Cloudways Autonomous
Easy, Auto-Scalable
Managed Hosting for WordPress
Fully managed experience 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 hosting solution for WordPress 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.
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 traffic surges.
You won’t need to monitor resources and manually scale servers during a marketing campaign.
Cloudflare Enterprise is built into the infrastructure which selectively filters traffic, ensuring optimal security at
Benefit from the transparent pricing based on easy to understand metrics that you can predict.
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Cloudways Flexible
Customizable managed hosting for WordPress, Magento, Laravel & PHP apps. Full control over server resources and cloud choice.
Lightning Stack - Now Available
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Cloudways Autonomous
Fully managed hosting for WordPress for dynamic high traffic eCom and LMS sites — built to autoscale for thousands of concurrent users.
Select Cloud Provider
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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
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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
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Popular cloud emphasizing consistent performance across 25 datacenters. Choose Linode if you wish top quality performance at a pocket—friendly budget.
Linode
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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
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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
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Basic
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
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General Purpose
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
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CPU Optimized
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
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Standard
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
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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.
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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
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Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
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
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Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
Most Popular
Medium
Supports more demanding websites with higher traffic.
$11
$88
USD per month
You pay $0.1310 hourly
- 8GB RAM
- 4 vCPU
- 160GB Storage
- 5TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
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Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
8XL
Ideal for e-com stores and resource-intensive applications.
$11
USD per month
You pay $1.0848 hourly
- 128GB RAM
- 24 vCPU
- 2560GB Storage
- 11TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 5 Free AI Copilot Credits
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Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
$0.033/GB per server will be applied for offsite backup storage.
Free Trial
Best for growing businesses that need autoscaling.
$100
$0For 3 Days
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 01
Bandwidth: 150 GB
Disk space: 20 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
Redis Caching
Object Cache Pro + Relay
Free Managed Migration
Growth
Best for growing businesses that need autoscaling.
$100
$100/Month
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 01
Bandwidth: 150 GB
Disk space: 20 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
Redis Caching
Object Cache Pro + Relay
Free Managed Migration
Additional Charges
- Disk Space: $1/GB
- Bandwidth: $0.04/GB
- Autoscaling: $0.07/hr/server beyond baseline
Most Popular
Scale
Best For Woocommerce
$100
$200/Month
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 02
Bandwidth: 250 GB
Disk space: 50 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
Redis Caching
Object Cache Pro + Relay
Free Managed Migration
Additional Charges
- Disk Space: $1/GB
- Bandwidth: $0.04/GB
- Autoscaling: $0.10/hr/server beyond baseline
Plus
Best For LMS platforms & large WooCommerce stores
$100
$400/Month
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 03
Bandwidth: 1000 GB
Disk space: 100 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
Redis Caching
Object Cache Pro + Relay
Free Managed Migration
Additional Charges
- Disk Space: $1/GB
- Bandwidth: $0.04/GB
- Autoscaling: $0.12/hr/server beyond baseline
Enterprise
Beyond standard plans? We’ll create a plan that fits your needs.
Custom
Optimized resources for your traffic and usage patterns.
Custom resource allocation and baseline capacity.
Expert consultation to match plan to requirements.
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 Hosting for WordPress Made Better.
Powerful features included in every plan that simplify choices for you and enhance experience.
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 8.2-8.4 versions with a simple click.
24×7 Expert Support
Get round-the-clock access to professional technical support and assistance.
Free Managed Migrations
Move your application without hassle as our team handles the migration from start to finish.
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%.
