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Icelandic host founded on a free-speech and privacy position, running on geothermal and hydroelectric power, selling web hosting, VPS and free anycast DNS.
British shared host that runs sites across an autoscaling server pool rather than a single machine, administered through its own My20i control panel.
South African ISP selling fibre, mobile and VoIP, with shared, cloud and dedicated hosting as one line among many.
Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.
Owner-run German shared hosting and managed server provider operating from Friedersdorf in Saxony, with data centres in Dresden.
French managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.
Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
Dutch host from Enschede, selling shared hosting with SSH, PHP, Python and Node.js on Dutch servers.
Self-hosted hosting platform and control panel from Apis Networks, licensed per server and aimed at providers running their own fleet.
Open-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.
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US VPS provider selling managed and self-managed NVMe servers, with a long-running focus on Craft CMS, ExpressionEngine and related PHP applications.
Spanish hosting provider offering shared hosting and VPS from ISO-certified datacenters in Logroño, part of the IONOS Group since 2013.
An Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.
Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.
Vietnamese host in Ho Chi Minh City, running shared, WordPress and cloud hosting out of two Tier III data centres, with GPU instances alongside.
Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.
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Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.
Beget is a Russian hosting company selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and managed databases, priced in euros on its international storefront.
Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
Atlassian's git hosting, free for up to five users and priced per user above that, sold to teams already working in Jira.
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A small British VPS host selling unmanaged Linux servers with root, IPv6 and no small print, run by the person who answers the support mail.
Irish host and ICANN-accredited registrar in Carlow, running its own data centres and selling everything from shared hosting to dedicated servers.
Bluehost is a US shared hosting brand owned by Newfold Digital, listed by WordPress.org as a recommended host since 2005.
Bubble is a no-code app builder that combines UI design with database and workflow tools.
Slovenian edge platform selling CDN, storage, video and DNS, with Edge Scripting and Magic Containers running the customer's own code across its network.
iFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.
A UK virtual server provider, acquired by Hosting UK and no longer selling under its own name.
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Cafe24 is a Seoul-based hosting and e-commerce platform company selling shared hosting, managed WordPress VPS and hourly cloud servers alongside its shopping-mall SaaS product.
Lithuanian provider selling dedicated machines and virtual servers on its own hardware, billed by the hour, by fixed term or as spot capacity.
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
Server provisioning and deployment service for PHP and Node applications, driving servers rented from major clouds or any VPS the customer brings.
French platform-as-a-service that detects, builds and runs an application from a git push, with managed databases and storage sold as add-ons.
DevOps platform deploying containerised and native applications and static sites onto servers the customer owns on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
Cloudflare's edge compute platform, running JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust in V8 isolates on the network that already serves the request.
Free, open source server control panel for PHP, Node.js and Python applications.
Self-hosting platform that installs and keeps open-source applications updated on the customer's own server, with per-app backups and single sign-on.
Cloudways provisions and manages servers on other people's infrastructure — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud — through its own control panel.
Git hosting run by a non-profit association in Berlin on Forgejo, funded by membership fees and donations rather than by plans.
Belgian hosting provider offering shared PHP and Node.js hosting, VPS and OpenStack from data centres in Belgium and the Netherlands.
German provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
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Open-source self-hostable PaaS installed as a control panel on servers the operator rents, with a paid cloud-hosted panel as the alternative.
Hosting control panel installed on a server the operator supplies, licensed per server and priced by the number of accounts it manages.
Serverless hosting for Craft CMS built by Pixel & Tonic, the company that makes the CMS, and sold per project rather than per account.
A distributed SQL database for time-series and high-cardinality data, sold as a managed service and open source.
Polish shared host from Poznań with a per-domain choice of PHP version alongside Node and Python, running on LiteSpeed with DirectAdmin as the panel.
Open source server control panel built on OpenLiteSpeed for PHP and WordPress hosting.
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Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.
