About
Built by an engineer who hosts what he runs.
2-Host is a Swedish-owned hosting and IT consulting business. Founded and operated by Aiham, a working network and security engineer.
Story
2-Host started because the hosting market is dominated by resellers — operators who buy capacity from someone else and put their logo on top. That model has one obvious problem: when something breaks, the person you reach is not the person who can fix it.
The infrastructure here is operated end-to-end by the founder. A Tier-3 datacenter in Falkenstein, Germany hosts the physical hardware. A virtualization layer on top provides hardware-isolated VPS instances and isolated shared-hosting accounts. Cloudflare fronts everything for DDoS mitigation and edge SSL.
The business is small on purpose. Most decisions are made by one person who understands both the network and the security stack. Support is in English, Swedish, and Arabic — not because that is the marketing promise, but because those are the languages the founder and the support team actually speak.
Credentials
- —Cisco CCNAv7 (×3)
- —Cisco CyberOps Associate
- —Palo Alto Firewall Essentials
- —M.Sc. Privacy, Information Security & Cyber Security (in progress)
Infrastructure
Servers in a Tier-3 datacenter in Falkenstein, Germany. All EU jurisdiction. No US Cloud Act exposure. We do not subprocess data outside the EU.
The network is fronted by Cloudflare for DDoS mitigation, edge caching, and WAF. Origin servers are firewalled, key-only SSH, with unattended security upgrades and fail2ban as defaults. Every shared-hosting account gets off-site backups; every VPS gets snapshot support and replicated nightly backups.
Get in touch.
Sales, support, and partnership questions all land in the same inbox. Replies are usually within a few hours during support hours.