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Web hosting arranged for France
What genuinely differs when your order comes from France: the local endings we can register, what your card is charged, the distance to our servers, how tax applies, and which payment methods we still cannot accept.
Local Differences
Buying from France, point by point
This is not a template with the country swapped in. Each line below shifts with where you are 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. Indistinguishable from local. Moving the hardware inside your own borders would buy you nothing.
Support on your clock
CET/CEST, which puts your clock an hour in front of ours. First replies target 2 hours in English, day or night.
Local Endings
What your national ending costs
Figures taken 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 is around 10 ms, among the shortest international hops in Europe. We carry .fr, which requires an EU-based registrant, so you qualify where an American buyer would not. The French-specific catch: a Cartes Bancaires card with no second badge can be declined.
Operating in France
Beyond price and ping
What running a site from here involves that no plan comparison ever mentions.
Eligibility, consent banners, and the CNIL
Two things peculiar to France shape a build here more than the hosting does. The first is eligibility: AFNIC limits .fr to registrants established in the EU or EEA, which you meet and an overseas buyer does not, so the ending is genuinely available to you rather than a lottery. The second is consent. The CNIL has been among Europe's most active regulators on cookie banners, and a banner that makes refusing harder than accepting is the pattern it keeps ruling on.
Neither is something a host can do on your behalf, but both change what you ought to install. Consent tooling and analytics that honour a refusal add PHP work to every page view, which is exactly the load NVMe storage and LiteSpeed caching exist to soak up. Mentions légales belong on the site as well, naming the publisher and the host, and you can name us and the London location without hedging.
- .fr registered directly, with your EU establishment being what qualifies you
- Consent tooling puts work on every request, and the caching layer is where that is paid for
- A Cartes Bancaires card without a Visa or Mastercard badge can be turned away at checkout
At Checkout
What checkout accepts — and what it cannot
Where our supported methods differ from your country's habits — flagged up front, not discovered at payment time.
What we accept
Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards, credit or debit, issued in France or anywhere else, provided the card is enabled for international payments. Stripe takes the charge, so card numbers never reach our own servers.
Not supported yet
French Cartes Bancaires cards usually carry a Visa or Mastercard badge as well, and those clear normally. A domestic CB-only card may not. PayPal is unavailable here too.
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 usually carry a Visa or Mastercard badge as well, and those clear normally. A domestic CB-only card may not. PayPal is unavailable here too. 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. Indistinguishable from local. Moving the hardware inside your own borders would buy 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 France?
An order placed inside the EU may attract VAT. Where it does, the amount is worked out and displayed at checkout before anything is taken, and nothing appears afterwards. Buying as a VAT-registered business? Put the number in 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 — UK Health Care Support Ltd, registered in England and Wales under number 15042717, 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 have 30 days on hosting plans and 7 on reseller plans to change your mind. That is time enough to launch a real site and measure it against your own traffic rather than taking our numbers on trust. Not convinced? Ask for the money back. The one exception is domain registrations — the registry charges us the instant a name goes live, so those cannot be refunded.
Run your own test from France
Thirty days is enough to measure it against the audience you actually have. If the figures fall short, claim your money back.
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