France Serv Standard, € 4.50/mo. on Linux Shared

Offre Standard is the first paid shared hosting plan and is presented as the most popular choice for family sites, blogs, forums and lightweight CMS projects. The offer starts at 4.50 EUR per month and lets you allocate between 5 and 50 GB of FTP disk space from the management interface, with 5 to 20 GB of mail storage and 1 to 5 GB for MySQL or MariaDB data. Between 10 and 30 databases are included and it is possible to add up to three extra SQL accounts, while web traffic remains unmetered so the limit is defined more by storage and application behaviour than by bandwidth. Fifteen mailboxes or redirects are available with sensible hourly, daily and monthly sending limits that work well for newsletters and transactional mail without opening the door to abusive mass mailing. All standard web hosting features are active on this plan, including unlimited hosted domains and subdomains, Apache with IPv4 and IPv6, AWStats statistics, the complete DNS manager, free Lets Encrypt SSL certificates, logs for web, mail and FTP traffic and support for multiple PHP branches through PHP FPM. Individual scripts can use up to 256 MB of memory with six minutes execution time and a 400 MB upload limit, which is sufficient for most WordPress, Joomla or Prestashop sites. Users also gain access to multi site FTP with up to 30 extra FTP accounts, WebFTP with antivirus scans, cron style scheduled tasks in higher quantity than the trial pack and the same security stack with firewall, WAF, antivirus and Anti DDoS protection.

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.