Side-by-side comparison of shared, VPS, cloud, dedicated, GPU, and colocation across major providers — with specs, pricing, and trade-offs.
Talk to a cloud strategistMost hosting decisions get made on a provider's pricing page and a sales call. By the time the bill arrives — or traffic spikes — teams discover they're on the wrong tier, the wrong region, or the wrong hosting model entirely. A $8/month shared plan that worked for a brochure site collapses under real traffic; a $500/month dedicated server is overkill for an app that would run fine on a $40 VPS.
CB4UHost compares all six hosting types — shared, VPS, cloud, dedicated, GPU, and colocation — across providers like Hostinger, Bluehost, GoDaddy, BigRock, AWS, GCP, Azure, Contabo, Hetzner, OVHcloud, Lambda, CoreWeave, RunPod, Vast.ai, and Equinix. We normalize the comparison so you're seeing apples-to-apples on price, performance, support, and trade-offs.
We don't resell hosting and we don't take affiliate commissions. Our only incentive is to find you the right hosting at the right price — and to show you the underlying data so you can defend the decision.
Use our free Hosting Calculator to do a first-pass comparison yourself, or engage us for a full vendor-neutral comparison with TCO modeling, architecture recommendations, and a migration plan.
From $2/month shared hosting to $2,000/month colocation — each type serves a different workload and budget. Click a tab to explore, then compare actual plans in our calculator.
Cheapest. Multiple sites on one server.
Shared hosting puts your website on a server alongside other customers' sites. You share CPU, RAM, and storage — which keeps costs low but means a traffic spike on another site can slow yours down. It's the starting point for most websites and includes cPanel, one-click WordPress installs, and email accounts.
Cheapest hosting type. Often includes free domain + SSL.
We document your traffic pattern, latency targets, storage needs, compliance requirements, and growth projections.
3-5 providers across the right hosting types, with current pricing, SLAs, and feature matrices.
Normalized comparison on price/spec, performance benchmarks, support quality, and lock-in risk.
Plain-English analysis of what you gain and what you give up with each option.
Written recommendation with the underlying data, plus a phased migration plan if you're switching providers.
We inventory your apps, traffic patterns, latency requirements, data residency needs, and growth projections.
Based on your workload, we recommend the right hosting type(s) — often a hybrid (e.g. dedicated for database, cloud for web tier).
We shortlist 3-5 providers across the selected hosting types and gather current pricing and SLAs.
We produce a normalized comparison and analyze trade-offs in plain English.
You get a written recommendation, the comparison data, and a 60-minute walkthrough.
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All six: shared, VPS, cloud (IaaS), dedicated servers, GPU cloud, and colocation. Most workloads fit in more than one type — the right choice depends on your traffic, budget, and operational capacity.
Yes, but only after benchmarking against your workload. We compare 20+ providers including Hostinger, Bluehost, GoDaddy, BigRock, AWS, GCP, Azure, Contabo, Hetzner, OVHcloud, Lambda, CoreWeave, RunPod, Vast.ai, and Equinix.
No. We do not resell hosting and do not take affiliate commissions that bias recommendations. Our revenue comes from the consulting engagement.
Yes — the Hosting Calculator is free and lets you do a first-pass comparison yourself. Engage us when you need a defensible recommendation, TCO modeling, or a migration plan.
We evaluate your workloads, data, security posture, and team readiness to determine which apps should move to cloud — and which should stay.
3- and 5-year total cost of ownership models across providers — including compute, storage, egress, support, and hidden costs sales reps leave out.
Design hybrid topologies that put latency-sensitive workloads on dedicated hardware and burstable workloads on cloud — with secure networking between them.
Tell us about your project. We'll come back with a scoped proposal and a fixed-fee quote.
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