Cloud Hosting reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 172 Reddit reviews across 21 subreddits and 26 posts to rank the best Cloud Hosting brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/HostingHub, r/DevelEire, r/FoundryVTT, r/n8n, r/StableDiffusion. Top-rated brands include DigitalOcean (4.0/5), Amazon Web Services (3.9/5), Amazon (4.5/5).
Stats
Reviews172
Subreddits21
Posts26
Brands77
Products41
172 reviews from
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By Brand
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#1
DigitalOcean
4.0
(13)
"DigitalOcean is perfect"
"If you want performance then Digital Ocean is the way to go."
"I use 6$ digital ocean droplet"
"Something like a VPS on DigitalOcean should be enough man."
"You can check with Digital Ocean"
"You might want to try Digital Ocean or Siteground because they’re easier for beginners to setup."
"DigitalOcean is another good option, especially for developers. It's easy to use and affordable."
"Digital Ocean has solid performance and fair pricing"
"Digital ocean charges about 5/month to run a container full time at the lowest tier"
"Been hosting on DigitalOcean for about a year now and it has been working great."
#2
Amazon Web Services
3.9
(11)
"Enterprise-level = AWS, Budget-friendly = DigitalOcean."
"Aws is the enterprise gold standard, Azure then more commercial brands like Vultr, Digital Ocean."
"Use AWS Lambda. You can run either Python or Node.js. There is not a server for you to worry about. Just the code."
"Big names like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are good choices. They have lots of help and support, and they can grow with your website."
"For sure AWS is great but can be pricey. Worth it if you need flexibility."
"AWS"
"If you want to serve static files, S3 can do that for you, and you pay pennies for each GB you use"
"If you chose Mongo simply because its a NOSQL database, look into DynamoDB, which will allow you to run a database without worrying about the server, and with autoscaling readily available."
"AWS is powerful but can be confusing for beginners."
"AWS is scalable and powerful but it’s a bit tricky for beginners. Costs can rise fast without careful resource management."
#3
Amazon
4.5
(8)
"A ton of S3 buckets for storage."
"Route53 for all my DNS."
"Static website fronted by CloudFront."
"Fixed price per month and no danger of leaving it running like EC2"
"Some Lambdas for serverless functions."
"Classic Glacier for backup/archive."
"DynamoDB for a low-volume app."
"I have an EC2 instance for a simple discord bot. Paying about €3 a month."
#4
Hetzner
4.3
(6)
"Hetzner, we moved from Contabo (customer support and downtime issues). Already tried Digital Ocean, Railway and Vultr, and Hetzner is the most reliable."
"+1 for Hetzner! Cheap, full control... The best value for the money I could find!"
"I am using hetzner. Pretty good"
"I use Hetzner (3.79 EUR ) per month . I have my n8n there plus other services on the same server. All on top of Coolify."
"Hetzer is very good!"
"Hetzner is a cost-effective option."
#5
Oracle
4.3
(6)
"There's a really good guide to setting up a foundry server on oracle free tier."
"Amazing"
"Lightweight free VM that they never charge for."
"Lightweight free VM"
"Oracle vps. Free forever"
"I could easily use Oracle free, but I don't want to manage the backups."
#6
Linode
4.2
(6)
"I use a VM on Linode for hosting my personal stuff"
"Linode, $5/month ... I use frequently"
"Linode is affordable and reliable with a simple dashboard."
"They offer solid performance and reliable support without the crazy prices."
"Good value for the price."
"Run a linode or Vultr box (maybe two: one for your app and one for your database). Ensure they are locked do"
#7
Forge
4.0
(6)
"Forge-vtt without question. It's easy and intuitive. The discord support is very quick and it is a team of power people."
"Forge is a good option if you're willing to pay."
"As many have said - forge is great!"
"I like Forge. The standard modules dont count towards data usage."
"I use The Forge and they’ve been good to me so far. They have a free trial period too."
"I use the Forge. No problems with it, though it does seem pricey"
#8
Contabo
4.0
(6)
"8 core, 30GB memory, runs linux"
"Try contabo.. $4 pm"
"I use Contabo, economy, good and good service!!"
"I am doing the same. I think it’s 35€ / month for the Contabo VPS. Best deal I could find anywhere. It’s run smoothly for me since Dec 2020."
"I'm using contabo VPS. 30 €/month or so. VPS XL + 2tb upgrade. working smoothly so far."
"Contabo.com"
#9
Hostinger
4.0
(5)
"It has free SSL and domain protection."
"I am starting to test Hostinger for N8N, LLM and APIs. The basic plan for this is not with the best price (around 10euro/month) but it's what I need."
"Unlock 20% OFF on Hostinger! ... Everything you need to create your website."
