Cloud hosting analysis with the numbers left in
Most cloud comparison writing is either vendor marketing or a rewritten pricing page. We publish what things actually cost at small-business scale, including the charges that do not appear on the pricing page until the bill arrives.
What cloud hosting actually costs a small business
Real monthly cloud hosting costs for small business workloads in 2026 - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean and Hetzner compared on the same workload, including the charges that only show up on the bill.
What AI hosting actually costs, and when renting a GPU is worth it
What it costs to run AI workloads in 2026 - renting GPUs versus paying per token through an API, where the break-even sits, and the mistakes that make AI bills explode.
Best cloud hosting for a small business, by what you are doing
Which cloud host actually fits a small business in 2026 - matched by use case rather than ranked by commission, with the trade-offs each one asks you to accept.
Why the numbers here are different
We run cloud infrastructure for a living, and we host our own platforms on the same providers we write about. The figures on this site come from reading invoices — ours and our clients’ — not from summarising pricing pages.
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