Centron.de Economy.NET, € 1.00/mo. on Windows Managed

Economy.NET has been updated on June 16, 2020 (added January 18, 2013)

💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPalWire Transfer
🔨 Control Panel :	WebsitePanel
🔧 Category :	Backup
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :	Germany
⚑ Targeting :	AT CA DE SE CH UK US

See also initial Economy.NET plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

centron GmbH is a German business hosting, cloud infrastructure and data center provider headquartered in Hallstadt, near Bamberg. The company has operated since 1999 and was founded by Monika Safferling and Wilhelm Seucan. Its profile is strongly connected with managed hosting, Microsoft-oriented hosting, German cloud infrastructure, secure data center operations and business-grade IT outsourcing.

centron is not only a classic web hosting company. Their portfolio includes cloud virtual machines, VPS-style cloud hosting, managed servers, dedicated servers, Kubernetes, Cloud GPU servers, S3-compatible object storage, block storage, cloud firewalls, VPN/VPC networking, SSL certificates, domains, web hosting, Shopware hosting, Smartstore hosting, monitoring, backups, ransomware protection and colocation. This makes them more relevant for companies, agencies, developers and IT departments than for users looking only for the cheapest small personal website package.

The central infrastructure product is ccloud, a German cloud platform built around scalable virtual machines and several performance pools, including Worker Pool, Power Pool, High Availability Pool and Cloud GPU Pool options. This gives customers a flexible way to run business applications, development environments, databases, e-commerce workloads, GPU tasks or high-availability projects without moving outside a German hosting environment.

For customers that do not want to manage every technical detail internally, Managed Server plans add operational administration, monitoring, backups, patching and security handling. Dedicated servers are also part of the offer, giving customers physical server resources with Linux or Windows usage and optional managed backup or full management.

centron also keeps a classic Webhosting & Domains line. These plans support Linux and Windows hosting, email accounts, MySQL on Linux, MSSQL on Windows, PHP, ASP.NET, DDoS protection, German server location and 24/7 support. The Windows hosting support is especially important, because many lower-cost hosting companies focus mainly on Linux and PHP hosting.

The website is available in German and English. The overall design is modern, responsive and cloud-oriented, with a stronger focus on business infrastructure than on budget consumer hosting.