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.
55 providers give root on the machine, listed alphabetically. Mostly GPU cloud, Virtual Private Servers and Infrastructure as a Service, of 9 categories in all. 105 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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Alibaba CloudAlibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.
Amazon Web ServicesAmazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.
ArsysSpanish hosting provider offering shared hosting and VPS from ISO-certified datacenters in Logroño, part of the IONOS Group since 2013.
Aruba.itAn Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.
AzureMicrosoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.
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BegetBeget is a Russian hosting company selling shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers and managed databases, priced in euros on its international storefront.
Binary LaneAustralian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
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Cherry ServersLithuanian provider selling dedicated machines and virtual servers on its own hardware, billed by the hour, by fixed term or as spot capacity.
CivoBritish Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
Clever CloudFrench 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.chSwiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.
ContaboGerman provider selling virtual and dedicated servers from Munich, with large resource allocations at low fixed monthly rates.
CrusoeUS AI infrastructure company renting GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and model inference from its own data centers.
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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DigitalOceanOne we likeDigitalOcean 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 NetworksIndian cloud infrastructure provider listed on the National Stock Exchange, selling CPU and GPU compute by the minute with published hourly rates.
exe.devOne we likeUbuntu VMs in seconds over SSH, sold as a pool of capacity rather than as machines, and aimed as much at agents as at people.
ExoscaleExoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.
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GcoreGcore is an edge and cloud provider selling CDN, streaming, DDoS protection, virtual machines, bare metal, Kubernetes and serverless functions.
GigalixirGigalixir is a platform-as-a-service built around Elixir and Phoenix, keeping hot upgrades, remote observer and distributed clustering intact.
GleSYSGleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centers.
Google Cloud PlatformGoogle Cloud Platform is one of the three hyperscalers, selling compute, storage, data and machine-learning services on the infrastructure behind Google's own products.
GreenCloudVirtual server host selling KVM, Windows and macOS servers, plus dedicated servers.
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HetznerOne we likeHetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centers.
HostPinnacleHostPinnacle is a Kenyan host selling cPanel shared hosting alongside self-managed and cPanel-managed VPS from Nairobi.
Huawei CloudHuawei's public cloud, selling virtual servers, managed Kubernetes, serverless functions and GPU instances.
HyperstackGPU cloud from London's NexGen Cloud, selling GPU virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and a token-priced model API.
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IkoulaOne of the oldest independent French hosts, trading since 1998, running two of its own certified data centers in France.
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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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KamateraKamatera is a cloud infrastructure company selling hourly-billed cloud servers, block storage, load balancers and firewalls from data centers worldwide.
KeywebA German host selling root servers, dedicated servers and shared webhosting from data centers it operates itself.
KrystalOne we likeBritish 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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LambdaUS GPU cloud selling on-demand NVIDIA GPU instances, reserved multi-node clusters and private cloud capacity.
Latitude.shBare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.
LinodeLinode is a US VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022 and now sold as Akamai Cloud.
Liquid WebLiquid 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 likeShared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.
NebiusAmsterdam-based AI cloud selling GPU and CPU virtual machines, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, serverless GPU containers and a model API.
netcupKarlsruhe-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 InternetA Japanese cloud and infrastructure provider selling shared hosting, virtual servers and dedicated machines.
ScalewayFrench cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
ScalingoFrench platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
SelectelSelectel is a Russian infrastructure company running its own data centers in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, selling dedicated servers, cloud servers and object storage.
SiteHostNew Zealand host that owns its Auckland data center and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
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Tencent CloudTencent's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, VPS bundles, GPU instances and serverless functions.
TensorDockUS marketplace selling GPU virtual machines on servers supplied by independent hosts, now owned by Voltage Park.
Tornado VPSSelf-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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UpCloudFinnish cloud infrastructure provider selling virtual machines, block storage and private networking, driven by a public API.
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WebdockDanish 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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YouStableYouStable is a Lucknow host selling cPanel shared hosting, VPS and dedicated servers in India, the Netherlands and the US.
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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.
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.



