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Simplicity and Choice
Grow your business with the least restrictions and more freedom.
Worry-Free Experience
You have control over your applications and servers.
Performance That Scales
Experience enhanced load times for your apps.
Transparent Pricing
Pricing plans that work for everyone.
High-Speed Performance Assured
Our unique performance tweaks guarantee nothing but the best!
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
Activating Cloudflare Enterprise dramatically improves performance, compared to a traditional CDN. The tiered cache delivers your content faster globally via a reserved-for-enterprises network, and reduces latency, loading time and bandwidth costs.
SSD-Based Hosting
SSD drives are 3x faster, facilitating breathtaking performance and reduced page load times for your dynamic websites.
Built-in Advanced Caches
We provide an optimized stack with ready to use caches including Memcached, Varnish, Nginx, and Redis to deliver expedited responses.
PHP 7.4 & 8.x Ready Servers
All our server are PHP 7.4 & 8.x ready. PHP 8 is known to be significantly faster than its predecessor.
Dedicated Environment
All servers launched on Cloudways have dedicated resources. Contrary to the limitations of shared hosting, our dedicated environment allows you to maximize server and app performance.
Auto-Healing Managed Cloud Servers
You don’t have to worry about your website crashing. Most of the issues within the server are resolved with auto-healing restarts.
Free WordPress Cache Plugin
Breeze is engineered in-house to offer better WordPress performance than any other plugin in the industry. With simplicity at zero cost, Breeze comes pre-installed on Cloudways.
Redis Support
Enabling Redis improves the performance of databases. Combined with Apache, Nginx, and Varnish get you unbeatable performance.
Free Magento Full Page Cache
Built-in Full Page Cache gives you one of the fastest hosting stacks. It significantly improves the performance of Magento 1.x stores.
Pre-configured PHP-FPM
PHP-FPM dramatically speeds up your website and improves the loading times of your PHP environment with much faster processes.
HTTP/2 Supported Servers
Cloudways servers are HTTP/2 enabled which significantly increases the speed of communication between the web servers and clients.
Image and Mobile Optimization
Activating the Cloudflare Enterprise add-on brings one-click simple image optimization with Polish and mobile optimization with Mirage, instantly improving user experience and loading time on all types of screens.
HTTP/3 Support with Cloudflare
HTTP/3 is the next evolution of the HTTP protocol. Activating Cloudflare Enterprise add-on on top of your Cloudways hosting will have you ready when browser support for HTTP/3 broadens.
Best-in-Class Support Available Every Hour of Every Day
Expert problem solving for everyone, and an even closer partnership with Advanced and Premium Support add-ons
24/7/365 Live Chat
Ask us for help and guidance when using the Cloudways Platform, any time. Our growing team of highly-trained experts is always available.
Online Ticketing
Track more complex queries or issues online as we work on them. Our Support Team can create tickets on your behalf, or you can submit your own.
Enhanced SLAs
Advanced Support doubles your Live Chat access and cuts online tickets response times to 3 hours (normal priority) or 30 mins (high). Premium SLAs are even slicker.
Server Customization and Configuration
Ask us to deploy PHP or other custom packages, help with caching configurations, or make server configuration changes.
Phone Access
With the Premium Support add-on you and your team can call and speak directly with a Senior Support Engineer in person, any time.
Application-level Issues
Plug-in or theme troubleshooting, investigation of server errors, help with your database or email add-on, and performance optimization.
Proactive Application Monitoring
We will inform you and start investigating if your server or stack is down. Powerful application monitoring tools are built into the Platform as well.
Close Partnership
With the Premium Support add-on, we work as an extension of your in-house team. We’re always on Slack, or you can call us any time.
Private Slack Channel
Premium Support lifts you out of the web-based online chat and opens up a private Slack channel with our Senior Support Engineers.
Fast Ticket Response Times
With Premium Support, online tickets receive a response as soon as possible, and always within two hours. If it’s high priority that becomes ten minutes.
We are grateful to have found an ideal managed cloud hosting platform for our customers, and look to grow our hosting business through Cloudways.
