Freelancing: a professional set-up without fixed-cost baggage
Run your portfolio, client projects and development environments professionally – at prices that don’t hurt even between two contracts. Managed hosting that helps freelancers launch, scale and manage their digital businesses: centron takes care of the hosting so you can focus on what matters most – running your business successfully.
- Save time – staging environments, managed backups, vertical scaling and SSL: get more work done in less time.
- Optimised performance – a fully optimised technology stack straight out of the box.
- Flexibility when you need it – performance for all website builds, including WordPress, Magento, WooCommerce and Laravel.
- Full control with your own VMs – if you want to manage your cloud hosting yourself, use flexible, scalable ccloud³ VMs.
Designed for one-person businesses
As a freelancer, you’re responsible for development, operations and bookkeeping all in one – your infrastructure should take the strain off all three.
Costs about the same as a coffee
A VM from €3.11 per month or web hosting from €13.95 – a professional online presence without the monthly headache.
Client projects kept separate
A separate, small instance for each customer: clear separation, transparent billing, and a straightforward handover at the end of the project.
Demos in minutes
Staging environments for customer acceptance testing are launched via a snapshot – and are deleted again after go-live.
Reliability included
German servers, SSL and GDPR compliance – factors that help secure contracts with business clients.
Focus on your business, not on your cloud infrastructure
Ease of use, support, performance and affordability for freelancers who want to achieve their business goals and build their clients’ websites – and you can start for free with a €200 starting credit.
Save time
Hosting designed for ease of use: staging environments via snapshot, managed backups with cBacks, vertical scaling, SSL and more. Get more work done in less time.
Optimised performance
A fully optimised technology stack straight out of the box – NVMe storage and guaranteed CPU performance in the Power Pool of the ccloud³ VMs.
Freelancing flexibility when you need it
Performance for all website builds, including WordPress, Magento, WooCommerce, Laravel and more – on web hosting or your own VM.
Your own virtual machines instead of managed hosting
While managed hosting is a perfect fit for many freelancers, some prefer to manage their own cloud hosting entirely. If you want full control and customisation of your own virtual servers, use the flexible, scalable cloud hosting of the ccloud³ VMs – or a managed server if required.
From the portfolio to the first team
Today, a portfolio and two client projects; tomorrow, ten projects and your first subcontractor: the platform scales with you, without you having to migrate. cReports provides invoices and usage data for each project, delivered free of charge.
- A brief introduction – from €3.11 per month
- Project separation – one instance per customer
- Simple handover – Transferring projects smoothly
- Passing on costs – Consumption per project
The right centron products
Customers typically implement this use case using these building blocks – which can be combined and expanded at any time.
- Deployment in seconds
- Linux & Windows
- Billed by the hour
- Domain & SSL included
- Email inboxes
- CMS-ready
- Wide range of TLDs
- DNS included
- Automated management
Which cloud infrastructure is best suited to freelancers?
Cloud for freelancers: professional server infrastructure at fair prices – billed by the hour, with no minimum contract term. The cornerstone of the service is ccloud³ VMs from €3.11 per month – billed by the hour, with no minimum contract term. This is supplemented, as required, by web hosting and domains & DNS. Hosting is provided in compliance with the GDPR in centron’s own certified to ISO 27001 on the basis of IT-Grundschutz data centres, with a BSI C5:2020 Type 1 attestation. New accounts receive a €200 starting credit.
| Building block | Price |
|---|---|
| ccloud³ VMs | from €3.11 per month |
| Web hosting | from €13.95 per month |
| Domains & DNS | from €0.77 per month |
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