Scaleway (formerly Online SAS or Online.net)[1] is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a majority owned subsidiary of the Iliad group.

In December 2008, Iliad bought Alice ADSL: They also took over construction and operation of Datacenters, launched in 1999 by ISDnet, bought by Cable & Wireless in January 2000[6] acquired by Tiscali France in June 2003[7] and finally renamed as Iliad Datacenter.

In April 2010, Online merges with Dedibox, another subsidiary of Iliad,[8] bringing together different hosting activities under a single brand.

[12] As the popularity of the platform grows, Online added servers with x86_64 based CPUs in March 2016.

[14] Entrepreneur Yann Lechelle [fr] joined as CEO in early 2020,[15] but left in December 2022.