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Web hosting built for Italy
What actually differs when your order comes from Italy: 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 Italy, 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
We can't register your national ending just yet — but as an EU resident, a .eu is open to you here.
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 |
|---|---|
| .eu | $8.99yours to register as an EU resident |
See the full price list — every one of the 65 endings we offer.
Unique to Italy
The detail that only applies here
Milan, Italy's principal internet hub, sits about 25 ms from London, so visitors in the north get genuinely good speed. Stated straight: .it is not in our range. As an EU resident you can register .eu, which we do carry, and .com travels anywhere.
Operating in Italy
Beyond price and ping
The parts of running a site here that a plan comparison never covers.
Selling from Italy means invoicing like Italy
Anyone trading from Italy runs into electronic invoicing early. Invoices clear through the Sistema di Interscambio, and a WooCommerce store handles that with a plugin that formats each order and files it — which means an extra outbound call, extra database writes and a job queue that has to keep up on a busy afternoon. It is ordinary PHP work, and it runs perfectly well on shared hosting, but it is load your competitors in other markets simply do not carry.
Since we cannot register .it, the ending question deserves a straight answer rather than a workaround. As an EU resident you can take a .eu; a .com carries no eligibility test and reads the same in Milan as it does anywhere else. And because you are buying a plan you cannot test from the outside, use the window: thirty days on hosting plans is long enough to migrate a real store, run a real invoicing cycle and decide on evidence.
- Invoicing plugins add background jobs and outbound calls to every order that clears
- No .it from us — .eu is open to you as an EU resident, and .com has no eligibility test
- Thirty days on hosting plans, which is a full billing cycle to test the thing properly
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 Italy 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
Italy leans on PostePay and ordinary bank transfer, neither of which we support. Italian Visa and Mastercard cards clear as normal.
Full detail on payment methods and how we handle currency.
Asked and Answered
What customers in Italy want to know
Does ordering work from Italy?
Absolutely. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in Italy 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 Italy, and do you accept them?
Here is the honest version rather than the sales one. Italy leans on PostePay and ordinary bank transfer, neither of which we support. Italian Visa and Mastercard cards clear as normal. 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 Italy?
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 Italy?
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 Italy 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 Italy
You get thirty days to benchmark it against your real audience. If the numbers fall short, claim your money back.
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