Cloudways Autonomous

Easy, Auto-Scalable
Managed Hosting for WordPress

Fully managed experience that auto scales to meet the needs of your growing business.

Cloudways Empowers 100,000+ Businesses & Counting
Cloudways Empowers 100,000+ Businesses & Counting

Stop Worrying About Traffic Spikes,
Servers, or Scaling.

Go Hands-off

With the server layer completely abstracted, experience a hands-off hosting, where you don’t even have to think about server sizes, let alone their management & optimization.

Truly Autoscale

Built on Kubernetes (GKE), this high traffic hosting solution for WordPress handles any traffic spike and number of concurrent users from the get go without any human intervention.

Remain Highly-Available

Cloudways Autonomous is designed for the high availability of WordPress sites. With advanced load balancing, your applications remain online and accessible.

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Cloudways Autonomous

Easy, Auto-Scalable
Managed WordPress

Fully managed hosting for WordPress that auto scales to meet the needs of your growing business.

Cloudways Empowers 100,000+ Businesses & Counting

Stop Worrying About Traffic Spikes,
Servers, or Scaling.

Go Hands-off

With the server layer completely abstracted, experience a hands-off hosting, where you don’t even have to think about server sizes, let alone their management & optimization.

Truly Autoscale

Built on Kubernetes (GKE), this high traffic WordPress hosting solution handles any traffic spike and number of concurrent users from the get go without any human intervention.

Remain Highly-Available

Cloudways Autonomous is designed for the high availability of WordPress sites. With advanced load balancing, your applications remain online and accessible, regardless of demand.

Drive Traffic to Websites Without
Any Fears of Downtime.

This high availability hosting adapts to your business in real time with its autoscaling so you enjoy peace of mind focusing on your most important tasks, delivering results and staying competitive.

Autonomous is built to handle any number of simultaneous users without compromising on speed.

From Shark Tank features to any sudden influxes, your infrastructure automatically manages traffic surges.

You won’t need to monitor resources and manually scale servers during a marketing campaign.

Cloudflare Enterprise is built into the infrastructure which selectively filters traffic, ensuring optimal security at

Benefit from the transparent pricing based on easy to understand metrics that you can predict.

What Our Clients Think About Cloudways Autonomous

This high availability hosting adapts to your business in real time with its autoscaling so you enjoy peace of mind focusing on your most important tasks, delivering results and staying competitive.

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  • Standard

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    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
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  • Unlimited Visits
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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
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  • Unlimited Visits
  • Unlimited Websites
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8XL

Ideal for e-com stores and resource-intensive applications.

$11

$342

$342

USD per month

You pay $1.0848 hourly

  • 128GB RAM
  • 24 vCPU
  • 2560GB Storage
  • 11TB Transfer Bandwidth
  • 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
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  • Unlimited Visits
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$0.033/GB per server will be applied for offsite backup storage.

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  • Free Migration
  • Free Object Cache Pro
    (Worth $95/Mon)
  • Free AI Copilot Credits
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  • Free Redis Cache
    (Worth $100/Mon)
  • Built-in Firewall with IP Blocking
  • Vertical Scaling
  • Free Advanced Staging
    & Cloning (Worth $20)
  • Free WordPress Vulnerability Scanner

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  • Free Cloudflare Enterprise (Worth $250/Mon)
  • Autoscaling
  • 24/7 Chat & Ticketing Support
  • Free Object Cache Pro (Worth $95/Mon)
  • Load Balancing
  • Built-in Firewall & DDoS Protection
  • Free Advanced Staging & Cloning (Worth $20)
  • Multiple PHP Versions
  • Free Managed Migrations

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A high availability WordPress Kubernetes Infrastructure Built For You.

With Cloudways Autonomous you harness the power of a leading technology for scalability and reliability, without the complexity of its setup. Everything is pre-configured.

Ideal for Businesses Like Yours.

High-Traffic eCommerce

Scale as Your
Sales Soar

During flash sales or holiday rushes, make sure your eCommerce site can handle lots of shoppers, keep checkouts smooth, and avoid losing sales because of website slowdowns or crashes.

