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Web hosting built for France
What actually differs when your order comes from France: the local domains we can register, what your card is charged, the distance to our servers, how tax applies, and which payment methods we still can't accept.
Local Differences
Buying from France, point by point
This isn't a template with the country swapped in. Each line below shifts with where you're ordering from.
Local domain endings
.fr — all of these we register for you directly.
Prices in your currency
Figures display in EUR; the card is billed in USD. The conversion happens at your bank, which may add a fee of its own.
How far our servers sit
About 10–35 ms for the round trip. Full speed. A server inside your own borders would not improve on it.
Support on your clock
CET/CEST — your clock runs an hour ahead of ours. First replies target 2 hours in English, day or night.
Local Endings
What your national ending costs
Numbers pulled directly from our live price list — no rounded estimates.
| Domain ending | Year one |
|---|---|
| .fr | $11.99 |
| .eu | $8.99yours to register as an EU resident |
See the full price list — every one of the 65 endings we offer.
Unique to France
The detail that only applies here
London to Paris runs around 10 ms — one of the shortest international hops in Europe. We carry .fr, which demands an EU-based registrant, so you qualify where an American buyer would not. The French-specific snag: a Cartes Bancaires card with no second badge on it can be declined.
Operating in France
Beyond price and ping
The parts of running a site here that a plan comparison never covers.
Eligibility, consent banners, and the CNIL
Two French specifics shape a build here more than the hosting does. The first is eligibility: AFNIC restricts .fr to registrants established in the EU or EEA, which you satisfy and an overseas buyer does not — so the ending is genuinely yours to take rather than a lottery. The second is consent. The CNIL has been among the most active regulators in Europe on cookie banners, and a banner that makes refusing harder than accepting is the pattern it keeps landing on.
Neither is something a host can do for you, but both change what you should install. Consent tooling and analytics that respect a refusal add PHP work on every page view, which is exactly the load NVMe storage and LiteSpeed caching are there to absorb. Mentions légales belong on the site too, naming the publisher and the host — you can name us and the London location without hedging.
- .fr registered directly, and your EU establishment is what makes you eligible for it
- Consent tooling adds work to every request — the caching layer is where that cost is paid
- A Cartes Bancaires card carrying no Visa or Mastercard badge may be refused at checkout
At Checkout
What checkout accepts — and what it can't
Where our supported methods diverge from your country's habits — flagged up front, not discovered at payment time.
What we accept
Credit or debit cards from Visa, Mastercard and American Express, issued in France or any other country, as long as the card is enabled for international payments. Stripe processes the charge, so card numbers never reach our servers.
Not supported yet
French Cartes Bancaires cards mostly carry a Visa or Mastercard badge as well, and those clear fine. A domestic CB-only card might not. PayPal is likewise unavailable here.
Full detail on payment methods and how we handle currency.
City by City
Nearer to you in France
The same story, told city by city.
Asked and Answered
What customers in France want to know
Does ordering work from France?
Absolutely. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in France are all accepted, and provisioning fires automatically the second payment clears — no manual approval step, no need to be anywhere near the UK. Prices display in EUR so you can judge the cost; the actual charge reaches your card in USD.
Which payment methods are common in France, and do you accept them?
Here is the honest version rather than the sales one. French Cartes Bancaires cards mostly carry a Visa or Mastercard badge as well, and those clear fine. A domestic CB-only card might not. PayPal is likewise unavailable here. The one method that always works is a card enabled for international payments. Better to know that now than after an hour spent comparing plans.
How fast will pages load for visitors in France?
Our hardware runs in London, roughly 10–35 ms away. Full speed. A server inside your own borders would not improve on it. For a first-time visitor pulling a cached page, the gap barely registers — an edge node near them can serve it. Where distance does show up is logged-in activity: the WordPress dashboard, a checkout, anything uncacheable, because each of those actions makes the full London round trip. Our infrastructure page breaks down what a CDN speeds up and what it cannot touch.
Will tax be added to an order from France?
Ordering from inside the EU may mean VAT applies. When it does, the figure is calculated and shown at checkout before any money leaves you — nothing gets added after the fact. Buying as a VAT-registered business? Enter your number and the reverse charge handles the rest.
Do I need a UK address to hold an account?
No. The company running things is British — Vitalcare at Home Ltd, registered in England and Wales under number 15098204, verifiable on the public Companies House register — yet buying hosting involves no residency check and no business-registration check. An order from France processes exactly like one from London.
What happens if the plan doesn't suit me?
You get 30 days on hosting plans and 7 on reseller plans to change your mind. That is enough time to launch a real site and benchmark it against your own traffic rather than trusting our numbers. Not convinced? Request your money back. The single exception is domain registrations — the registry charges us the instant a name goes live, so those are non-refundable.
Run your own test from France
You get thirty days to benchmark it against your real audience. If the numbers fall short, claim your money back.
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