Cloudways
Cloudways provides managed hosting platform for deploying popular PHP based applications on infrastructure hosting in just a few clicks. It is affordable, you can configure the server as per your requirement and scale up later as and when needed.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Proprietary
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Online
Features
Properties
- Scalable
Features
- Live Performance
- Server Management
- Platform as a service
- Dedicated Server Hosting
- One click installation
- Real-time dashboard
- Cloud Hosting
- Shell integration
- Server Cloning
- SSD Storage
Tags
- Customer Support
- managed-hosting
- WordPress Hosting
- free-ssl-certificates
- varnish
- paas
Cloudways News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
silaghi-adrian95 added Cloudways as alternative to Danube Data- babsors liked Cloudways
nuuvil added Cloudways as alternative to Shuttle.dev
POX added Cloudways as alternative to CoreControl
What is Cloudways?
Cloudways is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider that takes care of all problems associated with installing and managing various websites and applications on a cloud server. It allows you to install most of the popular applications like WordPress, WooCommerce, PHP, Laraval and many more with just a few clicks.
Cloudways allows you to choose the cloud hosting services from any of the 3 industry leaders, DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. The service is quite affordable, you can configure the server as per your requirement and scale up later as and when needed.
The new website and platform of Cloudways are designed according to the Material Design guidelines. The technologies used on the website include HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, and Laravel. The platform is built on AngularJS, jQuery, PHP and Laravel.
Cloudways information
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Cloudways Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $10 and $80 per month.Alternatives
91 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Just terrible in new customer onboarding!
I've heard about the Cloudways hype and I'd decided to get off the "VPS server management" burden. So I went to Cloudways website and signed up for a free trial account. Then it redirected me to a live chat windows to submit some info before they sign me up. The chat agent's name was Rafat, who told me to wait for a minute before they send me an activation link by email.
Nothing happened in one hour!
I reached the live support again. This time an agent named Asher answered my request. After submitting registration information (again), he kept silent and left the chat window without saying goodbye. And there was no activation link, of course.
This must be the worst experience I've had so far and I think no one should be treated like the way Cloudways did to me.
[Edited by taoxuanminh, October 19]
Unfortunately the root lock-out is for our needs a critial blocker. Therefor atomic deployments on Cloudways servers fail. The support from Cloudways admitted that certain functions aren't available yet.
I have used Cloudways for about 8 months for a single Wordpress/woocommerce website on Digital Ocean. I know they support other software and platforms, but this is my experience.
I like Digital Ocean and still use it for websites. D.O. documentation is superb. But for a Wordpress site, I want something simple to setup. I am not going to be messing with the server. I like how Cloudways has pre-configured a high-performance architecture ready to go for a Wordpress install. There are also automatic backups. The site admin panel is simple. There is also customer support although I only used it one time.
I could build an identical system on Digital Ocean but there are a lot of steps using the linux command line (over 100 steps?) to install/configure Ubuntu, mysql, apache, nginx, varnish, etc. And sometimes it does not go so smoothly. And I never know how optimized it is. I am not a server expert. Cloudways has it all setup and tuned. Oh, and they also keep the D.O. server software updated.