"I9m planning to go with Hostinger9s mid-tier Cloud plan for now, since my budget doesn9t allow for DigitalOcean at the moment."
"I used hostinger"
#10
Railway
3.6
(5)
"Railway 4aa"
"Railway is goated"
"I9ve been hosting with Railway.com for $5 6 6it9s good, cheap, and I9ve had no issues for the past two months"
"Railway.com is $5 a month"
"Railway's pretty cool as it only charges for the CPU, RAM and egress you use."
#11
Molten
4.3
(4)
"Molten is a game changer automatic backups a great support team and easy file management and all for a great price"
"I prefer Molten, one reason being FTP access"
"I prefer Molten Hosting but as people have said using modules with large footprints will cause space issues on anywhere but forge."
"Molten has been great."
#12
SiteGround
4.3
(4)
"Just works.
10-15 years back, I used to manage my own metal in colo’s around various countries"
"I had a good experience with Siteground they’re reliable and affordable."
"I like Siteground for their speed and reliability."
"Siteground is reliable and easy to use."
#13
Google Cloud Platform
4.3
(4)
"Swear I’ll never use anything else again. Has it scale to 25k per second on one service when an extreme load came in."
"Big names like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are good choices. They have lots of help and support, and they can grow with your website."
"Google cloud works well with other google tools."
"GCP"
#14
AWS
4.3
(4)
"It's pretty much free and provides valuable experience with AWS."
"Great for gaining experience that can be useful in interviews."
"My backend is aws with images hosted on S3."
"It’s supposed to be free but it’s 75 cents a month or something lol"
#15
Vultr
4.0
(4)
"They have a solid offering for app hosting without breaking the bank."
"Fast NVMe disks"
"Vultr $2.50 plan"
"Run a linode or Vultr box (maybe two: one for your app and one for your database). Ensure they are locked do"
#16
Bluehost
3.3
(4)
"Bluehost offers affordable hosting with good support."
"Bluehost"
"Bluehost is a good option for smaller to medium sites with decent uptime."
"Bluehost is a good budget option for small sites."
#17
Cloudways
4.0
(3)
"Checkout cloudways"
"Cloudways is perfect for people who don’t want to manage servers."
"Cloudways is great for managed hosting with flexibility."
#18
HostGator
3.3
(3)
"Hostgator is great for beginners with good uptime."
"Hostgator is a good budget option with solid uptime."
"Hostgator is cheap and decent for personal projects."
#19
Molten Hosting
4.5
(2)
"I've been using Molten Hosting for more than 2 years now. I like it better than the Forge."
"It's extremely close to self hosting."
#20
Vercel
4.5
(2)
"Vercel is king (if you’re using NextJS)"
"Unless it’s something high bandwidth that requires a lot of serverless function usage I would just go vercel."
#21
Netlify
4.5
(2)
"Brilliant DX"
"If you don't require a database you could host on Netlify for free?"
#22
Cloudflare
4.5
(2)
"100% Cloudflare is reliable and efficient."
"I like the simplicity of Cloudflare when I don’t need everything in GCP/AWS."
#23
RunDiffusion
4.5
(2)
"Quick boot times. Private servers available. Beautiful GUI. Only $0.50 /hr! Give us a try. Everyone gets 15 minutes for free."
"Checked few solutions, this one is the easiest by far."
#24
Silver Cloud
4.5
(2)
"Silver Cloud provides cutting-edge cloud solutions designed to optimize application performance, reliability, and security."
"For foundry silver cloud is best option"
#25
EC2
4.5
(2)
"Simple discord bot"
"Connects to an EC2 instance"
#26
A2 Hosting
4.0
(2)
"A2 hosting is reliable with fast speed."
"A2 hosting offers fast speeds with great support."
#27
DigitalOcean App Platform
4.0
(2)
"A PaaS like DigitalOcean App Platform or Heroku are probably a better fit early on."
"It may be worth looking into DigitalOcean App Platform."
#28
Digital Ocean
4.0
(2)
"Digital Ocean is more beginner-friendly in terms of cloud providers and PaaS."
"Prefer DO for compute over Azure and EC2."
#29
Fly.io
3.5
(2)
"Check out fly.io. You give it a container image and they take care of the rest."
"Fly.io starts at around $3 for a small container"
#30
WebSecureNow
5.0
(1)
"It beats SiteGround hands down in reliability and speed."
#31
Unknown VPS
5.0
(1)
"Running a VPS on Arm - 6 core,8gb ram, 250gb SSD, 2.5gbit link. Running IspConfig and hosting like 30 live sites still having like 70% resources available, all this for like 6.50€/month."
#32
Cloudflare Tunnel
5.0
(1)
"Let cloudflare tunnel it for you. It’s a free service from them now."
