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.

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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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  • 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

  • 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

  • Popular cloud emphasizing consistent performance across 25 datacenters. Choose Linode if you wish top quality performance at a pocket—friendly budget.

    Linode

  • 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

  • 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

  • DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.

    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
  • 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
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  • Unlimited Visits
  • Unlimited Websites
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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
  • Lightning Stack
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  • Unlimited Visits
  • Unlimited Websites
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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
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  • Built-in Firewall with IP Blocking
  • Vertical Scaling
  • Free Advanced Staging
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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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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

SMB

We love being part of the Cloudways family! We encourage all startups to switch to Cloudways managed hosting platform for a hassle-free hosting experience.

Gabriel Marcolongo

Founder at Incluyeme

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Account Management Dashboard
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Built-in MySQL Manager
Automation
1-Click Server Cloning
1-Click Advanced Server Management
1-Click SafeUpdates for WordPress
Managed Backups
Seamless Vertical Scaling
Security
1-Click Free SSL Installation
Dedicated Firewalls
Regular OS and Patch Management
Server & App Monitoring (15+ Metrics)
Auto-Healing Servers

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Most free SSL certificates are Domain Validated (DV) certificates. They verify that you have control over the domain for which the certificate is issued.

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.

No, Cloudways offers a user-friendly interface that guides you through the process of enabling SSL for your website. No technical expertise is required.

No, Cloudways employs advanced technologies to ensure that enabling SSL has minimal impact on your website's speed and performance.

Cloudways provides Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates, which are trusted and widely recognized across the web industry.

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.