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 majority owned 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 Scaleway Datacenters. 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