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Owning the machines means the provider chooses the hardware, the data center and the network, and carries the cost of all three. It usually shows up as better price-performance and as a real answer to where data physically sits. It also means capacity is finite in a way a hyperscaler’s is not, which is a trade rather than a fault.

28 providers own their hardware, listed alphabetically. Across 45 countries, commonest entry price $5 to $15 a month. 146 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.

A

  • Alibaba Cloud

    Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.

  • alwaysdata

    French managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.

  • Amazon Web Services

    Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.

  • Aruba.it

    An Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.

  • Azure

    Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.

B

  • Blacknight

    Irish host and ICANN-accredited registrar in Carlow, running its own data centres and selling everything from shared hosting to dedicated servers.

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.

  • Clever Cloud

    French platform-as-a-service that detects, builds and runs an application from a git push, with managed databases and storage sold as add-ons.

D

  • DonWeb

    DonWeb is an Argentine hosting and cloud provider running its own data centres, selling shared hosting, VPS, bare metal and pre-configured application stacks.

E

  • Exoscale

    Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.

F

  • 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.

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.

  • Google Cloud Platform

    Google Cloud Platform is one of the three hyperscalers, selling compute, storage, data and machine-learning services on the infrastructure behind Google's own products.

H

  • Hetzner

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

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I

  • Ikoula

    One of the oldest independent French hosts, trading since 1998, running two of its own certified data centres in France.

  • InterServer

    American host selling one shared plan at a price it undertakes not to raise, on DirectAdmin and CloudLinux, alongside VPS, dedicated servers and colocation.

L

  • Latitude.sh

    Bare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.

  • Leaseweb

    A Dutch infrastructure provider selling bare metal, virtual servers and infrastructure as a service.

M

  • manitu

    Owner-run German host from St. Wendel, in its own data centre since 2002, on renewable power since 2008.

O

  • o2switch

    French shared host selling a single all-inclusive cPanel offer in three sizes, running in its own data centres in Auvergne.

  • OVHcloud

    French hosting company selling dedicated servers, VPS, an OpenStack-based public cloud and web hosting from data centres it builds and operates itself.

R

  • Raiola Networks

    Spanish shared host from Lugo, running cPanel on servers it assembles itself and operates in Tier III facilities in Madrid.

S

  • Sakura Internet

    A Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.

  • Scaleway

    French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.

  • Selectel

    Selectel is a Russian infrastructure company running its own data centres in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, selling dedicated servers, cloud servers and object storage.

  • SiteHost

    New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data centre and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.

W

  • WebSupport

    Slovakia's largest domain registrar, selling shared hosting and a website builder across Slovakia, Czechia and Hungary from its own data centre.

X

  • xneelo

    South African host, formerly Hetzner South Africa, selling shared hosting, managed and self-managed servers and colocation with a choice of ZA or DE servers.