Select a Europe Web Hosting Provider
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What is it?
Web host providers in Europe can offer all the amenities that any host in an industrialized country can offer. Web site customers can find budget, dedicated, shared, reseller, and shared hosting. Applications include all the latest languages, frameworks, and capabilities that a consumer could find at a Web host in the U.S. Domain name registration also is conducted throughout Europe. Top level domains are used for different countries (such as ‘.de’ for Germany), but consumers can find an purchase a registration for any top level domain through domain registrars or hosting companies throughout Europe.
What Are the Issues?
European Web hosts vary from country to country for services and for pricing. Depending upon the country and whether they take the country currency or Euros, the prices can vary widely. Currently, there seems little point in comparing Web hosting in Euros to the price of Web hosting in American dollars, due to the dollar value. However, a test of prices on Web hosting from various countries to American sites shows that the cost of hosting in the U.S. remains less expensive for the services offered.
Domain name registration can vary from county to country as well. Many registrars will offer all domain names, and others offer European top level domains only. Annual registration for domain names remains more expensive in Europe than it does in the U.S., and some domain names require a special set up fee depending upon the hosting service.
Interestingly, a search for European Web hosting services reveals lists of Web hosts located in America as well as in Africa, Greece, Spain, Germany, and other countries. The option to host a European Web site in the U.S. or in any other country is as viable as it is for any industrialized nation. Whether Europeans see American Web hosting solutions as a value is unknown. It has been noted in a recent news story that acceptance for on-demand application models have been limited within Europe, despite the market’s high broadband saturation. Recently, however, the demand from local SaaS and Web 2.0 companies for Web application delivery services has risen substantially, marking the European market as a considerable opportunity for companies in the on-demand business.
With cooperation between U.S., UK and other European countries in outsourcing and with the proliferation of cooperation in both open source collaboration and in proprietary hardware and software developments, it appears that a number of European Web hosting services may grow outside their country boundaries. Some Web hosting companies based in India and other countries have already announced this effort.
