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One trick pony. Why not?

Some software makes particular demands of its hosting — integrated caching, image delivery, updates applied for it — and this category bundles them and tunes them for the one application it runs. The term is coined here; the usual vocabulary has no word for the shape. WordPress attracts the most of it, with Craft CMS, TYPO3 and Shopware at a smaller scale, and sometimes the makers host their own software, which is how Laravel Cloud and Craft Cloud came about. The trade is that a stack tuned for one application cannot run another, so leaving is a migration rather than a redeploy.

18 providers are vanity hosting, listed alphabetically. Across 27 countries.

By entry price

$15 to $50 a month.

A

  • 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.

B

  • Blacknight

    Irish host and ICANN-accredited registrar in Carlow, running its own data centres and selling everything from shared hosting to dedicated servers.

C

  • Craft Cloud

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

F

  • Flywheel

    Flywheel is a managed WordPress host built for web designers, freelancers and agencies, now run as a WP Engine brand.

G

  • GoDaddy

    GoDaddy is a US shared hosting company and the world's largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar, listed on the NYSE as GDDY.

J

  • jweiland.net

    German shared hosting built around TYPO3, run by people who contribute to the project, with SSH and sixteen PHP versions.

K

  • Kinsta

    Kinsta is a managed WordPress host founded in 2013, with plans metered on monthly visits and 14-day backup retention.

N

  • Neocities

    Free static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.

O

  • omg.lol

    A personal internet address bundling a profile page, email forwarding and a handful of small web tools for one flat yearly price.

  • one.com

    Danish mass-market host selling shared hosting, managed WordPress, email and domains across most of Europe.

P

  • pico.sh

    Static sites, blogs and tunnels deployed over SSH — rsync a directory and it is live, with no dashboard and no client to install.

  • Pressable

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

R

  • Raidboxes

    Managed WordPress hosting from Münster, on German servers, with staging and SSH on every plan.

  • Rocket.net

    Managed WordPress host built on an enterprise content delivery network, with a choice of origin locations across the Americas, Europe and Asia.

S

  • Seravo

    Finnish WordPress-only hosting company whose customers develop against a public, open-source project layout with Vagrant and Docker parity.

  • Servd

    Managed hosting platform built specifically for Craft CMS, sold as fixed plans that each host a single Craft installation.

W

  • WP Engine

    Managed WordPress host founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, running customer sites on public cloud infrastructure behind a CDN.

  • WPServeur

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

Who is the best vanity hosting provider?

No idea. We list hosts, we don't rate them. Open the records that look close and compare them side by side; the guide says where to start.