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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
Registering your national ending isn't possible through us at the moment. Live in the EU? Then .eu is available to you on this page.
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. Putting a server inside your own borders would gain you nothing.
Support on your clock
CET/CEST — one hour up on our London clock, summer and winter alike. 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 | $8.99open to anyone resident inside the EU |
See the full price list — all 65 of the endings on our list, without exception.
Unique to Italy
Details that apply in this market only
Milan is Italy's main internet hub, and it answers about 25 ms from London, which gives northern visitors speed that genuinely holds up. Said plainly: .it sits outside our range. An EU resident can register .eu, which we do carry, and a .com works wherever you point it.
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
Trade from Italy and electronic invoicing arrives early. Every invoice clears through the Sistema di Interscambio, and a WooCommerce store copes by way of a plugin that formats each order and files it, which buys you an extra outbound call, more database writes and a job queue that still has to keep pace on a busy afternoon. None of that is exotic. It's ordinary PHP work, it sits happily on shared hosting, and it's load your competitors in other markets never have to carry.
We can't register .it, so the ending question gets a straight answer here rather than a workaround. An EU resident can take a .eu. A .com passes no eligibility test at all and reads the same in Milan as it does anywhere else. You're also buying something you can't test from outside, so use the window: thirty days on hosting plans gives you room to migrate a real store, run a real invoicing cycle and then decide on evidence.
- Each order that clears fires off background jobs and outbound calls from the invoicing plugin
- We don't carry .it at all. EU residence opens .eu to you, and .com asks nobody for proof of eligibility
- Hosting plans give you thirty days, a whole billing cycle in which to put it through its paces
At Checkout
Payment methods that work at checkout, and those that don't
Where our supported methods diverge from your country's habits — flagged up front, not discovered at payment time.
What we accept
Any Visa, Mastercard or American Express card, credit or debit alike, issued in Italy or anywhere else, provided the issuer has enabled international payments on it. Stripe handles the transaction end to end, so those digits never land on our servers.
Not supported yet
PostePay and plain bank transfer carry much of Italy's payment traffic, and we support neither. An Italian Visa or Mastercard goes through like any other.
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. PostePay and plain bank transfer carry much of Italy's payment traffic, and we support neither. An Italian Visa or Mastercard goes through like any other. 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. Putting a server inside your own borders would gain you nothing. 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?
Order from inside the EU and VAT may apply. Where it does, the amount is worked out and shown at checkout before a penny leaves your account, so nothing gets bolted on afterwards. Buying as a VAT-registered business? Put in your number and the reverse charge takes care of it.
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?
Hosting plans give you 30 days to change your mind, reseller plans 7. That is long enough to put a real site live and measure it against your own traffic instead of taking our figures on trust. Still not convinced? Ask for your money back. Domain registrations are the one exception, because the registry bills us the moment a name goes live, which makes them 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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