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Reselling is an ordinary way to build a platform and several of the best-regarded providers do it: the product is the software, the operations and the support, not the metal. It matters for two reasons. Jurisdiction follows the underlying cloud rather than the brand, and the provider’s costs move when its supplier’s do. Which upstream is used is recorded on the record where it is known.

14 providers resell someone else's hardware, listed alphabetically. Mostly platform as a service, shared hosting and containers as a service, of 10 categories in all. 176 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.

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  • Back4App

    Managed Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.

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  • 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.

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  • Elestio

    Elestio is managed hosting for open-source software on dedicated virtual machines, provisioned into a third-party cloud or into the customer's own account.

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  • fortrabbit

    Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.

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  • InfinityFree

    Free PHP and MySQL hosting from a Dutch company, run on iFastNet's platform.

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  • 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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  • Ploi Cloud

    Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.

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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.

  • SiteGround

    Independently owned managed hosting running on Google Cloud, aimed at WordPress and WooCommerce, with its own control panel.

  • 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.

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  • VentraIP

    Australian domain registrar and hosting provider selling cPanel shared hosting, WordPress hosting and VPS, operated by Nexigen Digital.

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  • Webslice

    New Zealand host that sells a container platform on virtual machines at a fixed monthly price and a metered serverless PHP platform built on AWS.

  • WPServeur

    French host that accepts WordPress and nothing else, with SSH, WP-CLI and git, metered by sites, storage and visits.

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  • Zerops

    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 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.