Render, founded in 2019 in San Francisco (YC S19), is a unified developer cloud PaaS offering one-click deployment of static sites, web services, PostgreSQL, Redis and cron jobs, with a free tier of 750 instance hours per month and widely seen as a modern Heroku alternative.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in North Carolina, USA, NameHero runs LiteSpeed Web Server with free Cloudflare CDN across all plans. Its Cloud VPS spans 1-16 cores of NVMe storage, backed by a 30-day refund and free migration.
Cloudflare, founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, United States, is one of the world's largest CDN and cybersecurity platforms. Its free tier bundles CDN, DDoS protection, SSL, and WAF, making it the standard acceleration solution for overseas sites.
DDoS-Guard is a high-protection provider operated by IQWeb FZ-LLC in the UAE (founded by a Russian team), offering 4+ Tbps scrubbing with 99.95% SLA, 2.5M+ attacks mitigated in 2025, with protected VDS, dedicated servers and free CDN in one package.
ArvanCloud is a CDN and cloud platform focused on the Middle East and Asia, with the best Middle East node coverage and one-stop CDN+WAF+DNS services, and a console that supports Chinese.