Halvar.io

Halvar.io is a green open-source hosting provider based in Almere, the Netherlands. It operates as a trade name of CreativePulses.nl and provides hosting services for Drupal and other open-source PHP projects.

The company focuses its services on agencies, web developers, and site owners working with open-source applications. Its hosting portfolio includes regular hosting, Drupal hosting, reseller hosting, application hosting, Nextcloud hosting, virtual private servers, and dedicated server options.

Halvar’s Drupal hosting includes auto-installation, PHP 8.2 and later, LiteSpeed, containerized hosting, backups, Redis, Composer, Git, SSH, rsync, cron, TLS certificates, and server monitoring. The company also lists European server and datacenter locations in the Netherlands and Germany.

Sustainability is a central part of Halvar’s public positioning. The Green Web Foundation lists Halvar.io as a verified green hosting provider for shared hosting, virtual private servers, physical servers, and managed WordPress hosting. Halvar states that its approach includes green energy, reused or second-hand hardware where possible, sustainable travel practices, and Justdiggit-related offsets for virtual machines.

Halvar is also connected to sustainability activity in the Drupal ecosystem. At DrupalCon Barcelona 2024, Halvar won first place in the sponsor sustainability contest, which assessed sponsors on travel, stand construction, and goodies or leaflets.