Hosting, Country by Country
Web hosting for Portugal buyers
The things that genuinely change when you order from Portugal: 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 Portugal, in detail
No template with a country name dropped into it. Every line below moves depending on where you are standing.
Domains from here
Your national ending isn't on our shelf yet. As an EU resident, though, you can take a .eu from us.
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
WET/WEST — clock for clock with 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 |
|---|---|
| .eu | $8.99open to you as an EU resident |
Read the whole price list — all 65 endings we register.
Portugal in Particular
The part that applies only here
Lisbon is around 30 ms from London and keeps the same clock we do, so a support conversation happens inside your working day rather than in the middle of the night. The genuine barrier in Portugal is payment: Multibanco and MB WAY are what most people use, and we can take neither. .pt is not on our list yet; .eu is available to you.
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 Portugal 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
Multibanco and MB WAY, which is simply how Portugal pays online. We carry neither, so a card is the only option left.
More on payment methods and the way currency is handled.
City Pages
Closer to home in Portugal
The same ground, walked city by city.
Across the Counter
What buyers in Portugal ask us
Can I order from Portugal?
Yes. Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards issued in Portugal 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 Portugal usually pay with, and does your till take it?
Straight answer rather than the flattering one. Multibanco and MB WAY, which is simply how Portugal pays online. We carry neither, so a card is the only option left. 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 Portugal?
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 Portugal?
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 Portugal 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 Portugal
Thirty days to time the thing against your own audience. If the numbers disappoint, ask for your money back.
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