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Web hosting arranged for Ireland
What genuinely differs when your order comes from Ireland: 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 Ireland, 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
We cannot 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 5–15 ms for the round trip. No perceptible wait at all. For readers in Britain or Ireland this is as close as hosting gets.
Support on your clock
GMT/IST — effectively the same clock as our team. 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 |
|---|---|
| .eu | $8.99yours to register as an EU resident |
See the full price list — every one of the 65 endings we offer.
Unique to Ireland
The detail that only applies here
Dublin is roughly 10 ms from our London servers, and hardly anywhere on earth is closer, so a site here performs much as it would on Irish hosting. The gap we state plainly: .ie is not something we sell. As an EU resident you can take a .eu, which we do carry, and .com stays the sensible default.
Operating in Ireland
Beyond price and ping
What running a site from here involves that no plan comparison ever mentions.
A short hop geographically, a border legally
Irish buyers get the best version of the distance story and the most awkward version of the legal one. In physical terms London is about as close as an overseas origin comes. In legal terms the United Kingdom is a third country: order from Ireland and your site's data is processed outside the EU, which belongs in your own privacy notice rather than in an audit finding.
For a brochure site, a portfolio or a small shop this is administration rather than difficulty, and our data processing agreement covers the transfer and names where processing happens. It turns into a genuine blocker on a project whose impact assessment insists on EU-only storage, which usually means public sector work or health data. If that is the brief, rule us out now and save the review cycle.
- Processing takes place in London, so the transfer belongs in your privacy notice and your processing records
- Our DPA names the location outright rather than hiding it in a subprocessor annexe
- We do not carry .ie; an EU resident can take .eu, and .com has no eligibility test whatsoever
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 Ireland 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
Irish cards go through without fuss. What is absent is PayPal, which a fair number of buyers here reach for first and we still cannot take.
Full detail on payment methods and how we handle currency.
Asked and Answered
What customers in Ireland want to know
Does ordering work from Ireland?
Absolutely. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in Ireland 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 Ireland, and do you accept them?
Here is the honest version rather than the sales one. Irish cards go through without fuss. What is absent is PayPal, which a fair number of buyers here reach for first and we still cannot take. 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 Ireland?
Our hardware runs in London, roughly 5–15 ms away. No perceptible wait at all. For readers in Britain or Ireland this is as close as hosting gets. 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 Ireland?
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 Ireland 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 Ireland
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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