Cloudways
Managed hosting on real cloud servers, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, or Google Cloud, your pick.
Our verdict
Real cloud infrastructure made simple to manage, with an actual free trial to test it first.
How we rated it
Overall 4.1 / 5
Features4.5
Ease of use4.4
Value for money4.2
Support4.0
Compliance3.5
Pricing
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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
Flexible – Medium
Popular$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
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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