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Where the provider manages the OS, the kernel and the system packages are updated without anyone asking, and in exchange the runtime versions, the web server configuration and the installed extensions are theirs to decide. It is the defining trait of a platform as opposed to a server, and it usually pairs with a jailed shell rather than root.

84 providers manage the operating system for you, listed alphabetically. Across 38 countries, commonest entry price $5 to $15 a month. 49 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.

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  • 1984 Hosting

    Icelandic host founded on a free-speech and privacy position, running on geothermal and hydroelectric power, selling web hosting, VPS and free anycast DNS.

  • 20i

    British shared host that runs sites across an autoscaling server pool rather than a single machine, administered through its own My20i control panel.

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  • Afrihost

    South African ISP selling fibre, mobile and VoIP, with shared, cloud and dedicated hosting as one line among many.

  • alwaysdata

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

  • Antagonist

    Dutch host from Enschede, selling shared hosting with SSH, PHP, Python and Node.js on Dutch servers.

  • AWS Lambda

    Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.

  • AZDIGI

    Vietnamese host in Ho Chi Minh City, running shared, WordPress and cloud hosting out of two Tier III data centres, with GPU instances alongside.

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

  • Cleavr

    Server provisioning and deployment service for PHP and Node applications, driving servers rented from major clouds or any VPS the customer brings.

  • Cloud 66

    DevOps platform deploying containerised and native applications and static sites onto servers the customer owns on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.

  • Cloudflare Workers

    Cloudflare's edge compute platform, running JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust in V8 isolates on the network that already serves the request.

  • Craft Cloud

    Serverless hosting for Craft CMS built by Pixel & Tonic, the company that makes the CMS, and sold per project rather than per account.

D

  • Deno Deploy

    Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.

    One we like
  • DigitalOcean Functions

    DigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.

  • Dinahosting

    Dinahosting is an independent Galician host selling shared hosting, domains and email from its own servers in Spain.

  • Diploi

    Finnish platform that puts a cloud development environment and the hosting for the same application in one place, billed by the hour it runs.

  • Duda

    Duda is a website builder focused on agencies that manage multiple client sites.

E

  • 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.

F

  • Firebase

    Firebase is Google's application platform, bundling a document database, authentication and storage with hosting that builds framework applications onto Cloud Run.

  • Flywheel

    Flywheel is a managed WordPress host built for web designers, freelancers and agencies, now run as a WP Engine brand.

  • fortrabbit

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

    One we like
  • Framer

    A visual website builder that hosts and publishes what it designs, with a built-in content model.

  • FutureVision

    Small host built around Grav, the flat-file CMS, with a free static tier below the paid plans and DirectAdmin above them.

G

  • GitHub Pages

    Static sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.

    One we like
  • GoDaddy

    GoDaddy is a US shared hosting company and the world's largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar, listed on the NYSE as GDDY.

  • GridPane

    GridPane is a WordPress server-management platform for agencies, provisioning and hardening servers on the customer's own cloud account.

H

  • Hatchbox

    Hatchbox is a deployment platform for Rails, Ruby and Node applications on servers the customer rents, billed per managed server rather than per application.

  • Heroku

    Heroku is a polyglot PaaS — the original "git push to deploy" platform, now a business unit of Salesforce.

  • home.pl

    One of Poland's largest hosting companies, selling shared web hosting, mailboxes, databases and domains from servers in Poland.

  • HOSTAFRICA

    Pan-African host with storefronts in five countries, running cPanel and DirectAdmin hosting out of South African facilities.

  • HyperHost

    Ukrainian host trading since 2008, selling shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers priced in three currencies.

  • Hypernode

    Dutch platform built for Magento and Shopware, descended from Byte's engineering and now part of team.blue.

I

  • Ikoula

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

J

  • jweiland.net

    German shared hosting built around TYPO3, run by people who contribute to the project, with SSH and sixteen PHP versions.

K

  • KingHost

    Brazilian shared, WordPress and VPS hosting brand under LWSA, documenting PHP, Node.js, Python and Java application deployment on shared plans.

  • Kinsta

    Kinsta is a managed WordPress host founded in 2013, with plans metered on monthly visits and 14-day backup retention.

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  • Laravel Cloud

    Laravel Cloud is the official platform by Laravel Holdings — managed, scale-to-zero hosting for Laravel and Symfony applications, billed by subscription plus usage.

  • Laravel Vapor

    Laravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications on AWS Lambda, sold as a flat subscription on top of the customer's own AWS bill.

  • Liquid Web

    Liquid Web is a US hosting provider from 1997 specialising in managed VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and WordPress hosting, with 24/7 support.

  • Locaweb

    The anchor brand of LWSA, a Brazilian group listed on the B3, hosting a stated 500,000-plus sites.

  • Lolipop!

    Japanese rental server from GMO Pepabo, selling shared hosting for personal and small-business sites through its own control panel.

