Headless CMS
Combine filters →A headless setup separates the content from the site that reads it, so the hosting question doubles, and where the content lives decides which half this register can answer. Self-hosted — Directus, Strapi, Payload — and both halves are hosting: a database, persistent uploads and a process that stays up, plus somewhere to serve the frontend. Content as a service — Contentful, Sanity, Storyblok — and one half is not hosting at all, which is why those are out of scope here and only the frontend is left to place. It is usually static, rebuilt when an editor publishes. The frequent surprise is on the self-hosted side: uploads written to local disk on an ephemeral platform are gone at the next deploy.
5 providers market themselves for headless cms, listed alphabetically. Across 10 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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- Cleavr
Server provisioning and deployment service for PHP and Node applications, driving servers rented from major clouds or any VPS the customer brings.
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- Deno DeployOne we like
Serverless hosting for JavaScript and TypeScript built by the Deno team, running the Deno runtime with Node and npm compatibility.
- Divio
Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.
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- NetlifyOne we like
Platform that builds sites from a git repository and serves them from a global CDN, with serverless functions, edge functions, blob storage and a database.
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- SiteHost
New Zealand host that owns its Auckland data centre and sells Cloud Containers, a product that runs prebuilt or custom Docker images.