Should I host on Pointer.gr / Papaki / OVH Greece / AWS Athens?
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Magento Developer Greece
Depends on your volume + budget + data-residency posture:
- Pointer.gr, Greek hosting provider, popular with mid-market. Greek-language support, EUR billing, AADE-friendly. Good for €100k, €2M stores.
- Papaki, another long-established Greek host, owned by GoDaddy since 2010s. Decent for entry-level €100k stores.
- OVH Greece (now OVHcloud Athens DC announced), European cloud, EUR billing, increasingly local. Good for €500k, €5M.
- AWS Athens region (coming), Amazon announced an Athens region. Once live, best-in-class for FR-data-residency-conscious clients. For now AWS Frankfurt / Paris is the next-best with <30ms latency to Athens.
- Adobe Commerce Cloud (Frankfurt), best if you’re already on Adobe Commerce. Auto-scaling, Fastly CDN, 24/7 Adobe support, <40ms latency to Athens. €25k+ /yr.
- Hyvä Cloud / Cloudways Frankfurt, managed Magento, €150-800 /mo, good for €500k, €5M stores.
We benchmark + migrate, the right answer depends on whether you need Greek data residency, low-latency, or just EU compliance.
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