Hosting, Country by Country
Web hosting for the Netherlands buyers
The things that genuinely change when you order from the Netherlands: which local domains we can register, what your card gets charged, how far our servers sit from you, where you stand on tax, and the payment methods we still cannot take.
What Changes Locally
Ordering from the Netherlands, in detail
No template with a country name dropped into it. Every line below moves depending on where you are standing.
Domains from here
.nl — we stock these and register them direct.
Price tags in your money
Tags read in EUR; the card is billed in USD. Your bank does the conversion and may take a cut for it.
Distance to our racks
Roughly 10–35 ms there and back. Quick enough that a local host would buy you nothing.
Staffed round your clock
CET/CEST — you run an hour in front of our team. We aim to reply inside 2 hours, whatever the hour, in English.
Local Extensions
The price tag on your national ending
Figures lifted straight off our price list, not rounded-off guesses.
| Domain ending | Year one |
|---|---|
| .nl | $10.99 |
| .eu | $8.99open to you as an EU resident |
Read the whole price list — all 65 endings we register.
the Netherlands in Particular
The part that applies only here
Amsterdam sits about 8 ms from our London origin — the shortest hop of any non-UK city we serve, thanks to the AMS-IX exchange and some very short undersea routes. The counterweight, stated honestly: iDEAL handles most Dutch online payments and we do not support it, so paying us means using a card.
At the Till
What the till takes, and what it turns away
Where our accepted methods and your country's habits part company — said here, not sprung on you at checkout.
Accepted here
Visa, Mastercard and American Express, credit or debit, issued in the Netherlands or anywhere else, provided the card is cleared for international payments. Stripe handles the transaction, so the card numbers never touch our servers.
Not on the till yet
iDEAL, which is simply how the Netherlands pays online. We cannot take it yet, and in this market that is a serious limitation rather than a footnote.
More on payment methods and the way currency is handled.
City Pages
Closer to home in the Netherlands
The same ground, walked city by city.
Across the Counter
What buyers in the Netherlands ask us
Can I order from the Netherlands?
Yes. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in the Netherlands all go through, and the account builds itself the moment the payment clears — nobody signs it off by hand, and nothing requires you to sit in the UK. The tag reads in EUR so you can weigh up the cost; the charge lands on your card in USD.
What do people in the Netherlands usually pay with, and does your till take it?
Straight answer rather than the flattering one. iDEAL, which is simply how the Netherlands pays online. We cannot take it yet, and in this market that is a serious limitation rather than a footnote. A card cleared for international payments is the one method we can always take. Better you learn that here than after you have spent an hour picking a plan.
Will the site feel quick to visitors in the Netherlands?
The machines sit in London, about 10–35 ms from you. Quick enough that a local host would buy you nothing. In practice a first-time reader pulling a cached page rarely feels the distance, because that page can come from an edge location near them. Where the distance shows is logged-in work — the WordPress admin, a checkout, anything that cannot be cached — since every action travels to London and back. Our infrastructure page spells out what a CDN fixes and what it leaves alone.
Is there tax to pay on an order placed in the Netherlands?
As an EU buyer, VAT may be due on your order. Where it is, the amount is worked out and printed at checkout before you hand over any money — never bolted on afterwards. Buying as a VAT-registered business? Put your number in and the reverse charge takes care of it.
Must I be in the UK to hold an account?
No. The company behind the counter is British — Bohzo Ltd, registered in England and Wales under number 15031604, which anyone can check on the public Companies House register — but buying hosting carries no residency test and no business-registration test. An order placed in the Netherlands runs through exactly as a London one does.
And if it turns out to be the wrong fit?
Hosting plans give you 30 days to change your mind; reseller plans give you 7. That is long enough to put a real site up and time it against your own audience instead of taking our figures on trust. If it does not suit, ask for the money back. Domain registrations are the one exception — the registry bills us the second a name is registered, so those cannot be refunded.
Put us to the test from the Netherlands
Thirty days to time the thing against your own audience. If the numbers disappoint, ask for your money back.
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