Between them, the 15 best-ranked of these 23 web hosting companies cover VPS hosting (6), IaaS (6), cloud storage (5) and domain registration (5). They also list work in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America. 15 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.
What to look for in CDN providers
The right provider depends on your workload, where your users are and what your team can run, not only on its place in this list. Before you shortlist, check:
Points of presence near your users, especially outside North America and Europe
Price per GB by region, request fees and minimum monthly charges
Cache controls, purge speed and edge rules or functions
Security included: TLS, DDoS protection and a web application firewall
Logs and analytics you can export
How to use this ranking
Use it to build a shortlist. Each profile lists the hosting types a provider sells, the countries it runs servers in and its prices as printed on its own site, with the date we read them. Test the two or three that fit before you move anything that matters.
Mobile App Development · Cloud storage · IaaS · Also in Oceania and Latin America
Akamai sells a content delivery network and, through its cloud service formerly known as Linode, virtual machines and related infrastructure in regions across several continents.
Cloud storage · Customer Service · IaaS · Also in Hong Kong and Middle East
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud arm of Alibaba Group, sells virtual machines, storage, networking and a CDN from regions across Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.
VPS hosting · Dedicated servers · Colocation · Also in Latin America and Asia
FDCServers sells dedicated servers, VPS, CDN, colocation and IP transit with unmetered bandwidth from 23 locations in Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.
Bare metal servers · Cloud storage · IaaS · Also in Middle East and Africa
Vultr sells self-service virtual machines, single-tenant bare metal servers and a CDN, deployable through a console, API or Terraform, to developers and businesses.
Mobile App Development · VPS hosting · Domain registration · Also in Hong Kong and Oceania
Leaseweb sells customisable dedicated servers, VPS, public cloud, a multi-CDN, colocation, web hosting and domains from data centres in Europe, North America, Asia and Oceania.
The order is earned: ratings, verified reviews and listing quality decide it, and nobody can pay to move up. There are two ways to stand out, and each one says what it is.
A position here is earned, never bought. It is worked out from what each listing documents and what has been verified about it: a complete, accurate profile, and the checks a provider has passed. Client reviews count where they exist, but they are still rare across this catalogue, so today the order comes mainly from documentation and verification. A top position means best-documented, not best for your workload.
Can a provider pay to move up?
No. Sponsored and Featured places are labelled and shown apart from the ranked list, and they never change a provider’s position in it. How rankings work
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