Cloudways
Best managed cloud for WordPress & WooCommerce
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Up to 40% off for 4 months on all cloud plans
From $11.00/mo $14.00/mo
Cloudways is a managed layer that sits on top of DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, AWS and Google Cloud, so you get the raw performance of those clouds without ever touching a terminal. Servers are pre-tuned with the ThunderStack of NGINX, Apache, Varnish, Memcached and Redis, and the platform handles provisioning, patching, staging sites, one-click cloning, free SSL, automated backups and a built-in CDN. Vertical scaling takes one slider and a reboot. Billing is pay-as-you-go with no lock-in, and the Breeze and Object Cache Pro plugins make it particularly strong for WordPress and WooCommerce stores that need consistent time-to-first-byte during traffic spikes.
- RAM
- 1–32 GB
- CPU
- 1–8 vCPU
- Storage
- 25–640 GB SSD
- Bandwidth
- 1–7 TB
Cloudways services overview
- Managed layer over DO, Vultr, Linode, AWS, GCP
- ThunderStack caching (Varnish, Redis, Memcached)
- One-click staging, cloning and backups
- Free SSL and built-in CDN add-on
- Vertical scaling in a single click
- Pay-as-you-go billing, no contract
- 60+ global data centre locations
- 24/7 support with expert add-on tiers
Pros
- No server administration required
- Huge location choice
- Excellent WordPress performance
Cons
- No email hosting included
- Bandwidth billed separately
Best for: WordPress, WooCommerce and Laravel teams without a sysadmin