The most visible cloud hosting platforms in Netherlands, October 2026

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

Leader

AWS

53Heralded Score, range 29–71

Where engines disagree most

Render

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 All AI Search Score trend Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
– Krystal GB Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #48
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Latitude.sh BR Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #48
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Leaseweb NL Unranked Too few answers Not measured 12#20
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  • : Unranked
1% 1% None First reading
– Liquid Web US Unranked Too few answers Not measured 5#33
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– LowPings Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #48
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– LWS FR Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #48
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– M247 GB Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #48
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– MassiveGRID US Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #48
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  • : Unranked
1% 0% None First reading
– maxcluster DE Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #48
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– mittwald DE Unranked Too few answers Not measured 0= #48
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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. AI and Search give each brand’s score and rank on that side alone. By engine has one dot per engine (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Google AI Mode), darker the more often it names the brand.

Most cited sources

Rank Source Type Cited in Engines Pages cited Brands its pages mention
11 webhosters.nl Review site 5.0% 2 of 4 2 6
12 000.nl Media 3.3% 1 of 4 1 9
13 azin.run Vendor site 3.3% 2 of 4 1 Not read
14 catswhocode.com Media 3.3% 2 of 4 1 7
15 cyberpanel.net Vendor site 3.3% 1 of 4 1 12
16 deploys.run Review site 1.7% 1 of 4 2 Not read
17 freecodecamp.org Reference 3.3% 2 of 4 1 8
18 iflair.com Consultancy 3.3% 1 of 4 1 8
19 instawp.com Vendor site 3.3% 2 of 4 1 16
20 quora.com Community 1.7% 1 of 4 2 Not read

Questions asked

QuestionLanguageMost recommended
Wat is het beste cloudhostingplatform voor startups? Dutch AWS and DigitalOcean, tied
Cloudhosting voor kleine webwinkels Dutch Hostinger
Hoe kan een startup zijn app zonder onderbrekingen online houden? Dutch AWS, Google Cloud, Heroku, Render and Vercel, tied
Hoe host ik een webwinkel die steeds meer bezoekers krijgt? Dutch Cloud86, Cloudways, mijn.host and PC Patrol, tied
Eigen servers of cloudhosting voor startups? Dutch Microsoft Azure
Dedicated server of cloudhosting voor kleine webwinkels? Dutch No brand recommended
Alternatieven voor dedicated serverhosting voor webwinkels Dutch Cloud86, Hosting.nl and TransIP, tied
Alternatieven voor servers op locatie voor de apps van een klein bedrijf Dutch No brand recommended
Ik run een kleine startup en zoek cloudhosting met voorspelbare maandelijkse kosten Dutch Hetzner
Ik heb een webwinkel met seizoensgebonden verkeer en zoek flexibele cloudresources Dutch Microsoft Azure

Each engine's top three

Method

Each leaderboard ranks brands on two sides. AI is how ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode answer the board's buyer questions. Search is Google's top 10 results for the keywords behind those questions. All combines the two, where Search is measured.

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