Publicly listed
Combine filters →A listed company reports its results, which makes it the only ownership type where an outsider can check whether the business is healthy. It also answers to shareholders every quarter, which shapes pricing and support in the ordinary way. Being listed is not a criticism: some of the largest and most reliable providers in the register are public companies, and so are some of the ones whose prices climb steadily.
14 providers are publicly listed, listed alphabetically. Mostly shared hosting, gpu cloud and virtual private servers, of 11 categories in all. 40 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- 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.
- Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare's edge compute platform, running JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust in V8 isolates on the network that already serves the request.
- 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.
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- 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.
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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.
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- GoDaddy
GoDaddy is a US shared hosting company and the world's largest ICANN-accredited domain registrar, listed on the NYSE as GDDY.
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- IONOS
Large European hosting group selling shared webhosting, VPS, dedicated and bare-metal servers and an IaaS cloud, listed on the Frankfurt exchange.
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- Locaweb
The anchor brand of LWSA, a Brazilian group listed on the B3, hosting a stated 500,000-plus sites.
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- Nebius
Amsterdam-based AI cloud selling GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, serverless GPU containers and a model API.
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- OVHcloud
French hosting company selling dedicated servers, VPS, an OpenStack-based public cloud and web hosting from data centres it builds and operates itself.
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- Sakura Internet
A Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.
- Shopify
Shopify is a hosted ecommerce platform with a storefront builder and integrated checkout, sold as fixed monthly tiers plus a per-transaction card rate.
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- Wix
Wix is a hosted website builder with templates and a visual editor for small businesses and personal sites.
Which of these providers is best?
We don't know. A static portfolio and a busy shop need different things from a host, and so do a freelancer and an agency with forty client sites. Nobody pays to be listed here and the order is alphabetical. The guide covers what to compare.