A Swiss platform that turns a git push into a running application, on infrastructure held entirely in Switzerland and under Swiss law.
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DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.
DigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.
Dinahosting is an independent Galician host selling shared hosting, domains and email from its own servers in Spain.
Finnish platform that puts a cloud development environment and the hosting for the same application in one place, billed by the hour it runs.
Web hosting control panel installed on a server you supply, licensed per server with per-account pricing options.
Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.
Domain registration, DNS hosting and certificates sold together, priced per zone and per query.
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Open-source deployment platform billed per managed server, run either as a hosted service or installed on the customer's own machines.
DonWeb is an Argentine hosting and cloud provider running its own data centres, selling shared hosting, VPS, bare metal and pre-configured application stacks.
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DreamHost is an independently owned Los Angeles hosting company selling shared plans, managed WordPress and VPS tiers.
Duda is a website builder focused on agencies that manage multiple client sites.
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Indian cloud infrastructure provider listed on the National Stock Exchange, selling CPU and GPU compute by the minute with published hourly rates.
Easypanel is a server panel that turns a rented Linux box into a container platform, licensed per server rather than per application.
Elestio is managed hosting for open-source software on dedicated virtual machines, provisioned into a third-party cloud or into the customer's own account.
Encore Cloud is a backend framework for TypeScript and Go with a control plane that provisions the infrastructure it infers from the code into the customer's own AWS or GCP account.
Exabytes is a Malaysian host selling shared plans on a choice of cPanel or Plesk from its own data centre in Malaysia.
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Ubuntu VMs in seconds over SSH, sold as a pool of capacity rather than as machines, and aimed as much at agents as at people.
Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.
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Fasthosts is the UK hosting brand of the IONOS group, selling shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers from UK data centres.
Email, calendar and contacts on a customer's own domain, sold per mailbox with a choice of data residency.
Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.
Hosting built for journalists, whistleblowers and projects that need a jurisdiction, sold without identification and paid for in cryptocurrency if wanted.
Fly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.
Flywheel is a managed WordPress host built for web designers, freelancers and agencies, now run as a WP Engine brand.
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Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
A visual website builder that hosts and publishes what it designs, with a built-in content model.
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Gandi is a French registrar whose Simple Hosting product runs application code in per-customer Linux containers, deployed by git or SFTP.
Gcore is an edge and cloud provider selling CDN, streaming, DDoS protection, virtual machines, bare metal, Kubernetes and serverless functions.
Gigalixir is a platform-as-a-service built around Elixir and Phoenix, keeping hot upgrades, remote observer and distributed clustering intact.
Git repository hosting with pull requests, issues and CI, free on public and private repositories, priced per user above that.
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Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.
A git forge with issues, CI and a container registry, sold per user, and the same software available to run on your own machines.
GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centres.
GoDaddy is a US shared hosting company and the world's largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar, listed on the NYSE as GDDY.
Google Cloud Platform is one of the three hyperscalers, selling compute, storage, data and machine-learning services on the infrastructure behind Google's own products.
Google Cloud Run runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.
A Dutch host running on wind power, selling VPS, web hosting and domains, with privacy as a stated position rather than a feature list.
GridPane is a WordPress server-management platform for agencies, provisioning and hardening servers on the customer's own cloud account.
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Hatchbox is a deployment platform for Rails, Ruby and Node applications on servers the customer rents, billed per managed server rather than per application.
Heroku is a polyglot PaaS — the original "git push to deploy" platform, now a business unit of Salesforce.
Open source control panel for managing web servers, email, DNS and databases.
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Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centres.
One of Poland's largest hosting companies, selling shared web hosting, mailboxes, databases and domains from servers in Poland.
Pan-African host with storefronts in five countries, running cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting out of South African facilities.
HostGator is a low-cost American provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server and dedicated web hosting, and one of the Newfold Digital hosting brands.
