Cloud hosting has become an increasingly popular solution for businesses as well as individuals, bringing scalability, reliability, and security to websites. Here I take a closer look at Cloudways – one of the top cloud hosts for WordPress out of the box. In this Cloudways review, I will explore its strengths and weaknesses and how it compares to other managed cloud hosting providers.
Snapshot
✅ Hosting Type Offered: Managed Cloud Hosting
✅ Servers: Google Cloud, AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure
✅ Load time: 5/5
✅ Uptime: 99%
✅ Support Score: 5/5
✅ Price Range: Starting from $11 per month
Features
⭐️ Cloudways offers an easy-to-use cloud hosting platform with a 3-day free trial and pay-as-you-go pricing with no binding contracts.
⭐️ They use cloud infrastructure like DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or GCE and offer several features like free site migration, automatic backups, SSL certificates and dedicated IP addresses.
⭐️ Cloudways may not be suitable for complete beginners as their configuration and settings can be too complicated. Also, there is no email hosting and they use their proprietary control panel instead of cPanel/Plesk.
Pros and Cons of Cloudways
Pros:
✅ 3 days free trial period
✅ DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Google Cloud Infrastructure Computing Engine (GCE)
✅ NVMe SSD, Nginx/Apache server, Varnish/Memcached caching, PHP8, HTTP/2, Redis support, Cloudflare Enterprise
✅ 1 click unlimited WordPress install & staging site, pre-installed WP-CLI and Git integration
✅ Free Site Migration Service , Free Automatic Backups, SSL Certificate, Cloudways CDN and Dedicated IP Address
✅ Pay as you go without being locked into a contract
✅ Friendly and responsive support team available 24/7
✅ Fast Loading Vultr . High Frequency Server
Cons:
❌ Proprietary control panel, so no cPanel/Plesk.
❌ The configuration and settings are not suitable for beginners with web hosting (you don’t have to be a developer, but all beginners may want to stay away).
CLOUDWAYS REVIEW: CONCLUSION
Cloudways can provide a good balance between reasonable cost and quality. While the platform is packed with developer-specific features (Git, staging environments, collaboration tools, etc.), beginners will also love this smooth and easy-to-use interface. .
The only problem is that if you’re still hesitating about whether or not to choose Cloudways, you also only have a short three-day free trial, and testing the CDN requires you to upgrade to a paid plan. This means that in practice you have no choice but to pay to test the service.
Top 10
Cloudways- 3 days free trial period
- Pay as you go without being locked into a contract
- Fast Loading Vultr . High Frequency Server
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