Self-managed
Combine filters →When the customer manages the OS, security updates happen because someone applies them. That is the real cost of a server, and it does not go away because a control panel automates part of it — a panel moves the work without moving the responsibility. It comes with root, full flexibility, and a job that continues after the site is launched.
74 providers leave the operating system to you, listed alphabetically. Mostly gpu cloud, virtual private servers and platform as a service, of 10 categories in all. 49 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.
- Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
- Appwrite
Open-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.
- 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
- 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.
- Baseten
AI inference platform offering token-priced model APIs and dedicated GPU deployments of customers' own models, billed per minute and able to scale to zero.
- Beam
Serverless GPU platform where Python functions and container images run as autoscaling endpoints, task queues and sandboxes, with on-demand GPU machines beside them.
- Beget
Beget is a Russian hosting company selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and managed databases, priced in euros on its international storefront.
- Binary Lane
Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
- Bunny.net
Slovenian edge platform selling CDN, storage, video and DNS, with Edge Scripting and Magic Containers running the customer's own code across its network.
C
- Cafe24
Cafe24 is a Seoul-based hosting and e-commerce platform company selling shared hosting, managed WordPress VPS and hourly cloud servers alongside its shopping-mall SaaS product.
- Cerebrium
Serverless GPU platform for real-time AI workloads, running Python apps and custom Docker containers that scale to zero and bill per second.
- 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.
- Civo
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
- 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.
- Contabo
German provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
- Crusoe
US AI infrastructure company renting GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and model inference from its own data centers.
- cyber_Folks
Polish shared host from Poznań with a per-domain choice of PHP version alongside Node and Python, running on LiteSpeed with DirectAdmin as the panel.
D
- DigitalOceanOne we like
DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.
- Divio
Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.
- 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.
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- E2E Networks
Indian cloud infrastructure provider listed on the National Stock Exchange, selling CPU and GPU compute by the minute with published hourly rates.
- Exabytes
Exabytes is a Malaysian host selling shared plans on a choice of cPanel or Plesk from its own data centre in Malaysia.
- exe.devOne we like
Ubuntu VMs in seconds over SSH, sold as a pool of capacity rather than as machines, and aimed as much at agents as at people.
- Exoscale
Exoscale 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.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
- Gandi
Gandi is a French registrar whose Simple Hosting product runs application code in per-customer Linux containers, deployed by git or SFTP.
- Gcore
Gcore is an edge and cloud provider selling CDN, streaming, DDoS protection, virtual machines, bare metal, Kubernetes and serverless functions.
- Gigalixir
Gigalixir is a platform-as-a-service built around Elixir and Phoenix, keeping hot upgrades, remote observer and distributed clustering intact.
- 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.
- Google Cloud Run
Google Cloud Run runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.
H
- HetznerOne we like
Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centres.
- HostPinnacle
HostPinnacle is a Kenyan host selling cPanel shared hosting alongside self-managed and cPanel-managed VPS from Nairobi.
- Hugging Face
Machine-learning hub whose Spaces product hosts running applications — Gradio, Streamlit or an arbitrary Dockerfile — on CPU or rented GPU hardware.
- Hyperstack
GPU cloud from London's NexGen Cloud, selling GPU virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and a token-priced model API.
I
- 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.
J
- Jarvislabs
Indian GPU cloud renting GPU virtual machines, framework containers, managed model endpoints and a token-priced model API, billed by the minute.
K
- Kamatera
Kamatera is a cloud infrastructure company selling hourly-billed cloud servers, block storage, load balancers and firewalls from data centres worldwide.
- Keyweb
A German host selling root servers, dedicated servers and shared webhosting from data centers it operates itself.
- Koyeb
French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPUs and serverless Postgres.
- KrystalOne we like
British host running PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby on cPanel, powered by certified renewable electricity and operated as a certified B Corp.
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- Lambda
US GPU cloud selling on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances, reserved multi-node clusters and private cloud capacity.
- Latitude.sh
Bare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.
- Linode
Linode is a US VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022 and now sold as Akamai Cloud.
M
- Modal
Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.
N
- Nebius
Amsterdam-based AI cloud selling GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, serverless GPU containers and a model API.
- Nhost
Open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.
- 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.
O
Q
- Qoddi
Managed application platform deploying Node, Java, Go, Ruby, PHP, Python and Docker workloads with per-second billing and managed databases alongside.
R
- Raiola Networks
Spanish shared host from Lugo, running cPanel on servers it assembles itself and operates in Tier III facilities in Madrid.
- Replit
Browser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.
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- Sakura Internet
A Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.
- SaladCloud
Container platform that runs customer images on idle consumer GPUs contributed by a distributed network of home and small-business machines.
- Scaleway
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
- Scalingo
French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
- 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.
- Sesterce
French GPU cloud renting GPU virtual machines, bare-metal servers and inference endpoints by the hour from a prepaid balance.
- Sevalla
Sevalla is a polyglot cloud hosting platform covering application hosting, database hosting, static sites, 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.
- Sliplane
German Docker hosting that bills for the server rather than the container, so unlimited services can share one machine, with managed Postgres and S3 storage.
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- TensorDock
US marketplace selling GPU virtual machines on servers supplied by independent hosts, now owned by Voltage Park.
- Tornado VPS
Self-managed Xen virtual private servers for Linux and the BSDs, trading as Tornado VPS since a 2022 rename from Prgmr.com.
U
- UpCloud
Finnish cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual machines, block storage and private networking, driven by a public API.
V
- VentraIP
Australian domain registrar and hosting provider selling cPanel shared hosting, WordPress hosting and VPS, operated by Nexigen Digital.
- Verda
Finnish GPU cloud selling GPU virtual machines, multi-node clusters and serverless containers from data centers in Helsinki.
- Vultr
Cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual private servers, bare metal, GPU instances, object storage and managed Kubernetes, billed by the hour.
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- Webdock
Danish VPS provider selling virtual servers with a web control panel, prepared stacks and WordPress plans, from a single facility in Denmark.
Z
- Zeabur
Container platform that reads a git repository, works out what kind of project it is and deploys it without a configuration file.
- ZeropsOne we like
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 can't tell from here. A host that suits a small agency site can be wrong for an API with users in Asia and Europe. The list is alphabetical and nobody paid for a place on it. The guide covers what to compare.