Education and research
Combine filters →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.
13 providers sell to education and research, listed alphabetically. Mostly platform as a service, serverless and virtual private servers, of 6 categories in all. 54 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.
C
- Civo
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
D
- Deno DeployOne we like
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 PagesOne we like
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.