Background jobs and queues
Combine filters →Sending mail, resizing images, generating reports and calling slow APIs all happen after the browser has been answered, which needs a process that is not the web one. Providers marketing this support a second process type and keep it supervised; providers that do not will run the application and silently drop everything queued. It is the most common thing to discover missing after choosing a host.
33 providers market themselves for background jobs and queues, listed alphabetically. Across 42 countries, commonest entry price $5 to $15 a month. 53 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.
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- alwaysdata
French managed hosting running a wide set of language runtimes on isolated Debian accounts, with a permanently free tier below the paid plans.
- AWS Lambda
Amazon's function-as-a-service primitive, running a handler on demand in a short-lived isolated environment and billing per invocation.
B
- Binary Lane
Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
- Bunny.net
Slovenian edge platform selling CDN, storage, video and DNS, with Edge Scripting and Magic Containers running the customer's own code across its network.
C
- 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.
- Cleavr
Server provisioning and deployment service for PHP and Node applications, driving servers rented from major clouds or any VPS the customer brings.
- 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.
- Cloud 66
DevOps platform deploying containerised and native applications and static sites onto servers the customer owns on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
D
- DigitalOcean Functions
DigitalOcean Functions is a function-as-a-service platform built on Apache OpenWhisk, running short-lived handlers in several native language runtimes.
- DokployOne we like
Open-source deployment platform billed per managed server, run either as a hosted service or installed on the customer's own machines.
E
- E2E Networks
Indian cloud infrastructure provider listed on the National Stock Exchange, selling CPU and GPU compute by the minute with published hourly rates.
- Elestio
Elestio is managed hosting for open-source software on dedicated virtual machines, provisioned into a third-party cloud or into the customer's own account.
- Encore Cloud
Encore Cloud is a backend framework for TypeScript and Go with a control plane that provisions the infrastructure it infers from the code into the customer's own AWS or GCP account.
- Exoscale
Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.
G
- 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 Run
Google Cloud Run runs any container image, scales it to zero when idle and bills per request and per resource-second.
H
- Hatchbox
Hatchbox is a deployment platform for Rails, Ruby and Node applications on servers the customer rents, billed per managed server rather than per application.
K
- Koyeb
French platform that deploys containers and repositories across global regions with scale-to-zero, per-second billing, GPU instances and serverless Postgres.
L
- Latitude.sh
Bare-metal and GPU infrastructure billed hourly with automated provisioning, an API, SDKs, a CLI and Terraform support.
M
- Modal
Serverless compute platform for Python, where functions are decorated in code and run in containers on CPU or GPU with per-second billing.
N
- Northflank
British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
P
- Porter
Management layer that deploys applications from GitHub into the customer's own AWS, Azure or GCP account and runs them on Kubernetes underneath.
- PythonAnywhere
Browser-based Python hosting with in-browser consoles, scheduled tasks and managed web apps, sold by CPU-seconds, web workers and disk.
R
- Render
Platform-as-a-service that builds services from a git repository, with native runtimes for several languages, a Docker runtime for the rest, and managed Postgres.
S
- Scaleway
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
- Scaleway Functions
European function-as-a-service from Scaleway, running Node, Python, Go, Rust and PHP handlers billed by request and by memory consumed.
- Scalingo
French platform-as-a-service with git-push deploys, buildpacks, managed databases and review apps, running only in French regions.
- SiteHost
New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data centre and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.
- Sliplane
German Docker hosting that bills for the server rather than the container, so unlimited services can share one machine, with managed Postgres and S3 storage.
W
- Webdock
Danish VPS provider selling virtual servers with a web control panel, prepared stacks and WordPress plans, from a single facility in Denmark.
Z
- 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.