Verdict
cloud86.io appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Marketing and product pages for Cloud86, a Dutch web hosting provider offering shared hosting, managed WordPress, AI site builder, VPS, domains and support. Contains pricing, features, performance claims and customer reviews; standard corporate/legal links present. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 2 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 4.2 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2023152 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2023.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
Cloud86.io is an apparently established Dutch web-hosting and SaaS provider offering shared hosting, managed WordPress hosting, an AI website builder, WooCommerce hosting, managed VPS services, domain registration and transfer, email hosting, support, and related business services through subscription-based plans.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or identity-contradiction signals were observed. The site’s content is consistent with a conventional hosting provider, and its homepage includes a defensive warning about fraudulent emails circulating in its name. A small number of abuse reports relate to the shared hosting address rather than to the website specifically; the address is whitelisted, the confidence score is zero, and the reports were discounted because they apply to shared provider infrastructure. Overall, the available evidence supports a low scam or impersonation risk, while the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage and product pages present a consistent corporate/service model for web hosting, WordPress, VPS, domains, and support, with no identified phishing or impersonation indicators.
- The homepage warns visitors that fraudulent emails are in circulation and advises contacting support rather than following questionable links.
- The domain was registered on 2022-06-14 and is approximately 4.16 years old.
- Archive records contain 152 snapshots spanning 2023-03-08 to 2026-07-01, covering 4 tracked years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
Cloud86 presents a coherent commercial service model, with named hosting products, published pricing, support functions, performance claims, customer reviews, and standard corporate and legal navigation. The homepage advertises web hosting from €1.95 per month, managed WordPress hosting from €7.95, an AI website builder from €2.95, WooCommerce hosting from €7.95, managed VPS services, domains, email hosting, and Microsoft 365-related services. No financial-services license is claimed in the supplied pages, and no license or registration number is identified; for an ordinary hosting provider this is a disclosure and contracting-entity verification point rather than evidence of a scam. Available reputation checks were clean, and the site has an established global web presence. The site is therefore apparently legitimate and evidence-consistent, but its operator identity should not be treated as independently proven.
- The homepage and hosting pages identify subscription-based web-hosting services, managed WordPress, AI website-building, WooCommerce, VPS, domain, and email offerings with published starting prices.
- The site navigation includes “Over ons,” “Contact,” “Support,” status information, account access, and standard corporate/legal links.
- The site is served from AS24940, HETZNER-AS – Hetzner Online GmbH, DE.
- The transport certificate is issued by YE2, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-09-18T07:58:02+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the contracting legal entity, billing details, cancellation and refund terms, and applicable consumer protections using the site’s legal and account documentation together with an independent business source. Support and account-access channels should be cross-checked through contact details obtained independently of a received email or unsolicited message. For any service that would involve a regulated activity beyond ordinary hosting, the relevant regulator’s register should be checked separately before funds are committed.
- The legal and corporate navigation provides the relevant pages for reviewing contracting and service terms.
- The contact and support pages provide the stated channels for validating service ownership and escalation routes.
- The account and login areas are the relevant locations for confirming the normal customer workflow before submitting credentials.
- The pricing and service pages provide the baseline against which checkout charges and selected add-ons can be compared.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and no observed contradictions. Confidence is strong at the website-risk level, but not equivalent to independent proof of the real-world operator’s identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection provides a mitigating layer between visitors and the service infrastructure. The observed address was an edge address, and no origin-server candidate was exposed during the analysis; this reduces direct origin exposure but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal evaluation of the service is proportionate, provided that the contracting party, commercial terms, and payment protections are independently confirmed before credentials or payment details are submitted.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 2 reports on hosting IP 65.109.39.175 (Hetzner Online GmbH, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of cloud86.io.
- The request stayed on cloud86.io. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-14. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2023-03-08. Clear
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Hosting Concepts B.V. d/b/a Registrar.eu |
|---|---|
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 65.109.39.175 |
| Name servers | ivan.ns.cloudflare.com, diana.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-18 |
| Domain age | 4.16 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-14 |
| Archive first seen | 2023-03-08 |
| Archive snapshots | 152 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 2 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about cloud86.io at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.