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Web hosting built for Spain
What actually differs when your order comes from Spain: 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 Spain, 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
.es — 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 |
|---|---|
| .es | $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 Spain
The detail that only applies here
Spain sits slightly beyond Western Europe's core at roughly 30 ms — still comfortably brisk for visitors. We sell .es with no local-presence rule attached, so you can register one immediately. The payment gap worth flagging is Bizum.
Operating in Spain
Beyond price and ping
The parts of running a site here that a plan comparison never covers.
One country, several languages, one hosting account
A Spanish site is very often more than one site. Castilian plus Catalan, Galician or Basque is routine for anything selling into Catalonia, Galicia or the Basque Country, and a translation plugin roughly multiplies your page count, your database size and the number of URLs a crawler has to work through. That is a hosting question as much as a content one, and it is the usual reason a Spanish store outgrows an entry plan sooner than its traffic suggests it should.
Run those language variants as subdirectories or subdomains on a single account rather than scattering them across separate hosting: one SSL certificate, one backup set, one place to clear the cache. Regional endings are not something we register, but .es carries no local-presence rule, so the national ending is open to you the moment you want it.
- Multilingual builds multiply pages and database rows well before they multiply visitors
- Keep every language on one account — a single certificate, a single daily backup, one cache to purge
- .es registered directly, with no local-presence requirement to satisfy
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 Spain 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
Bizum, which many Spaniards now reach for first. We cannot accept it, which leaves a card as the way to pay us.
Full detail on payment methods and how we handle currency.
Asked and Answered
What customers in Spain want to know
Does ordering work from Spain?
Absolutely. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in Spain 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 Spain, and do you accept them?
Here is the honest version rather than the sales one. Bizum, which many Spaniards now reach for first. We cannot accept it, which leaves a card as the way to pay us. 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 Spain?
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 Spain?
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 Spain 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 Spain
You get thirty days to benchmark it against your real audience. If the numbers fall short, claim your money back.
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