Fig. 01 · Provider Brief
Cloudways
Growing sites that want managed cloud without ops work
Best OverallRated 4.6 / 5
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Our take
The sweet spot between raw cloud VPS and full-managed hosting — you pick the cloud, they handle the ops.
Best for
Managed cloud for growing sites
Starting price
Check current priceMid tier — check current pricing
Ease of use
Performance
Support
Free migration
Included
Email included
Paid add-on
Domain included
Not included
Pros
- Managed hosting on top of DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS, GCP
- Easy scaling and server cloning
- Solid caching stack out of the box
Cons
- No included email hosting
- Add-ons can increase monthly cost
Where Cloudways fits
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