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JNB1 · ZA · -26.20, 28.05

VPS hosting in Johannesburg, South Africa

Our JNB1 point of presence occupies a facility in Johannesburg rated Tier III. Every node uplinks at 1 x 10 Gbps into 980 Gbps of transit, filtered inline by 800 Gbps of scrubbing capacity.

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from€6.96/mo

CodeJNB1
FacilityTier III
Uplink1 x 10 Gbps
Capacity980 Gbps
DDoS800 Gbps

Why Johannesburg

Johannesburg is inland, and it is still the right place to terminate African traffic: reach on this continent follows the exchange points, not the coastline. JNB1 is an edge site with a deliberately short configuration list, aimed at serving Southern African users from the point where the continent's networks interconnect.

How Johannesburg is connected

NAPAfrica is the continent's largest exchange by participants and traffic, and peering across it is settlement-free, which keeps the cost of African delivery down. JINX adds the older domestic networks. International capacity is backhauled inland: a few hundred kilometres from the KwaZulu-Natal coast where EASSy lands, and well over a thousand from the Western Cape stations taking WACS, SAT-3 and Equiano.

What JNB1 is good at

  • 01Southern African user-facing services
  • 02Continental peering from one site
  • 03Edge presence for African expansion
Hosting under South Africa lawPOPIA is enforced by the Information Regulator and sets conditions for lawful processing plus a breach-notification duty, applying to anyone processing personal information from within the country. Service providers carry no general monitoring duty, and the statutory takedown route runs through a recognised industry representative body.

Measured latency

Johannesburg

Cape Town18 ms
Nairobi62 ms
Lagos68 ms
Dubai118 ms
London148 ms

Round-trip time from Johannesburg to the listed hub, median over the last 30 days.

Peering and transit

NAPAfrica JBJINX

Addressing

IPv4/24 leased
IPv6/40 allocated

Jurisdiction

South Africa / POPIA. The largest exchange point on the continent.

Hardware available here

  • AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
  • Intel Xeon E-2388G

Hardware is operated by us inside a partner facility.

Pricing

Plans available in Johannesburg

Prices in Johannesburg are indexed at 118% of the base list, reflecting local transit and power cost.

Server familiesCPUvCPURAMMonthlyAnnual · −30%
PULSE
The fast entry point
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X28432 GB€6.96€4.87Deploy
TORQUE
Dense, dedicated, cheap per core
AMD EPYC 9754 Bergamo43216128 GB€29.38€20.57Deploy
NITRO
Highest clock we can buy
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X41616128 GB€38.82€27.18Deploy
FORGE
Memory first
Intel Xeon 6544Y42464512 GB€87.32€61.12Deploy
VAULT
Terabytes that stay cheap
AMD EPYC 9354412864 GB€25.84€18.09Deploy

Fleet discounts stack on top: 3% from three servers, 6% from five, 10% from ten, applied to the whole invoice.

FAQ

Questions about Johannesburg

Yes. VPN and proxy endpoints are one of the most common workloads in every CrestVPS location, Johannesburg included, and nothing in the acceptable use policy restricts them. Tor middle relays and bridges are allowed everywhere; exit nodes are limited to Amsterdam, Reykjavik and Bucharest.

Yes, and in eight other assets across dozens of networks, settled through OxaPay. Card payment is not offered anywhere, which is what keeps signup down to an email address.

GPU availability is listed in the specification block at the top of this page. Where JNB1 carries them, the FUSION family passes an entire physical card through over PCIe Gen5 rather than slicing it, so the device you see is the device you have.

No. Registration in every location, Johannesburg included, is an email address and a password. We do not ask for identity documents, a phone number or a card anywhere in our footprint.

It depends what you are serving. JNB1 peers at NAPAfrica JB, JINX, which sets how directly it reaches the networks your users sit on. The latency table above is measured, not modelled: read the row for the hub closest to your audience and decide from that rather than from the map.

The JNB1 point of presence peers at NAPAfrica JB, JINX and carries 980 Gbps of aggregate transit. Every node uplinks at 1 x 10 Gbps, filtered inline by 800 Gbps of scrubbing capacity.