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👉 Total Reviews: 18
🙌 Average Rating: 2.5 / 10
👍 Good Reviews: 3
👎 Bad Reviews: 15
👈 Official Responses: 0 2.5 / 10VISIT WEBSITE

18 user reviews		illumihost.co logo
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Gandi
63-65 boulevard Masséna
Paris 75013
FR

gandi.net		Illumi Host
16 Parker Court Staffordshire Technology Park, Dyson Way
Stafford ST18 0WP
UK

illumihost.co is inactive webhosting company!
illumihost.co
📧 Emailnoc@g...contact@i...
☎ Phone+33.(0) 1 70.37.76.61, Fax: +33.(0) 1 43 73 18 5101483 604 588
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 12,417▲1,852 (lower is better)
📈 Domains 5,672▼-10 (higher is better)
Alexa Rank in FR 1,577
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 85/72🔗 Links 3,064,274		🏆 Alexa Rating 0 (0 is bad)
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 4/16🔗 Links 367
Languages zh-CHS zh-CHT en-US fr-FR ja-JP es-ES en-US
📄 InfoFounded in 1999 by Pierre Beyssac, Laurent Chernla and Valentin Lacambre, Gandi is a hosting provider that prides in hosting over 50,000 websites, over 2.5 million domains and it has recognition around the world in 192 countries. They offer services for all types of projects: individuals, small companies, medium-sized companies or corporations.

They were one of the first ICANN accredited domain registrars in France and they offer over 750 domain extensions.

The company provides the [...] Read full review		Formed in the early part of 2013 by a partnership of 2 companies, Conquered Pixels and ICD studio, we are a new hosting company taking the world one client at a time. We provide good quality hosting for all our clients and we pride ourselves in our excellent customer support and service. We provide flexible hosting accounts for all, so please get in touch with us and find out why you should come and host your website with us. Read full review
📡 EstablishedMay, 19992013
🏁 Site speedAverage, load time 2.1 seconds 45% sites are slower
SEO Links count 2,790		-
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
gandi.net Icongandibar
Started from: May, 2009
  • Tweets: 11,247
  • Followers: 14,149
  • Friends: 575
  • Last activity:
https://twitter.com/illumihost
Started from: January, 2013
  • Tweets: 54
  • Followers: 44
  • Friends: 85
  • Last activity:
gandi.net IconGandi.net US
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  • People talking about them:
  • Last activity:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Illumihost/481335538597511
Gandi
  • Followers: 667
  • Entity type: Privately Held
  • Founded: 1999
  • Employee Count: 51-200
  • Industry: Internet
https://www.linkedin.com/company/illumihost/
  • Followers: 3
  • Entity type: Public Company
  • Founded: 2013
  • Employee Count: 2-10
  • Industry: Internet
Gandi Blog
  • Blog Posts: 725
  • Software Wordpress version 5.7.11
  • First post from: Mar, 2015
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

https://illumihost.co/
  • Blog Posts: 0
  • Blog added on: Mar, 2022

🔧 Shared Hosting - 4/0
💡 Plan NameSmall+SSL [Linux]-
💰 Price€ 6.00/mo. VAT 19% inc-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transfer60 GB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationFranceLuxembourg-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Unlimited free SSL certificates
Simple dynamic or static websites with little traffic
Snapshots
Caching
Extra storage Starting at €0.21 per GB
For Gandi customers* €3.57
300,000 estimated monthly pageviews
60GB estimated monthly traffic

Try your first instance of any size for [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
💡 Plan NameMedium [Linux]-
💰 Price€ 8.00/mo. VAT 19% inc-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transfer120 GB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationFranceLuxembourg-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)CMS, blogs, and applications with little traffic
Snapshots
Caching
Extra storage Starting at €0.21 per GB
CMS, blogs, and apps with little traffic
For Gandi customers* €4.76
600,000 estimated monthly pageviews
120GB estimated monthly traffic
SSL support