Event or Booking Websites

Book Every Seat
Without Missing a Beat

Cloudways Autonomous enables ticketing portals to maintain speed and efficiency, so that every user gets their ticket quickly and your site stays up even under the most intense pressure.

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Educate Without
Interruptions

High traffic during course enrollments or new module releases is a test of reliability. Autonomous adapts to increased learner activity, maintaining a seamless user experience without the worry of server downtime or slowdowns.

Influencer Websites

From Viral Content
to Steady Performance

When influencers go viral, their website can suddenly get a lot more visitors. With high availability hosting, Autonomous acts as a safety net, keeping your site from crashing and ensuring every visitor has a smooth and stable experience.

Large Media Sites and Blogs

Handle Breaking News
With Unbreaking Hosting

When news breaks, readers rush to media sites and blogs for updates. Autonomous keeps your site ready, providing fast-loading pages and a reliable user experience, no matter what happens.

High Traffic Hosting for WordPress Made Better.

Powerful features included in every plan that simplify choices for you and enhance experience.

Unlimited PHP Workers

Handle numerous requests simultaneously for optimal website performance without any limits.

Autoscaling & High-Availability

Kubernetes based autoscaling & load balancing scale resources up & down without intervention.

Integrated Cloudflare Enterprise

Cloudflare’s edge cache and global CDN help deliver the fastest possible experience regardless of geo-location.

Integrated Object Cache Pro

Your checkout and cart pages load fast & your WordPress admin environment remains high-speed and responsive.

Security (SSL, WAF, DDoS)

Unmetered DDoS mitigation at layers 3, 4, and 7. Cloudflare’s WAF analyzes millions of requests to block attackers and threats.

Automated Backups & Staging

Enjoy enhanced reliability with automated backups & staging with 1-click push & pull capabilities.

Multiple PHP versions

Enable different PHP versions for each of your applications; supports PHP 8.2-8.4 versions with a simple click.

24×7 Expert Support

Get round-the-clock access to professional technical support and assistance.

Free Managed Migrations

Move your application without hassle as our team handles the migration from start to finish.

Proven Superiority- Autonomous vs. Other Managed Hosts.

Koddr.io- experts in WordPress consulting tested & benchmarked Autonomous against other managed providers and the results speak for themselves.
Read the full report here.

Add to Carts
Per second.

Cloudways Autonomous outperformed competitors significantly, handling 6.9 add-to-cart actions per second at 100 concurrent users, compared to 1.07 and 1.49 for competitors K and W. At 1000 concurrent users, Autonomous was the sole performer, maintaining 12.5 add-to-carts per second, while competitors failed to complete any transactions.

Checkouts
Per Second.

Cloudways Autonomous excelled with 6.54 checkouts per second at 100 concurrent users, far surpassing competitors K (1.04) and W (0.39). At 500 concurrent users, this lead grew, and at 1000 users, Autonomous impressively managed 8.60 checkouts per second, while competitors K and W failed to process any checkouts in this high-stress scenario.

Average Response
Times

Cloudways Autonomous showcased superior speed, averaging a rapid 2.7 seconds response time at 200 concurrent users and maintaining a steady 9.6 seconds even at 1000 concurrent users. In stark contrast, Competitor K lagged with a minimum of 23 seconds, escalating to over 60 seconds under the same conditions.

Request Per
Second (RPS)

At 200 concurrent users, Cloudways Autonomous achieved a remarkable 47.89 Requests Per Second (RPS), significantly outperforming Competitor K’s 7.23 RPS. This lead expanded with higher user loads; at 500 concurrent users, Autonomous hit 40.98 RPS compared to K’s 5.83 RPS. The gap peaked at 1000 concurrent users, where Autonomous soared to 77.98 RPS, while Competitor K struggled below 5.8 RPS.

Error Rates

At 200 concurrent users, Cloudways Autonomous showcased a minimal error rate of only 0.10%. With increased loads up to 500 concurrent users, it maintained a low error rate of 2.48%, vastly outperforming Competitor K’s 29.10% and W’s 100%. At the peak load of 1000 concurrent users, Autonomous’s error rate was a mere 4.5%, significantly lower than K’s over 50% and W’s consistent 100%.

