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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.

50 providers are independent, listed alphabetically. Mostly shared hosting, virtual private servers and platform as a service, of 11 categories in all. 19 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.

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  • 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

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.

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • 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.

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  • 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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  • 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

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  • 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.