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Some providers carry a heart in the lists. We think they deserve some attention. This is totally opinionated and not based on hard facts, more here.

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.

A

  • Arcustech

    US VPS provider selling managed and self-managed NVMe servers, with a long-running focus on Craft CMS, ExpressionEngine and related PHP applications.

    One we like

B

  • BitFolk

    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.

    One we like

D

  • Deno Deploy

    Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.

    One we like
  • DigitalOcean

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

    One we like
  • DreamHost

    DreamHost is an independently owned Los Angeles hosting company selling shared plans, managed WordPress and VPS tiers.

    One we like

E

  • exe.dev

    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.

    One we like

F

  • fortrabbit

    Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.

    One we like

G

  • GitHub Pages

    Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.

    One we like

H

  • Hetzner

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

    One we like
  • Hostim

    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.

    One we like

K

  • Krystal

    British host running PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby on cPanel, powered by certified renewable electricity and operated as a certified B Corp.

    One we like

L

  • Lovable

    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.

    One we like

N

  • NearlyFreeSpeech.NET

    Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.

    One we like
  • Neocities

    Free static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.

    One we like
  • Netlify

    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.

    One we like

P

  • Ploi Cloud

    Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.

    One we like

R

  • Raidboxes

    Managed WordPress hosting from MΓΌnster, on German servers, with staging and SSH on every plan.

    One we like
  • Railway

    Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.

    One we like

S

  • Servd

    Managed hosting platform built specifically for Craft CMS, sold as fixed plans that each host a single Craft installation.

    One we like
  • Surge

    Static publishing from one command, free for the basics, running since 2014 with no visible change in ambition.

    One we like

U

  • Uberspace

    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.

    One we like

V

  • Vercel

    Vercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.

    One we like

W

  • Wasmer

    WebAssembly runtime company whose edge platform runs applications compiled to WASM, PHP among them, close to the visitor.

    One we like

Z

  • Zerops

    Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.

    One we like
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.