Defunct
Welcome to the grave yard of hosting providers. Where there is a story, the page tells it: an acquisition that ended the product, a migration offered to a competitor, a shutdown notice. Where there is none — a domain that simply stopped answering — the page says that instead, because a provider nobody can check any more is not a provider a reader should be offered.
11 records, kept out of the register and out of its count.
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- AppFog
Started as PHP Fog in 2010, the first PaaS aimed at PHP. Bought by CenturyLink in 2013 and shut down on 31 August 2016.
C
- cloudControl
Berlin platform-as-a-service, the first PaaS built in Europe. Insolvent in January 2016 and closed at the end of February.
D
- dotCloud
The platform-as-a-service that Docker grew out of, sold to cloudControl in 2014 and shut down in February 2016.
F
- FutureVision
Small host built around Grav, the flat-file CMS, with a free static tier below the paid plans and DirectAdmin above them.
G
- Gatsby Cloud
The build and hosting platform for Gatsby sites, from the company that made the framework. Sunset after Netlify bought it in 2023.
- Glitch
The place a million small apps were built and run in the browser. App hosting ended on 8 July 2025; the redirects are promised until the end of 2026.
H
- Hub.Org
The host PostgreSQL's mailing lists and first CVS server ran on, later selling self-managed FreeBSD servers from Panama. Its site went dark in 2020.
L
- Loudcloud
Managed internet infrastructure sold as a service from 1999, whose hosting went to EDS in 2002 and whose software became Opsware.
M
- Media Temple
The developer-facing host GoDaddy bought in 2013 to reach web professionals, and retired in 2023.
N
- Nodejitsu
The Node.js platform-as-a-service. Acquired by GoDaddy in February 2015, which took the team and left the hosting business.
P
- Pagoda Box
A PaaS built for PHP alone, launched in 2011. Succeeded by Nanobox, which DigitalOcean acquired in 2019 and later retired.