You did not come here looking for a DigitalOcean clone. You came here because the credit card on file at AWS is a paper trail you would rather not keep. Each page below maps one mainstream host to a NordBastion replacement, spec by spec, with the migration plan written out.
Every comparison pairs a NordBastion tier with the closest source-host configuration on price, cores and memory. We will not compare a $5 droplet to a $99 dedicated and call it a win.
NordBastion is infrastructure-only by doctrine. If you depend on Managed Postgres, Spaces or App Platform, the page will tell you that, and where to keep what — not pretend you can move 100 % overnight.
Each editorial closes with a five-step migration plan — the actual commands, the actual order, the actual cut-over discipline. Most teams move a workload in about an hour.
One editorial per source host. The rest are queued — published as soon as the migration playbook is verified end-to-end.
The developer-friendly cloud.
New-York-founded, KYC by card, 15 global regions; $4/mo entry droplet.
The hyperscaler default.
Amazon Web Services, 33 regions, identity-bound billing, t4g.nano from $3.06/mo.
The veteran independent, acquired.
Founded 2003, acquired by Akamai 2022; 11 regions, $5/mo entry, card-only.
Bare-metal + global VPS.
32 regions, hourly billing, crypto accepted but full KYC on signup.
The European low-cost giant.
Germany / Finland / US, EU corporate KYC, dedicated from €39, CX22 VPS from €3.79.
The French dedicated-server giant.
Roubaix-headquartered, identity required by AML/CRBF, VPS from €3.50.
