Private-equity owned
Combine filters →Private equity buys hosting companies for predictable revenue, and the playbook is well documented: consolidate brands, raise renewal prices, reduce support cost, sell in a few years. The brand, the control panel and the support signature usually stay exactly as they were, which is why the field is worth recording — nothing visible changes, and the terms do. Several long-established names in this register are here.
8 providers are private-equity owned, listed alphabetically. Mostly virtual private servers, shared hosting and gpu cloud, of 7 categories in all. 40 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- Contabo
German provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
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- GleSYS
GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centres.
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- Hosting.com
Hosting.com is the American web host formerly known as A2 Hosting, renamed in 2025 when World Host Group consolidated its brands under one name.
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- 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.
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- Namecheap
A US domain registrar that also sells shared hosting and virtual servers.
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- one.com
Danish mass-market host selling shared hosting, managed WordPress, email and domains across most of Europe.
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- Squarespace
Squarespace is a design-focused website builder that combines templates, hosting, and content tools.
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- WP Engine
Managed WordPress host founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, running customer sites on public cloud infrastructure behind a CDN.
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.