INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE URBANÍSTICA de la Universidad de Valladolid

What INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE URBANÍSTICA de la Universidad de Valladolid does

INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE URBANÍSTICA de la Universidad de Valladolid is a research institute founded in 1991 and part of the Universidad de Valladolid, a public university in Spain. The data describes an associated internal web hosting service ("Alojamiento Web UVa") administered by the Área Web under the Vicerrectorado de Comunicación, Deporte y Cultura, which provides free web hosting to the university community. The service operates on shared infrastructure at server albergueweb1.uva.es (IP 157.88.26.20), running PHP 7.4.33 with MySQL and phpMyAdmin, and supports FTP/SFTP file management.

The service offers five hosting types: static HTML, PHP, PHP + MySQL, managed WordPress (blogs.uva.es), and event/congress management (eventos.uva.es). Standard allocation is 500 MB per website, expandable up to 1 GB upon request. Custom subdomains under uva.es are issued subject to naming standards. External technical responsible parties may be designated under Spanish Law 9/2016 and RD 311/2022, with GDPR Article 28 compliance required for personal data processing.

The business model is non-commercial: the hosting is free to users and funded as institutional infrastructure through the university budget. The go-to-market is purely self-service — users apply via Microsoft Forms, are validated by the Área Web, and receive credentials within seven business days. No pricing tiers, external customers, or revenue-generating transactions exist. Support is provided by email ([email protected]) and phone during weekday business hours. The institute has approximately 5 employees and serves a geographically restricted, institutionally captive audience in Castile and León, Spain.

Name

INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE URBANÍSTICA de la Universidad de Valladolid

Legal name

Universidad de Valladolid

Website

https://www3.uva.es

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE URBANÍSTICA is a 1991-founded research institute at Spain's Universidad de Valladolid, hosting a free internal web hosting service (Alojamiento Web UVa) that provides shared PHP, MySQL, WordPress, and event-management hosting to the university's faculty, departments, research groups, and event organizers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

University Web Hosting Services

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Network & Connectivity Support (Wi‑Fi, VPN, Dorm/Residence Network) (EDALAMAF)

Keywords

• Web hosting services
• University web hosting
• WordPress hosting
• Event management platform
• Academic web infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Valladolid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations

Revenue model

1. Free Web Hosting Service: Free hosting service provided to university community members (students, faculty, departments, research groups). No monetary transactions for hosting services. Funded through university budget as institutional infrastructure.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Provides free, shared web hosting infrastructure to the Universidad de Valladolid community across five tiers—static HTML, PHP, PHP with MySQL, WordPress blogs, and an event/congress management platform—delivered with FTP/SFTP access, phpMyAdmin database administration, custom uva.es subdomains, and centralized institutional support covering compliance, maintenance, and storage expansion up to 1 GB.

Product overview

The Alojamiento Web UVa service is a multi-tiered web hosting platform offering five distinct hosting types: HTML Plano for static sites, PHP for dynamic applications, PHP + MySQL for database-driven applications, WordPress for corporate blogs, and Eventos y Congresos for event management. Users can also designate external technical responsible parties and request additional storage space up to 1 GB. Custom domains under the uva.es subdomain are available with specific naming requirements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• blogs.uva.es: WordPress blog hosting platform for the university community
• eventos.uva.es

Products and services

• Eventos y Congresos Centralized event and congress management platform that enables university-affiliated organizers to manage congresses, participants, and registrations through a single administration panel. Targeted at academic event organizers within the Universidad de Valladolid community.
• Servidor WordPress Corporate WordPress blog hosting with pre-installed free themes and pre-approved plugins, including unattended maintenance handled by the Área Web. Targeted at faculty, researchers, and academic staff who need a turnkey publishing platform without technical administration overhead.
• HTML Plano Basic hosting tier for static websites supporting HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files along with images and documents, without server-side processing. Targeted at university community members needing a simple, low-overhead web presence.
• PHP Web hosting with PHP runtime support for dynamic web applications, supporting both HTML and PHP files alongside static resources, running on PHP 7.4.33. Targeted at university community members building interactive web applications.
• PHP + Base de Datos MySQL Complete hosting solution combining PHP support with a MySQL database and phpMyAdmin administration interface, including 500 MB of storage with the option to expand up to 1 GB upon justified request. Targeted at university community members requiring database-driven web applications.

Quantifiable outcome

• Setup time: credentials delivered within 7 business days
• +2 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Direct peers

• RedIRIS: RedIRIS is the Spanish national academic and research network, providing connectivity and IT infrastructure services to Spanish public universities including UVa. Operates in the same academic IT-services category for the same customer base, making it the closest functional peer.
• Internet2: Internet2 is the US nonprofit computer networking consortium serving research and education institutions, providing shared infrastructure for universities and similar bodies. Direct academic-IT peer comparable in mission even though it operates at national scale rather than single-institution.
• Jisc: Jisc is the UK's digital, data, and technology agency for higher education and research, providing hosting, networking, and digital services to UK universities. Direct analog of an in-university web/IT hosting unit scaled across an entire national higher-education sector.
• GÉANT: GÉANT is the pan-European research and education networking organization, supporting national research networks (including RedIRIS) and their associated institutions. Highly comparable as the umbrella-level provider of academic IT infrastructure serving universities similar to UVa.
• SURF: SURF is the Dutch collaborative organization for ICT in education and research, delivering shared IT infrastructure, hosting, and collaboration services to Dutch universities and research institutions. Operates in the same academic-IT-services space with similar regulatory and data-protection responsibilities.

Broad incumbents

• IONOS: IONOS is a major European web hosting and cloud provider with extensive shared hosting, WordPress, and database offerings used by small organizations and academic-adjacent entities. Serves as a broad incumbent alternative to academic in-house hosting for institutions weighing build-vs-buy.
• OVHcloud: OVHcloud is one of Europe's largest cloud and web hosting providers, serving SMBs, institutions, and developers with shared hosting, VPS, and dedicated servers. Comparable as a large-scale incumbent offering the same underlying category of service (shared web hosting with PHP/MySQL/WordPress) that UVa's Área Web provides internally.

Others

• CRUE-TIC: CRUE is the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities, with a CRUE-TIC commission that coordinates digital and IT matters across Spanish public universities. Adjacent peer because it sets shared policy and procurement frameworks that individual university IT units (like UVa's Área Web) operate within, though it does not itself provide hosting.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/instituto-universitario-de-urban%C3%ADstica-de-la-universidad-de-valladolid

Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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