France Serv Découverte, € 0.00/mo. on Linux Shared

Offre Decouverte is the free trial shared hosting plan created so that new customers can test the FranceServ environment before ordering a paid package. The account is limited to a single fifteen day period with no renewal and can only be opened once per person or household, but during this time it behaves like a real hosting plan with 1 GB of FTP space for website files, 1 GB for mail storage and 1 GB reserved for MySQL or MariaDB databases. Up to five SQL databases are included with thirty two simultaneous connections, together with unlimited web traffic, five mailboxes or redirects and three additional FTP accounts for separating access between projects. Decouverte is ideal for trying WordPress or another CMS, validating a migration, or building a small personal site without financial risk. Despite the modest quotas, the trial pack already benefits from key platform features such as Apache with IPv4 and IPv6, AWStats traffic statistics, the full DNS manager, free Lets Encrypt SSL certificates, PHP support with a 128 MB memory limit and six minutes maximum execution time, cron style scheduled tasks in limited number and the same protection layers such as antivirus scans and Anti DDoS filtering as the paid plans. No domain name is bundled, so the user either points an existing domain from another registrar or orders a new one from the domain price list and attaches it to the Decouverte account through the in house control panel.

All shared hosting plans at FranceServ run on Linux Debian servers located in several French datacenters operated by Scaleway, with a small pool of professional machines configured in high availability and load balancing. Storage combines SSD and HDD disks in RAID 1 and RAID 5 and the entire platform is monitored every minute by external probes, with response time and uptime statistics published on a public status page. Customers can choose from many PHP versions from 5.6 up to the latest 8.x branches in a chrooted environment, enable or disable system level PHP functions and rely on tools like ImageMagick, FFmpeg, PHP accelerators and the ionCube loader for heavier applications. Every account includes unlimited hosted domains and subdomains, a full DNS manager with alerts when name servers fail, detailed AWStats traffic reports, Apache with IPv4 and IPv6 and support for rewrite rules, plus free TLS certificates through Lets Encrypt or custom certificates. Mail services are tightly integrated with hosting and provide SMTP, IMAP and POP access, a Roundcube webmail interface, antispam based on rspamd and antivirus filtering via ClamAV, with optional Mailman3 mailing lists on the larger plans. Daily backups of FTP data, mailboxes and SQL databases are executed on a separate backup server and can be downloaded from the customer area, with retention spanning from several days to about a month. The in house management panel exposes multi site FTP, WebFTP with antivirus scans, cron style scheduled tasks, log downloads for web, mail and FTP, as well as one click installers and extensive French documentation. Contracts have no minimum duration, renewals are never forced by automatic rebilling and invoices can be paid monthly, quarterly or yearly. Technical assistance is handled directly by the FranceServ team via email, telephone, the public forum and an IRC channel, which matches their positioning as a proximity focused French host rather than a mass market brand.