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The most visible cloud hosting platforms in France, October 2026

October 2026 · 15 questions asked from France in French and English · ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode · 60 answers read

AI: how the engines answer the board's questions; Search: Google's top 10 for the questions' demand keywords; All: both combined. How the Heralded Score works.

Leader

AWS

47%of answers name it

Most cited source

youtube.com

10citations

From Google AI Overviews

Where engines disagree most

DigitalOcean

1/4engines put it in their top three

Top three on Google AI Mode, not on Gemini, Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT

Brands

Rank Brand Rank change Heralded Score Score trend Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
– Hostnet NL Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– HostON Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Hostrunway Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Hostzop IN Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Hypernode NL Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Hyve Managed Hosting GB Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– InMotion Hosting US Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– iomart GB Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Kamatera US Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 2% 2% None First reading
– Keliweb IT Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading

“=” marks brands whose score ranges overlap, so the test cannot separate them. Every brand named in at least three answers is ranked. By engine has one dot per engine (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode), darker the more often it names the brand.

This month's moves

First reading. No comparable previous month yet.

Biggest risers

No clear rise.

Biggest fallers

No clear fall.

Drop-outs

No drop-outs.

Most cited sources

Rank Source Type Cited in Engines Pages cited Brands its pages mention
11 sre.google Vendor site 1.7% 1 of 4 3 Not read
12 zdnet.fr Media 5.0% 2 of 4 2 7
13 comparateurcloud.fr Directory 1.7% 1 of 4 2 Not read
14 datacamp.com Reference 3.3% 1 of 4 1 4
15 dev.to Community 3.3% 2 of 4 2 Not read
16 ecommerce-nation.fr Media 3.3% 2 of 4 1 7
17 foxeet.fr Review site 3.3% 1 of 4 1 2
18 freecodecamp.org Reference 3.3% 2 of 4 1 8
19 instawp.com Vendor site 3.3% 2 of 4 1 14
20 medium.com Community 3.3% 2 of 4 2 Not read

The questions, and who wins each

QuestionLanguageWins it
best cloud hosting platform for independent developers English Hetzner and Vercel, tied
cloud hosting for small software teams English Railway
how can a developer host an app without managing servers English Cloudflare Pages, Cloudflare Workers, Firebase, Google Cloud, Netlify and Vercel, tied
how to keep a startup website online as traffic grows English AWS
managed cloud hosting vs self-managed servers for startups English DigitalOcean

Each engine's top three

Method

For the AI side, each month Heralded asks every engine the same buyer questions, twice each, and reads every answer. An answer counts 0 for a brand it leaves out, 50 for a brand it names and 100 for a brand it recommends, and the Heralded Score is built from those. A brand named in at least three answers gets a score and a place.

How the leaderboards are measured