About CloudCrest

CloudCrest exists because cloud hosting is sold with more buzzwords than any other corner of the hosting market. "Cloud," "scalable," "serverless" and "managed" get stamped on products that don't always mean the same thing, and the pricing is usage-based in ways that make comparison hard. We cut through it with one question applied to every host: who runs the servers, and what does the bill actually come to when your site is busy?

What we cover — and what we don't

CloudCrest is not a hosting company, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any host we cover. We don't sell hosting or run servers. We focus on managed cloud and scalable hosting — hosts that run your app on cloud infrastructure and operate it for you — and we deliberately stay out of two neighbouring lanes: raw, self-managed VPS and dedicated servers, which are a different decision, and website builders like Wix or Squarespace, which are a different product entirely. Host names and small logos appear only to identify the companies we're writing about.

How we research providers and pricing

Every price we publish is an advertised rate, read from the host's own pricing on a dated day (currently 2026-09-10) for the entry plan in each category, using US pricing. Because cloud billing is usage-based, we treat every figure as a starting point and say so plainly, telling you where a plan meters — bandwidth, CPU, RAM, storage, backups — so a low "from" price doesn't hide a large bill at scale. We do not run our own load tests or publish uptime and speed numbers we didn't measure; where performance matters, we frame it as advertised or cite a named provider SLA or third party such as Forbes Advisor or Cybernews, with a date. Cloud pricing and plans change constantly, so always check the current price before you buy.

How we stay independent

Some links to hosts are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a commission if you sign up — at no extra cost to you. That commission never changes a ranking or a recommendation, and we prove it with the clearest example we have: AWS, Google Cloud and Azure run no affiliate program, and we still recommend going direct to a hyperscaler whenever that's genuinely the right call, even though it earns us nothing. When the honest answer pays us less, or nothing, that's the answer we give. The full details are in our affiliate disclosure.