Between them, the 44 best-ranked of these 76 web hosting companies cover IaaS (26), bare metal servers (9), VPS hosting (8) and web development (5). They also list work in Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America. 44 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.
What to look for in cloud storage 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:
Price per TB stored, and the charges that often matter more: egress (download), API requests and minimum storage periods
S3 compatibility, if your tools and backups expect the S3 API
Where the data is held, and whether you can pin it to a country or region
Immutability (object lock) and versioning, which protect backups from ransomware
Replication between regions, and what a full restore would cost and take
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.
Web Development · Web Design · Software Development · Also in Europe
Exoscale is a Swiss-headquartered cloud provider selling compute instances, storage, Kubernetes and managed databases from data centres in six European countries.
Mobile App Development · Web Development · iOS App · Also in Latin America and Oceania
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.
IaaS · eCommerce · CDN · 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.
Dedicated servers · Shared hosting · IaaS · Also in Asia and North America
Hetzner Online GmbH of Gunzenhausen sells web hosting, dedicated root servers and API-driven cloud servers from its own data-centre parks in Germany and Finland.
VPS hosting · IaaS · Also in Latin America and Asia
Linode, now sold as Akamai Cloud, offers compute instances, storage, networking and Kubernetes to developers and businesses from regions across several continents.
Bare metal servers · VPS hosting · Dedicated servers · Also in Oceania and Asia
OVHcloud sells VPS, dedicated and bare-metal servers, public cloud instances and domain names to developers, game hosts and businesses from data centres on four continents.
Bare metal servers · Dedicated servers · IaaS · Also in Europe
Scaleway SAS sells virtual instances, Elastic Metal bare-metal servers and Dedibox dedicated servers, billed by the hour or the month, from European data centres.
netcup sells x86 and ARM virtual servers, with root servers, web hosting, domains and vGPU servers also in its range, from data centres in Europe, the US and Singapore.
Atlantic.Net sells VPS plans, with HIPAA and PCI-compliant hosting options, from data centres in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Kamatera sells pay-as-you-use cloud servers with custom sizing, block storage, firewalls and load balancers from data centres in 14 countries and territories.
Bare metal servers · IaaS · CDN · Also in Africa and Middle East
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.
UpCloud Oy of Helsinki sells hourly-billed cloud servers, GPU servers and managed services from data centres in Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
STACKIT, from the Schwarz Group IT division, sells virtual machines, GPU compute, storage, managed databases and Kubernetes with data hosted in Europe.
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.
How is this ranking of cloud storage providers worked out?
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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