The heart of our infrastructure
Paris is our original site — where everything started in March 2020, and the one that concentrates the most investment. The PAR-1 datacenter hosts our latest-generation Ryzen 9 and EPYC hypervisors, connected via dual 100 Gbps fiber to France-IX, France's leading exchange point.
Unbeatable latency in France
From central Paris: 4 ms. From Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux: under 12 ms. From Belgium, French-speaking Switzerland and Luxembourg: under 15 ms. For an application whose users are in France, no location does better — and our published availability measurements (99.99% in 2024) focus on this site first.
GDPR by construction
Hosting in Paris means placing your data under French jurisdiction: GDPR, strict law on data access, no transfers outside the EU. For regulated sectors (health, finance, French public sector), PAR-1 is our customers' default choice. Our privacy policy details retention periods and processors, all European.
The France-IX network
France-IX concentrates 400+ members: French ISPs (Orange, Free, SFR, Bouygues) are directly peered there. Your traffic to a French user never leaves local peering — no detour via London or Amsterdam like some "French" hosts actually hosted abroad.