METANET
Web hosting, domains, email and virtual servers hosted in Swiss data centres.
- Swiss CompanyThe operating company is headquartered and legally incorporated in Switzerland.
- Swiss DevelopedThe product is primarily developed by a team operating from Switzerland.
- Hosted in SwitzerlandCore customer data and workloads are hosted in Switzerland by default.
metanet.ch
Overview
METANET is a web hosting provider based in Zurich. It offers domain registration, email and shared web hosting (METAhost S, M and L) with a website builder, WordPress hosting, virtual servers, managed services and security services. The company reports more than 60,000 customers and over 1,000 server systems.
METANET’s servers are housed in rented racks at Equinix, GTT and SenseLAN data centres in Zurich, Oberengstringen and Düdingen, connected to its own network (AS21069). The ISO 27001 certificates METANET publishes are those of its data-centre partners Equinix and GTT, not of METANET itself.
Since 2022 METANET has been part of the dogado group, which merged with one.com to form group.one; the group’s parent company is registered in Sweden. Prices are listed in CHF including VAT, with a minimum term of 12 months for web hosting.
Why it may be a Swiss alternative
METANET is operated by METANET AG, which is headquartered in Zürich. Headquartered in Switzerland, but ultimately controlled by a company outside Switzerland.
According to the information we found, core customer data is hosted in Switzerland.
May replace
- GoDaddyGoDaddy Inc. · US
- NamecheapNamecheap, Inc. · US
- IONOSIONOS SE · DECovers web hosting, domains and virtual servers; METANET has no public cloud platform comparable to IONOS Cloud.
Foreign products with overlapping functionality. An alternative is not necessarily a one-to-one replacement.
Swiss footprint
Five independent questions. A Swiss company is not automatically Swiss-hosted — and vice versa. How the footprint is assessed
Swiss company · foreign parent. Headquartered in Switzerland, but ultimately controlled by a company outside Switzerland.
- HeadquartersIs the operating company headquartered in Switzerland?
- Zürich, Zurich (ZH), SwitzerlandVerified[9]
- Legal jurisdiction
- OwnershipIs the company ultimately Swiss-owned?
- No — group.one (one.com Group AB) · SwedenVendor claim[2]
METANET joined the German dogado group in January 2022; dogado was then a company of Triton's portfolio company European Directories. dogado later merged with one.com to form group.one, whose legal notice names one.com Group AB in Malmö, Sweden. METANET's privacy policy names dogado GmbH as its 100% parent within group.one. In December 2022 the Seventh Cinven Fund (UK) and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (Canada) agreed to acquire and combine group.ONE and dogado; their current holding was not re-confirmed for 2026.
- DevelopmentIs the product developed in Switzerland?
- YesVendor claim[1]
Operations and support are run by around 30 employees in Switzerland; shared hosting is based on the third-party control panel Plesk.
- HostingIs customer data hosted in Switzerland?
- Yes — SwitzerlandVendor claim[2]
METANET states that all web hosting servers are in Swiss data centres and that daily backups go to a separate Swiss data centre.
- InfrastructureIs the hosting infrastructure operated by a Swiss-owned provider?
- No — METANET AG (own servers in colocation) · SwedenVendor claim[3]
Around 60 racks are rented at five locations of three data-centre operators. METANET is owned by the group.one group, whose parent company is registered in Sweden. Data-centre facility: Equinix, GTT (Interoute) and SenseLAN, in Zurich, Oberengstringen and Düdingen
Features & platforms
- Platforms
- Deployment
- Made for
- Interface languages
- Unknown / not verified
Privacy & security
- Not verified
- End-to-end encryption, Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit, Multi-factor authentication, Single sign-on (SAML/OIDC), SCIM provisioning, Public API and Data export
- Certifications
- None listed
Pricing
Paid plans fromCHF 12.90 / monthMETAhost S (50 GB), incl. VAT, minimum term 12 months, billed annually
- Pricing model
- Subscription
- Free plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Free trial
- Unknown / not verified
- Enterprise plan
- Unknown / not verified
- Billing in CHF
- Yes
Prices checked 16 Oct 2026. Always confirm on the vendor’s site. Pricing page ↗
Company
Zurich-based web hosting and domain provider in business since 2000, part of the European hosting group group.one since 2022.
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Sources & verification
Every claim on this page is marked as verified, vendor claim or inferred. Unknown means we could not confirm it — not that the answer is “no”.
- Verified Confirmed by an independent or official source such as the commercial register.
- Vendor claim Stated by the vendor in its own documentation, website or legal terms.
- Inferred Derived by the editors from indirect evidence — see the note.
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