Solo and freelance
Combine filters →A freelancer is a small business. The hosting is priced accordingly, billed on a card, often self-service, documented well enough that nobody has to open a ticket at midnight. Good web hosting providers support freelancers with no sales call, no annual commitments, collaboration features that support to invite a client and some free time to pre-launch a project.
103 providers sell to solo and freelance, listed alphabetically. Across 35 countries, commonest entry price $5 to $15 a month. 64 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- 1984 Hosting
Icelandic host founded on a free-speech and privacy position, running on geothermal and hydroelectric power, selling web hosting, VPS and free anycast DNS.
- 20i
British shared host that runs sites across an autoscaling server pool rather than a single machine, administered through its own My20i control panel.
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- Afrihost
South African ISP selling fibre, mobile and VoIP, with shared, cloud and dedicated hosting as one line among many.
- ALL-INKL.COM
Owner-run German shared hosting and managed server provider operating from Friedersdorf in Saxony, with data centres in Dresden.
- alwaysdata
French managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.
- Antagonist
Dutch host from Enschede, selling shared hosting with SSH, PHP, Python and Node.js on Dutch servers.
- Appwrite
Open-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.
- Arsys
Spanish hosting provider offering shared hosting and VPS from ISO-certified datacenters in Logroño, part of the IONOS Group since 2013.
- AZDIGI
Vietnamese host in Ho Chi Minh City, running shared, WordPress and cloud hosting out of two Tier III data centres, with GPU instances alongside.
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- 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.
- Binary Lane
Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
- Blacknight
Irish host and ICANN-accredited registrar in Carlow, running its own data centres and selling everything from shared hosting to dedicated servers.
- Bunny.net
Slovenian edge platform selling CDN, storage, video and DNS, with Edge Scripting and Magic Containers running the customer's own code across its network.
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- Cherry Servers
Lithuanian provider selling dedicated machines and virtual servers on its own hardware, billed by the hour, by fixed term or as spot capacity.
- Cleavr
Server provisioning and deployment service for PHP and Node applications, driving servers rented from major clouds or any VPS the customer brings.
- Clever Cloud
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.
- CloudPanel
Free, open source server control panel for PHP, Node.js and Python applications.
- Cloudron
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.
- Combell
Belgian hosting provider offering shared PHP and Node.js hosting, VPS and OpenStack from data centres in Belgium and the Netherlands.
- cPanel
Hosting control panel installed on a server the operator supplies, licensed per server and priced by the number of accounts it manages.
- cyber_Folks
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.
- CyberPanel
Open source server control panel built on OpenLiteSpeed for PHP and WordPress hosting.
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- Deno DeployOne we like
Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.
- Dinahosting
Dinahosting is an independent Galician host selling shared hosting, domains and email from its own servers in Spain.
- DirectAdmin
Web hosting control panel installed on a server you supply, licensed per server with per-account pricing options.
- DokployOne we like
Open-source deployment platform billed per managed server, run either as a hosted service or installed on the customer's own machines.
- DonWeb
DonWeb is an Argentine hosting and cloud provider running its own data centres, selling shared hosting, VPS, bare metal and pre-configured application stacks.
- Duda
Duda is a website builder focused on agencies that manage multiple client sites.
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- Easypanel
Easypanel is a server panel that turns a rented Linux box into a container platform, licensed per server rather than per application.
- Exabytes
Exabytes is a Malaysian host selling shared plans on a choice of cPanel or Plesk from its own data centre in Malaysia.
- exe.devOne we like
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.
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- Fasthosts
Fasthosts is the UK hosting brand of the IONOS group, selling shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers from UK data centres.
- Firebase
Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.
- Flywheel
Flywheel is a managed WordPress host built for web designers, freelancers and agencies, now run as a WP Engine brand.
- fortrabbitOne we like
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
- FutureVision
Small host built around Grav, the flat-file CMS, with a free static tier below the paid plans and DirectAdmin above them.
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- Gandi
Gandi is a French registrar whose Simple Hosting product runs application code in per-customer Linux containers, deployed by git or SFTP.
- Gigalixir
Gigalixir is a platform-as-a-service built around Elixir and Phoenix, keeping hot upgrades, remote observer and distributed clustering intact.
- GitHub PagesOne we like
Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.
- GoDaddy
GoDaddy is a US shared hosting company and the world's largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar, listed on the NYSE as GDDY.
- GridPane
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
Hatchbox is a deployment platform for Rails, Ruby and Node applications on servers the customer rents, billed per managed server rather than per application.
- home.pl
One of Poland's largest hosting companies, selling shared web hosting, mailboxes, databases and domains from servers in Poland.
- HOSTAFRICA
Pan-African host with storefronts in five countries, running cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting out of South African facilities.
- HostPinnacle
HostPinnacle is a Kenyan host selling cPanel shared hosting alongside self-managed and cPanel-managed VPS from Nairobi.
