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Hosting & Security

Hosting Without the limits.

Enjoy reliable, scalable, fast, and secure hosting for your business — managed for you.

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World-class, fast hosting

Our hosted sites feature world-class performance and reliability — and are fast for anyone, wherever they are.

PrintNow cloud-native web-to-print platform powered by Microsoft Azure

Leverage PrintNow's W2P Platform on Microsoft Azure.

The power of PrintNow meets a leading cloud provider for sky-high scalability and exceptional performance. Tap into PrintNow's cloud-native web-to-print solution powered on Azure's robust integrations with Microsoft technologies.

99.99% hosting uptime

Grow with uninterrupted momentum and peace of mind — select Enterprise customers are covered with a 99.99% uptime SLA.

Global CDN

Your site will have fast performance for everyone, everywhere.

HTTP/2 standard & HTTP/3

PrintNow hosting meets HTTP/2 standards out of the box and is compatible with HTTP/3, ensuring your site loads as quickly as possible.

Microsoft Azure

Powered by Microsoft Azure cloud-native infrastructure

Experience seamless uptime, unparalleled performance, and unlimited scalability for your print storefronts, applications, and experiences. Launching B2B and B2C commerce is effortless with PrintNow's web-to-print platform on Microsoft Azure.

Scale securely

Our hosted sites feature world-class performance and reliability — and are fast for anyone, wherever they are.

Global security network

Zero maintenance

No updates to run, packages to install, or capacity planning. Just publish your site and let us take care of the rest.

Traffic-surge ready

PrintNow is equipped to handle high traffic volumes and can scale alongside growing site traffic.

Image optimization and compression

Responsive images come with every plan, and we offer easy conversion to WebP and AVIF formats for even more streamlined performance.

SSL/TLS comes free

Every Site plan automatically includes SSL and TLS. This means improved SEO for your site and no more security warnings for your customers.

Global DDoS & Bot protection comes free

Powered by our global CDN provider, our hosting network offers built-in protection from Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and uses advanced Bot protection to keep your site safe.

Automatic form spam filtering comes free

No more manual spam cleanup — PrintNow’s automated system filters form responses for you.

SSO included for Enterprise

PrintNow’s Enterprise customers enjoy secure and centralized access management using Single Sign-On (SSO), ensuring compliance with security policies.

Vulnerability scanning

We continuously monitor for new security vulnerabilities and deploy updates automatically to stay ahead of threats.

Security compliant

PrintNow is a Level 2 Service Provider that maintains PCI DSS Compliance. Azure has independent audit reports verifying compliance with security controls for ISO 27001, ISO 27018, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC3, FedRAMP, HITRUST, MTCS, IRAP, and ENS.

Build on great ideas with better tools

PrintNow hosting is packed with features that make running your site easier.

Unified Admin roles

Unified Admin roles

Set administrative privileges across each Storefront on a page-by-page basis for both your staff admins & customers with access to the Unified Admin back-end.

Staging domains

Staging domains

Stage your site for testing and approval before hitting publish — and customize them (or make them private) with self-registration disabled.

Rapid deployments

Rapid deployments

Access store clone features for rapid deployments or site redesigns by making copies of any existing Print Store to a new root domain or subdomain.

FTP account access

FTP account access

Create FTP accounts to allow access to the root installation of PrintNow or restrict access to Orders, All site themes, or specific site themes.

Activity log tracking

Activity log tracking

The activity log was created for customers to track staff admin activity generated and posted to PrintNow servers.

Access to error logs

Access to error logs

The error log was created to help customers to track errors generated and posted to PrintNow servers Print Store deployments.

Security FAQs

PrintNow is committed to providing you with the information you need to meet your data security obligations. Below you'll find resources related to our security practices and answers to frequently asked questions.

PrintNow processes personal data of two groups of individuals: (i) Customers and (ii) End Users. (i) A "Customer" is an individual that accesses PrintNow for the purposes of using our services. Customers include individuals who are owners, admins, members or guests of a the Unified Admin, Experts, Developers, and Marketplace and Template Creators. You can think of a Customer as someone who logs in to PrintNow and utilizes our products. (ii) End Users are individuals that access a site hosted by PrintNow. Think of End Users as someone who visits your site. **Customer data processed:** Registration data (full name, email address, optional social media account info), profile data (biographical information, avatar, encrypted passwords), financial data (bank account info, payment card info, transaction history, company billing info), transaction data (client names, orders completed, staff admin activity, action timestamps), online identifiers (geolocation/tracking, browser fingerprint, OS, browser name/version, IP addresses), and interaction data (site content, authentication data, security questions, social posts, user ID, click-stream data). **End User data processed:** Online identifiers (user agents, browser fingerprint, OS, browser name/version, IP addresses) and form submission data (name, email, phone, address, comments, contact info, other submitted personal data).
Personal Data for both Customers and End Users is only accessible by PrintNow personnel whose roles require access to that Personal Data to perform their job duties. An example of this is our Support team.
PrintNow retains Personal Data for Customers and End Users for the duration of a Customer’s use of PrintNow. Upon the termination of the Agreement, PrintNow will delete all Personal Information processed on behalf of Customer unless local laws, regulations, or other requirements applicable to PrintNow prohibit the deletion of the Personal Information. Customers can request their data (including personal data, content they uploaded onto PrintNow, and any other data) be deleted by contacting our support team. PrintNow will delete the personal data unless local laws, regulations, or other requirements applicable to PrintNow prohibit PrintNow from deleting the personal data in question.
Our payment processor, Authorize.net, Stripe, and others are a certified Level 1 Service Provider. PrintNow never has access to sensitive payment details.
PrintNow is not HIPAA compliant.
PrintNow utilizes Azure as its hosting provider for our web applications and Customer websites. Our Azure production servers are located in the USA. PrintNow only offers Azure hosting in the USA region at the present time. PrintNow does not offer hosting in any other Azure regions, currently. PrintNow additionally utilizes a range of third-party service providers to assist with its data processing, customer engagement, and analytic activities. These subprocessors may have access to your data by utilizing our service. The type of data that the Subprocessor has access to is limited to only what is reasonably necessary to perform the service provided.
Yes, Data at rest is encrypted using AES256 bit, while Data in transit is encrypted over TLS 1.2 and 1.3.
PrintNow does not allow customers to run their own penetration test or vulnerability scans because this can cause a disproportionate load on our servers both individually and exponentially in the aggregate. Instead, the PrintNow Security team runs annual penetration tests with external security firms and we make these reports available to customers.
Yes! Please check out our status page at status.printnow.com.

Print Ecommerce That Scales With You

From startup to enterprise, our platform hosting environments can adapt to your business size and requirements dynamically.

PrintNow’s advanced web-to-pack solution empowers us to build custom packaging stores with parametric CAD standards, driving eCommerce growth. Their Azure-hosted platform and exceptional support help us effectively serve our partners’ evolving needs.

James Hawton

Chief Informational Technology Officer