Owns the hardware
Combine filters →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.
33 providers own their hardware, listed alphabetically. Mostly GPU cloud, Virtual Private Servers and shared hosting, of 12 categories in all. 181 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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Alibaba CloudAlibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.
alwaysdataFrench managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.
Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
Aruba.itAn Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.
AzureMicrosoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.
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BlacknightIrish host and ICANN-accredited registrar in Carlow, running its own data centers and selling everything from shared hosting to dedicated servers.
ByetiFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.
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Cherry ServersLithuanian provider selling dedicated machines and virtual servers on its own hardware, billed by the hour, by fixed term or as spot capacity.
Clever CloudFrench platform-as-a-service that detects, builds and runs an application from a git push, with managed databases and storage sold as add-ons.
cloudscale.chSwiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.
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DonWebDonWeb is an Argentine hosting and cloud provider running its own data centers, selling shared hosting, VPS, bare metal and pre-configured application stacks.
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ExoscaleExoscale 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.ioFly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.
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GleSYSGleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centers.
Google Cloud PlatformGoogle Cloud Platform is one of the three hyperscalers, selling compute, storage, data and machine-learning services on the infrastructure behind Google's own products.
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HetznerOne we likeHetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centers.
Huawei CloudHuawei's public cloud, selling virtual servers, managed Kubernetes, serverless functions and GPU instances.
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IkoulaOne of the oldest independent French hosts, trading since 1998, running two of its own certified data centers in France.
InterServerAmerican host selling one shared plan at a price it undertakes not to raise, on DirectAdmin and CloudLinux, alongside VPS, dedicated servers and colocation.
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Latitude.shBare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.
LeasewebA Dutch infrastructure provider selling bare metal, virtual servers and infrastructure as a service.
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Raiola NetworksSpanish shared host from Lugo, running cPanel on servers it assembles itself and operates in Tier III facilities in Madrid.
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Sakura InternetA Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.
ScalewayFrench cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
SelectelSelectel is a Russian infrastructure company running its own data centers in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, selling dedicated servers, cloud servers and object storage.
SiteHostNew Zealand host that owns its Auckland data center and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
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TigrisGlobally distributed, S3-compatible object storage reached through a single endpoint, with no egress fees.
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WebSupportSlovakia's largest domain registrar, selling shared hosting and a website builder across Slovakia, Czechia and Hungary from its own data center.
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xneeloSouth African host, formerly Hetzner South Africa, selling shared hosting, managed and self-managed servers and colocation with a choice of ZA or DE servers.
Which of these providers is best?
We don't know. A static portfolio and a busy shop need different things from a host, and so do a freelancer and an agency with forty client sites. Nobody pays to be listed here and the order is alphabetical. The guide covers what to compare.