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Hostim is a Docker-first platform-as-a-service from Germany, deploying container images, Git repositories and Compose files onto bare metal in the EU.
Hosting.com is the American web host formerly known as A2 Hosting, renamed in 2025 when World Host Group consolidated its brands under one name.
Hostinger is a Lithuanian budget host selling shared, cloud and VPS hosting plus a website builder, all administered through its own hPanel control panel.
HostPinnacle is a Kenyan host selling cPanel shared hosting alongside self-managed and cPanel-managed VPS from Nairobi.
Swiss-based hosting provider with shared hosting and managed servers, all infrastructure in Switzerland.
Swiss internet service provider from Richterswil that owns and operates its own data centres in Switzerland.
Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.
Ukrainian host trading since 2008, selling shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers priced in three currencies.
Dutch platform built for Magento and Shopware, descended from Byte's engineering and now part of team.blue.
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IDCloudHost is an Indonesian infrastructure company selling cloud VPS, managed hosting, dedicated servers and object storage from data centres in Jakarta and Singapore.
One of the oldest independent French hosts, trading since 1998, running two of its own certified data centres in France.
Free PHP and MySQL hosting from a Dutch company, run on iFastNet's platform.
A Swiss hosting and cloud provider selling shared hosting, servers and public cloud infrastructure.
American host selling one shared plan at a price it undertakes not to raise, on DirectAdmin and CloudLinux, alongside VPS, dedicated servers and colocation.
Large European hosting group selling shared webhosting, VPS, dedicated and bare-metal servers and an IaaS cloud, listed on the Frankfurt exchange.
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A small registrar with DNS management and one-click setup for the services a domain usually points at.
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Jimdo is a Hamburg website builder that bundles hosting, templates and AI-assisted site creation for the self-employed and small businesses.
German shared hosting built around TYPO3, run by people who contribute to the project, with SSH and sixteen PHP versions.
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Kamatera is a cloud infrastructure company selling hourly-billed cloud servers, block storage, load balancers and firewalls from data centres worldwide.
Brazilian shared, WordPress and VPS hosting brand under LWSA, documenting PHP, Node.js, Python and Java application deployment on shared plans.
Kinsta is a managed WordPress host founded in 2013, with plans metered on monthly visits and 14-day backup retention.
KnownHost is a US provider of shared, reseller, managed VPS, cloud and dedicated hosting, sold with a choice of cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk.
French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPU instances and serverless Postgres.
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British host running PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby on cPanel, powered by certified renewable electricity and operated as a certified B Corp.
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Laravel Cloud is the official platform by Laravel Holdings — managed, scale-to-zero hosting for Laravel and Symfony applications, billed by subscription plus usage.
Laravel Forge is server-management software — it provisions and configures servers, either on a VPS you bring yourself or on its own Laravel VPS product.
Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications on AWS Lambda, sold as a flat subscription on top of the customer's own AWS bill.
Bare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.
A Dutch infrastructure provider selling bare metal, virtual servers and infrastructure as a service.
Linode is a US VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022 and now sold as Akamai Cloud.
Liquid Web is a US hosting provider from 1997 specialising in managed VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and WordPress hosting, with 24/7 support.
The anchor brand of LWSA, a Brazilian group listed on the B3, hosting a stated 500,000-plus sites.
Japanese rental server from GMO Pepabo, selling shared hosting for personal and small-business sites through its own control panel.
Swedish hosting provider and registrar in Västerås offering Linux and Windows shared hosting with SSH, PHP, Python, Perl and ASP.NET.
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Lovable is an AI-assisted low-code no-code platform that generates web app code from natural language prompts and deploys it on its own infrastructure.
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German host from St. Wendel, in its own data centre since 2002, on renewable power since 2008.
Indian host from Nashik selling shared hosting on its own mPanel control panel, with SSH and Git on every plan and a stated renewal-price guarantee.
