Vanity hosting
Combine filters →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.
17 providers are vanity hosting, listed alphabetically. Across 27 countries, commonest 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.
- FutureVision
Small host built around Grav, the flat-file CMS, with a free static tier below the paid plans and DirectAdmin above them.
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
- NeocitiesOne we like
Free static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.
O
- one.com
Danish mass-market host selling shared hosting, managed WordPress, email and domains across most of Europe.
P
- Pressable
Managed WordPress hosting owned by Automattic, sold in fixed tiers metered by number of installs, monthly visits and storage.
R
- RaidboxesOne we like
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.