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Customizable managed hosting for WordPress, Magento, Laravel & PHP apps. Full control over server resources and cloud choice.
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Affordable hosting with scalable plans for your application needs.
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The Best Price to Performance Managed Hosting on the Planet.
Every server you launch on Cloudways is backed by an optimized stack to ensure maximum performance.
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Lightning Stack - Now Available
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Cloudways Autonomous
Fully managed hosting for WordPress for dynamic high traffic eCom and LMS sites — built to autoscale for thousands of concurrent users.
Select Cloud Provider
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Fastest growing & affordable cloud provider with high-performance SSD standard and NVMe storage premium servers across 9 locations. Select the perfect fit from their Basic, General Purpose, and CPU Optimized server lineup.
DigitalOcean
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Across 30 locations, Vultr provides standard servers featuring SSD storage and high frequency servers with NVMe storage powered by the fastest architecture available in the Vultr product lineup.
Vultr
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Popular cloud emphasizing consistent performance across 25 datacenters. Choose Linode if you wish top quality performance at a pocket—friendly budget.
Linode
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Flexible Amazon cloud compute (EC2) with configurable storage/bandwidth across 28 datacenters. AWS supports dynamic vertical scaling with options to both upgrade and downgrade server resources. Select the perfect fit from their Standard and Compute Optimized server lineup.
AWS
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Google Compute Engine (GCE) is an extremely powerful cloud hosting infrastructure with the efficient performance that comes with Google's brand name. With 28 datacenters, GCE supports dynamic vertical scaling with options to both upgrade and downgrade server resources. Select the perfect fit from their Standard, Compute Optimized and High Compute server lineup.
GoogleCloud
Select Server Type
- Basic
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
- General Purpose
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
- CPU Optimized
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
- Standard
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
- Standard
DigitalOcean Standard Droplets, powered by 2nd generation or earlier Intel CPUs and standard SSD, are perfect for general-purpose workloads and all your applications, offering networking speeds up to 2 Gbps.
- Premium
DigitalOcean Premium Droplets are powered by 2nd or 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and faster NVME storage delivering higher network throughput up to 10 Gbps for your most demanding applications.
Micro
Suitable for personal websites and simple blogs.
$11
$11
USD per month
You pay $0.0357 hourly
- 2GB RAM
- 1 vCPU
- 50GB Storage
- 2TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
- Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
Small
Suitable for growing businesses & moderate traffic.
$11
$11
USD per month
You pay $0.0357 hourly
- 2GB RAM
- 1 vCPU
- 50GB Storage
- 2TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
- Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
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Medium
Supports more demanding websites with higher traffic.
$11
$88
USD per month
You pay $0.1310 hourly
- 8GB RAM
- 4 vCPU
- 160GB Storage
- 5TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
- Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
8XL
Ideal for e-com stores and resource-intensive applications.
$11
USD per month
You pay $1.0848 hourly
- 128GB RAM
- 24 vCPU
- 2560GB Storage
- 11TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
- Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
$0.033/GB per server will be applied for offsite backup storage.
Free Trial
Best for growing businesses that need autoscaling.
$100
$0For 3 Days
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 01
Bandwidth: 150 GB
Disk space: 20 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN Redis Caching Object Cache Pro + Relay Free Managed MigrationGrowth
Best for growing businesses that need autoscaling.
$100
$100/Month
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 01
Bandwidth: 150 GB
Disk space: 20 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling Cloudflare Enterprise CDN Redis Caching Object Cache Pro + Relay Free Managed MigrationAdditional Charges
- Disk Space: $1/GB
- Bandwidth: $0.04/GB
- Autoscaling: $0.07/hr/server beyond baseline
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Scale
Best For Woocommerce
$100
$200/Month
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 02
Bandwidth: 250 GB
Disk space: 50 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling Cloudflare Enterprise CDN Redis Caching Object Cache Pro + Relay Free Managed MigrationAdditional Charges
- Disk Space: $1/GB
- Bandwidth: $0.04/GB
- Autoscaling: $0.10/hr/server beyond baseline
Plus
Best For LMS platforms & large WooCommerce stores
$100
$400/Month
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 03
Bandwidth: 1000 GB
Disk space: 100 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling Cloudflare Enterprise CDN Redis Caching Object Cache Pro + Relay Free Managed MigrationAdditional Charges
- Disk Space: $1/GB
- Bandwidth: $0.04/GB
- Autoscaling: $0.12/hr/server beyond baseline
Enterprise
Beyond standard plans? We’ll create a plan that fits your needs.
Custom
Optimized resources for your traffic and usage patterns. Custom resource allocation and baseline capacity. Expert consultation to match plan to requirements.
Migrate For Free Without Any Glitches.
We’ll move your first website to Cloudways from any web host for FREE (Without breaking your site hosted on the old host).
Migrate My Website.Optimized Feature-Set for a Successful Online Journey.
From unrivaled performance to 24/7 support, we’ve got everything covered for optimizing your mission-critical WooCommerce website hosting experience.
SSD Hosting
SSD greatly improves your store’s performance and speed since the data transfer rate is much higher as compared to traditional storage.
Built-in Caches
Built-in performance-boosting caching such as Memcached, Varnish, and Redis speed up stores while reducing database load.
Optimized Stack
Our hosting stack comprises NGINX, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP-FPM to tackle high volume traffic and server requests resulting in better performance and faster load times.
PHP 8 Ready
Host Multiple web Applications store on PHP 8 ready server that’s significantly faster, secure, and more versatile than previous versions.
