Virtual Private Servers
Combine filters →A Virtual Private Server is an empty machine with root. The provider keeps the hypervisor and the network running; everything above that belongs to the customer, which is why these records answer “you” to who manages the operating system and offer full SSH access. It is one of the cheapest ways to run something in somebody else’s data centre, and the empty box then has to be kept full — patches, backups, monitoring, the 3am outage — none of which appears in the monthly price. The advertised specifications are softer than they look, too, since hosts are oversubscribed and identical vCPU counts differ in real throughput. PaaS hands the operating system back; a management panel keeps the server and automates the routine.
43 providers are virtual private servers, listed alphabetically. Across 35 countries, commonest entry price under $5 a month.
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- Afrihost
South African ISP selling fibre, mobile and VoIP, with shared, cloud and dedicated hosting as one line among many.
- Antagonist
Dutch host from Enschede, selling shared hosting with SSH, PHP, Python and Node.js on Dutch servers.
- ArcustechOne we like
US VPS provider selling managed and self-managed NVMe servers, with a long-running focus on Craft CMS, ExpressionEngine and related PHP applications.
- Arsys
Spanish hosting provider offering shared hosting and VPS from ISO-certified datacenters in Logroño, part of the IONOS Group since 2013.
- Aruba.it
An Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.
- 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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- 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.
- Bytemark
A UK virtual server provider, acquired by Hosting UK and no longer selling under its own name.
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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.
- Civo
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
- Contabo
German provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
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- DigitalOceanOne we like
DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.
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- E2E Networks
Indian cloud infrastructure provider listed on the National Stock Exchange, selling CPU and GPU compute by the minute with published hourly rates.
- 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.
- Exoscale
Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.
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- Gcore
Gcore is an edge and cloud provider selling CDN, streaming, DDoS protection, virtual machines, bare metal, Kubernetes and serverless functions.
- GleSYS
GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centres.
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- HetznerOne we like
Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centres.
- HOSTAFRICA
Pan-African host with storefronts in five countries, running cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting out of South African facilities.
- HyperHost
Ukrainian host trading since 2008, selling shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers priced in three currencies.
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- IDCloudHost
IDCloudHost is an Indonesian infrastructure company selling cloud VPS, managed hosting, dedicated servers and object storage from data centres in Jakarta and Singapore.
- Ikoula
One of the oldest independent French hosts, trading since 1998, running two of its own certified data centres in France.
- Infomaniak
A Swiss hosting and cloud provider selling shared hosting, servers and public cloud infrastructure.
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- Kamatera
Kamatera is a cloud infrastructure company selling hourly-billed cloud servers, block storage, load balancers and firewalls from data centres worldwide.
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- Leaseweb
A Dutch infrastructure provider selling bare metal, virtual servers and infrastructure as a service.
- Linode
Linode is a US VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022 and now sold as Akamai Cloud.
- Liquid Web
Liquid Web is a US hosting provider from 1997 specialising in managed VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and WordPress hosting, with 24/7 support.
- Locaweb
The anchor brand of LWSA, a Brazilian group listed on the B3, hosting a stated 500,000-plus sites.
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- Namecheap
A US domain registrar that also sells shared hosting and virtual servers.
- nazwa.pl
Polish cloud hosting and domain registration provider, part of NetArt Group since 1997, with data centers across Europe, the Americas and Asia.
- netcup
Karlsruhe-based provider selling low-priced webhosting, VPS and root servers from European, North American and Asian locations, part of the Anexia group.
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- PlanetHoster
Franco-Canadian host with data centres in Paris, Lausanne and Montreal, letting a customer pick the location per project.
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- Sakura Internet
A Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.
- Scaleway
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
- Seeweb
Italian cloud provider founded in 1998, part of the DHH Group, offering cloud servers, VPS, and managed services.
- Selectel
Selectel is a Russian infrastructure company running its own data centres in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, selling dedicated servers, cloud servers and object storage.
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- Truehost
Kenyan-owned host and KENIC-accredited .ke registrar, selling cPanel hosting in shillings with M-Pesa at checkout.
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- UpCloud
Finnish cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual machines, block storage and private networking, driven by a public API.
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- Vultr
Cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual private servers, bare metal, GPU instances, object storage and managed Kubernetes, billed by the hour.
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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.