Built in Africa,
for African builders
For too long, African websites have been served from Frankfurt and Virginia — adding up to 200 ms of round-trip latency to every click. Scutex puts the infrastructure where the users are.
A click from Johannesburg shouldn't travel to Europe
Every millisecond between your user and your server is paid on every request, every asset, every API call. Here's the round-trip time from Johannesburg to where your server might live today.
Representative round-trip times (ICMP) from Johannesburg, South Africa. Lower is better.
Distance is latency you can't optimize away
No amount of caching fixes the speed of light. Routing a Johannesburg request through Frankfurt adds ~168 ms each way — before your app does any work. In-region hosting removes that detour entirely.
The business case for in-region hosting
You don’t have to take our word for it — the industry has measured this for years. Latency is the single biggest lever on the numbers below, and in-region hosting is how you pull it.
Industry findings (Amazon, Google/SOASTA). Your results depend on your app — but the direction is well established.
Principles behind the platform
Servers, support and billing all live on the continent. Your data and your money stay in-region.
We obsess over latency. Shorter routes mean faster sites, better SEO and happier customers.
Redundant power, multiple uplinks and always-on DDoS protection keep you online through anything.
Real engineers who understand the local internet — reachable in minutes, day or night.
Our edge, expanding across Africa
Our South Africa edge (Johannesburg) is live now, with a Germany region for EU & global reach. More African edges are on the roadmap — join a waitlist to help us prioritise your city.
- Casablanca Morocco Soon
- Cairo Egypt Soon
- Accra Ghana Soon
- Lagos Nigeria Soon
- Nairobi Kenya Soon
- Johannesburg South Africa Live
- Cape Town South Africa Soon
Put your servers where your users are
Spin up a VPS on an in-region edge today. No setup fees, 30-day money-back guarantee, and a free migration from your current host.