Cloudflare
Expedite your websites, get constant availability, and secure them against DDoS attacks & malicious traffic with the Cloudflare add-on.
Breeze Plugin
We take caching quite seriously that’s why developed a free, light-weight, and feature-rich cache plugin that comes pre-installed on Web app stores.
Dedicated Firewalls
Our platform-level firewalls protect your server against attacks such as IP spoofing, phishing, and everything that’s not authorized.
SSL Certificates
Get Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificates to indicate your visitors/customers that their data is encrypted and your online store is authentic.
Login Security
We protect your account with 2FA and also notify you of any login attempts made from an unidentified device.
IP Whitelisting
You can create a whitelist of IP addresses for unrestricted access over regions and networks through SSH and SFTP.
Website Security
We safeguard your data with robust security measures,controls, and continuous monitoring.
Database Security
Valuable data of your Web App store is well protected and is only allowed to be accessed remotely via whitelisted IP addresses.
IaaS Providers
Choose from 60+ data centers of world-class providers such as DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services, and Google Compute Engine for fast Web app store.
Block Storage
Leverage high-performance block storage service while expanding your storage flexibly without changing other server parameters.
Vertical Scaling
Scale up your server resources such as RAM, CPU, and storage for high-availability and performance at the lowest possible costs.
No Contract
With pay-as-you-go plans, you only need to pay for the resources you use. Never pay a fixed amount or enter into any contract.
1-Click Actions
Our 1-click actions allow you to perform several operational tasks, such as backup/restore, website/server cloning in no time.
PHP Versions
You have the option to easily switch between different versions of PHP. We support PHP 5.6 and the latest versions of PHP 8.x.
24/7 Expert Support
We offer 24/7 live chat support in all areas to help you run your Web application without any hiccups.
Active Community
Our effective and strong community of experts who share their skills and knowledge to help users around the world.
Knowledge Base
We have a centralized resource center for our customers. You can refer to the Knowledge Base for any help related to our platform.
Ticketing System
Leave your queries through our ticketing system to avoid waiting in queues. Our engineers respond promptly to every query.
Support Add-ons
We offer advanced and premium add-ons for priority support. Tell us about your requirements and we’ll take care of it.
Troubleshooting
We have a server and application monitoring tool for troubleshooting. You also can contact our support engineers to take you out of the situation.
Git Integration
Pre-installed Git on our managed application hosting platform helps you set up auto-deployment on your live servers without worrying about code changes.
SSH and SFTP Access
SSH and SFTP allow you to securely access servers and update files for your application. You can also create SFTP credentials for your team members.
1-Click Cloning
Make copies of your Web Application store or clone the entire server in just 1-click. You will get new staging URLs for themes/plugins compatibility testing, etc.
Team Collaboration
It is easy to split projects between relevant teams since we allow one team member to be a part of different teams for collaboration.
Staging URLs
We offer free staging URLs and areas that you can use while setting up, testing, and developing your application hosting store.
User Roles
You can divide work within the team, regardless of their location and assign them full or limited access to your Application store or server.
“You can take advantage of the scalability and power of platforms like Digital Ocean, without being a systems administrator or having expertise with a server.”
Brandon Ernst
Founder & CEO, Brand on Fire
“Cloudways offers an easier interface & a more thorough set of features, which really helps support our growth as a business.”
Iain Wang
CEO, ClassBento
Cloudways offers an intuitive and user-friendly control panel that makes managing your server and applications a breeze
Michael Kuczek
Founder, Biiird.com
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is billing handled on Cloudways?
Cloudways provides a pay-as-you-go billing model, where you are billed for the resources you consume without any long-term commitment.
What kind of support can I expect from Cloudways?
Cloudways offers 24/7/365 support through live chat and ticketing, backed by a team of experts to assist you with any issues or queries.
How does Cloudways handle backups for hosted applications?
Cloudways provides automated backup solutions with easy-to-set frequency and retention options, ensuring your data is always safe and recoverable.
What is Application Hosting?
Application hosting is a service that provides the necessary infrastructure and resources to run and manage software applications on the internet. It involves hosting an application on a remote server, rather than on local servers or personal devices. This type of hosting is designed to offer enhanced accessibility, reliability, and security for various types of applications, ranging from web-based software to complex database-driven applications.
Application hosting is ideal for businesses that seek a reliable, efficient, and secure way to run their applications without the need for extensive in-house IT infrastructure or expertise. It is particularly beneficial for small to medium-sized businesses looking for a cost-effective solution that scales with their growth.
What types of applications can I host on Cloudways?
Cloudways supports a wide range of applications, including WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel, Joomla, Drupal, and many other PHP-based applications.
Does Cloudways offer support for application migration?
Yes, Cloudways offers a free migration service for your first application. Their expert team assists in migrating your application to their platform with minimal downtime.
Can I host multiple applications on Cloudways?
Yes, Cloudways allows you to host multiple applications on a single server, depending on the server specifications and resource requirements of your applications.
How does Cloudways ensure the security of my hosted applications?
Cloudways provides robust security measures including regular OS patches, firewalls, two-factor authentication, and SSL certificates to ensure the security andof your hosted applications.
Which cloud providers can I use with Cloudways for hosting applications?
Cloudways supports several leading cloud providers including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and DigitalOcean.
What is Cloudways’ Application Hosting?
Cloudways' Application Hosting is a managed hosting platform that allows users to deploy and manage various applications on top cloud infrastructure providers with ease and efficiency.