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Honest comparisons. Including what they do well.

Every comparison starts by crediting the other provider, then makes one argument: who does the work. Prices come from their public pricing pages, dated, and if you find something outdated we fix it.

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20 providers, in English and Spanish. Free migration from any of them, done by us.

At a glance

RemarkableCloud and the four kinds of host.

What is typical of each kind of provider, next to what one RemarkableCloud price includes. Each comparison page has the details for one provider.

Typical of each kind of host, from public pricing pages and documentation, August 2026. RemarkableCloud prices from our live catalog.
Compared on	Unmanaged cloud DigitalOcean, Vultr...	Managed VPS Cloudways, ScalaHosting...	Managed WordPress Kinsta, WP Engine	Shared hosting SiteGround, Bluehost...	RemarkableCloud Fully managed, since 2001
Who runs the server	You do	They do, in tiers	They run WordPress only	They run a shared box	Our engineers, all of it
Starting price	~$5 to $6/mo, server only	~$11 to $25/mo, plus add-ons	~$20 to $35/mo, visit caps	~$3/mo intro, ~$12 to $18 at renewal	Managed VPS $5/mo; shared $1.97/mo first period, then $3.95
Support	Tickets and forums	Tickets, response tiers	WordPress-scoped	Scripted first-line chat	Engineers in minutes, 24/7
Backups	Paid add-on	Often a separate add-on	Daily, single location	Often a paid add-on	Daily snapshots included
Email	SMTP typically blocked	Basic or DIY	Not offered	Shared IPs, mixed reputation	Inbound antispam included; MailChannels relay included on hosting, optional on servers
SLA	Limited credits on request	100% with claim forms	99.9% with a claim process	Symbolic or none	500%, credited automatically
Migration	Do it yourself	Often free, varies	WordPress sites only	Often paid or limited	Free, done by us

Unmanaged cloud providers

Great servers, no night shift. You keep the speed and root; we take the pager, for about what their unmanaged server costs.

Compared with our managed VPS, from $5/mo

DigitalOcean With Management Entry Droplets from ~$6/mo, unmanaged DigitalOcean alternative Vultr Same Speed, Zero Ops Cloud compute from ~$6/mo, unmanaged Vultr alternative Linode (Akamai) Managed, Not DIY Nanode plans from ~$5/mo, unmanaged Linode (Akamai) alternative Hetzner US-Based, Fully Managed Cloud servers from ~$5/mo, unmanaged, EU-centric Hetzner alternative AWS Lightsail Escape the Maze Lightsail from ~$5/mo, unmanaged, usage billing beyond it AWS Lightsail alternative OVHcloud Managed and Human VPS from ~$6/mo, unmanaged, ticket-only support OVHcloud alternative

Managed VPS providers

Managed exists there too. The difference is what one price includes, and who answers at 2 AM.

Compared with our managed VPS, from $5/mo

Cloudways Flat Pricing, Humans From ~$11/mo plus paid backups and add-ons Cloudways alternative ScalaHosting 500% SLA Included Managed VPS from ~$15/mo on long prepay terms ScalaHosting alternative KnownHost Management Included Managed VPS from ~$25/mo, panels licensed extra KnownHost alternative Liquid Web Management Included Managed VPS from ~$25/mo, panels licensed extra Liquid Web alternative

Managed WordPress hosts

One CMS managed well. Here the whole server is managed, for any stack, with no visit caps.

Compared with our managed VPS, from $5/mo

Kinsta No Visit Caps WordPress plans from $35/mo with monthly visit caps Kinsta alternative WP Engine No Visit Limits Plans from ~$20/mo, WordPress-only, visit-capped WP Engine alternative

Shared hosting brands

Leave oversold servers and renewal cliffs. Stay on managed shared hosting, or step up to a managed VPS with no intro pricing at all.

Compared with our shared hosting and managed VPS

SiteGround Lower Renewal Price Intro from ~$3/mo, renewing at ~$18/mo SiteGround alternative Bluehost Honest Renewal Pricing Intro from ~$3/mo, renewing at ~$12/mo Bluehost alternative HostGator Managed, Not Oversold Intro from ~$3/mo, renewing at ~$12/mo HostGator alternative Hostinger Engineers, Not Scripts Intro from ~$3/mo, renewing at ~$12/mo Hostinger alternative A2 Hosting Fully Managed VPS Intro from ~$3/mo, renewing at ~$13/mo A2 Hosting alternative Webempresa EN + ES Support Plans from ~€7/mo billed yearly Webempresa alternative Raiola Networks EN + ES, Managed Hosting from ~€8/mo, Spain-focused Raiola Networks alternative Neolo 500% SLA, Real Humans Shared plans from ~$4/mo Neolo alternative

How we compare

Fair to them, useful to you.

A comparison only helps if you can trust it, so every page follows the same three rules.

Credit first

Each page opens with what the other provider does well and who it suits. Sometimes that is you, and the page says so.

Public prices, dated

Their prices come from their own pricing pages, with the month we checked. Ours come from the live catalog.

Corrections welcome

Spot something outdated? Tell us and we fix the page. The same goes for the providers themselves.

FAQ

Comparisons, answered.

The questions people ask when they are deciding whether to switch.

Who is RemarkableCloud a good alternative for?

For anyone who wants the server run for them: monitoring, patching, firewall and IDS, daily snapshots and engineers who answer in minutes, all in one price. Fully managed VPS starts at $5/mo on 12 months, or $6 month to month.

Are these comparisons fair?

We work hard at it: every page lists what the other provider does well, uses its own public prices with the month we checked them, and we correct anything outdated as soon as we hear about it.

How current are the prices?

Competitor prices were checked on their public pricing pages in August 2026. Ours are read from our live catalog every time the site is built.

Will you move me from my current host?

Yes, free, on every plan. We copy everything while your current setup keeps running, you check it on our side, and the switch happens when you say so.

Your server runs. You sleep.

Fully managed from $5/mo, free migration from any of these providers and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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