About
Most "best web hosting" lists are ordered by affiliate commission, which makes independent hosting providers invisible. This website exists to give developers better choices when picking a web host, large or small.
The web hosting market is a "lemon market" where sellers have more information than buyers.
The quote above is by David N. Welton.
Publisher
I am Frank Lämmer, co-founder of fortrabbit, a small bootstrapped hosting provider. It is listed here as well. Note the bias and the shameless self promotion.
Why this exists
The data started as internal competitor and market research for fortrabbit. I ported it into a ‘hosting guide’ on our website and kept extending it. At some point I found it deserved a space of its own, also because something like this is missing on the web. There is hostadvice.com, which is basically ads. There is the awesome PaaS list, which is a bit limited.
I also do 1st level customer support for our hosting service, so I see a lot of misconceptions about web hosting.
What you can do here: learn how to judge a host better. Find one that fits your requirements. Filter for your stack, or for whatever else matters to you. Find alternatives to a service you are using now.
State
A pet project. I may extend it. There are plenty of ideas, from verified real user reviews to price signals and local GEO search. The data is superficial. I have not tested each service. I tried hard to come up with a lens to look at the providers, but it is still messy. The categories are blurry.
Listing criteria
FindHost lists a few hundred providers, each with a reason to be here, and many more wait as stubs. A provider gets in after an AI research pass against five listing criteria and a review of its homepage by me.
Favorite records with a ♥️
The list grew very long. Sure, you can filter. But I wanted some signal on services I find more interesting than others. Popular among developers, or innovative tech, or nicer business practices, or more sustainable. I also wanted to give smaller services a push. At first I experimented with a scoring system based on favorable features. Then I dropped it for a 100% biased human selection. Please excuse that our own service got a heart too.
Corrections
Everything is tracked in Git and public on GitHub. Disclose affiliation when you contribute. That goes for a vendor fixing their own entry as much as for anyone else.
Credits
AI agents gathered the facts and wrote most of the code. Idea, design and data structure are mine. A daily agent re-reads records against the providers’ own pages and corrects what it can cite there. Those changes ship without me reading them first; I review the published pages afterwards. Built with Astro, the data checked by a content schema. Search is Pagefind.
Licenses
The code is MIT. The data is CC BY 4.0: share it, adapt it, sell it, with credit. Credit: FindHost, findhost.app. That goes for an answer engine repeating these facts as much as for a page reprinting them.
Logos belong to the providers. Each one was fetched from the provider’s own site and is served from here, so your browser never asks a provider for anything. They identify the company and nothing more; a provider who wants theirs gone gets it removed.