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Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.

Open-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.

Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.

Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.

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

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

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.

German provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.

Serverless hosting for Craft CMS built by Pixel & Tonic, the company that makes the CMS, and sold per project rather than per account.

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

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.

Finnish platform that puts a cloud development environment and the hosting for the same application in one place, billed by the hour it runs.

Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.

Open-source deployment platform billed per managed server, run either as a hosted service or installed on the customer's own machines.

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.

Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.

Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.

Fly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.

Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.

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.

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.

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.

GridPane is a WordPress server-management platform for agencies, provisioning and hardening servers on the customer's own cloud account.

Heroku is a polyglot PaaS — the original "git push to deploy" platform, now a business unit of Salesforce.

Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centres.

Pan-African host with storefronts in five countries, running cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting out of South African facilities.

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

Dutch platform built for Magento and Shopware, descended from Byte's engineering and now part of team.blue.

French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPU instances and serverless Postgres.

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.

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.

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.

Open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.

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.

Developer-owned US host running PHP-FPM, Node, Python and Ruby stacks with full SSH on every plan, plus VPS and bare-metal tiers.

French hosting company selling dedicated servers, VPS, an OpenStack-based public cloud and web hosting from data centres it builds and operates itself.

Franco-Canadian host with data centres in Paris, Lausanne and Montreal, letting a customer pick the location per project.

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.

Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.

Managed WordPress hosting owned by Automattic, sold in fixed tiers metered by number of installs, monthly visits and storage.

Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.

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.

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.

SpinupWP is a control panel that configures and manages a WordPress-tuned server stack on an Ubuntu machine the customer brings.

Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.

Static publishing from one command, free for the basics, running since 2014 with no visible change in ambition.

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.

Vercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.

WebAssembly runtime company whose edge platform runs applications compiled to WASM, PHP among them, close to the visitor.

French host that accepts WordPress and nothing else, with SSH, WP-CLI and git, metered by sites, storage and visits.

Container platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.

Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.