Cloudways

Recommended

Managed hosting on real cloud servers, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, or Google Cloud, your pick.

“Real cloud infrastructure made simple to manage, with an actual free trial to test it first.”

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4.1/ 5

BettrList score

Pricing: From $11/mo
Free plan: Yes

Cloudways

Recommended

Managed hosting on real cloud servers, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, or Google Cloud, your pick.

4.1/ 5

BettrList score

Pricing: From $11/mo
Free plan: Yes

Try Cloudways→

Starting price

$11/mo

Free trial

Yes, 3 days

Support

24/7 chat and ticketing

Cloud providers

5 to choose from

How we rated it

BettrList score

4.1/ 5

Based on practical use and value.

What we measured

Features4.5

Ease of use4.4

Value for money4.2

Support4.0

Compliance3.5

BettrList score

4.1/ 5

Based on practical use and value.

What we measured

Features4.5

Ease of use4.4

Value for money4.2

Support4.0

Compliance3.5

The verdict

“Real cloud infrastructure made simple to manage, with an actual free trial to test it first.”

Pricing breakdown

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Flexible – Micro

$11/mo

Entry-level managed cloud server, good for personal sites and simple blogs.

2GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 50GB storage
2TB transfer bandwidth
Unlimited websites and visits
Runs on your choice of cloud provider

Recommended

Flexible – Medium

$88/mo

Cloudways' most popular tier, built for growing sites with real traffic.

8GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 160GB storage
5TB transfer bandwidth
Free AI Copilot credits included
Optional Lightning Stack for faster page loads

Autonomous – Growth

$99/mo

Fully managed, autoscaling WordPress hosting for one site with growing traffic.

1 website, 1 baseline autoscale server
150GB bandwidth, 20GB disk space, unmetered visits
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN and Redis caching included
Free managed migration

Autonomous – Scale

$199/mo

For sites with consistent, heavier traffic that need more autoscaling headroom.

1 website, 2 baseline autoscale servers
250GB bandwidth, 50GB disk space
True autoscaling with Kubernetes underneath
Object Cache Pro and Relay included

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All features

Pick your own cloud infrastructure, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, or Google Cloud, all managed from one dashboard

Cloudways Autonomous adds fully managed, autoscaling WordPress hosting for high-traffic sites

Free managed migration, handled start to finish by Cloudways' own engineers

Pay-as-you-go, hourly billing instead of long-term contracts

Free one-click staging environments with push and pull to production

Built-in server firewall, IP and country blocking, and malware protection

AI Copilot that watches your servers and suggests one-click fixes when something's wrong

Unlimited apps and websites per server, limited only by the server's resources

Support for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel, and plain PHP apps

Owned by DigitalOcean since 2022, which backs its infrastructure options

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