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Founded by Manfred Touron and Xavier Niel on Aug 30, 2000.1
In 1999, Online started its activities in web hosting and domain name registration services
In August 2002, the domain name registrar BookMyName was bought by Iliad from its competitor 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 has published its datacenters' PUE in real time on pue.online.net.
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.
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In April 2015 the service left its beta status and has been renamed as Scaleway. Online added servers with x86_64 based CPUs in March 2016.
Entrepreneur Yann Lechelle joined as CEO in early 2020, but left in December 2022.
In November 2023, Iliad launched Kyutai in France, an independent, non-profit artificial intelligence research laboratory operating on an open-source and open-science basis, funded with 300 million Euro.
According to Euractiv, the European Commission has been in talks for several weeks about European cloud providers as alternatives to Microsoft, including Scaleway. In April 2026, the European Commission selected Scaleway as one of four providers under its Cloud III Dynamic Purchasing System, a €180 million framework for EU institutions to procure sovereign cloud and AI services over up to six years.
In July 2026, Airbus signed a multi-year agreement with Scaleway to host sensitive industrial and defence applications, including systems for aircraft design, engineering, manufacturing and corporate operations. Scaleway also signed partnerships with Swedish operator Tele2 to launch a sovereign cloud and AI offering in Sweden, and with France Télévisions to host and process content-related data.
From Wikipedia’s article on Scaleway, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4