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

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

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 Score trend Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
– Exoscale CH Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Fasthosts Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Forge Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
1% 0% None First reading
– Gandi FR Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Gazduire.Net RO Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– Găzduire.ro RO Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– GitHub Pages US Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
1% 0% None First reading
– GoDaddy US Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% First reading
– GTS Telecom RO Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
0% 0% None First reading
– HelpSpot US 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.

Most cited sources

Rank Source Type Cited in Engines Pages cited Brands its pages mention
1 hostingvergelijker.nl Review site 10.0% 3 of 4 4 8
2 reddit.com Community 10.0% 2 of 4 6 Not read
3 hostingwijzer.nl Media 8.3% 4 of 4 5 Not read
4 hostingradar.nl Review site 6.7% 2 of 4 2 4
5 nolimitwebdesign.nl Consultancy 6.7% 2 of 4 3 11
6 webtalis.nl Consultancy 5.0% 2 of 4 3 1
7 youtube.com Social 6.7% 1 of 4 4 Not read
8 hostadvice.com Review site 5.0% 1 of 4 3 Not read
9 linkedin.com Social 5.0% 2 of 4 3 Not read
10 pcpatrol.nl Vendor site 5.0% 1 of 4 1 2

The questions, and who wins each

QuestionLanguageWins it
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

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