Elestio

Elestio is managed hosting for open-source software on dedicated virtual machines, provisioned into a third-party cloud or into the customer's own account.

elest.io 4pricingstatustermsdocs

Someone else patches your open source.

Classification

Categories: Server management, GPU cloud
Operating system: Managed
Metal: Resells someone else's, You bring your own
Use cases: Internal tools, Web apps, API backends, Data pipelines, AI and LLM apps, Background jobs and queues
Audience: Startups, Small and medium businesses, Agencies, Enterprises

Tech stack

Runtimes: Docker, Anything
Software: WordPress, n8n, Directus, Strapi
Shell: Jailed shell
Managed databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
GPU: GPU instances

Pricing

Pricing model: Per resource provisioned2
Entry price: $5 to $15 a month 2
Starting price: from $11 a month2
Typical ceiling: $50 to $150 a month2
Currencies: USD 3
Billed: Monthly, Yearly3
Paid: In advance3
Exit: Within a month 3
Free tier: None

29 of 59 fields not recorded yet

Founded, Headcount, Favorite, Ownership, Parent, Wikidata, Runs on, CDN from, Control panel, Specialised in, Persistent storage, Backups, Money back, Renewal multiple, Minimum contract, Payment, Regions, DPA, Energy claim, Green Web directory, Domain registration, Email hosting, CDN, Test domain, Collaboration, Staging, Published SLA, MCP, Infrastructure as code

Elestio takes an open-source application, puts it on a dedicated virtual machine and then keeps it running: automated updates, OS patching, backups, TLS certificates and monitoring, with the customer keeping full access to the machine. The catalogue runs to several hundred applications, from PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB through WordPress, n8n and Keycloak to GPU-backed AI tooling.

The infrastructure is somebody else’s, and openly so: capacity is provisioned into Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS Lightsail, Vultr, Linode, Scaleway and Netcup among others, or into the customer’s own cloud account. That makes Elestio a management layer rather than a host. Support is tiered, with a free level and paid levels buying faster response and phone access; the response windows are qualified as applying during business hours. The footer names a registered address in Dublin, which is the only place the operating jurisdiction is stated.

Worth knowing

The advertised entry price is the management fee on a small machine. The underlying cloud capacity and any paid support tier are separate lines, so the total is a sum rather than a figure, and because Elestio owns no hardware, availability and jurisdiction are inherited from whichever provider the customer picks.

Identity

Reach: ↓670 1
Status: Active

Deployment

Deployment: Control panel, Container image, Git

Regions and law

Headquarters: Ireland 4

Other features

Certifications: ISO 27001, SOC 24
DNS hosting: Included2

Support

Support: Email, Phone
Hours: Business hours2
Tiering: Better on paid plans2

Automation

CLI: Official5
API: Public5

Sources

2026-09-07: Reach
majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
2026-08-01: Starting price, Entry price, Typical ceiling, Pricing model, Tiering, Hours, DNS hosting
elest.io/pricing
2026-08-02: Currencies, Billed, Paid, Exit
elest.io/terms
2026-08-01: Headquarters, Certifications, links
elest.io/
2026-08-09: API, CLI
elest.io

Are you Elestio? Link back to this record.

The badge means this provider has a record on FindHost. It is not a rating, a rank, or an endorsement. It cannot be bought. A record exists whether the badge is displayed or not. More about the badge.

HTML, with the badge

Inline, so it loads nothing and takes the colour of the text around it.

<a href="https://www.findhost.app/elestio/">
  <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="120" height="44" viewBox="0 0 120 44" role="img" fill="currentColor">
    <title>Listed on FindHost</title>
    <rect x="0.5" y="0.5" width="119" height="43" rx="3" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" />
    <text x="60" y="17" text-anchor="middle" font-family="ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif" font-size="8" letter-spacing="1.5">LISTED ON</text>
    <text x="60" y="35" text-anchor="middle" font-family="Charter, 'Bitstream Charter', 'Sitka Text', Cambria, Georgia, serif" font-size="18" font-weight="600">FindHost</text>
  </svg>
</a>

HTML, text only

For a footer with no room for artwork.

<a href="https://www.findhost.app/elestio/">Listed on FindHost</a>

Markdown

For a README or a documentation page.

[Listed on FindHost](https://www.findhost.app/elestio/)

Last reviewed 2026-08-12 · Updated 2026-09-07 · Listed since 2026-07-31Edit on GitHub This page as markdown

Somehow similar providers

Ordered by how many of category, regions, software, runtimes, entry price and operating system they share with this record. A field left blank on either side does not count.

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.
Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
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.
Azure
Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.
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.
Exoscale
Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.
GleSYS
GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centres.
IONOS
Large European hosting group selling shared webhosting, VPS, dedicated and bare-metal servers and an IaaS cloud, listed on the Frankfurt exchange.
Linode
Linode is a US VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022 and now sold as Akamai Cloud.
Modal
Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.
Qoddi
Managed application platform deploying Node, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, Python and Docker workloads with per-second billing and managed databases alongside.
SaladCloud
Container platform that runs customer images on idle consumer GPUs contributed by a distributed network of home and small-business machines.
SiteHost
New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data centre and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
Vast.ai
US marketplace where independent hosts rent out GPU machines as containers or virtual machines at prices they set.
Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.
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.
Baseten
AI inference platform offering token-priced model APIs and dedicated GPU deployments of customers' own models, billed per minute and able to scale to zero.