Solution guide

Hosting and web infrastructure

Balance management, performance, geographic needs and technical control for your website or application.

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  1. 1What are you hosting?
  2. 2Do you want managed or unmanaged operations?
  3. 3Are backups, region or EU-only storage hard requirements?

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Managed WordPress & conventional hosting

Provider-managed options for WordPress, WooCommerce and conventional business websites.

KNo affiliate relationship

Kinsta

Premium managed WordPress hosting with isolated site containers, staging, backups and performance tooling.

Best for
Businesses and WooCommerce stores that want a high-touch managed WordPress environment.
Major strength
Managed WordPress performance and operations
SNo affiliate relationship

SiteGround

Managed shared hosting for WordPress, WooCommerce and multi-site SMB workloads with email, backups and support included.

Best for
Small businesses and agencies wanting managed website operations with bundled email and approachable tooling.
Major strength
Managed SMB hosting with bundled operations
HNo affiliate relationship

Hostinger

Affordable managed WordPress and WooCommerce hosting with long introductory commitments and bundled website tools.

Best for
Budget-conscious small businesses that want managed WordPress, email and straightforward site operations.
Major strength
Low-cost managed WordPress entry point
oAffiliate partner

one.com

A European hosting provider with shared hosting, Managed WordPress, VPS, domains, email and AI website-building products.

Best for
Small businesses that want conventional hosting, WordPress, email and straightforward administration in one provider.
Major strength
Conventional hosting with email, WordPress and a European shared-hosting footprint

Developer cloud platforms

Infrastructure and application platforms for teams that need deployment or runtime control.

DNo affiliate relationship

DigitalOcean

Developer-oriented cloud infrastructure spanning virtual machines and a managed application platform.

Best for
Technical teams that need VM-level control or a scalable application platform.
Major strength
Flexible developer cloud infrastructure
RNo affiliate relationship

Render

A managed application platform for deploying web services, static sites, workers and datastores from source or containers.

Best for
Application teams that want managed deployment and scaling without administering virtual machines.
Major strength
Managed application deployment
HNo affiliate relationship

Hetzner

German infrastructure provider offering self-managed Cloud servers, dedicated root servers, managed servers, Web Hosting and European storage products.

Best for
Technical teams that want low-cost infrastructure, root control and selectable EU, US or Singapore Cloud locations.
Major strength
Low-cost infrastructure control across Cloud, bare metal and European storage
INo affiliate relationship

IONOS

Hosting provider with separate traditional Web Hosting, WordPress and VPS offerings alongside IONOS CLOUD infrastructure services.

Best for
Small businesses that need conventional hosting or technical teams that need configurable IONOS CLOUD compute, storage, networking or managed services in documented regions.
Major strength
Separate conventional hosting and regional IONOS CLOUD infrastructure paths
ONo affiliate relationship

OVHcloud

Infrastructure provider spanning Public Cloud, VPS, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, storage, networking and conventional web hosting.

Best for
Technical teams that need documented Public Cloud services, regional architecture choices or OVHcloud's VPS and bare-metal portfolio.
Major strength
Region-aware cloud infrastructure and multi-zone Kubernetes options
INo affiliate relationship

Infomaniak

Swiss hosting and cloud provider spanning managed web hosting, unmanaged VPS and OpenStack Public Cloud services.

Best for
Businesses needing Swiss-hosted shared hosting or technical teams needing root-capable VPS and OpenStack infrastructure in Switzerland.
Major strength
Swiss-hosted hosting, VPS and OpenStack infrastructure
SNo affiliate relationship

Scaleway

European cloud infrastructure with Virtual Instances, managed Kubernetes, VPC networking, storage and managed databases whose availability varies by region.

Best for
Technical teams that need root-capable cloud infrastructure or a region-aware managed Kubernetes and storage configuration in France, the Netherlands, Poland or Italy.
Major strength
Region-aware European cloud infrastructure with managed Kubernetes and S3-compatible storage
UNo affiliate relationship

UpCloud

Nordic developer cloud with root-capable Cloud Servers, managed Kubernetes, data services and a customer-selectable Stockholm region.

Best for
Technical teams that need infrastructure control or provider-managed cloud services in Stockholm or another documented UpCloud location.
Major strength
Stockholm-capable developer infrastructure with managed Kubernetes, storage and databases

Edge & serverless platforms

Globally distributed runtimes for static, serverless and edge-oriented application workloads.

CNo affiliate relationship

Cloudflare Workers & Pages

An edge developer platform for static sites, serverless applications and globally distributed request handling.

Best for
Technical teams building static or serverless web workloads that benefit from an edge runtime.
Major strength
Global edge application platform