register.lu in Luxembourg: annual cost and WordPress restoration

Who register.lu may suit

This profile is based on published offers and documentation. No new hosting benchmark or support test was performed for this translation.

Plans, prices and renewals

Prices retain the market, currency and billing period described in the French source. Translation does not update a commercial quote. Confirm the final price, taxes and options before ordering.

Languages and support

Website and documentation

Website and terms in French and English. French is authoritative for the terms.

Control panel

Customer area advertised, with SFTP and phpMyAdmin tools. Authenticated area languages to confirm.

Support

Public channels in French, by telephone, email or portal depending on the request. Response language and telephone hours to confirm.

Luxembourg hosting for installing WordPress

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register.lu is operated by WebCMS S.à r.l. in Luxembourg. The catalog combines domains, web hosting, email, cloud storage and website creation. The web offering is compatible with WordPress and PrestaShop. Plan who installs the CMS, monitors its plugins and checks the site after updates. Hosting selection comes after measuring files and database separately.

The provider presents its services and terms in French and English. For a team working in French and wanting to host data in Luxembourg, the terms describe available resources and contract termination. The public catalog lists help channels and access tools. Rights actually assigned to an account and its ability to accommodate an existing WordPress site still depend on the plan.

For a showcase site, start with page count, media weight and mail addresses to recover. For a store, first measure the largest tables and their growth. Storage displayed at the top of a card may include substantial mail volume. A commerce plugin producing many logs may approach the database quota while web disk remains lightly used.

Compare the first annual charge and the budget at renewal

On November 10, 2026, Small lists €58.80 including VAT per year, Medium €118.80, Pro €214.80 and Business €454.80. The catalog presents monthly equivalents of €4.90, €9.90, €17.90 and €37.90 respectively. The card states annual billing and includes 17% Luxembourg VAT in these public prices. No separate introductory discount is displayed.

Article 4 of the terms guarantees the price for the paid period and allows a different price for the next. Use the published annual amount as a constant-price budget reference. Over two periods, that would represent €117.60, €237.60, €429.60 or €909.60 including VAT for hosting alone. The price due at expiry appears on the renewal invoice. Service starts a new period upon receipt of payment.

The domain follows its own pricing. The .lu page lists €23.40 including VAT per year for registration and renewal, with a separate price for reactivation after expiry. For Small and a .lu at displayed rates, the reference budget is therefore €82.20 including VAT for twelve months, then the same amount if both prices remain unchanged. Have domain renewal rules checked separately from hosting rules. The .lu registry’s documents prevail over general terms in case of a discrepancy.

Check the invoice according to the account holder

The terms explicitly cover businesses established in another European Union member state with a valid VAT number, as well as businesses outside the Union. They describe VAT-exclusive billing in those situations, with reverse charge where applicable. The customer must provide required information and verify the invoice corresponding to their status.

This framework documents foreign customers without constituting an actual validated French order. An individual and a business should not be given an assumed identical tax total here. The catalog price remains the advertised Luxembourg VAT-inclusive amount; the account holder’s summary governs their actual purchase.

Bank card and transfer are offered with advance payment. The terms allow fifteen days to pay an order by transfer before cancellation. Prepare a lasting billing address and keep the quote, confirmation and invoice to track the period actually purchased, particularly when several services share the same customer area.

Web space and database are separate quotas

The Small card displays a total of 1 GB, then details 400 MB for web, 100 MB for database and 1 GB for email. These numbers do not reconcile with the displayed 1 GB total. Ask how quotas are allocated rather than adding the categories or promising one gigabyte available for WordPress media.

Medium advertises 5 GB total with 3.9 GB for web, 100 MB for database and 1 GB for mail. The five-gigabyte figure therefore does not allow storage of a five-gigabyte WordPress database. Check current database size and growth before choosing this level.

Small includes two mailboxes and ten aliases, Medium ten mailboxes and ten aliases. An alias redirects to an address according to its configuration; it is not necessarily an independent storage mailbox. For a small organization, distinguishing address count, mail volume and site space avoids choosing only by package title.

