Scaleway

Scaleway (previously Online SAS or Online.net) is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a 100% subsidiary of the Iliad group.
The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures through Scaleway Dedibox® and Scaleway Elements brands,
domain registration services through the BookMyName brand, and colocation services in its datacenters through the brand Iliad datacenter.
The company is the second player in France with over Tb/s of Internet traffic.
History.
In 1999, Online started its activities in web hosting and domain name registration services
In August 2002, the domain name registrar BookMyName has been bought by Iliad from the concurrent LDCom.
In May 2006, rental of dedicated servers through the Dedibox brand was launched.
In December 2008, Iliad bought Alice ADSL: They also took over construction and operation of Datacenters, launched in 1999 by ISDnet, bought by Cable & Wireless in January 2000 acquired by Tiscali France in June 2003 and finally renamed as Iliad Datacenter.
In April 2010, Online merges with Dedibox, another subsidiary of Iliad, bringing together different hosting activities under a single brand.
In 2012, the company has opened its third datacenter of 11800 m² in Vitry-sur-Seine after 11 months of construction works. The site received the first Tier-III certification in France by Uptime Institute in January 2014.
Since 2012, the company publishes in real time the PUE of its datacenters on pue.online.net, in an effort of transparency.
In 2013, Online launched labs.online.net in preview. An infrastructure as a service offer, based on dedicated hardware and without virtualization, based on ARM CPUs. The hardware is made in a factory near Laval in France.
In April 2015 the service left its beta status and has been renamed as Scaleway. As the popularity of the platform grows, Online added servers with x86_64 based CPUs in March 2016.
Infrastructure.
Datacenters.
Online owns and operates several data centers, all located in the Île-de-France region.
In the past the company operated also:
Connectivity.
Since August 2013, the network of Online is "AS12876 ONLINE S.A.S". It is independent of the one of Free, which was not the case before. This allowed the company to move away from the closed interconnection policy of the internet service provider.
In early 2015, the company announced to have exceeded Gb/s of immediate Internet traffic.
In May 2016, Online shows a total of Gb/s of capacity on his links at their weathermap and is present at the following Internet Exchange Points: France-IX, Equinix-IX, AMS-IX et Neutral Internet Exchange