What Keliweb does

Keliweb is an Italian hosting provider headquartered in Reggio Calabria, operating since 2007 as a private Società a responsabilità limitata (Keliweb S.r.l.). The company delivers an integrated online-presence stack from its own Italian datacenter, spanning domain registration across 700+ gTLDs and ccTLDs, shared Linux and Windows hosting (including CMS-optimized tiers for WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop, and Magento), cloud hosting on LiteSpeed, virtual private servers, customizable dedicated servers, an Italian CDN, geolocated cloud backup, a turnkey Platform-as-a-Service (Cloud Applications) with autoscaling, professional email, Posta Elettronica Certificata (PEC) certified email, SSL certificates, and Anti-DDoS protection — most recently augmented by an AI-assisted site-builder hosting plan ("Hosting con AI").

The business model is primarily subscription-based recurring revenue across hosting, VPS, dedicated infrastructure, domains, email, PEC, and SSL, supplemented by freemium entry points (free Sitebuilder, 30-day PaaS trial), affiliate/reseller commissions via the "Programma affiliazione," and quote-based managed services for mid-market and Public Administration customers. Go-to-market combines a self-service e-commerce storefront at keliweb.it with transparent published pricing, inside sales supported by dedicated Account Managers for higher-touch accounts, and a formal Web Agency reseller program offering WHM panel control, white-label branding, and tailored agency solutions. Customer segmentation is distributed across Italian SMBs, web agencies and resellers, public-administration entities (via dedicated PA hosting and PEC), mid-market/developer buyers of VPS and dedicated servers, and individual creators using the free or AI-assisted site builder.

Keliweb differentiates primarily on Italian data residency (domestic datacenter, CDN, and geolocated backup), compliance positioning (ISO certifications, PEC, PA hosting), an end-to-end one-stop portfolio versus point-solution competitors, and an agency-led distribution channel. The catalog and channel signals suggest an established SMB-and-agency-anchored Italian hosting operator pursuing moderate growth through product line-broadening (PaaS, AI hosting), vertical expansion (Public Administration), and pricing-led acquisition, though no financial scale figures are publicly disclosed.

Name

Keliweb

Legal name

Keliweb S.r.l.

Website

https://keliweb.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Keliweb is an Italian hosting provider (founded 2007, based in Reggio Calabria) offering domain registration, shared and managed CMS hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, cloud, CDN, email, PEC, SSL, and AI-assisted site building to Italian SMBs, web agencies, public-sector entities, and developers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Web Hosting Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518210), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Captive/Global In-House Center (GIC) Setup & Managed Services (BPAEAMAK)

Keywords

• Web hosting services
• Domain registration
• Virtual private servers
• Cloud hosting infrastructure
• SSL certificates

Headquarters

HQ city

Reggio Calabria

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Web Hosting Subscriptions: Recurring monthly/annual subscription revenue from shared hosting plans (Linux, Windows, Cloud, WordPress cPanel, WordPress Plus, Joomla, PrestaShop, Magento, MultiPHP, ecommerce). Promotional entry pricing of €2.29/month (from €4.58/month) and AI-hosting bundle advertised.
2. Domain Registration & Renewal: Annual fees for domain registration, transfer, and renewal across 700+ gTLDs and ccTLDs. Promotional pricing: .it free first year (€0 vs €12.90 standard), .com €12.72/year, .eu €7.92/year. Includes DNS management and 24/7 assistance.
3. VPS and Cloud Hosting: Recurring revenue from virtual private servers and cloud hosting with dedicated resources, automatic backup, and Italian cloud infrastructure. Promotional VPS pricing at €3.45/month (from €6.90/month).
4. Dedicated Servers and Cloud Advanced: Revenue from customizable Linux/Windows dedicated servers and the "Cloud Advanced" business-tier cloud offering, plus email servers with dedicated IP and unlimited mailboxes.
5. SSL Certificates and Security Add-ons: Recurring or annual revenue from SSL certificates sold as security add-ons to hosting customers.
6. Professional Email and PEC: Recurring revenue from professional email accounts, email servers, and certified email (PEC) services, including Webmail and WebMail PEC offerings.
7. Reseller and White-Label Hosting: Revenue from web-agency reseller plans sold via WHM panel with white-label branding, enabling partners to resell hosting as their own product.
8. Affiliate Program Commissions: Referral/affiliate revenue share through the "Programma affiliazione" program that pays partners for referred customers.
9. Site Builder and AI Site Creation: Free-to-start site builder bundled with hosting, plus an AI-driven site-creation hosting offering designed to monetize downstream subscriptions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Keliweb is an Italian hosting provider selling domain registration, shared and managed web hosting (Linux and Windows, with CMS-optimized variants for WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop, and Magento), Virtual Private Servers (VPS), customizable dedicated servers, cloud hosting with LiteSpeed, an Italian CDN, geolocated Cloud Backup, Cloud Applications (a turnkey PaaS with autoscaling), Cloud Advanced for businesses, professional email and PEC certified email, SSL certificates, and anti-DDoS protection. The portfolio is delivered from Keliweb's own Italian datacenter and is targeted at Italian SMBs, web agencies and resellers, ecommerce merchants, developers, individual site owners, and Italian Public Administration customers, complemented by a free Sitebuilder and an AI-assisted Hosting con AI plan.

