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24 providers we like, for a reason each record gives, listed alphabetically. Mostly platform as a service, virtual private servers and static hosting, of 11 categories in all. 96 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- 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.
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- BitFolkOne we like
A small British VPS host selling unmanaged Linux servers with root, IPv6 and no small print, run by the person who answers the support mail.
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- Deno DeployOne we like
Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.
- 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.
- DreamHostOne we like
DreamHost is an independently owned Los Angeles hosting company selling shared plans, managed WordPress and VPS tiers.
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- 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.
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- fortrabbitOne we like
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
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- GitHub PagesOne we like
Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.
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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.
- HostimOne we like
Hostim is a Docker-first platform-as-a-service from Germany, deploying container images, Git repositories and Compose files onto bare metal in the EU.
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- KrystalOne we like
British host running PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby on cPanel, powered by certified renewable electricity and operated as a certified B Corp.
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- LovableOne we like
Lovable is an AI-assisted low-code no-code platform that generates web app code from natural language prompts and deploys it on its own infrastructure.
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- NearlyFreeSpeech.NETOne we like
Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.
- NeocitiesOne we like
Free static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.
- NetlifyOne we like
Platform that builds sites from a git repository and serves them from a global CDN, with serverless functions, edge functions, blob storage and a database.
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- Ploi CloudOne we like
Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.
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- UberspaceOne we like
Uberspace is a small German hosting service sitting between shared hosting and a VPS, running since 2011, with a shell account and a documented stack.
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- VercelOne we like
Vercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.
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- WasmerOne we like
WebAssembly runtime company whose edge platform runs applications compiled to WASM, PHP among them, close to the visitor.
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- ZeropsOne we like
Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.
Which of these providers is best?
No idea. We list hosts, we don't rate them. Open the records that look close and compare them side by side; the guide says where to start.