Hosting Tools
The hosting tools we detect on new sites, ranked by how many use each. Part of Infrastructure.
- Tools tracked
- 4,771
- in Infrastructure
- Sites
- 2,403,452
- using at least one hosting tool
- Above 1%
- 14
- tools on more than 1% of them
What we found
- Vercel leads, on 33% of the sites using a hosting tool, 1.5 times as many sites as Hostinger.
- Only 14 of the 4,771 hosting tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
The leading hosting tools
| # | Movement | Tool | Country | Share | Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – |
Vercel
Hosting platform built around Next.js and edge functions, widely used by React, Vue, and Svelte projects.
|
33% | 785,460 | |
| 2 | – |
Hostinger
Web hosting provider offering shared, cloud and managed WordPress hosting, plus domains, email and a website builder.
|
21% | 516,340 | |
| 3 | – |
Netlify
Netlify static and edge hosting.
|
12% | 288,315 | |
| 4 | ▼1 |
GitHub Pages
Free static site hosting served straight from a GitHub repository.
|
4.8% | 116,209 | |
| 5 | ▲1 |
IONOS
German web hosting provider, formerly 1&1, offering hosting, domains, email, a website builder and cloud servers.
|
4.5% | 107,678 | |
| 6 | – |
Render
Cloud hosting platform for web services, static sites, cron jobs, and managed databases.
|
3.7% | 90,059 | |
| 7 | – |
GoDaddy
GoDaddy web hosting, covering sites served from GoDaddy's servers and CDN, including managed WordPress and builder sites.
|
3.0% | 70,983 | |
| 8 | – |
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Run / App Engine.
|
2.2% | 52,265 | |
| 9 | ▼2 |
Railway
Developer-friendly hosting platform for full-stack apps, databases, and background workers.
|
2.1% | 50,177 | |
| 10 | ▲1 |
Plesk
Commercial server control panel for managing web hosting, mail, and DNS on Linux and Windows.
|
1.9% | 45,193 | |
| 11 | ▲1 |
AWS S3
Amazon Web Services object storage, often used to host static assets and entire static websites.
|
1.8% | 43,351 | |
| 12 | ▲1 |
WP Cloud
Managed WordPress hosting infrastructure operated by Automattic and resold by hosting partners.
|
1.5% | 34,916 | |
| 13 | ▲1 |
WordPress.com
Automattic-hosted WordPress service offering managed sites at multiple plan tiers.
|
1.4% | 32,583 | |
| 14 | ▼2 |
HostGator
US-based shared hosting and VPS provider.
|
1.3% | 31,399 | |
| 15 | – |
OpenNext
OpenNext open-source Next.js adapter for AWS Lambda (distinct from Vercel).
|
0.9% | 20,734 |
Share is of the 2,403,452 sites using a hosting tool; a site can use more than one. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 15 of 4,771.
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Recently launched products using hosting tools
| Product | Launched |
|---|---|
| Fireflyk64 | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Openjobs | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Balls of Furry | 19 Oct 2026 |
| A5 v1.0 | 19 Oct 2026 |
| 100toolkit | 19 Oct 2026 |
| Illos | 19 Oct 2026 |
Often built with
Other kinds of tool most often found on the same sites, leaving out the plumbing every site has (DNS, CDN, hosting).
- CSS Framework 40,085
- Framework 39,658
- Analytics 39,052
- Meta Framework 34,815
- Font 23,907
- UI Library 23,223