Ikoula

Running its own data centres in France is the foundation of what Ikoula offers. The company says it owns two data centres and has built its services around them, from shared web hosting to dedicated hardware and outsourced IT. It presents itself as a French alternative to large American cloud providers, and it has been in business since 1998, growing from a hosting and infrastructure pioneer in the Champagne-Ardenne region.

Hosting packages for business websites

For ordinary business sites, the firm sells ready-made professional hosting packages. Its web hosting range is aimed at companies that want a complete solution rather than assembling their own stack. Hosting can be paired with an SSL certificate for online shops, which the company describes as a way of reassuring customers during checkout.

Virtual servers that scale with demand

The VPS range is built around adjusting resources to what a customer needs, so that a business can add capacity as its workload grows. The site also offers a version set up for 3CX, a business telephony platform, hosted in the company's data centres.

Dedicated servers, including AI workloads

Dedicated servers range from a series aimed at critical services to a model for virtualisation and consolidation. The company has added a configuration with two Nvidia RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell cards, which together provide 48 GB of video memory aimed at language model and inference workloads.

Managed IT run by a French team

Ikoula also works as an outsourced IT provider, taking over infrastructure management with technical teams available around the clock in France. Its Silver support level is described as a guaranteed response time: the company says it intervenes within 30 minutes by phone and within six hours by email. It also says its teams act on problems they identify, even when the customer has not noticed them.

Certified equipment and customer interfaces

The company states that the hardware and components it sells are tested by its own experts and covered by a warranty for the length of each service. It holds ISO 27001 certification for information security management, which it announced in January 2023. Customers get secure interfaces for invoices, statistics and reports.

Microsoft 365 and certificates

Microsoft 365 office suites are sold alongside the hosting, for professionals who need a complete productivity package. SSL certificates are offered for online shops that want to protect their customers' transactions.

Sustainability and community projects

The company says it works to reduce energy use in its data centres and runs them on renewable power. It also says it supports associative, educational, start-up and open-source projects that share its innovative and human values, and it offers them practical help.