History
In 1999, Online started its activities in web hosting and domain name registration services [3] [4]
In August 2002, the domain name registrar BookMyName was bought by Iliad from its competitor LDCom. [5]
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 [6] acquired by Tiscali France in June 2003 [7] and finally renamed as Iliad Datacenter.
In April 2010, Online merges with Dedibox, another subsidiary of Iliad, [8] 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 [9] 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 publishes in real time the PUE of its datacenters on pue.online.net, in an effort of transparency.
In 2013, Online launched labs.online.net in preview. An infrastructure as a service offer, based on dedicated hardware and without virtualization, [10] based on ARM CPUs. [11] The hardware is made in a factory near Laval in France.
In April 2015 the service left its beta status and has been renamed as Scaleway. [12] As the popularity of the platform grows, Online added servers with x86_64 based CPUs in March 2016. [13]
In early 2015, the company announced to have exceeded 400 Gb/s of immediate Internet traffic.
Entrepreneur Yann Lechelle [ fr ] joined as CEO in early 2020, [15] but left in December 2022. [16]
In November 2023, Iliad launched Kyutai in France, the first European independent and non-profit artificial intelligence research laboratory, a laboratory that adopts an open-source and open-science approach for 300 million Euro. [17]
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