Between them, the 7 best-ranked of these 12 web hosting companies cover cloud storage (6), IaaS (6), web development (2) and eCommerce (2). They also list work in Oceania, Middle East and Latin America. 7 of them have written a profile you can read before you get in touch.
What to look for in hosting providers in Sweden
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:
The hosting type you need: shared, WordPress, VPS, dedicated or bare metal, cloud, CDN, colocation or domains
Servers in Sweden if your users or your data-protection rules need them there
Renewal prices and contract terms, not only introductory offers
Who runs what: managed or unmanaged, and support hours in your time zone
Backups, restores and how easily you can leave
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 · eCommerce · PHP · Also in Ghana and Ivory Coast
Equinix, Inc. of Redwood City operates colocation data centres and interconnection services for enterprises, network operators and cloud providers worldwide.
Cloud storage · Web Development · IaaS · 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.
Cloud storage · IaaS · Also in Hong Kong and Middle East
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.
Cloud storage · 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.
Cloud storage · IaaS · Also in Middle East and Latin America
Microsoft Azure sells virtual machines, storage and networking on usage-based billing, with a wide platform-service catalogue, to enterprises and developers.
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 hosting providers in Sweden 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. A provider appears under Sweden when its own pages say it runs servers or data centres there or is headquartered there.
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