Root shell
Combine filters →Your machine. Root means full access on the operating system: install a package, recompile something, change the web server, apply the security updates. It comes with servers rather than platforms, and it follows almost automatically from managing the operating system. Freedom and responsibility, two side of the medal.
51 providers give root on the machine, listed alphabetically. Mostly gpu cloud, virtual private servers and infrastructure as a service, of 9 categories in all. 103 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.
- Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
- Arsys
Spanish hosting provider offering shared hosting and VPS from ISO-certified datacenters in Logroño, part of the IONOS Group since 2013.
- Aruba.it
An Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.
- Azure
Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.
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- Beget
Beget is a Russian hosting company selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and managed databases, priced in euros on its international storefront.
- Binary Lane
Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
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- Cherry Servers
Lithuanian provider selling dedicated machines and virtual servers on its own hardware, billed by the hour, by fixed term or as spot capacity.
- Civo
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
- Clever Cloud
French platform-as-a-service that detects, builds and runs an application from a git push, with managed databases and storage sold as add-ons.
- cloudscale.ch
Swiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.
- Contabo
German provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
- Crusoe
US AI infrastructure company renting GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and model inference from its own data centers.
- 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.
D
- 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.
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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.
- exe.devOne we like
Ubuntu VMs in seconds over SSH, sold as a pool of capacity rather than as machines, and aimed as much at agents as at people.
- Exoscale
Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.
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- Gcore
Gcore is an edge and cloud provider selling CDN, streaming, DDoS protection, virtual machines, bare metal, Kubernetes and serverless functions.
- Gigalixir
Gigalixir is a platform-as-a-service built around Elixir and Phoenix, keeping hot upgrades, remote observer and distributed clustering intact.
- GleSYS
GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centres.
- Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform is one of the three hyperscalers, selling compute, storage, data and machine-learning services on the infrastructure behind Google's own products.
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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.
- HostPinnacle
HostPinnacle is a Kenyan host selling cPanel shared hosting alongside self-managed and cPanel-managed VPS from Nairobi.
- Hyperstack
GPU cloud from London's NexGen Cloud, selling GPU virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and a token-priced model API.
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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.
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- Jarvislabs
Indian 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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- Kamatera
Kamatera is a cloud infrastructure company selling hourly-billed cloud servers, block storage, load balancers and firewalls from data centres worldwide.
- Keyweb
A German host selling root servers, dedicated servers and shared webhosting from data centers it operates itself.
- 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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- Lambda
US GPU cloud selling on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances, reserved multi-node clusters and private cloud capacity.
- Latitude.sh
Bare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.
- Linode
Linode is a US VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022 and now sold as Akamai Cloud.
- 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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- NearlyFreeSpeech.NETOne we like
Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.
- Nebius
Amsterdam-based AI cloud selling GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, serverless GPU containers and a model API.
- netcup
Karlsruhe-based provider selling low-priced webhosting, VPS and root servers from European, North American and Asian locations, part of the Anexia group.
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- Sakura Internet
A Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.
- Scaleway
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
- Scalingo
French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
- Selectel
Selectel is a Russian infrastructure company running its own data centres in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, selling dedicated servers, cloud servers and object storage.
- SiteHost
New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data centre and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
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- TensorDock
US marketplace selling GPU virtual machines on servers supplied by independent hosts, now owned by Voltage Park.
- Tornado VPS
Self-managed Xen virtual private servers for Linux and the BSDs, trading as Tornado VPS since a 2022 rename from Prgmr.com.
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- UpCloud
Finnish cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual machines, block storage and private networking, driven by a public API.
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W
- 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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- ZeropsOne we like
Czech container platform running applications and managed services on rented infrastructure in Prague, billed by resources consumed rather than by plan tier.
Which of these providers is best?
No idea. We list hosts, we don't rate them. Open the records that look close and compare them side by side; the guide says where to start.