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The most visible cloud hosting platforms in United Kingdom, October 2026

October 2026 · 15 questions asked from United Kingdom in 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

54%of answers name it

Most cited source

youtube.com

16citations

From Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews

Where engines disagree most

Cloudways

1/4engines put it in their top three

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

Brands

Rank Brand Rank change Heralded Score Score trend Mentioned Recommended By engine Mentioned by Change
– ClausWeb RO Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Clever Cloud FR Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Cloud 66 GB Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 2% 0% None First reading
– Cloud Temple FR Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Cloud86 NL Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Cloudify.ro RO Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Clouding.io ES Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Combell BE Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 0% 0% None First reading
– Contabo DE Unranked Too few answers
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  • : Unranked
 1% 0% None First reading
– Creoline DE 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
1 youtube.com Social 11.7% 2 of 4 12 Not read
2 reddit.com Community 11.7% 2 of 4 7 Not read
3 woocommerce.com Vendor site 3.3% 1 of 4 5 2
4 shopify.com Vendor site 6.7% 3 of 4 5 Not read
5 pcmag.com Media 6.7% 2 of 4 2 9
6 liberationtek.com Vendor site 5.0% 1 of 4 1 13
7 ncsc.gov.uk Regulator 3.3% 1 of 4 2 Not read
8 searcheye.io Vendor site 5.0% 2 of 4 1 9
9 slashdot.org Media 3.3% 1 of 4 3 Not read
10 sre.google Vendor site 1.7% 1 of 4 3 Not read

The questions, and who wins each

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

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