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The hosting tools we detect on new sites, ranked by how many use each. Part of Infrastructure.

Source: All sites All launches Launch platforms StackScope Discovery StackScope Wider Web

Tools tracked
4,765
in Infrastructure
Sites
2,380,721
using at least one hosting tool
Leader
33%
Vercel, of these sites
Above 1%
14
tools on more than 1% of them

What we found

  1. Vercel leads, on 33% of the sites using a hosting tool, 1.5 times as many sites as Hostinger.
  2. Only 14 of the 4,765 hosting tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.

The leading hosting tools

# Movement Tool Country Share Bar Sites 90 days
1 – Vercel Hosting platform built around Next.js and edge functions, widely used by React, Vue, and Svelte projects. 33% 779,733
2 – Hostinger Web hosting provider offering shared, cloud and managed WordPress hosting, plus domains, email and a website builder. 22% 513,298
3 – Netlify Netlify static and edge hosting. 12% 285,942
4 ▼1 GitHub Pages Free static site hosting served straight from a GitHub repository. 4.8% 115,342
5 ▲1 IONOS German web hosting provider, formerly 1&1, offering hosting, domains, email, a website builder and cloud servers. 4.5% 106,671
6 – Render Cloud hosting platform for web services, static sites, cron jobs, and managed databases. 3.8% 89,359
7 – GoDaddy GoDaddy web hosting, covering sites served from GoDaddy's servers and CDN, including managed WordPress and builder sites. 2.9% 70,048
8 – Google Cloud Google Cloud Run / App Engine. 2.2% 51,883
9 ▼2 Railway Developer-friendly hosting platform for full-stack apps, databases, and background workers. 2.1% 49,828
10 ▲1 Plesk Commercial server control panel for managing web hosting, mail, and DNS on Linux and Windows. 1.9% 44,842
11 ▲1 AWS S3 Amazon Web Services object storage, often used to host static assets and entire static websites. 1.8% 42,922
12 ▲1 WP Cloud Managed WordPress hosting infrastructure operated by Automattic and resold by hosting partners. 1.5% 34,655
13 ▲1 WordPress.com Automattic-hosted WordPress service offering managed sites at multiple plan tiers. 1.4% 32,318
14 ▼2 HostGator US-based shared hosting and VPS provider. 1.3% 31,189
15 – OpenNext OpenNext open-source Next.js adapter for AWS Lambda (distinct from Vercel). 0.9% 20,601

Share is of the 2,380,721 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 4,765.

The StackScope API serves every hosting tool and the launches using each, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.

Recent launches using hosting tools

Launch Launched Score
My Personal Weather Station 19 Oct 2026 5.5
Apistack 19 Oct 2026 7.6
Flipper 19 Oct 2026 6.3
SoundLoadMate 19 Oct 2026 9.1
Bookagile 19 Oct 2026 5.8
Match Mouth Movements To Voice Audio 19 Oct 2026 7.1

Often built with

Other kinds of tool most often found on the same launches, leaving out the plumbing every site has (DNS, CDN, hosting).