# Web hosting categories

Source: https://www.findhost.app/categories/

The hosting market has no clean labels. Providers are trying to find sweet spots and 'disrupt'. Categories shift with new technology, vendors blur them. [Choosing is hard](/guide/). A record carries every category it sells under rather than one chosen as primary, because most providers sell across several and picking one would be picking for them.

14 values in use.

## Values

- [Platform as a Service](https://www.findhost.app/categories/paas/) — 40 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/paas.md
- [Virtual Private Servers](https://www.findhost.app/categories/vps/) — 51 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/vps.md
- [Bare metal](https://www.findhost.app/categories/bare-metal/) — 20 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/bare-metal.md
- [Infrastructure as a Service](https://www.findhost.app/categories/iaas/) — 14 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/iaas.md
- [Shared hosting](https://www.findhost.app/categories/shared-hosting/) — 82 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/shared-hosting.md
- [Serverless](https://www.findhost.app/categories/serverless/) — 22 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/serverless.md
- [Static hosting](https://www.findhost.app/categories/static/) — 14 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/static.md
- [Containers as a Service](https://www.findhost.app/categories/caas/) — 12 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/caas.md
- [Vanity hosting](https://www.findhost.app/categories/vanity-hosting/) — 18 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/vanity-hosting.md
- [Free hosting](https://www.findhost.app/categories/free-hosting/) — 6 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/free-hosting.md
- [Low-code and no-code](https://www.findhost.app/categories/lcnc/) — 14 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/lcnc.md
- [Domains and DNS](https://www.findhost.app/categories/domains-dns/) — 16 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/domains-dns.md
- [Business email](https://www.findhost.app/categories/mail/) — 1 provider — https://www.findhost.app/categories/mail.md
- [Database as a Service](https://www.findhost.app/categories/dbaas/) — 2 providers — https://www.findhost.app/categories/dbaas.md

Defined and not yet held by any record: Server management, Git hosting.

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