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Universities and schools host in two shapes: a lot of small sites and accounts for students and departments, and occasional research workloads that are large but brief. Both are price-sensitive and neither fits a standard business plan, which is why providers selling here usually offer academic terms. Long-lived project sites outliving the person who made them are the norm rather than the exception.

14 providers sell to education and research, listed alphabetically. Mostly Platform as a Service, GPU cloud and shared hosting, of 8 categories in all. 84 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.

A

  • alwaysdata

    French managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.

B

  • Back4App

    Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.

  • bplaced

    A German web host offering a permanent free hosting tier alongside paid PHP shared hosting plans.

C

  • Civo

    British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.

D

  • Deno Deploy

    Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.

E

  • E2E Networks

    Indian cloud infrastructure provider listed on the National Stock Exchange, selling CPU and GPU compute by the minute with published hourly rates.

G

  • GitHub Pages

    Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.

H

  • Hugging Face

    Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.

M

  • Modal

    Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.

  • Mythic Beasts

    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.

P

  • PythonAnywhere

    Browser-based Python hosting with in-browser consoles, scheduled tasks and managed web apps, sold by CPU-seconds, web workers and disk.

R

  • Replit

    Browser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.

S

  • Scalingo

    French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.

U

  • Upsun

    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.

Who is the best host for education and research?

We can't tell from here. A host that suits a small agency site can be wrong for an API with users in Asia and Europe. The list is alphabetical and nobody paid for a place on it. The guide covers what to compare.