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Developer-friendly cloud with predictable flat pricing.
Europe's budget cloud after the June 2026 price hike: the cheap CX line survives, the CPX line no longer is.
Global VPS fleet with high-frequency and GPU options.
Akamai's developer cloud: flat pricing, massive network.
Managed cloud hosting on your choice of five providers — power without the sysadmin work.
The price-performance VPS: huge RAM and storage per euro.
The EU-first budget cloud with unlimited traffic.
Europe's biggest cloud provider: huge data-centre footprint, unlimited traffic, and anti-DDoS included.
Build-your-own cloud server: every spec slides independently, billed by the minute, with no intro-vs-renewal gap.
8 tools reviewed
Push to deploy: the simplest PaaS for full-stack apps.
Heroku's spiritual successor, without the surprise bill.
The open-source, self-hostable Heroku: git-push deploys on your own servers.
Zero-downtime Docker deploys to your own servers — no Kubernetes, no dashboard, just a CLI.
The original git-push PaaS: the smoothest deploy experience ever built, at a premium price.
Open-source Postgres backend with auth, storage, and edge functions — the database your AI-built app actually needs.
The lightweight open-source PaaS: Docker apps, databases, and SSL on your own VPS, with a dashboard that stays out of the way.
3 tools reviewed
Git-push publishing for the modern web.
The frontend cloud, and the home of Next.js.
The edge giant: free bandwidth, global by default.
2 tools reviewed
Real-time WordPress backups stored off-site — one-click restore, staging, and migration.
Shrink WordPress images automatically: WebP, AVIF, and smaller files on upload.
2 tools reviewed
Premium managed WordPress on Google Cloud — the performance benchmark others chase.
The original premium managed WordPress host — the agency default.
3 tools reviewed
Domain registrar and auction marketplace with sharp renewal pricing.
Developer-favorite registrar: flat pricing, free privacy, no upsells.
Budget registrar famous for cheap transfers and free privacy forever.
The matchups developers ask about most
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| Tool | Pricing | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Pages free (500 builds/mo); Workers Free $0 (100K requests/d | ★★★★★ 9.2 |
| Porkbun | .com ~$11.08/yr, same price to renew; free WHOIS privacy — c | ★★★★★ 9.2 |
| Kinsta | From $35/mo (Starter, 1 site); Pro $70/mo; Business from $11 | ★★★★☆ 8.8 |
| Kamal | Free and open source (MIT license); you pay only for your ow | ★★★★☆ 8.8 |
| Railway | Free $0 ($1/mo usage credit); Hobby $5/mo (includes $5 usage | ★★★★☆ 8.5 |
| Fly.io | Pay-as-you-go from ~$2/mo for a small app; no free tier for | ★★★★☆ 8.5 |
| Vercel | Hobby free (100 GB bandwidth, non-commercial); Pro $20/seat/ | ★★★★☆ 8.5 |
| Cloudways | From $11/mo (DigitalOcean 1GB); 3-day free trial, no card — | ★★★★☆ 8.5 |
| Dokploy | Self-hosted: free forever (Apache 2.0, unlimited apps/server | ★★★★☆ 8.5 |
| DigitalOcean | Droplets from $4/mo; App Platform free for static sites, fro | ★★★★☆ 8.2 |
| Vultr | Cloud Compute from $2.50/mo (IPv6-only) or $3.50/mo; High Pe | ★★★★☆ 8.2 |
| Linode | Nanode from $5/mo; Shared 4 GB $24/mo; dedicated CPU from $3 | ★★★★☆ 8.2 |
| Render | Free tier (sleeps when idle); Starter web services from $7/m | ★★★★☆ 8.2 |
| Netlify | Free ($0, 300 credits/mo, commercial use OK); Personal $9/mo | ★★★★☆ 8.2 |
| Hostinger | KVM VPS from $4.99/mo intro (renews ~$11.99/mo); shared host | ★★★★☆ 8.2 |
| BlogVault | Personal $99/yr (1 site, daily backups, 30-day retention); B | ★★★★☆ 8.2 |
| Coolify | Self-hosted: free forever (you bring your own servers); Cool | ★★★★☆ 8.2 |
| Supabase | Free $0 (500 MB database, 50,000 MAU; projects pause after 1 | ★★★★☆ 8.2 |
| Dynadot | .com ~$10.88/yr renewal; free WHOIS privacy; bulk discounts | ★★★★☆ 8.0 |
| SiteGround | StartUp ~$3.99/mo intro; GrowBig ~$6.69/mo; renews higher — | ★★★★☆ 8.0 |
| Scaleway | Stardust1-S ~€1.8/mo (1 vCPU, 1 GB); DEV1-S €6.42/mo (2 vCPU | ★★★★☆ 8.0 |
| ShortPixel | Free 100 credits/mo; Small $3.99/mo (7,000 images); one-time | ★★★★☆ 8.0 |
| WP Engine | Essential from $35/mo ($26.25/mo billed annually); Core from | ★★★★☆ 8.0 |
| Hetzner | CX23 from €5.49/mo (2 vCPU / 4 GB, EU — often out of stock s | ★★★★☆ 7.8 |
| InterServer | Shared $2.50/mo (price-locked, $0.01 first month); VPS from | ★★★★☆ 7.8 |
| A2 Hosting | Shared from $2.99/mo intro (Ignite); Accel $5.99/mo; Turbo V | ★★★★☆ 7.8 |
| Contabo | Cloud VPS from ~€4.40/mo (4 vCPU / 8 GB); VPS S ~€4.50 — che | ★★★★☆ 7.8 |
| Heroku | Eco $5/mo (1,000 shared dyno hours, sleeps after 30 min idle | ★★★★☆ 7.8 |
| OVHcloud | New VPS range from ~$5/mo (VPS-1: 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 40 GB NVMe | ★★★★☆ 7.8 |
| Namecheap | Stellar from ~$1.98/mo first year (renews $5.88/mo); Stellar | ★★★★☆ 7.5 |
| NameSilo | .com renewal ~$17.29; transfers from ~$8.39; free privacy — | ★★★★☆ 7.5 |
| ChemiCloud | Shared from ~$1.95/mo promo (renews ~$13.95+/mo); Pro ~$2.95 | ★★★★☆ 7.5 |
| DreamHost | Web Hosting Launch $2.89/mo intro, renews $10.99/mo; Growth | ★★★★☆ 7.5 |
| Kamatera | From $4/mo (1 vCPU Type A, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 5 TB traffi | ★★★★☆ 7.5 |
| Bluehost | Starter ~$3.99/mo intro (renews ~$9.99–$13.99); Business ~$6 | ★★★★☆ 7.0 |
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