Up in about ninety seconds
Provisioning is automated the whole way through. The machine is built and running in under ninety seconds, and nothing in the path waits on a person.
First in Ethiopia
Virtual servers,100% self-service
Pick a size, a distribution and provision your vps with no request to approve and nobody to call. Your machine is up in about ninety seconds.
Seven distributions, one vCPU up to sixteen, billed by the minute.
Ubuntu26.04 LTS
Fedora44
Debian12
CentOS Stream10
Rocky Linux10 LTS
AlmaLinux10 LTS
openSUSE16.0One form, one button, one run.
This is the whole of it. There is no queue behind the button and no ticket to raise afterwards: the request goes straight to the racks in Addis and comes back with a machine.
Configure server
et-addis-1Type
| Type | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Hourly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nano | 1 | 1 GB | 10 GB | 3.29ETB |
| Solo | 1 | 2 GB | 20 GB | 4.38ETB |
| Pro | 2 | 4 GB | 30 GB | 6.25ETB |
| Ultra | 4 | 8 GB | 40 GB | 11.11ETB |
| Max | 8 | 16 GB | 50 GB | 22.22ETB |
| Ras | 16 | 32 GB | 120 GB | 44.44ETB |
Operating system
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Server name
Login user
- Hourly
- Monthly cap
- Public IP
Setting up your VPS
Sent
Cloning
Configuring
Starting
Ready
- > waiting for the form
Web Console
ubuntu 26.04 lts pro, 2 vcpu, 4 gb 196.188.44.17
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The same seven things on every plan.
The 2,400 ETB box and the 32,000 ETB box are the same machine in every respect but size. Nothing here is held back for the larger plans.
Full root access
Complete sudo privileges from the minute the machine is handed over. Install what you need, change kernel parameters, rebuild the system when you want to.
Resize it any minute
Scale the resources up or down as the traffic asks for it. One reboot applies the new capacity, and the disk and the IP address come back unchanged.
A console in the browser
Out-of-band access over a secure web console, with no SSH key and no tunnel. It is the way in when a firewall rule locks you out or the credentials are gone.
Snapshots and automated backups
Take a snapshot on demand and roll the machine back to that state. Automated backups run daily, kept for anywhere from one day to thirty.
It is in Addis, so it is close
The data centre is in Addis Ababa, so transfers are low latency in a way Frankfurt or North Virginia cannot be. Typical round trip from an office here, in milliseconds.
- AletCloud, Addis Ababa4 ms
- Frankfurt148 ms
- North Virginia232 ms
Ultra and up get their SMS covered.
SMSEthiopia is a bulk SMS and API platform for Ethiopian businesses, with a sign-up of its own. Run one of the three larger servers and the Starter package there is on us.
- Ultra8,000 ETB/mo
5,000free SMS
usually
2,250 ETBFree- Max16,000 ETB/mo
7,500free SMS
usually
3,375 ETBFree- Ras32,000 ETB/mo
10,000free SMS
usually
4,500 ETBFree
What a Starter package carries
- A REST endpoint to send from
- Bulk sends to a list you upload
- Delivery figures on a live dashboard
- Alerts through a Telegram bot
- Customer support, any hour of the day
Applied once SMSEthiopia has approved the account; their documentation has what that takes. After the free messages, sending is charged per message, with no monthly platform fee.
Deploy an UltraSee SMSEthiopiaPricing
Top up through chapa.
Nano
A bot, a cron job, a staging box
2,400ETB a month
- vCPU
- 1
- RAM
- 1 GB
- SSD
- 10 GB
- Network
- 1 MBps
- Hourly rate
- 3.29 ETB/hr
Solo
One small site and its database
3,200ETB a month
- vCPU
- 1
- RAM
- 2 GB
- SSD
- 20 GB
- Network
- 2 MBps
- Hourly rate
- 4.38 ETB/hr
Pro
Where most shops end up
4,500ETB a month
- vCPU
- 2
- RAM
- 4 GB
- SSD
- 30 GB
- Network
- 4 MBps
- Hourly rate
- 6.25 ETB/hr
Ultra
A production app and its background work
8,000ETB a month
- vCPU
- 4
- RAM
- 8 GB
- SSD
- 40 GB
- Network
- 8 MBps
- Hourly rate
- 11.11 ETB/hr
5,000 free SMS on SMSEthiopiausually2,250 ETBFree
Max
Builds, queues, a busy database
16,000ETB a month
- vCPU
- 8
- RAM
- 16 GB
- SSD
- 50 GB
- Network
- 10 MBps
- Hourly rate
- 22.22 ETB/hr
7,500 free SMS on SMSEthiopiausually3,375 ETBFree
Ras
The whole estate on one machine
32,000ETB a month
- vCPU
- 16
- RAM
- 32 GB
- SSD
- 120 GB
- Network
- 15 MBps
- Hourly rate
- 44.44 ETB/hr
10,000 free SMS on SMSEthiopiausually4,500 ETBFree
- The monthly figure is a cap, not a bill
- Underneath it AletCloud counts hourly and charges by the minute. Run a Max for an afternoon and it costs you an afternoon of a Max.
- Ultra and up send SMS for nothing
- AletCloud covers a Starter package on SMSEthiopia, 5,000 messages on an Ultra and 10,000 on a Ras, once the account there is approved.
- Disk on top is 100 ETB a GB
- Add up to 500 GB of SSD to any plan.
- A public IP is 300 ETB a month
- Or leave it off and reach the machine over your account’s WireGuard network, which costs nothing and is one fewer door.
A Pro left running all month comes to 4,500 ETB. The same machine switched off at six every evening and at the weekend comes to about 1,900 ETB.
Create an accountQuestions people ask
Short answers to the ones that come up most. For anything else, call 6993 and a person answers.
Ask us something elseHow is a server billed?
By the minute, against the plan's monthly price, from the AletCloud wallet in ETB. A month spent running reaches the monthly figure and stops there. Stop or delete the server and the charge stops at that minute.
Can I resize it later?
Yes. Move to a larger or smaller plan at any time. One reboot applies the new size, and the disk and the IP address come back unchanged. Extra SSD is added separately, at 100 ETB per GB a month, up to 500 GB.
Where are the servers?
On hardware AletCloud owns and operates, inside Ethio Telecom's Bole data centre in Addis Ababa. Your data stays in Ethiopia, and the round trip from an office here is a few milliseconds.
Start building locally.
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.