Alibaba Cloud ECS is the elastic compute service of Alibaba Cloud, China's #1 cloud provider. 30+ domestic availability zones, 100+ integrated cloud products, and new-user pricing from ¥99/year make it the leading choice for China-focused deployments.
AWS EC2 is the core compute service of Amazon Web Services, launched in 2006 as the world's largest cloud platform. Offers 700+ instance types, 200+ services across 87 Availability Zones.
DigitalOcean was founded in 2011, headquartered in New York, NY. Known for minimalist developer experience, transparent pricing, and powerful API. Droplet cloud servers from $4/month across 15 data centers.
Founded in 1997 in Gunzenhausen, Germany, Hetzner is Europe's best-value cloud and dedicated server provider. Starting at €3.29/month with generous hardware specs, it's the top choice for budget-conscious European deployments.
Azure Virtual Machines (Azure VM) is Microsoft Azure's core IaaS product, launched in 2010 and now the world's #2 cloud platform. Offers 160+ instance types with deep Microsoft ecosystem integration.
Google Compute Engine is GCP's core IaaS product, forming a complete compute matrix with GKE and Cloud Run. Renowned for BigQuery analytics, Vertex AI, and the world's largest private fiber network.
Founded in 2011 in Helsinki, Finland, UpCloud is a European high-performance cloud server provider famous for its self-developed MaxIOPS storage and a rare 100% uptime SLA, operating 13 data centers globally.
20i is a UK-based hosting provider known for white-label reseller hosting and unlimited-website, unlimited-traffic plans, with free wildcard SSL and free migration for agencies and multi-site managers.
Baidu Cloud is the AI cloud platform of Baidu (founded 2015, HQ Beijing), offering BCC cloud servers, BOS object storage, and ERNIE models, with 12 nines BOS durability for China AI and compliance scenarios.
BigScoots is a Dallas, USA host with 14+ years serving 17,000+ clients, offering 99.99% uptime, ~90-second human support, and managed WordPress from $35/mo.
ChemiCloud is a US managed hosting provider (founded 2016) focused on Managed WordPress, cloud shared hosting, and Reseller, offering 99.99% uptime, a 45-day refund, and free migration in about 1 hour, hosting 150,000+ websites with shared hosting from $2.49/mo.
Cloudways is a Malta-based managed cloud platform providing hourly-billed managed VPS on 5 underlying clouds (DigitalOcean, AWS, GCP, Vultr, Linode) from about $12/month, deeply optimized for WordPress and PHP.
CoreWeave is a US GPU cloud provider headquartered in Roseland, New Jersey, offering H100/A100 GPU clusters, managed Kubernetes, and per-second billing for AI training, inference, and rendering.
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, DMIT offers cloud servers and VPS with China Telecom CN2 GIA optimized routing across Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, a high-performance choice for Asia-facing workloads.
Docker, created by Docker Inc and headquartered in San Francisco, started the containerization revolution in 2013 and offers Docker Engine, Docker Hub, Docker Compose, and more, the de facto standard for containerized and cloud-native deployment.
Founded in 2017, Fly.io is a US global application deployment platform for developers, deploying Docker containers across 30+ regions with Fly Machines cold-starting in about 300ms and billed per second.
Founded in 2008 in California, US, GreenGeeks is a green hosting provider known for its 300% green energy match, serving 55,000+ customers with shared hosting from about USD 2.95/mo, LiteSpeed acceleration, and free domain and SSL.
Heroku is one of the earliest PaaS platforms, founded in San Francisco in 2007 and acquired by Salesforce for $212 million in 2010. Known for git push deployment, autoscaling and a 150+ add-on ecosystem, it is a classic choice for rapid prototypes and small-team web app hosting.
IBM Cloud, originating from the 2011 SoftLayer acquisition and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is IBM's enterprise cloud platform. Known for bare metal servers, exclusive Power Systems support, and hybrid cloud solutions across 60+ global data centers.
ICDSoft is a web hosting provider founded in 2001 with 25+ years of operation serving 50,000+ customers, shared hosting from $8.00/month, free SSL, daily backups, and professional email included, with an average ticket response of about 7 minutes.
InfinityFree is a free PHP hosting provider operated from the United States, offering unlimited disk and bandwidth (fair use), 100,000 inodes, free Let's Encrypt SSL and MySQL/phpMyAdmin. With no forced ads, it suits personal test sites, static sites and prototypes.
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, Infomaniak is one of Switzerland's largest web hosting providers with 100% renewable data centers. It offers hosting, VPS, public cloud, email and kDrive (free 15 GB) with a focus on green energy and data residency.
Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Virginia Beach, USA, InMotion Hosting is a veteran business-grade host offering shared, VPS, WordPress, reseller and dedicated servers. It stands out with LiteSpeed performance, a 90-day money-back guarantee and US-based 7x24 support.
Founded in 2013, Kinsta is a premium managed WordPress host on Google Cloud C2 instances with 35+ datacenter options, a built-in 260+ node CDN and Edge Caching, starting at USD 35/month for Starter.