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Cloudways Autonomous

Easy, Auto-Scalable
Managed WordPress

Fully managed WordPress hosting that auto scales to meet the needs of your growing business.

Cloudways Empowers 100,000+ Businesses & Counting

Stop Worrying About Traffic Spikes,
Servers, or Scaling.

Go Hands-off

With the server layer completely abstracted, experience a hands-off hosting, where you don’t even have to think about server sizes, let alone their management & optimization.

Truly Autoscale

Built on Kubernetes (GKE), this high traffic WordPress hosting solution handles any traffic spike and number of concurrent users from the get go without any human intervention.

Remain Highly-Available

Cloudways Autonomous is designed for the high availability of WordPress sites. With advanced load balancing, your applications remain online and accessible, regardless of demand.

Drive Traffic to Websites Without
Any Fears of Downtime.

This high availability hosting adapts to your business in real time with its autoscaling so you enjoy peace of mind focusing on your most important tasks, delivering results and staying competitive.

Autonomous is built to handle any number of simultaneous users without compromising on speed.

From Shark Tank features to any sudden influxes, your infrastructure automatically manages high traffic WordPress surges.

You won’t need to monitor resources or manually scale servers during a marketing campaign.

Cloudflare Enterprise is built into the infrastructure, which selectively filters traffic, helping ensure optimal security for highly available WordPress sites at every scale.

Benefit from the transparent pricing based on easy to understand metrics that you can predict.

Choose a Plan That Works For You.

Cloudways Autonomous makes high availability hosting accessible for SMBs like never before. Harness the scalability & reliability of Kubernetes at an unbeatable price point.

Get started with $100 credits on any plan

Additional Usage Info

$1/10 GB additional Bandwidth

$1/1000 additional Visits

$2/1 GB additional Disk space

A high availability WordPress Kubernetes Infrastructure Built For You.

With Cloudways Autonomous you harness the power of a leading technology for scalability and reliability, without the complexity of its setup. Everything is pre-configured.

Ideal for Businesses Like Yours.

High-Traffic eCommerce

Scale as Your
Sales Soar

During flash sales or holiday rushes, make sure your eCommerce site can handle lots of shoppers, keep checkouts smooth, and avoid losing sales because of website slowdowns or crashes.

Event or Booking Websites

Book Every Seat
Without Missing a Beat

Cloudways Autonomous enables ticketing portals to maintain speed and efficiency, so that every user gets their ticket quickly and your site stays up even under the most intense pressure.

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Educate Without
Interruptions

High traffic during course enrollments or new module releases is a test of reliability. Autonomous adapts to increased learner activity, maintaining a seamless user experience without the worry of server downtime or slowdowns.

Influencer Websites

From Viral Content
to Steady Performance

When influencers go viral, their website can suddenly get a lot more visitors. With high availability hosting, Autonomous acts as a safety net, keeping your site from crashing and ensuring every visitor has a smooth and stable experience.

Large Media Sites and Blogs

Handle Breaking News
With Unbreaking Hosting

When news breaks, readers rush to media sites and blogs for updates. Autonomous keeps your site ready, providing fast-loading pages and a reliable user experience, no matter what happens.

High Traffic WordPress Hosting Made Better.

Powerful features included in every plan that simplify choices for you and enhance experience.

Unlimited PHP Workers.

Handle numerous requests simultaneously for optimal website performance without any limits.

Autoscaling & High-Availability.

Kubernetes based autoscaling & load balancing scale resources up & down without intervention.

Integrated Cloudflare Enterprise.

Cloudflare’s edge cache and global CDN help deliver the fastest possible experience regardless of geo-location.

Integrated Object Cache Pro.

Your checkout and cart pages load fast & your WordPress admin environment remains high-speed and responsive.

Security (SSL, WAF, DDoS).

Unmetered DDoS mitigation at layers 3, 4, and 7. Cloudflare’s WAF analyzes millions of requests to block attackers and threats..

Automated Backups & Staging.

Enjoy enhanced reliability with automated backups & staging with 1-click push & pull capabilities.

Multiple PHP versions.

Enable different PHP versions for each of your applications; supports PHP 7.4-8.2 versions with a simple click.

