2 categories · RankedInterServer
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colocation providers | Cloud and infrastructure | 15% | 3 of 78 | 0% | 9 | under 10 labels · led by TierPoint at 22% | |
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 2% | 12 of 85 | 0% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. |
Movement
By model
How each model treated InterServer across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“This provider offers affordable colocation services without compromising on quality, with straightforward pricing and no unexpected fees” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Colocation · budget prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with InterServer for lowest cost or DigitalOcean for best balance of cost, reliability, and scalability.” MiniMax M2.5 · Cloud hosting · budget prompt · first choice
“InterServer is the safer pick from these results because the pricing is explicit and the plan details are clearer” Perplexity Sonar · Colocation · budget prompt · first choice
“InterServer is often cited as the best balance of low cost, no contracts, and included basic support” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Colocation · budget prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as InterServer, over the 40 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and InterServer was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 40 of the 40 answers that named InterServer and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
220 of the 220 domain citations in answers naming InterServer came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
interserver.net is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, InterServer takes 15% of first choices and TierPoint takes 22%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“interserver”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 70 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 53,424 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 17,733 · 529 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 6,610
- Paid Google search
- 5 searches its ads show for, about 71 clicks and $1,026 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 19 across its categories
- Named in
- 40 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 40 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparison | 4 | undated | |||
| Blog | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page interserver.net exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.
Follow InterServer
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
InterServer is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Practical cloud and bare metal infrastructure since 1999.
- For
- websites, apps, AI workloads, and business infrastructure
- Price stated
- Standard hosting from $2.50 first month; Cloud compute from $3/month interserver.net
- Starting price
- $2.50 interserver.net
- Integrations claimed
- 75 interserver.net/vps/marketplace
- Hosting
- NYCDallasLos AngelesNew York City
- Not stated on the pages read
- Free plan or trial, certifications, customers
What InterServer's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: interserver.net, interserver.net/vps/marketplace. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when InterServer's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as InterServer, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for InterServer by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where InterServer is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name InterServer, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where InterServer is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
InterServer is among the products AI models recommend first in Colocation providers this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.