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Uberspace alternative for PHP hosting

Q: Is Uberspace cheaper?

For one site, often - Uberspace suggests €6 to €12 a month and lets customers pick the price. A fortrabbit app with a database starts at about €5. The math changes once a project needs a build step, staging or team access.

Q: Does Kirby run on fortrabbit?

Yes - Kirby is one of the CMS fortrabbit has hosted longest. Flat-file content lives in persistent storage that survives deploys, and content syncs over rsync.

Uberspace is a lovely indie host with a shell for everything. fortrabbit is the other indie host, for PHP apps with a deploy pipeline.

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About Uberspace

Uberspace is a small, service oriented, developer friendly hosting service, located somewhere between shared hosting and VPS. It's based in Germany and privacy friendly since 2010. Support is available in German too. We have heard good things about them, and they are popular with the Kirby CMS community. Customers name their own price: €6, €9 or €12 a month are the suggestions. The German word "über" means "over". Uberspace was founded long before the taxi service Uber.

Why not Uberspace?

An Uberspace account is a shell on a shared machine. PHP, Python and Node.js run next to each other, and anything is possible. That is wonderful for tinkering. But how code arrives, how a release rolls back, where staging lives and who gets access: all of that is up to you and your shell scripts. And when a client should own the site one day, what do they get?

Why fortrabbit

fortrabbit, like Uberspace, is an indie hosting service. But the service is different.

fortrabbit is more about app hosting and automation. A git push runs a Composer build and an atomic release, and staging is an environment next to production. The dashboard offers collaboration features to work with teams and clients, nobody shares a login. We offer developer support through chat, also in German if required. fortrabbit is rooted in Berlin, so GDPR applies as well, but the apps run on AWS in Ireland or the US. Try it yourself, a free trial is available.

Uberspace and fortrabbit

Feature	Uberspace	fortrabbit
Unit	Shell account	Managed app
Runtimes	PHP, Python, Node.js	PHP only
Deployment	Up to you	git push, Composer
Staging	Up to you	Environment
Location	Germany	Ireland, US
Pricing	Pay what you want	Per component, arrears

# Different by design

Pay in arrears

Daily prorated, post-paid billing. No upfront payment, no yearly commitment.

Modular pricing

Pay per component and scale each one from xs to 2xl on its own.

No dark patterns

No vendor lock-in, no upselling, no misleading messages.

Humans in support

Eye-level developer chat over the support bubble. No sales calls.

Developer-first

Git-push deploy, SSH access, bring your own code. No 1-click bloat.

Managed platform

A hardened, service-oriented PHP stack. Deploy code, skip the server admin.

# Frequently asked

Is Uberspace cheaper?

For one site, often

For one site, often - Uberspace suggests €6 to €12 a month and lets customers pick the price. A fortrabbit app with a database starts at about €5. The math changes once a project needs a build step, staging or team access.

Does fortrabbit host in Germany like Uberspace?

No - fortrabbit is a Berlin company; apps run on AWS in Ireland or the US. If the requirement is German data location rather than EU jurisdiction, Uberspace has it.

Does Kirby run on fortrabbit?

Yes

Yes - Kirby is one of the CMS fortrabbit has hosted longest. Flat-file content lives in persistent storage that survives deploys, and content syncs over rsync.

# What customers say

Having fortrabbit is like having a dedicated DevOps engineer on the team, taking care of the infrastructure so we can focus on writing code. We've used many PaaS providers, but none come close to fortrabbit's mix of features, reliability, predictable and fair pricing, and fast, genuinely helpful support. Their service has been rock solid, giving us the confidence that our apps are in good hands.

Len van Essen

CTO at Fitwinkel

2026 — Direct feedback

Unmatched performances and ease-of-configure. I really like what fortrabbit is doing for the modern PHP hosting ecosystem, and I'd suggest anyone to have a try with them.

Federico Magnani

CTO at glueglue