24×7 Expert Support.

Get round-the-clock access to professional technical support and assistance.

Proven Superiority- Autonomous vs. Other Managed Hosts.

Koddr.io- experts in WordPress consulting tested & benchmarked Autonomous against other managed providers and the results speak for themselves.
Read the full report here.

Add to Carts
Per second.

Cloudways Autonomous outperformed competitors significantly, handling 6.9 add-to-cart actions per second at 100 concurrent users, compared to 1.07 and 1.49 for competitors K and W. At 1000 concurrent users, Autonomous was the sole performer, maintaining 12.5 add-to-carts per second, while competitors failed to complete any transactions.

Checkouts
Per Second.

Cloudways Autonomous excelled with 6.54 checkouts per second at 100 concurrent users, far surpassing competitors K (1.04) and W (0.39). At 500 concurrent users, this lead grew, and at 1000 users, Autonomous impressively managed 8.60 checkouts per second, while competitors K and W failed to process any checkouts in this high-stress scenario.

Average Response
Times

Cloudways Autonomous showcased superior speed, averaging a rapid 2.7 seconds response time at 200 concurrent users and maintaining a steady 9.6 seconds even at 1000 concurrent users. In stark contrast, Competitor K lagged with a minimum of 23 seconds, escalating to over 60 seconds under the same conditions.

Request Per
Second (RPS)

At 200 concurrent users, Cloudways Autonomous achieved a remarkable 47.89 Requests Per Second (RPS), significantly outperforming Competitor K’s 7.23 RPS. This lead expanded with higher user loads; at 500 concurrent users, Autonomous hit 40.98 RPS compared to K’s 5.83 RPS. The gap peaked at 1000 concurrent users, where Autonomous soared to 77.98 RPS, while Competitor K struggled below 5.8 RPS.

Error Rates

At 200 concurrent users, Cloudways Autonomous showcased a minimal error rate of only 0.10%. With increased loads up to 500 concurrent users, it maintained a low error rate of 2.48%, vastly outperforming Competitor K’s 29.10% and W’s 100%. At the peak load of 1000 concurrent users, Autonomous’s error rate was a mere 4.5%, significantly lower than K’s over 50% and W’s consistent 100%.

Frequently Asked Questions

Autonomous currently supports WordPress & Woocommerce applications.

High availability in WordPress hosting refers to a hosting solution’s ability to operate continuously, without any disruptions, even in the face of hardware or software failures. This is achieved through server redundancy, load balancing and failover mechanisms. Autonomous’s infrastructure has a 99.9% uptime SLA, which helps ensure your website is always accessible to your customers.

The static content is cached through Cloudflare CDN for quick delivery from the nearest data center, and dynamic content is cached through Cloudflare’s Edge caching which stores web pages at the edge. Additionally, database queries are cached using Object Cache Pro, reducing database load and enhancing performance under varying traffic conditions.

Although we don’t provide a trial for Autonomous yet, our hourly billing model offers flexibility. You can easily activate & deactivate Auto at your convenience, and you’ll only be charged for the plan up until the time of deactivation. For example, if you subscribe to the $35 plan and use it for 5 days you’ll be charged approximately $5.83 (the calculation is based on a 30-day month). Learn more about the hourly billing here

The resources continue to scale even if you hit your plan limit on any of the allocated resources and as a result your website remains up & running. You will incur small overage fees based on your additional usage: $1 per 10 GB of extra bandwidth, $1 per 1,000 additional visits, and $2 per 1 GB of extra disk space. Learn more about pricing here.

Autonomous’s pricing operates on a plan based system with each plan offering a specific allocation of Sites, Visits, Bandwidth & Disk Space plus overages for additional visits, bandwidth & disk space. The billing is on an hourly basis which makes upgrading, downgrading or deactivating a plan very easy. You will only be charged for a certain plan until you are subscribed to it. As soon as you switch to a different Autonomous plan, the billing transitions to the new plan’s hourly rate from that moment. If you choose to deactivate your subscription, the billing stops entirely. You can learn about Autonomous’s pricing in depth in this KB.

A greater number of PHP workers are important for high-traffic WordPress sites, dynamic websites, as