Robert Theodorow
CEO at SFP
We are grateful to have found an ideal managed cloud hosting platform for our customers, and look to grow our hosting business through Cloudways.
Robert Theodorow
CEO at SFP
Managed Hosting Comes with Managed Security
Proactive Cloudways security practices keep all your servers safe and secure.
Dedicated Firewalls
All Cloudways hosted servers are protected by OS-level firewalls that filter out malicious traffic and keep out the intruders.
1-Click Free SSL Installation
Our built-in Let’s Encrypt SSL improves website security with a trusted certificate that fulfills all your HTTPS requirements for free.
IP Whitelisting
Lets you create a whitelist of IPs, making it easy to collaborate with networks or regions with unrestricted access to SSH and SFTP.
Regular Security Patching
We perform regular OS patches on your server. This ensures a secure managed cloud server and avoids vulnerabilities.
Two-Factor Authentication
TFA is an easy and effective extra layer of safety for your Cloudways account, keeping your server safe from any intruder.
Bot Protection
Protect your WordPress websites from traffic congestion caused by malicious bots, brute force login attacks and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks with the help of our technology partner, Malcare.
Advanced DDoS Protection with Cloudflare
The Cloudflare Enterprise add-on is unique to Cloudways IPs and prioritizes routing for enterprise-grade mitigation of DDoS attacks in under 3 seconds, against layers 3, 4, & 7. Keep your application online and protected at all times.
Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Cloudflare
Activating the Cloudflare Enterprise add-on enables a secure firewall that analyzes millions of sites and 32 million requests per second to intelligently identify & block attackers and emerging threats at the edge!
SafeUpdates for WordPress
SafeUpdates add-on automatically detects, tests and performs plugin, theme & core updates for you, keeping your websites secure and running at all times. Save hundreds of hours of work and dollars per month with 1 click.
We Manage Your Server the Way You Want
With the least restrictions and more freedom, you can take your business to new heights.
Renowned IaaS Providers
You have the option to choose from a variety of world-class providers, namely Google, Amazon and DigitalOcean.
Block Storage
You have the option to extend your server storage space. Scale the storage in just a few clicks without changing other server parameters.
Seamless Vertical Scaling
Seamless scaling of your servers with 1-Click hosting feature that scales resources (RAM, CPU and storage) without affecting your customization.
No Long-Term Contract
Why enter into a contract or pay a fixed amount? We offer a pay-as-you-go payment model, allowing you to pay only for what you’ve used.
Launch 10+ Apps Through 1-Click
We understand an agency’s quench for convenience. With 1-Click you can deploy a number of WordPress and Magento sites on a single server.
All PHP Apps Supported
All PHP based applications are supported. Our Platform combines the freedom of dedicated servers with the ease and agility of PHP PaaS.
Multiple PHP Versions
On Cloudways you can switch PHP versions in just a click. Latest versions of PHP 5.6, 7.x, and 8.x are supported.
MySQL and MariaDB Supported
Latest versions of MySQL and MariaDB supported on all our servers. Switch between the databases that work best with your application.
Global Availability
We know page load times mean the world to you. Choose from 60+ data centers, whichever is closer to your target audience.
The ability for a digital agency like us to have lots of servers, from different providers, depending on the need, in one place.
John Falzon
Managing Director at Keen
Smooth Workflow & Team Collaboration
Achieve your goals with a smooth and collaborative workflow.
Git Integration
Git auto-deployment allows you to get updated code deployed on live servers as soon as the changes in the remote repositories occur.
SSH and SFTP Access
Securely access servers, update files and folders on your app via SSH or SFTP. You can even generate individual SFTP credentials for your team.
Application & Server Cloning
Clone entire servers or make copies of individual sites with just 1-Click. This makes copies of files and databases on new staging URLs.
One Account Multiple Teams
Cloudways allows one team member to be a part of different teams so that every little project is split between the relevant teams.
Projects
Are you managing a lot of websites? You can group apps and classify them by creating Projects. You can even assign them to your teams.