Pro and Business: more storage, especially for mail

Pro presents 15 GB divided into 9 GB web, 1 GB database and 5 GB mail, with ten mailboxes and thirty aliases. Business presents 70 GB, but only 19 GB for web and 1 GB for database; the remaining 50 GB are advertised for email. The latter plan has one hundred mailboxes and thirty aliases.

Moving from Pro to Business therefore particularly increases email capacity without multiplying the stated database quota. A store whose issue is data size should not be directed toward the largest total storage without checking this. An adjustment or different offering may be necessary.

CPU, memory, process and file quotas are not detailed sufficiently in the catalog to guarantee load capacity. Published storage provides an initial filter, not a simultaneous visitor count. Clarify limits for a site running frequent imports, searches or commercial operations.

Servers in Luxembourg and scope of the offering

The catalog states that servers are physically located in Luxembourg, and recent terms also tie resources to Luxembourg servers. The exact city or center is not necessary for every project, but should be confirmed if your organization requires a precise location. Backup location deserves a separate question.

Common features advertise configuring several domain names on hosting for one website. This does not justify presenting plans as an unlimited portfolio of independent WordPress sites. Several domains may point to the same presence; they do not automatically represent several isolated applications.

The site’s external services still need inventorying. A payment plugin, audience analytics or third-party mail service may transmit data outside the platform. Hosting location therefore does not summarize every project operation, and the advertised location is not a speed measurement performed here.

Validate WordPress compatibility before transfer

The homepage advertises WordPress compatibility with PHP and MySQL. The catalog mentions PHP 7.x and 8.x without specifying every version actually available for an account. For a recent site, confirm the exact version, PHP extensions and offered database. A broad software-family mention does not validate every theme and plugin combination.

Current WordPress recommendations specify PHP 8.3 or higher, MariaDB 10.11 or higher or MySQL 8.0 or higher, and HTTPS. Plans include Let’s Encrypt, but the database version actually assigned was not checked on a server. Final compatibility should be verified on a copy before migration.

No included complete WordPress maintenance was established. Designate who performs updates and checks. For a store, prepare staging with real emails, payments and synchronizations disabled. Installing a CMS and operating the server do not replace functional application validation.

Customer area, files and operator responsibilities

The catalog advertises FTP, SFTP and phpMyAdmin, alongside DNS management. These tools allow file and database operations; their presence does not prove that SSH, WP-CLI or Git access is included. The panel actually assigned and its languages were not tested for this research.

The terms describe a customer area able to manage other accounts, each with separate billing. An agency may want to examine this option without confusing it with several independent sites included in one web plan. Permissions and billing details should match the actual account holder.

Keep an inventory of WordPress users, file access and project databases. The owner must retain recovery independent of the technical provider. The terms require enhanced protection for some sensitive account operations. When an operator leaves, remove unnecessary access while preserving the holder’s; this also makes site handover easier.

Distinguish the assisted builder from hosted WordPress

register.lu presents a separate website builder: users describe their business, the assistant proposes initial content, photos and a theme, then the site can be adjusted and published. The free plan advertises three pages and one language at a luxwebsite.lu address. Pro lists €115.83 including VAT per year, up to fifteen pages and four languages, with a custom domain.

This offering has its own pricing. The name Pro also appears in web hosting, with different resources. Before using the builder for a site that will need to move to WordPress, ask whether pages, images and translations are exportable and in what format. Keep an independent copy of original text and media.

The web hosting profile does not document an included WordPress AI assistant. The register.lu website generator is a separate offering with its own limits. If this feature is essential, request its precise terms before counting it among the plan’s benefits. Assistant-proposed content should in any case be reviewed, adapted to the business and checked before publication.

Prepare recovery independent of the host’s copies

register.lu advertises daily data backups. Public documents consulted specify neither the number of retained points, copy location, price nor panel access to restoration. Clarify the point actually accessible, the files, database and email concerned, and whether the copy can be downloaded or restored to another target. Request a date and time zone. For an error limited to one media item, first ask for file recovery.