#33
ngrok
5.0
(1)
"I use ngrock and it works perfectly for me"
#34
Reliablesite
5.0
(1)
"For dedicated servers, I've been really happy with reliablesite.net."
#35
WordPress
5.0
(1)
"The wp-offload plugin is a great solution for offloading media to S3."
#36
Racknerd
5.0
(1)
"Racknerd vps is an excellent value at $16/year."
#37
Ace Cloud Hosting
5.0
(1)
"Support is quick to help, onboarding was relatively easy, and they are authorized to resell QBD licenses at a discount."
#38
Gatsby
5.0
(1)
"Gatsby Image is compatible with external CDNs, making it versatile."
#39
Cloud Service
5.0
(1)
"It's totally free, no credits or catches, but it is a family-friendly restricted service."
#40
Reseller Club
5.0
(1)
"Fully managed hosting with SSD storage and instant setup, offering up to 10x faster performance."
#41
ZeroTier
5.0
(1)
"I use ZeroTier for hosting and it works like a charm."
#42
Nearly Free Speech
5.0
(1)
"Usage-based website and mail hosting that has been reliable for years."
#43
R360
5.0
(1)
"They have great customer service."
#44
PaperSpace
5.0
(1)
"Highly recommend for GPU needs."
#45
Lambda Labs
5.0
(1)
"Excellent performance and support."
#46
S3
5.0
(1)
"8TB of media archived in S3 as Glacial Storage for $0.50 a day"
#47
GCP
4.0
(1)
"GCP 3 months, but it also gives credits for other stuff."
#48
CloudFlare
4.0
(1)
"You could try going with CloudFlare pages or set up an AWS/GCP machine."
#49
Dell R730xd
4.0
(1)
"I have a dell r730xd at home I use to tinker and run Plex. It currently has 128gb of ram and I'm running 2 x Xeon 2697A v4s with 32 cores and 64 threads total."
#50
OVH
4.0
(1)
"[OVH.com](http://OVC.com)"
#51
intechDC
4.0
(1)
"Try intechDC"
#52
RightNetworks
4.0
(1)
"I'm using Rightnetworks provided by QBE and not really having any issues"
#53
Microsoft Azure
4.0
(1)
"Big names like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are good choices. They have lots of help and support, and they can grow with your website."
#54
Bernad's Hosting
4.0
(1)
"For your web and cloud hosting needs."
#55
Runpod
4.0
(1)
"[runpod.io](https://runpod.io)"
#56
Rightworks
4.0
(1)
"Rightworks is great. Been using them for couple years."
#57
QBlocks Cloud
4.0
(1)
"[qblocks.cloud](https://qblocks.cloud) is another option."
#58
Firebase
4.0
(1)
"Firebase is pretty good for this imo"
#59
Gigagpu
4.0
(1)
"I recommend https://gigagpu.com or https://gpu-mart.com for cheap servers with a GPU"
#60
Speedy Trading Servers
4.0
(1)
"Www.speedytradingservers.com www.ninjamobiletrader.com www.chartvps.com will get you one ms from the Nasdaq data centre."
#61
ServerFlex
4.0
(1)
"Simple solution for hosting with options for file-sync."
#62
Ace Cloud
4.0
(1)
"Ace Cloud offers competitive pricing and round-the-clock tech support compared to Right Works."
#63
Patreon
4.0
(1)
"For unrestricted private use and NSFW it's $15/mo."
#64
Microsoft
4.0
(1)
"Azure ACR for a private container registry."
#65
Own Server
4.0
(1)
"Using your own server can save costs."
#66
Nodecraft
4.0
(1)
"I had a good experience with Nodecraft for 9 euro per month."
#67
Imgix
4.0
(1)
"Imgix works well as a CDN for images."
#68
Cloudinary
4.0
(1)
"Cloudinary is a solid choice for image management."
#69
RDS
4.0
(1)
"Connects to an RDS instance"
#70
Load Balancer
4.0
(1)
"Load balancer running 3 websites for $0.62 a day"
#71
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
4.0
(1)
"If you want a fully-managed highly scale, check out the OCI OKE solution. Pricing-wise, you can't beat Oracle OCI as compared to other public clouds."
#72
Render
4.0
(1)
"I host on render for ~$8/m I like it so far, super simple setup"
#73
NoFrillsCloud
4.0
(1)
"NoFrillsCloud has managed cloud servers that have great value for money"
#74
Namecheap
4.0
(1)
"Namecheap is great for the price and easy to use."
#75
Equinix
3.0
(1)
"The nasdaq is literally hosted at equinix's data centers"
#76
2.0
(1)
"The server is the cheapest option but may require more resources, which can be costly."
#77
cPanel
2.0
(1)
"CPanel is considered a legacy hosting solution and not widely available among major cloud providers."
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