Affordable hosting: cheap doesn’t mean low quality

Cloud web hosting is a hosting model in which your website is not run on a single server but on a network of connected servers. This solution offers high resilience and scalability. With ccloud³ VMs you start from just €3.11 per month – ideal for affordable cloud web hosting.

There isn’t one: the entry prices are permanent prices with no bait offer, billing is by the hour, and support and basic protection are included. At centron, affordable is a question of sizing – not of quality.

Shared web hosting means that several websites share the resources of a single server. It is a particularly inexpensive solution for small projects. With ccloud³ VMs we offer a more powerful alternative with isolated resources – without the limitations of classic shared hosting offers.

With dedicated hosting you get exclusive access to a physical server. That means full control over CPU, RAM, storage and network. Our dedicated servers are ideal for compute-intensive projects, business applications or high-availability solutions with maximum performance.

The starting prices are deliberately low: ccloud³ VMs from €3.11 per month, web hosting from €13.95 per month and cBacks with no base fee. New accounts receive a €200 starting credit valid for 60 days – you can calculate the cost of your specific configuration transparently using the price calculator.

Free hosting often comes with advertising, limited performance and restricted security. At centron you get affordable hosting from €3.11 with clearly calculable costs – no hidden fees, but the full range of services and GDPR compliance.

Our ccloud³ virtual machines start from just €3.11 per month – ideal for beginners, start-ups and smaller companies. You benefit from high flexibility, simple management and fast scalability – with no compromises on security and support.

We do not offer free domains – but you can easily integrate your existing domain or register one via our domain & DNS service. Ask our sales team for individual domain solutions in your hosting package.

No. centron does not offer a website builder platform but powerful cloud infrastructure for professional web projects – flexibly usable with CMS such as WordPress, TYPO3 or Contao.

Yes. With our managed servers or ccloud³ VMs you run your WordPress website stably, securely and scalably – including a €200 starting credit.

For SMEs in particular, a cloud server is significantly cheaper than your own hardware. Your own infrastructure not only involves high initial investment in servers, network and spare parts but also ongoing costs for energy, maintenance, updates and IT staff. These expenses are hard to plan and only pay off with very constant or specialised requirements. Cloud servers, by contrast, offer a usage-based, transparent cost model: you pay only for what is actually needed. Resources such as CPU, RAM or storage can be adjusted at any time without purchasing new hardware. With managed models, security updates, monitoring, backups and ongoing operation are already included, noticeably relieving SMEs. A cloud server like centron’s is therefore usually the more economical and lower-risk solution for companies that want to stay flexible and not run their own data centre.

centron offers a wide range of cloud hosting solutions: from VPS & VMs to managed servers and GPU hosting for special requirements. All solutions are certified to ISO 27001 and GDPR-compliant.

With Premium Full Managing we offer proactive support, 24/7 monitoring and automatic backups. Ideal for companies looking for maximum security and freedom from maintenance.

Yes. Our Power Pool VMs offer high data throughput and are ideal for IoT platforms, sensor applications and M2M communication – more on IoT cloud.

Yes – and with cheap hosting that is by no means a given: low prices are often explained by data centres outside the EU. At centron the price stays low without relocating the site: all data is processed in Germany. The data centres are certified to ISO 27001 based on IT-Grundschutz; for ccloud³ / Managed Cloud there is an unqualified BSI C5:2020 Type 1 attestation. Details can be found in the Trust Center.

When hosting Kubernetes, many costs go beyond the pure VM rental: not only the infrastructure nodes (CPU/RAM) and storage volumes, but also network traffic (e.g. data egress or load balancers), persistent storage, logging/monitoring, backups, licence costs for additional tools and the operational effort for operation and maintenance. Added to this is frequently over-provisioning of resources (“just in case”), unused cluster resources, unclear cost allocation (chargeback) and multi-region or hybrid architectures that quickly become expensive in comparison. With centron Kubernetes, traffic is included.

The total cost of ownership for Kubernetes includes not only the monthly infrastructure costs but also set-up and migration effort, operation (SRE/DevOps teams), security, compliance, monitoring, updates and possible outages. For a realistic calculation, analysis over a longer period (e.g. 3–5 years) is recommended, estimating scaling, growth, reserve capacity and unexpected costs (e.g. data egress, shadow IT). This allows comparative offers to be assessed more seriously – for instance in the comparison of Kubernetes hosting in Germany.

The three central cost drivers of a Kubernetes cluster are: first, compute resources (number, size and runtime of nodes) – often the largest share. Second, network and storage costs, in particular data transfer, persistent volumes, snapshots, load balancing and multi-zone/region traffic. Third, operational effort, i.e. operation, monitoring, security, licensing and automation – especially if no mature platform organisation is in place.