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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.

16 providers market themselves for internal tools, listed alphabetically. Mostly GPU cloud, Virtual Private Servers and Platform as a Service, of 10 categories in all. 48 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.

A

  • Alibaba Cloud

    Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.

  • 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.

D

  • Divio

    Divio is a Swiss platform-as-a-service that runs Dockerised applications of any stack, deployed from git.

E

  • 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 centers.

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.

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.

Who is the best host for internal tools?

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