  • Lovable

    Lovable is an AI-assisted low-code no-code platform that generates web app code from natural language prompts and deploys it on its own infrastructure.

    One we like

M

  • manitu

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

  • MilesWeb

    Indian host from Nashik selling shared hosting on its own mPanel control panel, with SSH and Git on every plan and a stated renewal-price guarantee.

  • Mittwald

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

  • MyDevil.net

    Polish shared hosting with SSH on every plan, unlimited sites, mailboxes and databases, and Node.js, Python and Ruby alongside PHP.

  • Mythic Beasts

    British host selling web and email hosting in a long ladder of graded sizes, with a choice of PHP release per site and MySQL as standard.

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  • Netlify

    Platform that builds sites from a git repository and serves them from a global CDN, with serverless functions, edge functions, blob storage and a database.

    One we like
  • Neubox

    Mexican registrar and host since 2004, one of the larger .MX registrars, selling cPanel hosting in pesos with OXXO Pay at checkout.

O

  • one.com

    Danish mass-market host selling shared hosting, managed WordPress, email and domains across most of Europe.

  • Opalstack

    Developer-owned US host running PHP-FPM, Node, Python and Ruby stacks with full SSH on every plan, plus VPS and bare-metal tiers.

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  • Papaki

    Greek domain registrar and shared-hosting provider, part of the European team.blue group.

  • PlanetHoster

    Franco-Canadian host with data centres in Paris, Lausanne and Montreal, letting a customer pick the location per project.

  • Ploi Cloud

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

    One we like
  • Pressable

    Managed WordPress hosting owned by Automattic, sold in fixed tiers metered by number of installs, monthly visits and storage.

  • PythonAnywhere

    Browser-based Python hosting with in-browser consoles, scheduled tasks and managed web apps, sold by CPU-seconds, web workers and disk.

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  • Raidboxes

    Managed WordPress hosting from Münster, on German servers, with staging and SSH on every plan.

    One we like
  • Railway

    Railway is a polyglot deployment platform with subscription plus usage billing, four regions and a build system that detects most common languages.

    One we like
  • Render

    Platform-as-a-service that builds services from a git repository, with native runtimes for several languages, a Docker runtime for the rest, and managed Postgres.

  • Rocket.net

    Managed WordPress host built on an enterprise content delivery network, with a choice of origin locations across the Americas, Europe and Asia.

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  • Scaleway Functions

    European function-as-a-service from Scaleway, running Node, Python, Go, Rust and PHP handlers billed by request and by memory consumed.

  • Seravo

    Finnish WordPress-only hosting company whose customers develop against a public, open-source project layout with Vagrant and Docker parity.

  • Servd

    Managed hosting platform built specifically for Craft CMS, sold as fixed plans that each host a single Craft installation.

    One we like
  • Shopify

    Shopify is a hosted ecommerce platform with a storefront builder and integrated checkout, sold as fixed monthly tiers plus a per-transaction card rate.

  • Simply.com

    Danish shared hosting provider selling bundles of web space, mail and a website builder, with a documented public API alongside.

  • SiteGround

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

  • Squarespace

    Squarespace is a design-focused website builder that combines templates, hosting, and content tools.

  • Supabase

    Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.

  • Surge

    Static publishing from one command, free for the basics, running since 2014 with no visible change in ambition.

    One we like

T

  • Truehost

    Kenyan-owned host and KENIC-accredited .ke registrar, selling cPanel hosting in shillings with M-Pesa at checkout.

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  • Uberspace

    Uberspace is a small German hosting service sitting between shared hosting and a VPS, running since 2011, with a shell account and a documented stack.

    One we like
  • Umbler

    Brazilian host selling per-application PHP hosting billed by the hour from account credit, with git deploys and one-click CMS installs.

  • Upsun

    Upsun is the PaaS formerly known as Platform.sh. Projects are described in YAML and billed per resource, on top of a per-project and per-user fee.

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  • Vercel

    Vercel is a frontend platform for Javascript people. It's formerly known as Zeit and venture backed and high on the AI wave.

    One we like

W

  • Wasmer

    WebAssembly runtime company whose edge platform runs applications compiled to WASM, PHP among them, close to the visitor.

    One we like
  • Webempresa

    Spanish-language WordPress host trading since 1999, now part of team.blue, with SSH access and a choice of EU or US data centres.

  • Webflow

    Webflow is a visual design platform that hosts sites and provides a built-in CMS.

  • WebSupport

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

  • Weebly

    Weebly is a simple website builder that bundles templates, hosting, and basic ecommerce features.

  • Wix

    Wix is a hosted website builder with templates and a visual editor for small businesses and personal sites.

  • WP Engine

    Managed WordPress host founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, running customer sites on public cloud infrastructure behind a CDN.

  • 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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  • 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.

  • Xserver

    Japanese rental server company selling managed shared hosting, with WordPress tooling, automatic backups and free SSL included across the range.