Paid before the period
Combine filters →Paying in advance fixes the maximum: whatever happens, the bill is the plan. The cost is elasticity, since capacity bought is capacity paid for whether or not it is used, and a traffic spike is a problem to solve rather than an invoice to swallow. For anyone working to a budget it is the safer arrangement, and it is the older one — most of the hosting industry was built this way.
73 providers take the money before the month it pays for, listed alphabetically. Mostly shared hosting, GPU cloud and Virtual Private Servers, of 15 categories in all. 21 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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1984 HostingIcelandic host founded on a free-speech and privacy position, running on geothermal and hydroelectric power, selling web hosting, VPS and free anycast DNS.
20iBritish 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.COMOwner-run German shared hosting and managed server provider operating from Friedersdorf in Saxony, with data centers in Dresden.
alwaysdataFrench managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.
ArsysSpanish hosting provider offering shared hosting and VPS from ISO-certified datacenters in Logroño, part of the IONOS Group since 2013.
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Back4AppManaged Parse Server backend with an auto-generated REST and GraphQL API, plus a container platform that builds and runs Docker images from GitHub.
BegetBeget is a Russian hosting company selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and managed databases, priced in euros on its international storefront.
BluehostBluehost is a US shared hosting brand owned by Newfold Digital, listed by WordPress.org as a recommended host since 2005.
BubbleBubble is a no-code app builder that combines UI design with database and workflow tools.
Bunny.netSlovenian edge platform selling CDN, storage, video and DNS, with Edge Scripting and Magic Containers running the customer's own code across its network.
ByetiFastNet's free hosting brand, running PHP and MySQL accounts on a control panel it wrote itself.
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Cafe24Cafe24 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 WorkersCloudflare's edge compute platform, running JavaScript, TypeScript, Python and Rust in V8 isolates on the network that already serves the request.
cloudscale.chSwiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.
CodeRed CloudCodeRed Cloud is a managed hosting platform for Django and Wagtail sites, run on Microsoft Azure by a Cleveland web development firm.
CombellBelgian hosting provider offering shared PHP and Node.js hosting, VPS and OpenStack from data centers in Belgium and the Netherlands.
ContaboGerman provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
Craft CloudServerless hosting for Craft CMS built by Pixel & Tonic, the company that makes the CMS, and sold per project rather than per account.
cyber_FolksPolish 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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DinahostingDinahosting is an independent Galician host selling shared hosting, domains and email from its own servers in Spain.
DonWebDonWeb is an Argentine hosting and cloud provider running its own data centers, selling shared hosting, VPS, bare metal and pre-configured application stacks.
DreamHostOne we likeDreamHost is an independently owned Los Angeles hosting company selling shared plans, managed WordPress and VPS tiers.
Dredge HostDredge Host is a small New York company selling cPanel shared hosting from a data center in Virginia.
DudaDuda is a website builder focused on agencies that manage multiple client sites.
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GandiGandi is a French registrar whose Simple Hosting product runs application code in per-customer Linux containers, deployed by git or SFTP.
GitHub PagesOne we likeStatic sites served from a GitHub repository, built by Actions or from a branch, free on public repositories.
GleSYSGleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centers.
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HostGatorHostGator is a low-cost American provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server and dedicated web hosting, and one of the Newfold Digital hosting brands.
HostingerHostinger is a Lithuanian budget host selling shared, cloud, and VPS hosting plus a website builder, all administered through its own hPanel control panel.
HyperstackGPU cloud from London's NexGen Cloud, selling GPU virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and a token-priced model API.
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InterServerAmerican host selling one shared plan at a price it undertakes not to raise, on DirectAdmin and CloudLinux, alongside VPS, dedicated servers and colocation.
IONOSLarge 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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JarvislabsIndian GPU cloud renting GPU virtual machines, framework containers, managed model endpoints and a token-priced model API, billed by the minute.
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KnownHostKnownHost is a US provider of shared, reseller, managed VPS, cloud and dedicated hosting, sold with a choice of cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk.
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Laravel VaporLaravel Vapor is a serverless deployment platform for Laravel applications on AWS Lambda, sold as a flat subscription on top of the customer's own AWS bill.
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mittwaldGerman managed hosting platform with per-project containers, a control plane called mStudio, an official CLI and a public REST API.
Mythic BeastsBritish 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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o2switchFrench shared host selling a single all-inclusive cPanel offer in three sizes, running in its own data centers in Auvergne.
OpalstackDeveloper-owned US host running PHP-FPM, Node, Python and Ruby stacks with full SSH on every plan, plus VPS and bare-metal tiers.
OVHcloudFrench hosting company selling dedicated servers, VPS, an OpenStack-based public cloud and web hosting from data centers it builds and operates itself.
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PapakiGreek domain registrar and shared-hosting provider, part of the European team.blue group.
PressableManaged WordPress hosting owned by Automattic, sold in fixed tiers metered by number of installs, monthly visits and storage.
PythonAnywhereBrowser-based Python hosting with in-browser consoles, scheduled tasks and managed web apps, sold by CPU-seconds, web workers and disk.
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Raiola NetworksSpanish shared host from Lugo, running cPanel on servers it assembles itself and operates in Tier III facilities in Madrid.
Rocket.netManaged WordPress host built on an enterprise content delivery network, with a choice of origin locations across the Americas, Europe and Asia.
RunpodUS GPU cloud renting containerized GPU Pods, serverless GPU endpoints and hosted model APIs.
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SaladCloudContainer platform that runs customer images on idle consumer GPUs contributed by a distributed network of home and small-business machines.
SeravoFinnish WordPress-only hosting company whose customers develop against a public, open-source project layout with Vagrant and Docker parity.
ServdOne we likeManaged hosting platform built specifically for Craft CMS, sold as fixed plans that each host a single Craft installation.
SesterceFrench GPU cloud renting GPU virtual machines, bare-metal servers and inference endpoints by the hour from a prepaid balance.
ShopifyShopify is a hosted ecommerce platform with a storefront builder and integrated checkout, sold as fixed monthly tiers plus a per-transaction card rate.
Simply.comDanish shared hosting provider selling bundles of web space, mail and a website builder, with a documented public API alongside.
SiteGroundIndependently owned managed hosting running on Google Cloud, aimed at WordPress and WooCommerce, with its own control panel.
SiteHostNew Zealand host that owns its Auckland data center and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
SquarespaceSquarespace is a design-focused website builder that combines templates, hosting, and content tools.
STRATOBerlin-based mass-market webhosting brand owned by IONOS, selling shared hosting, WordPress hosting, virtual and dedicated servers.
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TensorDockUS marketplace selling GPU virtual machines on servers supplied by independent hosts, now owned by Voltage Park.
TransIPDutch registrar and hosting provider selling shared webhosting, VPS, OpenStack cloud and managed Kubernetes from its own Netherlands data centers.
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WebempresaSpanish-language WordPress host trading since 1999, now part of team.blue, with SSH access and a choice of EU or US data centers.
WeeblyWeebly is a simple website builder that bundles templates, hosting, and basic ecommerce features.
World4YouAustrian hosting provider from Linz, a subsidiary of United Internet, selling shared webhosting, WordPress hosting, email and servers.
WP EngineManaged WordPress host founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, running customer sites on public cloud infrastructure behind a CDN.
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xneeloSouth African host, formerly Hetzner South Africa, selling shared hosting, managed and self-managed servers and colocation with a choice of ZA or DE servers.
XserverJapanese rental server company selling managed shared hosting, with WordPress tooling, automatic backups and free SSL included across the range.
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ZeropsOne we likeCzech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.
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