Staging Area & URLs
Cloudways offers dedicated Staging environment where you can test application changes and push them in just 1-Click without breaking the live version.
Add Team Members
Distribute your work with co-workers, regardless of their location, and assign them limited or full access to your server or app.
Server Transfer
Server Transfer allows you to easily transfer ownership of the servers to your clients or any other party using the 1-Click hosting feature.
Cloudways WP Migrator Plugin
Migrate your WordPress site from an old hosting provider to Cloudways without any hassle and for free!
You’re the Boss, You Have the Controls
Our easy-to-use UI enables you to control your application and server like a pro.
Server Settings and Packages via UI
Powerful options allow you to control a number of server parameters and deploy applications and upgrade packages on the server.
1-Click Backup & Restore
Your automated or on-demand backups are created at an offsite location and can be restored with 1-Click. You can even revert with 1-Click.
Cron Job Manager
Scheduling cron jobs are easier via the Cloudways built-in Cron Job manager. Set rules and enable cron jobs with just a few clicks.
WP-CLI Pre-installed
Control WordPress websites like a pro via the powerful commands of WP-CLI. All our servers are installed with the latest version of WP-CLI.
1-Click Stop App
With just 1-Click you can disable the access to an application from over the web, SFTP/SSH and stop any cron jobs for the application.
App Settings via UI
No need to run complicated commands at the command line. Change all app settings from the intuitive and user-friendly Cloudways Platform.
Advanced/Custom Varnish Settings
Easily control Varnish cache rules via the Cloudways Platform. Exclude or include URLs or cookies as per needed.
Supervisord Queue Manager
The integrated Supervisord process manager is available for Laravel applications that allows you to control processes.
Change Application Webroot
Changing the web root of an app on Cloudways is easy. With just a few clicks the web server will start serving files from a new location.
Have Complete Peace of Mind with Our Free Migration
We’ll move your first website to Cloudways from any web host for FREE (without breaking your live site hosted on the old host), so you don’t have to worry about migration complexities & technicalities.
One Account, Multiple Integrations & Add-ons
With Cloudways you get many Cloud conveniences through add-ons and various web services.
CloudwaysBot Channels
CloudwaysBot sends real-time notifications of different selected events via your favorite channels such as Slack, API, and HipChat.
Cloudways API
Build your own solutions to control the Platform. Develop, integrate and manage your servers and apps on Cloudways using the RESTful API.
Application Migration Add-on
Our migration experts migrate sites perfectly with minimal downtime, offering one free migration, guidance on infrastructure and more.
SMTP Add-on
A reliable and easy way to configure an external SMTP service to be used as a gateway to deliver emails from your server.
Rackspace Email Add-on
Get cloud-based email inboxes powered by Rackspace in just $1 for guaranteed uptime, supreme protection and around-the-clock support.
Application Upgrade Add-on
Our cloud engineers observe the inner details of your apps and all tasks are performed in a staging area with virtually no downtime.
DNS Made Easy Add-on
A premium DNS service so you never have to face DNS errors. If your site goes down all traffic is redirected to a preconfigured secondary IP.
Cloudways Support Add-ons
Grow your team with our Advanced or Premium add-ons. You’ll get extended app level support, priority resolution and much more.
Cloudflare Enterprise add-on
We’ve partnered with Cloudflare to bring you the Cloudflare Enterprise add-on at a fraction of the cost! Activate it per application in a few clicks and enjoy enterprise-grade performance and security.
Keep Track and Stay Updated
Cloudways offers around the clock server monitoring so you can have the peace of mind.
24/7 Real-time Monitoring
Your server is being monitored in real-time 24/7/365 and you get to see over 16 different metrics from the comfort of the console.
New Relic Integration
New Relic can be enabled for insights on app performance so you can troubleshoot and identify issues causing bottlenecks.
CloudwaysBot Notifications
The AI-based smart assistant that sends real-time performance insights to help optimize servers and apps and integrates with Slack, emails, etc.