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17 providers are virtual private servers and start at under $5 a month, listed alphabetically. That is 17 of the 53 that are virtual private servers. Root shell on 14 of them, against 29 of the 53.

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  • Afrihost

    South African ISP selling fibre, mobile and VoIP, with shared, cloud and dedicated hosting as one line among many.

  • 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.

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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.

  • Byet

    iFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.

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  • DigitalOcean

    DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.

  • DotMoose

    A Canadian provider launched in 2026 by one person, selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and domains billed in Canadian dollars.

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  • Hetzner

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

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  • Kamatera

    Kamatera is a cloud infrastructure company selling hourly-billed cloud servers, block storage, load balancers and firewalls from data centers worldwide.

  • Keyweb

    A German host selling root servers, dedicated servers and shared webhosting from data centers it operates itself.

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  • 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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  • OVHcloud

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

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  • Scaleway

    French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.

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  • Tencent Cloud

    Tencent's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, VPS bundles, GPU instances and serverless functions.

  • Tornado VPS

    Self-managed Xen virtual private servers for Linux and the BSDs, trading as Tornado VPS since a 2022 rename from Prgmr.com.

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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.

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