Product overview

Keliweb operates as an Italian hosting provider offering a single integrated portfolio rather than a unified multi-tenant SaaS platform; customers typically start with shared Hosting Linux or Hosting Windows (including CMS-optimized variants: WordPress cPanel, WordPress Plus, WordPress Gestito, Joomla, PrestaShop, Magento) and can layer Hosting E-commerce, MultiPHP, or Hosting per Pubblica Amministrazione on top. The Cloud menu extends the catalog with Cloud Hosting, VPS, CDN, Cloud Backup, Cloud Applications (PaaS) and Cloud Advanced for business workloads, while Server Dedicato provides dedicated hardware. Communication and identity are covered by Email Professionale, Server Email and PEC, and the foundation layer by Domini (registration/transfer across gTLDs). Security and compliance wrap around the stack with Certificati SSL, Protezione Anti-DDoS and GDPR & Privacy (delivered via iubenda). The newest addition is Hosting con AI, an AI-driven hosting/site-builder plan that lets users generate a website via AI, and a Sitebuilder is offered as a free do-it-yourself option. The Reseller / Web Agency line (Hosting Web Agency with WHM and White-Label plus Soluzioni Personalizzate) completes the offering by letting agencies resell the same products under their own brand.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hosting Linux and Windows Shared Linux and Windows web hosting as the foundational product of the portfolio, including web space, email, MySQL databases, and a control panel, with CMS-optimized variants for WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop, Magento, MultiPHP, ecommerce, and Italian Public Administration. Shared Linux and Windows web hosting as the foundational product of the portfolio, including web space, email, MySQL databases, and a control panel, with CMS-optimized variants for WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop, Magento, MultiPHP, ecommerce, and Italian Public Administration.
• Cloud Hosting Performance-oriented cloud hosting with dedicated resources, automatic backups, and the LiteSpeed web server, targeted at performance-sensitive Italian workloads.
• VPS (Virtual Private Server) Virtual Private Servers with dedicated resources and autonomous management, hosted in an Italian cloud with automatic backups, promoted at €3.45/month for performance-sensitive or autonomous workloads.
• Server Dedicato (Dedicated Server) Customizable Linux or Windows dedicated servers providing exclusive hardware resources for demanding workloads, with pricing handled via quote through the Account Manager motion.
• Cloud Applications (PaaS) Turnkey Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering with autoscaling, available with a 30-day free trial for application workloads, targeted at developers and mid-market customers.
• Cloud Backup Geolocated, automated cloud backup service for securely storing customer data within Italy, offered as an add-on to hosting and infrastructure plans.
• CDN Italia (Content Delivery Network) Italian-based Content Delivery Network service to accelerate content delivery and improve site performance for Italian end users.
• Cloud Advanced Advanced cloud business solutions for organizations requiring more sophisticated infrastructure than standard hosting, sold via Account Manager with quote-based pricing.
• Registrazione Dominio (Domain Registration) Domain registration, transfer, and renewal across 700+ gTLDs and ccTLDs, with DNS management and 24/7 assistance, including dedicated flows for .it, .edu.it, and .gov.it domains.
• Email Professionale Professional email mailbox service including webmail access and an included domain, sold as a subscription add-on for Italian SMBs and professionals.
• Server Email Professional email sending server with unlimited mailboxes and a dedicated IP, targeted at bulk or outbound email workloads for businesses.
• Posta Elettronica Certificata (PEC) Italian certified email (PEC) service with legal value equivalent to a registered letter and notification features, targeted at Italian SMBs and Public Administration.
• Certificati SSL (SSL Certificates) SSL/TLS certificates sold as security add-ons to hosting customers to enable HTTPS on their websites.
• Sitebuilder Free website builder allowing customers to create a website without coding knowledge, used as a freemium entry point into Keliweb hosting subscriptions.
• Hosting con AI (AI-powered Hosting) AI-powered hosting plan that lets customers create a website with AI-assisted text and code generation, promoted at €2.29/month, targeted at first-time site owners and SMBs seeking rapid site creation.
• Hosting Web Agency (Reseller) Reseller hosting with WHM panel control and white-label branding, allowing web agencies to resell Keliweb hosting under their own brand to end clients.
• Hosting per Pubblica Amministrazione Hosting plan targeting Italian Public Administration entities, including support for .gov.it domains, bundled with PEC certified email and SSL for compliance use cases.

