Hosting & cloud
259 products people recommend, 69 of them Hacker Approved. 22 kinds have ranked comparisons of their own.
Most recommended
The 10 products in Hosting & cloud the most people recommend, of every kind. The tick on each approval bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Rank | Product | Recommend | Mixed | Criticize | Approval | Months | Had for | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare | 456 | 195 | 1,130 | 29% | 12 | 3 yrs25 people | — |
| 2 | Hetzner | 347 | 87 | 198 | 64% | 12 | 5 yrs45 people | — |
| 3 | Syncthing | 170 | 31 | 35 | 83% | 12 | — | Approved |
| 4 | Proxmox VE | 148 | 41 | 41 | 78% | 12 | 3 yrs15 people | Approved |
| 5 | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | 136 | 89 | 464 | 23% | 12 | 8 yrs16 people | — |
| 6 | Cloudflare Workers | 123 | 33 | 69 | 64% | 12 | — | — |
| 7 | Amazon S3 | 122 | 38 | 80 | 60% | 12 | — | — |
| 8 | rsync | 111 | 32 | 73 | 60% | 12 | — | — |
| 9 | DigitalOcean | 107 | 16 | 111 | 49% | 12 | 10 yrs15 people | — |
| 10 | Nextcloud | 104 | 41 | 112 | 48% | 12 | 3 yrs18 people | — |
Ranked comparisons
Every kind of product with at least three well-supported products, largest first.
- VPS hosts19 ranked
Led by Hetzner, with 347 recommending it
- File sync apps13 ranked
Led by Syncthing, with 170 recommending it
- Hypervisors12 ranked
Led by Proxmox VE, with 148 recommending it
- Cloud storage12 ranked
Led by Dropbox, with 89 recommending it
- Domain registrars11 ranked
Led by Porkbun, with 71 recommending it
- Inference providers11 ranked
Led by Fireworks AI, with 50 recommending it
- Object storage9 ranked
Led by Amazon S3, with 122 recommending it
- Managed databases9 ranked
Led by Amazon RDS, with 44 recommending it
- Mail servers9 ranked
Led by Stalwart Mail Server, with 23 recommending it
- Cloud providers8 ranked
Led by Amazon Web Services (AWS), with 136 recommending it
- Object storage servers8 ranked
Led by Garage S3 object store, with 59 recommending it
- CDNs7 ranked
Led by Cloudflare, with 456 recommending it
- Platform as a services7 ranked
Led by Fly.io, with 50 recommending it
- Reverse proxies7 ranked
Led by Pangolin, with 23 recommending it
- Static site hosts6 ranked
Led by Vercel, with 77 recommending it
- Cloud sandboxes6 ranked
Led by Sprites, with 34 recommending it
- Self-hosted file managers6 ranked
Led by copyparty, with 31 recommending it
- GPU clouds5 ranked
Led by Vast.ai, with 28 recommending it
- Web hosts4 ranked
Led by Neocities, with 30 recommending it
- Cloud data warehouses4 ranked
Led by Google BigQuery, with 19 recommending it
- Dedicated server hosts3 ranked
Led by Hetzner dedicated server, with 31 recommending it
- DNS hosts3 ranked
Led by Bunny DNS, with 29 recommending it
Also recommended in Hosting & cloud
Products with no ranked comparison of their own, most recommended first.
- Supabase60 recommend
- AWS Lambda55 recommend
- Ente Photos43 recommend
- TrueNAS34 recommend
- Backblaze Backup34 recommend
- Cloudflare Durable Objects32 recommend
- Ceph31 recommend
- IPFS30 recommend
- Google Cloud Run27 recommend
- Amazon ECS23 recommend
- SDF Public Access Unix System23 recommend
- Amazon EKS22 recommend
- Prosody XMPP server19 recommend
- Cloudflare Email Service19 recommend
- Synapse Matrix homeserver17 recommend
- Firebase15 recommend
- AWS Support13 recommend
- Unraid13 recommend
- AWS IAM13 recommend
- Amazon SES12 recommend
- ejabberd11 recommend
- Unikraft11 recommend
- JuiceFS11 recommend
- ZeroFS10 recommend
- iCloud Photos10 recommend
- PikaPods10 recommend
Counts come from Hacker News comments labeled by Claude, November 2025 to October 2026, with data through October 31, 2026. Counts updated 2 Nov 2026. All rankings. How it works.