We run the systems
East Africa depends on.
CloudSpinx engineers and operates the infrastructure behind internet providers, payment platforms, manufacturers and a national regulator. Kenyan, certified engineers, and we will tell you when the answer is not to spend the money.
We engineer for the organisations others depend on
A good portion of our work is infrastructure for companies whose own product is infrastructure. When an ISP or a payments platform has a problem it cannot solve in house, this is the kind of thing it calls us about.
Telecoms, ISPs and cloud providers
- Safaricom PLC
- Angani
- CATS-NET
- LightSpeed Internet
- Vilcom Networks
Financial platforms and payments
- Cellulant
- Mojaloop
- Netpap Global
Enterprise, public sector and impact
- Bakhresa Group
- Competition Authority of Kenya
- CortexCom
- Food4Education
- Tiko
- Yassir
Infrastructure, cloud and IT consulting services
Sixteen practices across where the workload runs, who keeps it running, and what gets built on top. Every one delivered by the engineers who scoped it.
Proxmox Consulting & Setup
Proxmox VE cluster design, setup and support in Kenya. High availability, Ceph and ZFS storage, verified backups, and migrations off VMware, Hyper-V and OpenStack.
Scope itOpenStack Consulting
OpenStack private cloud design, deployment and support in Kenya. HA control planes, Neutron and OVN networking, Ceph storage, upgrades and VMware migrations.
Scope itDedicated Servers
Bare-metal dedicated servers for businesses in Kenya. Single or dual-socket, NVMe storage, managed or unmanaged. Tell us the workload and we scope a tailored quote.
Scope itPlatform & private cloud
Cloud Consulting Design, migrate, run Managed Hosting Managed VPS & cloud Linux Infrastructure Ubuntu, RHEL, Rocky Windows Server AD, Hyper-V, SQLWork you can verify, not quotes we wrote ourselves
Six flagship engagements are published in full, with the numbers counted from live repositories and production databases rather than estimated. One of them you can audit in a git log without asking us for a reference.
Upstream in Mojaloop, the payment switch central banks build on
We maintain part of the infrastructure code national payment switches are deployed from, across three public repositories. Public review, auditable before you call us.
Read the studyA Kenyan ISP's own cloud on Proxmox HA, Ceph and OpenStack
Hypervisor cluster, private cloud, billing that provisions on payment and a written recovery plan. The operator owns all of it.
Read the studyFleet management software running a 565-truck workshop
Work orders, parts, tyres and a fuel pump that will not release oil without an open job. Built from an empty database around how that workshop works.
Read the studyGeneric IT advice does not survive a plant floor
A regulated payment platform and a production line fail in different ways. We bring the sector's real constraints to the design, from PCI-DSS scope to what happens when the power goes.
See the workFinance & Banking
Core banking integrations, PCI-DSS compliance, M-Pesa gateway management.
Retail & E-commerce
POS systems, WooCommerce, inventory sync and M-Pesa checkout.
Logistics & Transport
Fleet management systems, real-time tracking platforms and ERP.
Manufacturing
Production planning, stock control, Odoo MRP and machine monitoring.
Healthcare & NGOs
HIPAA-aware data management, donor reporting systems and secure comms.
Real Estate & PropTech
Property management platforms, lease automation and client portals.
Consultants who actually run the systems
Most of this market splits into two: global firms that sell a methodology and fly juniors in, and local shops that resell hardware they cannot engineer. We sit in neither camp. Our engineers design the platform, build it, and are still on the pager the night it matters.
The engineer who scoped it does the work
No partner sells the deal and hands it to juniors. You meet the person who will be on the console, and they stay on it.
We build on what we can hand back
Upstream open source, the major clouds, and standards. No proprietary layer that only we can operate, because lock-in is a charge, not a feature.
We say when not to spend
The honest answer is sometimes a smaller project, your existing team, or nothing at all. We would rather lose the line item than the client.
Kenyan hours, Kenyan engineers
On site same day in Nairobi, next day in Mombasa and Kisumu, delivering across East Africa and remotely past it. You are not calling a queue in another timezone.
You own the documentation
Architecture diagrams, runbooks and credentials handed over in your own vault. Every engagement ends with you able to operate without us.
Security and compliance from the design
Hardening, MFA, audit logging and Kenya Data Protection Act scope built in at design time, not retrofitted when an auditor asks.
Global integrator, local reseller, or us
Those are usually the three names on a shortlist in Kenya. Here is where each genuinely wins, including the columns where we do not.
| Global Integrator Deep bench, distant | Local Reseller Close, but sells boxes | CloudSpinx Engineers, in Kenya Recommended | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Partner sells, juniors deliver | Whoever is free that week | The engineer who scoped it |
| Engineering vs reselling | Deep, vendor-aligned | Resells, cannot engineer | We build and run it ourselves |
| Vendor independence | Tied to alliance partners | Sells what it distributes | Open source and any major cloud |
| On the ground | Regional office, flown in | Local | In Kenya, same day on site |
| Time to start | Weeks of process | Immediate | Scoping call within days |
| Will they talk you out of it | Scope grows | Sells the bigger box | We say when not to spend |
| What you own at the end | Their methodology | Rarely documented | Diagrams, runbooks, credentials |
From first call to handover
Scoping call
Thirty minutes with the engineer who would run the work. Bring the problem and what it costs you when it breaks, not a spec.
Assessment
We look at what you actually have. Undocumented estates and untested backups surface here, before they become a surprise in month two.
Written proposal
Scope, explicit out-of-scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, milestones and the named engineers. Nothing is billed before you sign it.
Build and hand over
We deliver, then hand you architecture diagrams, runbooks and credentials in your own vault. Ongoing operation is a separate choice, never assumed.
Notes from the estates we run
Is Zimbra Free? What Happened to the Open Source Edition
Zimbra is still open source but no longer ships free binaries. What that means if you want to run it without a Network Edition licence, and what it costs.
ReadHow Many Nodes a Proxmox HA Cluster Actually Needs
A Proxmox HA cluster needs three nodes, or two plus a QDevice. Why quorum works that way, the real failover time, and what HA does not protect you from.
ReadVMware to Proxmox Migration in Kenya: Cost and Timeline
What a VMware to Proxmox migration costs and how long it takes: how the VMs actually move, what breaks, and when renewing vSphere is still the better call.
ReadTell us what is actually breaking
Thirty minutes with the engineer who would run the work. You get an honest read on what you have, what it would take to fix, and whether we are the right people to do it.
Free, and commits you to nothing · You speak to an engineer
Infrastructure notes from Kenya
Platform shifts, licensing changes and security incidents worth your attention across East African infrastructure.