Frequently Asked Questions

The platform provides an Autoscaling Budget Control feature that lets you set a monthly spending cap for autoscaling beyond your baseline servers. You receive alerts when you approach the limit, and autoscaling pauses once the cap is hit until you increase it or the next billing period starts.

Autonomous currently supports WordPress & Woocommerce applications.

High availability in hosting for WordPress means your website stays online without interruptions, even if there are hardware or software problems. This is achieved through server redundancy, load balancing and failover mechanisms. Autonomous’s infrastructure has a 99.9% uptime SLA, which helps ensure your website is always accessible to your customers.

The resources continue to scale even if you hit your plan limit on any of the allocated resources, ensuring that your website remains up and running. You will incur overage charges based on your additional usage, including $1 per GB of disk space, $0.04 per GB of bandwidth, and autoscaling charges of $0.07 per hour per server beyond the baseline.

Yes. When you subscribe to an Autonomous plan and add a new application, you are eligible for a free managed migration into Autonomous. The migration is handled entirely by our team and applies within the website limits of your current plan.

Autonomous pricing operates on a plan based system, with each plan offering defined allocations for resources such as disk space and bandwidth. Visits are unlimited and are not considered for pricing or overages. Billing is calculated on an hourly basis, making it easy to upgrade, downgrade, or deactivate a plan at any time. You are only charged for a plan while you are subscribed to it, and billing immediately transitions to the new plan’s hourly rate when you switch plans. Overages are calculated based on disk space, bandwidth, and autoscaling usage. You can learn more about Autonomous pricing in detail in this knowledge base.

The static content is cached through Cloudflare CDN for quick delivery from the nearest data center, and dynamic content is cached through Cloudflare’s Edge caching which stores web pages at the edge. Additionally, database queries are cached using Object Cache Pro, reducing database load and enhancing performance under varying traffic conditions.

Since the scaling is automatic and horizontal, you should expect no downtime during the scaling.

Autonomous is a completely hands-off solution designed for users who would rather not deal with server choices, configurations, and traffic fluctuations. With Autonomous, it’s all managed and taken care of with a robust Kubernetes infrastructure tailored for high availability and high traffic hosting for WordPress with built-in load balancing .

Cloudways regular managed hosting is for users who like their hosting managed but with control over their cloud provider and servers. They can host more than WordPress here, including custom PHP, Laravel and Magento.

Autonomous is a fully-managed, autoscaling hosting platform for WordPress that automatically scales resources up and down based on traffic needs. Each plan includes defined resource limits, with autoscaling available beyond the baseline as required. Unlike traditional managed hosting, Autonomous removes the need for manual scaling or contacting support when traffic increases.

True autoscaling offers complete peace of mind in the face of expected and unexpected heavy traffic. You don’t need to manually upgrade/downgrade your servers or plans during and after traffic. Your website will automatically adjust resources within seconds based on traffic demand for smooth operation.

Cloudways Autonomous leverages the power of Kubernetes for WordPress autoscaling. Instead of being confined to a single server, your website is distributed across multiple pods. These pods are capable of automatically scaling horizontally (up & down) in response to changes in traffic The system automatically spins up additional pods when traffic increases, and scales down pods when traffic decreases, optimizing resource use.

With Cloudways Autonomous, your application always has the right amount of resources available for a smooth and consistent user experience.

Autonomous offers a 3 day free trial for users in selected regions. During the trial period, you can explore Autonomous and evaluate its features before subscribing to a paid plan. Once the trial ends, billing starts at the applicable plan rate unless the subscription is canceled.

Although we don’t provide a free trial for Autonomous in all regions, our hourly billing model offers flexibility. You can easily activate or deactivate Autonomous at your convenience, and you’ll only be charged for the plan up until the time of deactivation. For example, if you subscribe to the $100 plan and use it for 3 days, you’ll be charged approximately $10 (the calculation is based on a 30 day month).

If you detect sudden unexpected spikes in traffic, potential DDoS activity, or suspicious bot visits, you can enable Cloudflare Under Attack Mode from your application settings. This temporarily adds additional verification checks to ensure only legitimate visitors can access your application. Learn more.