Prepare your own file-and-database pair, as also required by the terms. Record the database name in wp-config.php. Download the installation directory by SFTP, including media and useful configuration files. In phpMyAdmin, select the corresponding database, open Export and retain an SQL file. Store these items outside hosting. For a site receiving orders, plan to capture both components at the same time and note what needs recovering if new writes arrive.

To verify the archive, prepare a private target and an empty database with the required capacity. In phpMyAdmin, select that database before using Import and choosing the SQL. Place files in the target directory, adapt connection settings and check addresses if the test domain differs. The old site may remain accessible during this check. The expected result is accessible administration, visible media and data consistent with the export date. If import fails, remove only the test database and files, then correct the archive or engine version.

If recovery will overwrite the public installation, take a current export and keep it separately. Record orders, registrations or forms between the old point and the incident. After recovery, first check what stopped working, then the state of recent data. If the copy worsens the problem, return to the state captured immediately beforehand and resume diagnosis on an isolated target.

Migration: organize files, database and mail

The selected pages do not document universally free human-assisted incoming migration. Before choosing register.lu to take over a site, ask who will perform the transfer, any cost and included items. Advertised initial configuration assistance is insufficient to define recovery of a complex application.

Prepare files, database, media, licenses and external services. A temporary copy should allow site verification before DNS changes. Disable its emails, payments and synchronizations to avoid real operations during tests. For a store, organize a final synchronization or suitable window to maintain order consistency.

Mail requires a separate inventory of mailboxes and messages. The domain may stay with its registrar using appropriate settings, without being automatically transferred with hosting. Keep the old service active until checks finish: returning to its address can restore a destination, but does not merge new data received on both sides.

Use the documented support channels

The catalog advertises email and telephone assistance and an email reply within twenty-four hours at the latest on business days. The terms summary also cites the customer area and support portal. The offering and terms are published in French and English. The language actually offered in the authenticated panel and telephone hours remain to be confirmed.

For a request, include plan name, domain, time zone, time and error message. If the site returns a database connection error after an import, provide the WordPress version and last operation performed without sending the password. If the request concerns a copy, specify its date and component. Advertised initial configuration covers web and mail accounts according to the catalog. Clarify the assistance scope for a plugin, migration or WordPress restoration.

Renewal after payment and leaving the service

Terms version 2026.1 state that an invoice and reminders are sent before expiry, up to sixty days beforehand for annual hosting or a domain. Service renews after payment is received. Without payment by the due date, service is suspended and then deleted. Check the receiving address, invoice items and contract due date. If the invoice groups several products, identify those that should stay active.

The customer can request termination from the customer area or by email, without a registered letter. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period unless immediate deletion is requested. Export and verify data before that date. Manage the domain separately if you want to keep it for another host.

The terms state free help with recovering data and pointing domains to another provider at contract end. This exit clause should not be extended into a promise of free incoming migration for every project. Keep cancellation confirmations and recovery access at an address outside the closed service.

Guarantee and final selection criteria

The commercial guarantee in the terms refunds web hosting, email and cloud offerings on request within thirty days after signup. It excludes domains and renewals. Do not confuse it with the statutory withdrawal right described separately, or with an automatic refund of a period started after that deadline.

register.lu can be considered for a project prioritizing Luxembourg servers, a local relationship and readable annual costs. Compare web, database and mail quotas separately, then verify technical versions. For a media-rich WordPress site or a store, the starting price and total storage are insufficient to validate capacity.

To decide, record the offered PHP and MySQL versions, exact database quota and terms for accessing copies. If the first objective is moving an existing site, start by validating its import on a private target. Where the business imposes a recovery deadline, obtain intervention terms and keep a sufficiently recent independent archive.

Prepare your site

• Choose a backup tool and prepare recovery
• WordPress migration, staging and imports: choose the right tool
• WordPress requirements not met: check PHP and MySQL or MariaDB