Staging
Combine filters โA copy of the site that nobody visits, for finding out what a change does before it is the change everybody sees. For a good many providers this is exactly what the next tier up is for, which makes it a pricing fact as much as a technical one. Recorded as included only where it comes with the plan rather than with the upgrade.
28 providers give somewhere to try a deploy before it is the site, listed alphabetically. Mostly platform as a service, serverless and static hosting, of 9 categories in all. 96 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- 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.
- Diploi
Finnish platform that puts a cloud development environment and the hosting for the same application in one place, billed by the hour it runs.
- Divio
Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.
- DreamHostOne we like
DreamHost is an independently owned Los Angeles hosting company selling shared plans, managed WordPress and VPS tiers.
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- fortrabbitOne we like
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
- Framer
A visual website builder that hosts and publishes what it designs, with a built-in content model.
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- Heroku
Heroku is a polyglot PaaS โ the original "git push to deploy" platform, now a business unit of Salesforce.
- Hosting.com
Hosting.com is the American web host formerly known as A2 Hosting, renamed in 2025 when World Host Group consolidated its brands under one name.
- Hypernode
Dutch platform built for Magento and Shopware, descended from Byte's engineering and now part of team.blue.
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- Laravel Cloud
Laravel Cloud is the official platform by Laravel Holdings โ managed, scale-to-zero hosting for Laravel and Symfony applications, billed by subscription plus usage.
- lowcloud
A Bielefeld startup that runs an application as a managed container in Germany, or operates Kubernetes inside the customer's own cloud account.
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- Mittwald
German managed hosting platform with per-project containers, a control plane called mStudio, an official CLI and a public REST API.
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- 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.
- Northflank
British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
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- Pantheon
Managed WebOps platform for WordPress, Drupal, and Next.js with workflows and governance tools.
- 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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- Qoddi
Managed application platform deploying Node, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, Python and Docker workloads with per-second billing and managed databases alongside.
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- RaidboxesOne we like
Managed WordPress hosting from Mรผnster, on German servers, with staging and SSH on every plan.
- RailwayOne we like
Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.
- Render
Platform-as-a-service that builds services from a git repository, with native runtimes for several languages, a Docker runtime for the rest, and managed Postgres.
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- Scalingo
French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
- Servebolt
Norwegian managed hosting platform for WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, and other PHP applications.
- Sevalla
Sevalla is a polyglot cloud hosting platform covering application hosting, database hosting, static sites, and object storage.
- statichost.eu
Swedish static site host that clones any git repository, builds it in a Docker image of your choosing and serves the output from European infrastructure without logging visitors.
- Supabase
Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.
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- Upsun
Upsun is the PaaS formerly known as Platform.sh. Projects are described in YAML and billed per resource, on top of a per-project and per-user fee.
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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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- 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?
We can't tell from here. A host that suits a small agency site can be wrong for an API with users in Asia and Europe. The list is alphabetical and nobody paid for a place on it. The guide covers what to compare.