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.99% uptime SLA advertised across hosting services
• +5 more outcomes

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability5 records

Feature9 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• iubendaminorStrategic or Co-development Partneriubenda is integrated as Keliweb's recommended provider for online compliance ("Conformità online By iubenda") covering GDPR and cookie/privacy policy compliance for customer websites.
• WordPresscoreTechnology or IntegrationKeliweb offers dedicated managed and cPanel-based WordPress hosting ("Hosting WordPress cPanel", "WordPress Plus", "WordPress Gestito") with pre-tuned environments for WordPress sites.
• JoomlacoreTechnology or IntegrationKeliweb offers dedicated "Hosting Joomla" as one of its optimized CMS hosting products, with pre-configured Joomla hosting environments.
• PrestaShopcoreTechnology or IntegrationKeliweb offers dedicated "Hosting PrestaShop" optimized for PrestaShop ecommerce stores, listed under its CMS/ecommerce hosting line.
• MagentocoreTechnology or IntegrationKeliweb offers dedicated "Hosting Magento" as part of its optimized ecommerce hosting portfolio, targeted at Magento-based online stores.
• LiteSpeedcoreTechnology or IntegrationCloud Hosting tier uses the LiteSpeed web server to deliver dedicated resources and automatic backup, used as a performance differentiator for Keliweb's cloud hosting.
• cPanel / WHMcoreOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnercPanel/WHM is licensed and embedded across Keliweb's hosting and reseller products, including dedicated WordPress cPanel hosting and reseller white-label hosting.
• Web Agency Reseller NetworkcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFormal "Hosting Web Agency" reseller program that gives web agencies WHM panel access, white-label branding, and tailored agency solutions to resell Keliweb hosting under their own brand.
• Affiliate Partners (Programma affiliazione)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerKeliweb runs a public affiliate program ("Programma affiliazione") that pays partners for referred customers, expanding its marketing reach.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Hostinger: Global low-cost hosting provider offering shared hosting, VPS, domains, and an AI Website Builder. Comparable on entry-tier hosting pricing, AI site building, and SMB/individual customer base.
• Register.it: Italian domain registrar and hosting provider (part of DADA group) serving SMBs and professionals with shared hosting, WordPress, email, and SSL. Closely comparable product catalog and Italian SMB target customer.
• OVHcloud: European cloud and hosting provider offering shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, and public cloud. Comparable on VPS, dedicated servers, and cloud infrastructure for SMBs and developers.
• Aruba S.p.A. Italy's largest hosting and domain registrar, offering shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, cloud, PEC, and SSL. Directly comparable to Keliweb across the full hosting/domain/PEC stack in the Italian SMB and PA market.
• Tiscali: Italian ISP and hosting provider offering connectivity, domains, email, and web hosting. Comparable on Italian SMB hosting, domains, and email, including some PEC-adjacent offerings.
• Seeweb: Italian cloud and hosting provider offering cloud servers, VPS, dedicated hosting, and PaaS. Directly comparable as an Italy-based infrastructure provider serving SMBs and developers.
• SiteGround: European hosting provider specializing in managed shared, WordPress, and WooCommerce hosting with global data centers. Closely comparable on managed CMS/WordPress hosting and SMB/agency customer base.

Broad incumbents

• GoDaddy: Global domain registrar and hosting provider offering domains, shared hosting, VPS, WordPress, and SSL. Comparable on domain-led acquisition and SMB hosting, but operates globally with a far larger portfolio.
• IONOS: Large European hosting and cloud incumbent (formerly 1&1) offering shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, cloud, and domains at scale. Comparable across the hosting/cloud portfolio but operates at much greater scale and broader geographic footprint.
• Cloudflare: Global CDN, security, and edge-compute provider whose offerings (CDN, DDoS protection, DNS, SSL) overlap with Keliweb's infrastructure layer. Comparable on CDN and security add-ons, but with a much broader global footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/KeliwebIT
• Facebookfacebook.com/Keliweb.it

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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