- hosttech
Swiss internet service provider from Richterswil that owns and operates its own data centres in Switzerland.
- Hugging Face
Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.
- HyperHost
Ukrainian host trading since 2008, selling shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers priced in three currencies.
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- InterServer
American host selling one shared plan at a price it undertakes not to raise, on DirectAdmin and CloudLinux, alongside VPS, dedicated servers and colocation.
- IONOS
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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- KingHost
Brazilian shared, WordPress and VPS hosting brand under LWSA, documenting PHP, Node.js, Python and Java application deployment on shared plans.
- Koyeb
French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPU instances and serverless Postgres.
- KrystalOne we like
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 Forge
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.
- Lolipop!
Japanese rental server from GMO Pepabo, selling shared hosting for personal and small-business sites through its own control panel.
- Loopia
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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- manitu
Owner-run German host from St. Wendel, in its own data centre since 2002, on renewable power since 2008.
- MilesWeb
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.
- Mittwald
German managed hosting platform with per-project containers, a control plane called mStudio, an official CLI and a public REST API.
- Modal
Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.
- MyDevil.net
Polish shared hosting with SSH on every plan, unlimited sites, mailboxes and databases, and Node.js, Python and Ruby alongside PHP.
- 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.
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- nazwa.pl
Polish cloud hosting and domain registration provider, part of NetArt Group since 1997, with data centers across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
- NearlyFreeSpeech.NETOne we like
Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.
- NeocitiesOne we like
Free static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.
- netcup
Karlsruhe-based provider selling low-priced webhosting, VPS and root servers from European, North American and Asian locations, part of the Anexia group.
- NetlifyOne we like
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.
- Neubox
Mexican registrar and host since 2004, one of the larger .MX registrars, selling cPanel hosting in pesos with OXXO Pay at checkout.
- Nhost
Open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.
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- o2switch
French shared host selling a single all-inclusive cPanel offer in three sizes, running in its own data centres in Auvergne.
- one.com
Danish mass-market host selling shared hosting, managed WordPress, email and domains across most of Europe.
- Opalstack
Developer-owned US host running PHP-FPM, Node, Python and Ruby stacks with full SSH on every plan, plus VPS and bare-metal tiers.
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- Papaki
Greek domain registrar and shared-hosting provider, part of the European team.blue group.
- PlanetHoster
Franco-Canadian host with data centres in Paris, Lausanne and Montreal, letting a customer pick the location per project.
- Plesk
Hosting control panel licensed per server, managing sites, domains, mail, databases and WordPress on Linux and Windows machines the customer supplies.
- Pressable
Managed WordPress hosting owned by Automattic, sold in fixed tiers metered by number of installs, monthly visits and storage.
- PythonAnywhere
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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- Qoddi
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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- RailwayOne we like
Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.
- Raiola Networks
Spanish shared host from Lugo, running cPanel on servers it assembles itself and operates in Tier III facilities in Madrid.
- Replit
Browser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.
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- Sakura Internet
A Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.
- Servebolt
Norwegian managed hosting platform for WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, and other PHP applications.
- Simply.com
Danish shared hosting provider selling bundles of web space, mail and a website builder, with a documented public API alongside.
- SiteGround
Independently owned managed hosting running on Google Cloud, aimed at WordPress and WooCommerce, with its own control panel.
- Sliplane
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.
- STRATO
Berlin-based mass-market webhosting brand owned by IONOS, selling shared hosting, WordPress hosting, virtual and dedicated servers.
- Supabase
Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.
- SurgeOne we like
Static publishing from one command, free for the basics, running since 2014 with no visible change in ambition.
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- Umbler
Brazilian host selling per-application PHP hosting billed by the hour from account credit, with git deploys and one-click CMS installs.
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- VentraIP
Australian domain registrar and hosting provider selling cPanel shared hosting, WordPress hosting and VPS, operated by Nexigen Digital.
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- Webdock
Danish VPS provider selling virtual servers with a web control panel, prepared stacks and WordPress plans, from a single facility in Denmark.
- Webempresa
Spanish-language WordPress host trading since 1999, now part of team.blue, with SSH access and a choice of EU or US data centres.
- WebSupport
Slovakia's largest domain registrar, selling shared hosting and a website builder across Slovakia, Czechia and Hungary from its own data centre.
- World4You
Austrian hosting provider from Linz, a subsidiary of United Internet, selling shared webhosting, WordPress hosting, email and servers.
- WPServeur
French host that accepts WordPress and nothing else, with SSH, WP-CLI and git, metered by sites, storage and visits.
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- xneelo
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.
- Xserver
Japanese rental server company selling managed shared hosting, with WordPress tooling, automatic backups and free SSL included across the range.
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- Zeabur
Container platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.
- ZeropsOne we like
Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.
- Zone Media
Estonian hosting provider and domain registrar, selling shared hosting and cloud servers from northern European locations.