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Web hosting arranged for Italy
What genuinely differs when your order comes from Italy: 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 Italy, 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
Your national ending is not one we can register yet. Live in the EU, though, and a .eu is available 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 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 the clock here runs one hour behind yours. 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 | $8.99available to register if you live in the EU |
See the full price list — all 65 endings on our list, without exception.
Unique to Italy
Points that apply only in this market
Milan, Italy's principal internet hub, sits about 25 ms from London, so readers in the north get speed worth having. Put straight: .it falls outside our range. An EU resident can register .eu, which we do carry, and .com travels anywhere at all.
Operating in Italy
Beyond price and ping
What running a site from here involves that no plan comparison ever mentions.
Selling from Italy means invoicing like Italy
Trade from Italy and electronic invoicing arrives early. Every invoice goes through the Sistema di Interscambio, and in a WooCommerce shop a plugin does the work, formatting each order and filing it, which adds an outbound call, more database writes, and a job queue that has to keep up on a busy afternoon. None of that is exotic. It is ordinary PHP work and runs quite happily on shared hosting, though it is load your competitors in other markets never have to carry.
We have no way to register .it for you, so the ending deserves a plain answer here instead of a dodge. Live in the EU and .eu is yours to take. A .com sets no eligibility bar whatsoever, and it reads in Milan much as it does anywhere else. A hosting plan cannot be tried from the outside, which is what the refund window is for. Thirty days on hosting plans is room enough to bring a working shop over, push a full invoicing cycle through it, and then judge on what actually happened.
- Behind every order that clears, the invoicing plugin runs background jobs and outbound calls
- Registering .it is beyond us; .eu is open to any EU resident, and .com asks nothing of anyone
- Thirty days on hosting plans, which is a full billing cycle to put it through its paces
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 Italy 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
PostePay and ordinary bank transfer carry a lot of Italian payment, and we support neither. Italian Visa and Mastercard cards clear at checkout as usual.
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 ordinary bank transfer carry a lot of Italian payment, and we support neither. Italian Visa and Mastercard cards clear at checkout as usual. 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. 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 Italy?
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 Italy 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 Italy
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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