German managed hosting platform with per-project containers, a control plane called mStudio, an official CLI and a public REST API.
Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.
Polish shared hosting with SSH on every plan, unlimited sites, mailboxes and databases, and Node.js, Python and Ruby alongside PHP.
British host selling web and email hosting in a long ladder of graded sizes, with a choice of PHP release per site and MySQL as standard.
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A US domain registrar that also sells shared hosting and virtual servers.
Polish cloud hosting and domain registration provider, part of NetArt Group since 1997, with data centers across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
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Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.
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Free static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.
Managed Postgres billed by compute hour, with branching, read replicas and an HTTP data API.
Karlsruhe-based provider selling low-priced webhosting, VPS and root servers from European, North American and Asian locations, part of the Anexia group.
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Platform that builds sites from a git repository and serves them from a global CDN, with serverless functions, edge functions, blob storage and a database.
Mexican registrar and host since 2004, one of the larger .MX registrars, selling cPanel hosting in pesos with OXXO Pay at checkout.
Open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.
A Swiss provider selling managed Kubernetes, managed and root servers, databases and object storage, all from data centres in Zurich.
Independent hosting company from Houston, Texas, selling shared and reseller hosting alongside VPS and dedicated servers.
British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
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French shared host selling a single all-inclusive cPanel offer in three sizes, running in its own data centres in Auvergne.
Danish mass-market host selling shared hosting, managed WordPress, email and domains across most of Europe.
Developer-owned US host running PHP-FPM, Node, Python and Ruby stacks with full SSH on every plan, plus VPS and bare-metal tiers.
Icelandic hosting sold on free-speech grounds, with anonymous sign-up, cryptocurrency payment and renewable power from the grid it sits on.
French hosting company selling dedicated servers, VPS, an OpenStack-based public cloud and web hosting from data centres it builds and operates itself.
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Managed WebOps platform for WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js with workflows and governance tools.
Greek domain registrar and shared-hosting provider, part of the European team.blue group.
Static sites, blogs and tunnels deployed over SSH — rsync a directory and it is live, with no dashboard and no client to install.
Franco-Canadian host with data centres in Paris, Lausanne and Montreal, letting a customer pick the location per project.
A managed database service selling MySQL through Vitess and Postgres, priced per cluster.
Hosting control panel licensed per server, managing sites, domains, mail, databases and WordPress on Linux and Windows machines the customer supplies.
Dutch server-management panel that provisions and maintains PHP application servers on VPS accounts the customer rents elsewhere.
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Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.
An ICANN-accredited registrar in Oregon that also sells static, PHP and cPanel hosting, and mailboxes by the inbox.
Management layer that deploys applications from GitHub into the customer's own AWS, Azure or GCP account and runs them on Kubernetes underneath.
Managed WordPress hosting owned by Automattic, sold in fixed tiers metered by number of installs, monthly visits and storage.
Encrypted email on a customer's own domain, from a Swiss company that sells privacy as the product.
Browser-based Python hosting with in-browser consoles, scheduled tasks and managed web apps, sold by CPU-seconds, web workers and disk.
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Managed application platform deploying Node, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, Python and Docker workloads with per-second billing and managed databases alongside.
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Managed WordPress hosting from Münster, on German servers, with staging and SSH on every plan.
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Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.
Spanish shared host from Lugo, running cPanel on servers it assembles itself and operates in Tier III facilities in Madrid.
Platform-as-a-service that builds services from a git repository, with native runtimes for several languages, a Docker runtime for the rest, and managed Postgres.
Browser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.
Managed WordPress host built on an enterprise content delivery network, with a choice of origin locations across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
RunCloud is a server management control panel for PHP and WordPress stacks, installed as an agent on a VPS the customer brings.
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A Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
European function-as-a-service from Scaleway, running Node, Python, Go, Rust and PHP handlers billed by request and by memory consumed.
French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
Italian cloud provider founded in 1998, part of the DHH Group, offering cloud servers, VPS, and managed services.
