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