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Web hosting arranged for Portugal
What genuinely differs when your order comes from Portugal: 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 Portugal, 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
WET/WEST — the same hours our team keeps. 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 Portugal
Points that apply only in this market
Lisbon sits around 30 ms from London and keeps the same clock we keep, so a support conversation happens inside your working day instead of somewhere in the small hours. Payment is the genuine obstacle in Portugal. Most people here rely on Multibanco and MB WAY, and we can take neither one. As for .pt, we have none yet, while .eu is open to you.
Operating in Portugal
Beyond price and ping
What running a site from here involves that no plan comparison ever mentions.
The one market on our own clock
Round-the-clock cover gets advertised everywhere and means something different in each timezone. From Portugal it means the plain thing. You write at eleven, and whoever reads it is at eleven too. We aim at two hours for a first reply, and one hour when a site is down, targets that hold overnight as well. Nothing quite replaces a follow-up question answered while you are still sitting at the keyboard.
Invoicing is the other Portuguese specific. A business trading from here has to invoice through certified software, and once that software runs as a plugin on your own site, background work sits behind every order placed. None of this asks for unusual hosting. It does mean your shop performs more work per transaction than the equivalent shop in a market with no such requirement.
- WET/WEST puts your working day on top of ours, so nothing waits for morning
- Every order the shop takes drags background work along, courtesy of certified invoicing software
- Our checkout processes neither Multibanco nor MB WAY, and .pt is not an ending we can register for you
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 Portugal 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
Multibanco and MB WAY, the usual way Portugal settles up online. We support neither of them, so that leaves you with a card.
Full detail on payment methods and how we handle currency.
City by City
Nearer to you in Portugal
The same story, told city by city.
Asked and Answered
What customers in Portugal want to know
Does ordering work from Portugal?
Absolutely. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in Portugal 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 Portugal, and do you accept them?
Here is the honest version rather than the sales one. Multibanco and MB WAY, the usual way Portugal settles up online. We support neither of them, so that leaves you with a card. 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 Portugal?
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 Portugal?
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 Portugal 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 Portugal
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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