Within a day
Combine filters →The most reversible end of the register: usage billed in arrears, cancellation from the account, no notice period and no remainder. An invoice arriving at the end of the month does not move a record out of this band — it is payment for days already used, not a commitment to days that will not be. It is the norm for cloud infrastructure and for platforms billing by usage, and it is what makes trying something cheap — the cost of a wrong choice is the days it ran, not the year it was booked for.
20 providers can be left within a day, listed alphabetically. Mostly gpu cloud, virtual private servers and platform as a service, of 8 categories in all. 138 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.
- Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
- Azure
Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.
B
- Binary Lane
Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
C
- 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.
- cloudscale.ch
Swiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.
D
- 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.
E
- 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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- Fly.io
Fly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.
- fortrabbitOne we like
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
G
- GleSYS
GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centres.
H
- HetznerOne we like
Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centres.
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N
- NearlyFreeSpeech.NETOne we like
Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.
- 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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- Scaleway
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
- Sliplane
German Docker hosting that bills for the server rather than the container, so unlimited services can share one machine, with managed Postgres and S3 storage.
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- Verda
Finnish GPU cloud selling GPU virtual machines, multi-node clusters and serverless containers from data centers in Helsinki.
Which of these providers is best?
Hard to say without knowing the project. A free tier matters for a side project and barely at all for a shop that loses money every minute it is down. Read a few records side by side; the guide says where to start.