world4you Internet Services GmbH

world4you Internet Services GmbH, commonly known as world4you, is an Austrian internet service provider headquartered in Linz. The company was founded in 1998 and has grown into one of Austria’s leading hosting providers, serving both private individuals and business customers with a broad portfolio of internet services. Its core offerings include domain registration, web hosting, website builder packages and server solutions, supported by a well-trained in-house support team and modern hardware operated in regional data centres in Austria.

The company’s product range centres on domains and web hosting. According to its own company description, world4you serves over 135,000 customers and administers close to 300,000 domains. It positions itself as a provider that combines reliable infrastructure with high data security, achieved in part through geo-redundant data storage. This approach has helped establish the company as one of the leading hosting providers in Austria and, by its own account, as the largest registrar of .at domains worldwide, a milestone it reported reaching in 2011. In 2016 the company announced the registration of its 200,000th domain.

world4you’s history includes several notable developments. It was founded in 1998 by Johannes Kührer. In 2005 the company moved into its first own data centre in Linz. In 2018 world4you was acquired in full by the United Internet group through its subsidiary 1&1 Internet SE, and it has since been part of the Ionos Group. Kührer remained managing director after the acquisition and left the company at his own request in 2021 after almost 23 years; he was succeeded as CEO by Tim Körner. At the beginning of 2022, Chief Technology Officer Gerald Auer took on the role of technical managing director alongside Körner, and at the end of 2024 Sandra Trummer-Gabler took over the management.

Today the company employs more than 50 people in Austria and continues to grow. Its departments include Development, Customer Care, IT Infrastructure, Marketing & Communications, E-Commerce and Human Resources. The Development team works on the world4you core system, internal management tools, server control and integration into the international internet infrastructure, using technologies such as PHP/Symfony, MySQL, Python, C#, JavaScript and Git/GitLab, with an emphasis on clean code, automated tests and continuous improvement.

As an Austrian employer, world4you states that it attaches great importance to offering secure jobs. Its corporate culture is described as characterised by responsibility, understanding, flexibility and respect, with employees acting as a close-knit team that supports one another and moves forward together. The company emphasises continuous learning as a core value, offering conferences, seminars, webinars and certifications as well as company-wide career paths that allow development within specialist fields up to senior or lead level, changes of specialism, and progression from team leader to department head. Because world4you has been part of the Ionos Group since 2018, temporary moves to branches in other countries and international collaboration with Ionos colleagues are also encouraged.

Documented benefits and working conditions include flexible working hours intended to help combine studies, family and career, hybrid working and home office with equipment provided, a tax-privileged company pension option through s-Zukunfts-Sicherung, ergonomic office chairs and electrically height-adjustable desks at all workstations, barrier-free offices in Linz and Vienna reachable by public transport, and parking at both locations. Employees receive a public transport ticket for Vienna or Upper Austria depending on location, free snacks, fruit, coffee and other refreshments, access to regional sports partners, a welcome parcel and a web hosting package with a domain for new joiners, an extra vacation day for their birthday, free time on 24 and 31 December, and shared events including Christmas and summer parties.

In terms of hiring, world4you says it values a high level of technical understanding, commitment, analytical thinking, strong teamwork skills, a strong solution orientation and a willingness for ongoing development. It also seeks innovative ideas, creativity and enjoyment of the work so that employees can make a difference and move things forward. The company presents itself as an employer where people should be able to develop, learn a great deal and contribute their own ideas.