS.
Six sizes, from one vCPU to sixteen. The monthly figure is a ceiling: underneath it AletCloud counts hourly and charges by the minute, so a server that ran for an afternoon costs an afternoon. Figures in ETB before VAT.
Before VAT; 15% is added on the top-up. The full list is on the pricing page.
The sizes Ethiopia's other providers also sell, at the figures they print, sit beside these on the comparison page.
Create an accountEvery size carries the same access, console, networking and backups. What changes is the resources, and the free SMSEthiopia package that comes with the larger sizes.
The login is root, with full sudo, from the first minute. Install packages, change kernel parameters or rebuild the whole image whenever the work needs it.
Connect over SSH with the key or password set at creation, or open the web console: no SSH key, no tunnel, and the way in when a firewall rule locks you out.
Snapshot the machine whenever you like and roll it back to that point later. Automated backups run at the hour you pick and are kept for as many days as you set.
One WireGuard network per account. Reach every server by its private address from the devices you add, with nothing on the public internet unless you attach a public IP.
Pick a larger or smaller size whenever the load changes. The server reboots once with the new resources, keeps its disk and its address, and is charged at the new rate from that minute.
CPU, memory, disk, traffic in and out and uptime are drawn in the console for every server, with no agent to install inside the machine.
No sales call and no ticket queue between you and a running server. Sign up, top up, deploy. The Cloud VPS docs have every step in full.
Ubuntu26.04 LTS
Fedora44
Debian12
CentOS Stream10
Rocky Linux10 LTS
AlmaLinux10 LTS
openSUSE16.001
Sign up with a phone number or with Google and verify it with the one-time code that arrives by SMS. No card on file, no call before the first resource.
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Top up in ETB through Chapa with telebirr, a bank transfer or a card. Creating a server checks the balance for a day of it first: for a Pro, 150 ETB. A check, not a charge.
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One of six sizes and one of seven distributions: Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and openSUSE. Add an SSH public key or set a password; attach a public IPv4 address or extra SSD if the workload needs them.
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The machine is up in about ninety seconds. Connect over SSH or open the web console from the dashboard. Stop, resize, rebuild or delete it from the same place; the charge follows the change.
A shop and its database on one machine, close to the customers who use it and in the same jurisdiction as their records. Pro, at 2 vCPU and 4 GB, is the size to start on.
A staging box, a bot or a cron job on the smallest size, switched off when it is not needed and costing nothing while it is off, from the console or from an MCP client.
One server per client, grouped into projects in the console and reached over the account's WireGuard network, with a public IP only where a site needs one. For a larger estate, write to sales@aletcloud.com.
This page is the short answer; these carry the rest. 6993 and support@aletcloud.com answer whatever they do not.
Short answers, with the figures from the table above. For anything else, call 6993 or write to support@aletcloud.com.
Ask us something elseYes. AletCloud runs its Cloud VPS on hardware it owns and operates inside Ethio Telecom's Bole data centre in Addis Ababa. The data never leaves the country, and a request from an office in Addis is a few milliseconds away rather than a hop to Europe. The compare page lists who else has servers in the country.
Six sizes, from the Nano at 2,400 ETB a month, which is 3.29 ETB an hour, to the Ras at 32,000 ETB a month, all before VAT. The monthly figure is a ceiling: the server is charged by the minute, and a month spent running reaches it and stops there.
Yes. Top up the wallet through Chapa and pay with telebirr, a bank transfer or a card; the balance is there as soon as the payment clears, and a server can be created straight away. 15% VAT is added on the top-up.
No. Every figure is in ETB and paid from a prepaid wallet in Birr, so nothing is paid in foreign currency and there is no forex approval to get first. Signing up is a phone number and one SMS, with no card on file.
In Ethio Telecom's Bole data centre in Addis Ababa, region et-addis-1, on hardware AletCloud owns and operates. A server, an app, a database and a bucket on the same account never leave the building when they talk to each other.
Yes. A public IPv4 address is optional, one per server, at 300 ETB a month. Skip it and the server is reachable only over the account's free WireGuard network, which is one door fewer on the internet.
No. Servers are paid from the start; the free tier is one Solo app and one Solo database per account, free for life. A server is charged by the minute, so an hour of the Nano costs 3.29 ETB and stopping it stops the charge.
Seven: Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and openSUSE, as server images, and several of them again as desktop images with a graphical environment and a VNC console in the browser.
13 ETB buys you an afternoon. Signup is a phone number and one SMS.
If it does not work the way this page says it does, call 6993 and say so.
