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Web hosting arranged for Germany
What genuinely differs when your order comes from Germany: 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 Germany, 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
.de — 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. It reads as local. Shifting the hardware inside your own borders would gain you nothing worth measuring.
Support on your clock
CET/CEST, so your clock runs one hour ahead of ours here. 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 |
|---|---|
| .de | $9.99 |
| .eu | $8.99available to register if you live in the EU |
See the full price list — all 65 endings on our list, without exception.
Unique to Germany
Points that apply only in this market
Frankfurt holds one of the best-connected exchanges anywhere, and the hop from London to Frankfurt measures around 15 ms, so our origin serves German readers at a pace they will not complain about. A .de we can register for you, and .eu is open to any EU resident. Without varnish, though: Germany leans on bank-based payment far more heavily than on cards, and that is exactly where we come up short in this market.
Operating in Germany
Beyond price and ping
What running a site from here involves that no plan comparison ever mentions.
In Germany they ask for the paperwork before they hear the pitch
A commercial site in Germany carries disclosure duties that most markets treat as optional extras. From day one people expect a proper Impressum and a privacy notice that names your processors, and enforcement turns up as an Abmahnung from a competitor's lawyer, not as a file opened by a regulator. Whatever you are building here, put an afternoon aside for those two pages.
Our side of it is easy to state. Hosting runs in London, we sign a data processing agreement, and that agreement names the London facility, so you can lift the location straight into your own documentation. The payment habit is the part we cannot fix. German buyers reach for bank rails first, and until our checkout accepts them, placing an order means using a card.
- Your privacy notice should name us as the hosting processor, and the DPA already states the London location, so you can quote it directly
- .de registered direct, and .eu alongside it should the pan-European ending suit you too
- Through the Frankfurt exchange, German readers take a short and well-lit path to our London origin
At Checkout
Which payments go through, and which do not
Where our supported methods differ from your country's habits — flagged up front, not discovered at payment time.
What we accept
Credit and debit cards from Visa, Mastercard and American Express, issued in Germany or any other country, so long as the card is cleared for international payments. Stripe handles the charge itself, which keeps card numbers off our servers entirely.
Not supported yet
Plenty of German buyers pay by SEPA direct debit, or through Sofort and Klarna, and our checkout supports none of them so far. Cards behave as they always do. Where bank-based payment is a requirement, we are not the right supplier for you today.
Full detail on payment methods and how we handle currency.
Asked and Answered
What customers in Germany want to know
Does ordering work from Germany?
Absolutely. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in Germany 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 Germany, and do you accept them?
Here is the honest version rather than the sales one. Plenty of German buyers pay by SEPA direct debit, or through Sofort and Klarna, and our checkout supports none of them so far. Cards behave as they always do. Where bank-based payment is a requirement, we are not the right supplier for you today. 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 Germany?
Our hardware runs in London, roughly 10–35 ms away. It reads as local. Shifting the hardware inside your own borders would gain you nothing worth measuring. 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 Germany?
Orders placed inside the EU can attract VAT. When they do, we calculate the amount and show it at checkout before any money moves, and no further charge turns up later. 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 Canadian — Azaanex Inc., federally incorporated in Canada under corporation number 1766541-5, verifiable on the public Corporations Canada register — yet buying hosting involves no residency check and no business-registration check. An order from Germany processes exactly like one from London.
What happens if the plan doesn't suit me?
Change your mind within 30 days on a hosting plan, or within 7 days on a reseller plan. That is long enough to put a real site up and judge it against your own traffic instead of trusting our figures. Still not convinced? Ask for the money back. Domain registrations are the single exception: the registry bills us the moment a name goes live, so a registration cannot be refunded.
Run your own test from Germany
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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