Independent
Combine filters →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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- BitFolkOne we like
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.
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- 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.
- DreamHostOne we like
DreamHost is an independently owned Los Angeles hosting company selling shared plans, managed WordPress and VPS tiers.
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- fortrabbitOne we like
Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.
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- 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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- HetznerOne we like
Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centres.
- 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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- 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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- 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.NETOne we like
Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.
- NeocitiesOne we like
Free static site hosting for personal pages, funded by supporters rather than by advertising.
- 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 CloudOne we like
Managed application platform from the team behind the Ploi server-management panel, running customer apps on rented UpCloud infrastructure.
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- RaidboxesOne we like
Managed WordPress hosting from Münster, on German servers, with staging and SSH on every plan.
- 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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- ServdOne we like
Managed hosting platform built specifically for Craft CMS, sold as fixed plans that each host a single Craft installation.
- 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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- UberspaceOne we like
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.
- 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.