Cloudways

Managed cloud hosting for WordPress, Magento, Laravel and PHP, with flexible or autoscaling plans.

Cloudways is a managed WordPress provider based in United States. It operates European infrastructure in Germany, Netherlands and United Kingdom and other locations. A free tier is available. As a US company it falls under the US CLOUD Act. Pricing on this page is published only after a human has reviewed it.

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Company based in

United States

European regions

GermanyNetherlandsUnited KingdomIrelandFranceSpainSwedenPoland

US CLOUD Act

US company

GDPR agreement

Available

Free tier

Three day free trials are available for Flexible and Autonomous hosting.

VAT

Shown excluding VAT

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Pricing

14 plans

Plan

Monthly

vCPU

Memory

Storage

Micro
Cloudways Flexible DigitalOcean plan. Also billed at $0.0208 hourly. Offsite backup storage costs $0.033/GB per server.
Monthly
14 USD
vCPU
1
Memory
1 GB
Storage
25 GB, 1 TB transfer
Small
Cloudways Flexible DigitalOcean plan. Also billed at $0.0417 hourly.
Monthly
28 USD
vCPU
1
Memory
2 GB
Storage
50 GB, 2 TB transfer
Medium
Cloudways Flexible DigitalOcean plan. Also billed at $0.0804 hourly.
Monthly
54 USD
vCPU
2
Memory
4 GB
Storage
80 GB, 4 TB transfer
Large
Cloudways Flexible DigitalOcean plan. Also billed at $0.1473 hourly.
Monthly
99 USD
vCPU
4
Memory
8 GB
Storage
160 GB, 5 TB transfer
8XL
Cloudways Flexible DigitalOcean plan. Also billed at $1.0848 hourly.
Monthly
342 USD
vCPU
24
Memory
128 GB
Storage
2560 GB, 11 TB transfer
Free Trial
Autonomous trial with 1 WordPress application, 30k unique visits and 100GB bandwidth. Trial duration is 3 days.
Monthly
0 USD
vCPU
Not listed
Memory
Not listed
Storage
15 GB
Small
Autonomous plan. Promotional price shown as $11. Includes 1 WordPress application, 30k unique visits and 100GB bandwidth.
Monthly
35 USD
vCPU
Not listed
Memory
Not listed
Storage
15 GB
Medium
Autonomous plan. Promotional price shown as $11. Includes 3 WordPress applications, 70k unique visits and 200GB bandwidth.
Monthly
240 USD
vCPU
Not listed
Memory
Not listed
Storage
25 GB
Large
Autonomous plan. Promotional price shown as $11. Includes 3 WordPress applications, 30k unique visits and 100GB bandwidth.
Monthly
995 USD
vCPU
Not listed
Memory
Not listed
Storage
15 GB
Free Trial
Autonomous trial. Includes 1 website, 1 baseline autoscale server, 150GB bandwidth and unmetered visits.
Monthly
0 USD
vCPU
Not listed
Memory
Not listed
Storage
20 GB
Growth
Autonomous plan. Promotional price shown as $100. Includes 150GB bandwidth and 1 baseline autoscale server. Additional charges: $1/GB disk space, $0.04/GB bandwidth and $0.07/hr/server autoscaling beyond baseline.
Monthly
99 USD
vCPU
Not listed
Memory
Not listed
Storage
20 GB
Scale
Autonomous plan. Promotional price shown as $100. Includes 250GB bandwidth and 2 baseline autoscale servers. Additional charges: $1/GB disk space, $0.04/GB bandwidth and $0.10/hr/server autoscaling beyond baseline.
Monthly
199 USD
vCPU
Not listed
Memory
Not listed
Storage
50 GB
Plus
Autonomous plan. Promotional price shown as $100. Includes 1000GB bandwidth and 3 baseline autoscale servers. Additional charges: $1/GB disk space, $0.04/GB bandwidth and $0.12/hr/server autoscaling beyond baseline.
Monthly
399 USD
vCPU
Not listed
Memory
Not listed
Storage
100 GB
Enterprise
Custom Autonomous plan with custom resource allocation and baseline capacity.
Monthly
Custom
vCPU
Not listed
Memory
Not listed
Storage
Not listed

Pros and cons

What works

Hourly billing is available for Flexible plans.
Three day trials do not require a credit card.
Flexible plans support multiple cloud providers.
Autonomous includes horizontal autoscaling, load balancing and failover.

What to watch

Listed prices exclude applicable taxes.
AWS and GCP pricing varies by region.
Bandwidth and other resource overages can add charges.
Offsite backup storage is charged separately on Flexible plans.
The free offering is a time limited trial, not a permanent free tier.
Enterprise pricing is custom.

Specifications

Regions

DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, GoogleCloud

Supported runtimes

WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel, PHP, PHP 7.4-8.2

Egress policy

Bandwidth is included up to each plan's allowance, then billed by usage. The page lists $0.12/GB for AWS, $0.10 to $0.17 per additional GB for GCP, $0.02/GB for DigitalOcean, and $0.04/GB for Autonomous overages.

Parent company

DigitalOcean LLC

Certifications

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS

Uptime sla

99.99%

Support

24/7 support is provided through live chat, tickets and email; advanced support add-ons cost extra.

About Cloudways

Cloudways provides managed hosting for WordPress, Magento, Laravel and PHP applications, plus a separate autoscaling WordPress product called Autonomous. Flexible plans let customers choose among DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud infrastructure. Pricing is monthly and hourly for Flexible plans, while Autonomous uses monthly plans with additional disk, bandwidth and autoscaling charges.

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