European hosting and cloud infrastructure provider for SMBs and enterprises
Combell operates a mature hosting infrastructure stack (RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, VMware, KVM, NetApp) supporting over 100,000 customers across Belgium and beyond. Recent project activity signals an early pivot: the team is actively researching AI workload optimization and automating deployment environments, suggesting a shift from pure hosting commodity toward managed AI infrastructure — a natural extension for a company with 4,500 servers and existing managed-service relationships.
Combell is a Belgian hosting and cloud services provider founded in 1999, now operating as a public company with 201–500 employees. The company serves over 100,000 customers including IT integrators, software developers, and enterprises, and claims approximately 60% market share of Belgian websites. Core offerings span domain registration, website hosting, email, managed cloud servers, and full ICT infrastructure outsourcing. Operations are anchored in a network of modern data centers with 24/7 support. The tech foundation relies on Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET/ASP.NET Core for application delivery, and VMware/KVM for virtualization, alongside enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux) for backend systems.
RHEL, CentOS, AlmaLinux, VMware, KVM, NetApp, Veeam, Windows Server, SQL Server, IIS, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, and AWS RDS for managed databases. Ansible automates infrastructure provisioning.
Over 100,000 customers. The company states it hosts approximately 3 out of 5 Belgian websites, making it the market leader in Belgium.
Yes. Currently 7 active roles across engineering (3), support (2), ops (1), and sales (1), with hiring concentrated in Belgium. Hiring velocity is decelerating.
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