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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.

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.

A

  • Alibaba Cloud

    Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.

  • 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 centers and selling everything from shared hosting to dedicated servers.

  • Byet

    iFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.

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.

  • cloudscale.ch

    Swiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.

D

  • DonWeb

    DonWeb is an Argentine hosting and cloud provider running its own data centers, 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 centers.

  • 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 centers.

    One we like
  • Huawei Cloud

    Huawei's public cloud, selling virtual servers, managed Kubernetes, serverless functions and GPU instances.

I

  • Ikoula

    One of the oldest independent French hosts, trading since 1998, running two of its own certified data centers 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

    German host from St. Wendel, in its own data center since 2002, on renewable power since 2008.

  • mittwald

    German managed hosting platform with per-project containers, a control plane called mStudio, an official CLI and a public REST API.

O

  • o2switch

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

  • OVHcloud

    French hosting company selling dedicated servers, VPS, an OpenStack-based public cloud and web hosting from data centers 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 centers in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, selling dedicated servers, cloud servers and object storage.

  • SiteHost

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

T

  • Tigris

    Globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage reached through a single endpoint, with no egress fees.

W

  • WebSupport

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

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.

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.