Nubis - The Modern Cloud Platform Built for Africa
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We're launching Nubis, a high-performance cloud infrastructure platform designed from the ground up to bring world-class compute to Africa and beyond.
The Problem
Cloud computing in Africa has been held hostage by latency. Developers building for African users are forced to deploy on hyperscalers with the nearest region thousands of miles away, dealing with 200ms+ round trips, opaque pricing, and zero data sovereignty.
Meanwhile, the hyperscalers themselves have become black boxes, magic abstractions that hide the infrastructure you're paying for.
What Nubis Does
Nubis is the inspectable cloud. We provide:
⚡ Bare-Metal & VMs — High-performance instances with NVMe storage, provisioned in under 60 seconds
🐳 Managed Kubernetes — Auto-scaling, auto-healing K8s clusters for containerized workloads
🚀 App Platform (PaaS) — Deploy directly from Git — a true Vercel/Heroku alternative built for African latency - (Experimental)
🗄️ Managed Databases — Highly available PostgreSQL & Redis with automated backups and read replicas
🌐 DNS & Firewalls — Global edge DNS, domain registration, and network-level security
📦 Object & Block Storage — S3-compatible object storage and scalable block volumes
Why Nubis?
Global Edge Routing — We route traffic through the fastest, lowest-latency paths.
Bare-Metal Performance — No noisy neighbors. No hypervisor tax. No degraded IOPS.
Transparent Pricing — No opaque bandwidth fees or surprise billing. Pay in NGN or USD.
Data Sovereignty — Total control over your data and compute. Open-source foundations with transparent operational guardrails.
Our Philosophy
"Your application should behave exactly the same at 1 req/s as it does at 1M req/s. Zero jitter. Zero surprise bottlenecks."
We don't build features based on hype. We build based on kernel stability, networking physics, and IOPS benchmarks. Engineering > Hype.
Who's It For?
Startups deploying for African users who are tired of 200ms+ latency
Teams looking for a Vercel/Heroku/Render alternative with African edge nodes
Companies that need data sovereignty and want to pay in local currency (NGN)
Engineers who want to actually see what their infrastructure is doing
Try It
We'd love to hear your questions, feedback, or use cases. What's the biggest cloud infrastructure pain point you face today? 🔥
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