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An independent provider answers to its own revenue: prices move when costs move rather than when a target does, and product lines survive as long as they pay for themselves. It is not a guarantee of anything — independence and stagnation look identical from outside, and a company with no investor also has no cushion. It does mean nobody is planning an exit that a customer will find out about afterwards.

52 providers are independent, listed alphabetically. Mostly shared hosting, virtual private servers and platform as a service, of 12 categories in all. 40 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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  • ALL-INKL.COM

    Owner-run German shared hosting and managed server provider operating from Friedersdorf in Saxony, with data centres in Dresden.

  • 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.

  • Aruba.it

    An Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.

  • 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

  • BitFolk

    A small British VPS host selling unmanaged Linux servers with root, IPv6 and no small print, run by the person who answers the support mail.

    One we like
  • bplaced

    A German web host offering a permanent free hosting tier alongside paid PHP shared hosting plans.

C

  • 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

  • Dinahosting

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

  • 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.

  • DreamHost

    DreamHost is an independently owned Los Angeles hosting company selling shared plans, managed WordPress and VPS tiers.

    One we like

F

  • fortrabbit

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

    One we like

G

  • Gigalixir

    Gigalixir is a platform-as-a-service built around Elixir and Phoenix, keeping hot upgrades, remote observer and distributed clustering intact.

H

  • HelioHost

    A volunteer-run, donation-funded free web host with a paid tier alongside its free hosting.

  • Hetzner

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

    One we like
  • Hostinger

    Hostinger is a Lithuanian budget host selling shared, cloud, and VPS hosting plus a website builder, all administered through its own hPanel control panel.

  • Hostpoint

    Swiss-based hosting provider with shared hosting and managed servers, all infrastructure in Switzerland.

  • hosttech

    Swiss internet service provider from Richterswil that owns and operates its own data centres in Switzerland.

  • HyperHost

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

I

  • Ikoula

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

  • Infomaniak

    A Swiss hosting and cloud provider selling shared hosting, servers and public cloud infrastructure.

  • 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

  • Jimdo

    Jimdo is a Hamburg website builder that bundles hosting, templates and AI-assisted site creation for the self-employed and small businesses.

  • jweiland.net

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

K

  • Krystal

    British host running PHP, Python, Perl and Ruby on cPanel, powered by certified renewable electricity and operated as a certified B Corp.

    One we like

M

  • 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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  • NearlyFreeSpeech.NET

    Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.

    One we like
  • Neocities

    Free static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.

    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.

  • NixiHost

    Independent hosting company from Houston, Texas, selling shared and reseller hosting alongside VPS and dedicated servers.

O

  • 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.

P

  • pico.sh

    Static sites, blogs and tunnels deployed over SSH — rsync a directory and it is live, with no dashboard and no client to install.

  • 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

R

  • Raidboxes

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

    One we like
  • Raiola Networks

    Spanish shared host from Lugo, running cPanel on servers it assembles itself and operates in Tier III facilities in Madrid.

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  • Servd

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

    One we like
  • Servebolt

    Norwegian managed hosting platform for WordPress, Drupal, Laravel, and other PHP applications.

  • SiteGround

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

  • 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.

  • 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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  • 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.

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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.

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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.

Which of these providers is best?

Hard to say without knowing the project. A free tier matters for a side project and barely at all for a shop that loses money every minute it is down. Read a few records side by side; the guide says where to start.