The different types of Infomaniak hosting (Starter, Web, Cloud, etc.)

This guide explains the differences between our hosting offers and it will help you choose the best hosting solution for your needs.

Starter: Free Web Hosting

Starter hosting is offered free of charge with each domain name registered with Infomaniak. It offers 10 MB of disk space to create a site (pages in HTML language only - no PHP, no databases) even without special knowledge thanks to the Welcome page tool.

Register or transfer a domain name with Infomaniak
Learn more about the benefits included with a domain name

Web Hosting and Web+Mail Service: the flagship offer to create your sites

These hostings are shared hostings (the websites will be hosted on servers whose resources are shared with other customers). To guarantee the reliability of our shared services, our servers use on average only 40% of the CPU power and are equipped with Latest generation professional SSDs.

Web hosting offers 250 GB minimum SSD disk space and allows you to manage several websites with several domain names. This offer includes all the technologies usually used to create professional sites: PHP, MySQL, FTP and SSH access, SSL certificates, easy installation of WordPress and common CMS, etc.

Hosting Web hosting + Mail Service< /a> is web hosting with at least 5 professional email addresses. This is Infomaniak's flagship offer. It is aimed at SMEs and demanding individuals who wish to manage one or more websites while benefiting from professional email addresses.

Cloud Server: Professional Web Hosting

With a Cloud Server,the resources allocated to you are not shared with other customersand you can customize the hardware and software configuration of your server according to your needs. A Cloud Server also allows the use of components that are not available on shared hosting (node.js, mongoDB, Sol, FFMPEG, etc. ).

A Cloud Server managed allows you to easily administer your server via the same administration console as Web and Web + Mail hosting. You manage the sites there in the same way.

A Cloud server unmanaged allows you to manage your server 100% independently with the version of Windows or the Linux distribution of your choice (Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, ...). Strong technical skills are required to use an unmanaged Cloud Server.

Public Cloud: open, proven and secure IaaS solution

For Infomaniak, it's the infrastructure that powers kDrive, Swiss Backup and our Webmail, services used by more than a million users. But Public Cloud is accessible to everyone and updates available the resources you need for the development of your projects.

With the help of our personalized and tailor-made offers, you will have no trouble managing your development budget. No commissioning fees. No minimum amount. Cancellable at any time. You only pay for the resources actually used with our Public Cloud at the end of each month.

Jelastic Cloud: tailor-made hosting with the technologies of your choice

Jelastic Cloud allows you to create environmentsTailor-made development programs with the technologies of your choice (PHP, Node.js, Java, Docker, Ruby, etc.). It is a flexible cloud offer:

horizontal and vertical resizing of resources
payment based on actual resource consumption
easy customization of your infrastructure (redundancy, IP, SSL, load balancing, etc.)

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