Rank 77 hosting platforms from 56 makers: frontend clouds like Vercel and Netlify, app platforms from Heroku to Railway and Fly.io, shared and WordPress hosts like Hostinger and WP Engine, serverless functions, managed Kubernetes, servers from AWS to Hetzner, backends like Firebase and Supabase, plus self-hosted platforms such as Coolify and Kamal and web servers like nginx and Caddy. Pick what you are shipping under Best for, open any spec sheet, and see who runs what, whose servers it really is, what is free, and where it runs below.
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Popular is the big clouds and the developer platforms most teams shortlist, every self-hosted project
with more than 30,000 GitHub stars (Oct 2026), the
two web servers that run most of the web according to W3Techs, and the
shared hosts that each serve at least 1% of all websites in W3Techs’s hosting survey. Switch to Managed, Self-hosted, or All for 38 more.
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Every platform from a backend you only call to a web server you configure by hand, split by whether someone runs it for you.
28 of these 39 platforms
are run for you, 7 are software you run yourself, and 4 come either way: open source with a hosted cloud.
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