Try your first [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
💡 Plan NameLarge [Linux]-
💰 Price€ 16.00/mo. VAT 19% inc-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transfer250 GB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationFranceLuxembourg-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)CMS, blogs, e-commerce websites and applications with moderate traffic
Unlimited free SSL certificates
Snapshots
Caching
Extra storage Starting at €0.21 per GB
CMS, blogs, and apps with little traffic
For Gandi customers* €9.52

1,200,000 estimated monthly pageviews
250GB [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
💡 Plan NameXX-Large [Linux]-
💰 Price€ 32.00/mo. VAT 19% inc-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transfer1 TB-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
📌 Dedicated IPs0-
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationFranceLuxembourg-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)E-commerce, CMS, blogs, and applications with intensive traffic
Unlimited free SSL certificates
Snapshots
Caching
Extra storage Starting at €0.21 per GB
CMS, blogs, and apps with little traffic

For Gandi customers* €19.04
> 5,000,000 estimated monthly pageviews
1TB [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
🔧 Cloud - 1/0
💡 Plan NameKick Ass [Linux]-
💰 Price€ 204.70/mo. VAT 19% inc-
💿 Disk Space1000 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domainsunlimited-
🆓 Free Domain0-
💪 CPU16 Cores-
🔋 RAM24 GB-
📌 Dedicated IPs1-
🔨 Control PanelCPanel, [In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationFrance-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)IP address (v4)
IP address (v6)

* Monthly price based on a 30-day usage. Server consumption is billed hourly.

Create servers in a minute.
Setup new servers in a minute on our Cloud platform.

Virtual servers, real power
Enjoy the power of dedicated machines without having to worry about [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
🔧 Domains - 1/0
💡 Plan Name.com-
💰 Price€ 12.54/yr. VAT 19% inc-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over).com - 12.54 €
Renewal - 13.00 €
Transfer - 9.54 €

Over 700 extensions
One of the largest catalogs of new TLDs, to which we add more every week

Free SSL Certificate
Each domain name registration comes with a free 1-year

2 email mailboxes
1000 alias included, forwarding [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
🔧 SSL Certificates - 1/0
💡 Plan NameBusiness-
💰 Price€ 280.00/yr. VAT 19% inc-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Business SSL
Single address (domain + www subdomain) - 333,20 € per year
Multi-domain - From 595,00 € per year

2048-bit Key
Organization validation
Extended Validation
("green bar")
Transaction warranty - Up to $250,000
Can be used - Everywhere


256-bit encryption
Our [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
🔧 Emails - 1/0
💡 Plan NamePremium [Linux]-
💰 Price€ 1.75/mo. VAT 19% inc-
💿 Disk Space50 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel[In-house]-
🌏 Server LocationFrance-
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Filters and anti-spam
Anti-virus
Webmail
Outlook, Mail, Thunderbird
(IMAP / POP / SMTP) synchronization
Included mailboxes - 2 free standard mailboxes per domain

2 mailboxes included with each domain
When you buy a domain or transfer one to Gandi, you get 2 free mailboxes!

Unlimited [...]		-
📅 Date PlanJan 2021-
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
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📤 List of products
  • Shared Hosting
  • Cloud
  • Domains
  • SSL Certificates
  • Emails
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✍️ Support Options
  • Email
  • Help Desk
  • Phone / Toll-Free
  • Forum
  • Live Chat
  • Available 24/7
  • 0 WHTop support responses
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💰 Payment Options
  • Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
  • PayPal
  • Wire Transfer
  • Bitcoin
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👪 Last positive / negative customers review
 
-anonymous- (timo.p.saarinen@g...)
on 📆 Nov 22, 2018
Solid hosting for 4 years
😁 I have had a personal vps on Gandi and have been very happy with their customer service, service availability and the management UI.

-anonymous- (-hidden-)
on 📆 Jan 28, 2021
😠 Gandi will not help you. If you don't know how to do something they will not give useful assistance. Their "documentation" instructs you to click on links or tabs that do not exist. The methods they tell you to use do not work. I have had my sites [...]

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