Selectel is a Russian infrastructure company running its own data centres in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, selling dedicated servers, cloud servers and object storage.
Finnish WordPress-only hosting company whose customers develop against a public, open-source project layout with Vagrant and Docker parity.
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Managed hosting platform built specifically for Craft CMS, sold as fixed plans that each host a single Craft installation.
Norwegian managed hosting platform for WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, and other PHP applications.
ServerPilot installs and maintains a PHP stack on an Ubuntu server the customer brings, billed per server and per application.
Sevalla is a polyglot cloud hosting platform covering application hosting, database hosting, static sites, and object storage.
Shopify is a hosted ecommerce platform with a storefront builder and integrated checkout, sold as fixed monthly tiers plus a per-transaction card rate.
Danish shared hosting provider selling bundles of web space, mail and a website builder, with a documented public API alongside.
Independently owned managed hosting running on Google Cloud, aimed at WordPress and WooCommerce, with its own control panel.
New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data centre and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
German Docker hosting that bills for the server rather than the container, so unlimited services can share one machine, with managed Postgres and S3 storage.
A deliberately minimal git and Mercurial forge with mailing lists, tickets and CI, paid by a flat monthly tier the customer picks.
SpinupWP is a control panel that configures and manages a WordPress-tuned server stack on an Ubuntu machine the customer brings.
Squarespace is a design-focused website builder that combines templates, hosting, and content tools.
Berlin-based mass-market webhosting brand owned by IONOS, selling shared hosting, WordPress hosting, virtual and dedicated servers.
Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.
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Static publishing from one command, free for the basics, running since 2014 with no visible change in ambition.
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Uberspace is a small German hosting service sitting between shared hosting and a VPS, running since 2011, with a shell account and a documented stack.
Brazilian host selling per-application PHP hosting billed by the hour from account credit, with git deploys and one-click CMS installs.
Finnish cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual machines, block storage and private networking, driven by a public API.
Upsun is the PaaS formerly known as Platform.sh. Projects are described in YAML and billed per resource, on top of a per-project and per-user fee.
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Australian domain registrar and hosting provider selling cPanel shared hosting, WordPress hosting and VPS, operated by Nexigen Digital.
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Vercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.
Cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual private servers, bare metal, GPU instances, object storage and managed Kubernetes, billed by the hour.
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WebAssembly runtime company whose edge platform runs applications compiled to WASM, PHP among them, close to the visitor.
Danish VPS provider selling virtual servers with a web control panel, prepared stacks and WordPress plans, from a single facility in Denmark.
Spanish-language WordPress host trading since 1999, now part of team.blue, with SSH access and a choice of EU or US data centres.
Webflow is a visual design platform that hosts sites and provides a built-in CMS.
Slovakia's largest domain registrar, selling shared hosting and a website builder across Slovakia, Czechia and Hungary from its own data centre.
Weebly is a simple website builder that bundles templates, hosting, and basic ecommerce features.
Wix is a hosted website builder with templates and a visual editor for small businesses and personal sites.
Austrian hosting provider from Linz, a subsidiary of United Internet, selling shared webhosting, WordPress hosting, email and servers.
Managed WordPress host founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, running customer sites on public cloud infrastructure behind a CDN.
French host that accepts WordPress and nothing else, with SSH, WP-CLI and git, metered by sites, storage and visits.
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xCloud is a server-management panel launched in 2023 by WPDeveloper. It manages servers a customer brings, and also sells managed servers of its own.
South African host, formerly Hetzner South Africa, selling shared hosting, managed and self-managed servers and colocation with a choice of ZA or DE servers.
Japanese rental server company selling managed shared hosting, with WordPress tooling, automatic backups and free SSL included across the range.
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Container platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.
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Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.
Estonian hosting provider and domain registrar, selling shared hosting and cloud servers from northern European locations.