Internal tools
Combine filters →Internal tools are unglamorous and durable: an approvals form, a stock lookup, a script with a web page bolted on. They need almost no capacity and quite a lot of certainty about who can reach them, which is a different shopping list from a public site. Providers marketing this usually mean a cheap always-on instance, private networking, and no drama.
22 providers market themselves for internal tools, listed alphabetically. Across 31 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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- Alibaba Cloud
Alibaba Cloud provides infrastructure, platform and serverless services spanning 32 regions with support for Linux, Windows, containers and multiple runtimes.
- Appwrite
Open-source backend platform sold as a hosted service, running user functions alongside managed databases, authentication, storage and messaging.
- Aruba.it
An Italian provider that owns its data centers and sells registrar services, hosting, servers and a public cloud.
B
- Binary Lane
Australian VPS provider selling hourly-billed NVMe cloud servers with independently adjustable memory, storage and transfer, and a public API.
C
- Cloud 66
DevOps platform deploying containerised and native applications and static sites onto servers the customer owns on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
- Cloudron
Self-hosting platform that installs and keeps open-source applications updated on the customer's own server, with per-app backups and single sign-on.
D
E
- Easypanel
Easypanel is a server panel that turns a rented Linux box into a container platform, licensed per server rather than per application.
- 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.
- Exoscale
Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.
G
- GleSYS
GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centres.
N
- Nhost
Open-source backend platform built on PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL and serverless functions, with a managed container runtime for the customer's own services.
- 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.
O
- Opalstack
Developer-owned US host running PHP-FPM, Node, Python and Ruby stacks with full SSH on every plan, plus VPS and bare-metal tiers.
P
- Plesk
Hosting control panel licensed per server, managing sites, domains, mail, databases and WordPress on Linux and Windows machines the customer supplies.
- Porter
Management layer that deploys applications from GitHub into the customer's own AWS, Azure or GCP account and runs them on Kubernetes underneath.
R
- Replit
Browser-based development environment with hosting attached, sold around an AI agent that writes, runs and publishes the application.
S
- Scaleway
French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.
- 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.
- Supabase
Open-source backend built on PostgreSQL, with authentication, storage, realtime and Edge Functions that run the customer's own TypeScript on Deno.
W
- Webdock
Danish VPS provider selling virtual servers with a web control panel, prepared stacks and WordPress plans, from a single facility in Denmark.