Cloudways Flexible
Customizable managed hosting for WordPress, Magento, Laravel & PHP apps. Full control over server resources and cloud choice.
Get Free SSL Certificate on Managed Cloud Hosting Servers
Experience worry-free managed hosting with Let’s Encrypt-powered SSL Certification, ensuring your website is not only secure but also reliable, easy to manage, fast to load, and highly secure.
Managed Platform With Free SSL Hosting
You can easily install SSL certificates on your websites & optimize your sites with ThunderStack to get high-end performance along with SSL protection.
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Free SSL Hosting Features To Scale Your Website
Thousands of online businesses trust Cloudways to power their success.
24/7 Support
Get a support team that’s active 24/7, even during the holiday season. Just type your query, and we’ll help you out.
Renowned IaaS Providers
Choose between providers, including GCE, AWS, and DigitalOcean, with 60+ data centers around the globe.
1-Click SSL Installation
Get free SSL hosting on Cloudways for improved security with a reliable certificate that fulfills all HTTPS requirements.
Automated Backups
Take on-demand backups or set automatic backups with your chosen frequency (hourly to weekly).
Dedicated Security
We employ all critical security measures, including robust firewalls, regular OS patches, auto-healing servers, TFA, and more.
SSH and SFTP Access
Access servers and update files securely. Plus, your team members can also have their individual SFTP credentials.
Affordable Managed Cloud Hosting Platform
Explore our pay-as-you-go plans with your preferred cloud server & free SSL certificate. Scale with ease and host unlimited web applications, complemented by exclusive free add-ons and features.
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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.Our Customers, Our Success.
Digital Agency
The ability for a digital agency like us to have lots of servers, from different providers, depending on the need, in one place.
John Falzon
Managing Director at Keen
SMB
Cloudways made it easy for us to extend our web application infrastructure into the cloud.
Adam McWilliams
CTO at Pacific Community
Digital Agency
We are grateful to have found an ideal managed cloud hosting platform for our customers, and look to grow our hosting business through Cloudways.
Robert Theodorow
CEO at SFP
Digital Agency
The ability to scale and clone sites ourselves and install SSL certificates gives us more control.
Edward Bull
Director at Limesharp
SMB
Cloudways has fulfilled our expectations.It is a great service and keeps our website up and running nicely.
Amit Kothari
Founder at Tallyfy
Digital Agency
We gave Cloudways a try and we saw our client sites have page load time decreased from an average of 5.4 seconds to just over 1 second.
Jeff Weese
Founder at Joslex Studios
Blogger
The support is excellent. I have needed their help and they always come through. I have no technical brain and the back end of my website is all confusing so I need the engineer help when something breaks.
Letty Flatt
Owner at Letty’s Kitchen
Compare Cloudways.
See how Cloudways managed hosting gives you an exceptional ROI for your online business compared to other hosting options.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why Cloudways is considered the best free SSL hosting for SMBs?
Cloudways combines free SSL certificates with enterprise grade security features like dedicated firewalls, regular OS patching, and auto healing servers. Its transparent pay-as-you-go pricing model along wtih high performance ThunderStack ensure that SMBs get a scalable, secure, and fast hosting environment that grows with their business.
What type of SSL certificate is offered for free?
Most free SSL certificates are Domain Validated (DV) certificates. They verify that you have control over the domain for which the certificate is issued.
Are free SSL certificates as secure as paid ones?
In terms of encryption strength, both free and paid SSL certificates offer the same level of security. However, paid certificates often come with additional features like higher warranty levels and extended validation.
Do I need technical expertise to set up the free SSL certificate on Cloudways?
No, Cloudways offers a user-friendly interface that guides you through the process of enabling SSL for your website. No technical expertise is required.
Will enabling SSL affect my website’s speed or performance?
No, Cloudways employs advanced technologies to ensure that enabling SSL has minimal impact on your website's speed and performance.
What type of SSL certificate does Cloudways offer for free?
Cloudways provides Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, which are trusted and widely recognized across the web industry.
What is a SSL certificate and why is it important for my website?
An SSL certificate encrypts the data exchanged between a user's browser and your website, ensuring secure and private communication. This is crucial for protecting sensitive information like passwords and payment details.