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Cloud Hosting for Developers Made Easy

Cloudways provides the ultimate hosting experience for all your apps. We let you focus on creating awesome user experiences while we take care of server related hassles.

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Platform Designed For Developers

Cloudways is the perfect choice for building and deploying amazing web applications. Our platform ensures flawless performance and scalable resources for your applications.

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Optimized Hosting that Ensures Exceptional Web Performance

Cloudways provides a hassle-free platform for the developers, so that they can continue to focus on their web applications with utmost ease. Offering some of the most popular development tools (Git and Composer come pre-installed on our platform), Cloudways platform is a one-stop solution for developers to get their applications deployed with minimum issues.

  • Take Apps Live in Minutes Our advanced web hosting for developers reduces the complexities and allows you to take applications live within minutes.
  • Manage Apps on the Go Cloudways helps developers manage their web applications effortlessly. Our optimized hosting solution ensures hassle-free app management through CloudwaysBot, our real-time application and server health reporting tool.
  • Scale to Success Scale your applications with ease! Our platform is designed to accommodate all the requests for scaling server resources seamlessly. This allows you to build great applications without worrying about running out of server resources, ever!
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App Migration Made Easier For the Developers

With Cloudways, you don’t have to bother about app migration at all. Our app migrator plugin eases the tedious task for developers and our support team ensures smooth migration of your web apps to the Cloudways platform.

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Popular Features of Our Developer Hosting Platform

Check out our platform features that let you experience optimum performance for your web apps.

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Cloudways API

Create your own solutions with the Cloudways API. Develop and manage powerful apps using our RESTful API and see high performance in action.

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Pay-as-you-Go

Stop worrying about heavy hosting bills. Our pay-as-you-go model charges you only for the resources you use.

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Free SSL Certificates

Strengthen your app security with Free SSL certificates that can be set up within minutes.

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PHP7 Ready Servers

All our servers come pre-configured with PHP7, letting developers enjoy all the benefits of PHP 7.x speed and performance.

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MySQL and MariaDB Support

Cloudways platform supports popular versions of both MySQL and MariaDB. Choose the best DBMS for your projects without worrying about platform support.

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Cron Job Manager

With Cloudways built-in cron job manager, it is simple to schedule, set rules and enable cron jobs for your apps.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Cloudways supports all the major PHP versions, including PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1 and PHP 7.2. Moreover, you can easily migrate your web apps from one PHP version to another in just few clicks.
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We take our platform’s security very seriously. All our servers are protected with platform-level firewalls which ensure optimum security. In addition, automated and on-demand backup mechanism mirrors server and application data to a remote location so that disaster recovery time can be reduced to a minimum.
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Yes, you can easily scale your servers anytime. With our managed cloud hosting platform, you can easily size up / size down your server anytime depending upon your needs and requirements.
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Of course, our technical support team is always there to assist you with the app migration to our platform. Not only that, the first migration is absolutely FREE.
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Our platform offers a custom-built stack, called Thunderstack. This comes with pre-configured optimization tools such as Redis, NGINX, PHP-FPM, and Varnish. Thunderstack is designed to improve website speed and performance to the highest level possible.
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No! That’s the beauty of a managed WordPress hosting platform. Our plans include infrastructure charges as well. No matter what plan you choose with Cloudways, you get transparent pricing models, and we don’t have any hidden charges.
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At Cloudways, each server comes with a single database. However, if you want to use multiple databases, you can use remote MySQL connections that simplifies connecting to other databases.
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