Don’t lose business due to a poor-performing site on a shared server. As a top Hostinger alternative, Cloudways delivers fast, reliable sites your business can depend on.
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Hostinger web hosting score: 8.5
Web hosting average: 8.6
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Web hosting average: 8.5
Cheap hosting plans can save you a few bucks now, but slow-loading sites with excessive downtime can cost you multiple sales and big opportunities in the long term. A top Hostinger alternative like Cloudways can help with that.
“Every 2nd week their server is down for long hours […] After getting completely frustrated, I lost $800 and I am shifting.”
“Servers are slow compared to most of the other web hosting services and it could affect the on-page SEO of your website.”
“It’s really important to consider performance over money spent because Hostinger lacks resources.”
“Hostinger is a budget hoster with a multitude of operational issues that business owners looking for a reliable partner to host their service should be aware of.”
“The bounce rate of our website has increased since we migrated to Hostinger, and traffic has decreased.”
“We’ve been waiting for a week to get a domain simply renewed. This has caused damage to our business as they have not provided a remedy.”
When you rely on your website to run your business, Hostinger’s lengthy downtime and server issues will hamper your growth. Nothing but a top Hostinger alternative will help you scale.
Choose from the world’s 3 biggest cloud server providers for unrivaled performance.
With Cloudways you’re not locked into long contracts, so your hosting plan can grow alongside you.
Cloudways understands you want room to grow, giving you unlimited websites and visitors on any plan.
With Cloudways you have access to DigitalOcean, AWS, or Google Cloud with all the top performance benefits of each.
With Cloudways you can pay-as-you-go without being locked into any long contracts. Upgrade, downgrade and change plans as your business requires.
As a Hostinger alternative, we focus on resources, not site numbers. Launch as many websites as you want without sacrificing performance.
Shared hosting killing your sites’ speed? That’s because you don’t get a Hostinger dedicated server. Cloudways gives you the performance you expect from a dedicated server, with every setting matched to what you need.
See all available data centers when you choose Cloudways
“Cloudways is simple to use and scale vertically as your projects get bigger.”
With Cloudways you get free, 24/7/365 customer support with access to Live Chat. And if you’re managing sites where every minute matters, you can get priority support via phone, email, and Slack.
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Never get stuck with +150 articles to guide your set up, optimization and monitoring work in our beginner-friendly knowledge base.
“Cloudways has made cloud hosting available to non-technical IT people like myself. Their step-by-step hints, plus their extensive knowledge base, made setup super easy.”
Chris Arndt – Director Online Sales at Christopher Arndt Postcard Co
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| Content Delivery Network (CDN) availability |
Only with 12, 24, or 48 month plans
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CloudwaysCDN on any plan for as low as $1/mo
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| Auto healing servers |
Not available
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Protects your websites from crashing
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| Optimized caching |
Not available
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Memcached, Varnish, Nginx and Redis caches all ready to use
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| Supported PHP apps |
WordPress only
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Drupal, Magento, Laravel, Joomla and WordPress
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| Lowest cloud hosting package | $9.99/mo
Single
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$14/mo
Digital Ocean
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| Vertical scaling |
Stuck with your current plan
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Upgrade and downgrade as you need
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| Websites included |
300
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Unlimited sites
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| Server monitoring |
Not available
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Your server is being monitored in real-time 24/7/365
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| Backups |
Daily
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Automated hourly backups and 1-click restore
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| Data centers available |
Only 5
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65+
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| Staging sites |
Not available
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Unlimited staging sites
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With no minimum term contracts and pay-as-you-go pricing, Cloudways gives you the flexibility to upgrade performance and change plans as you need.
Know exactly how much you pay today, tomorrow and next year, too.
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| Commission structure |
60% on sales
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Up to $125 per sale
Or
$30 per sale + 7% lifetime commission
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| Lifetime commission |
Only pays for the initial purchase of a new use
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True lifetime earnings
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| Payment method |
PayPal & bank transfer*
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PayPal & wire transfer**
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| Cookie storage |
30 days
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90 days
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| Sales tracking |
Affiliate dashboard
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Affiliate dashboard
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| Dedicated affiliate managers |
YES
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YES
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Our experts handle your 1st site migration absolutely free, from Hostinger or any other provider. Move your site over to your new server quickly and with zero downtime.
We guarantee absolutely no bugs, errors, or lost data. Our migration pros will work with you to ensure that everything gets done smoothly and efficiently.
“Best hosting provider I’ve used. It is super simple to set up and provides all the needed tools for you to easily migrate from any other host you were using.”
Managed cloud hosting is the kind of hosting service where your web hosting provider (like Cloudways) handles every aspect of your server platform including: administration, management, security, and maintenance.
What that means to you is that all you need to do is select the plan you want, the data center you want to base your server at, and the operating system you prefer. We handle the rest. Our team of administrators, developers and security experts will ensure that your server is properly managed along with proper CDN to ensure maximum uptime as well as data security and upkeep.
Note that Cloudways’ platform offers managed WordPress hosting and supports most other major CMS and Ecommerce platforms such as: Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and many other PHP-based apps.
Cloudways is committed to removing all of the stress out of website management. That’s why we’ve invested heavily in resources, support staff and other tools to ensure that our customers always have support when they need it.
Our support process breaks down like this:
Standard Support: 24/7/365 access via Live Chat and support ticket system. Fully trained Support Team members are always available.
Advanced Support add-on: For more customized support, proactive monitoring of various systems and other services, we offer this level at a nominal cost. Simply tell us what you need, and we’ll give you a quote.
Premium Support add-on: This support level is for businesses that run intensive and mission-critical sites where every minute of uptime matters. We’ll provide even quicker response times, phone support, a dedicated Account Manager and a private Slack channel that can be utilized by your staff to communicate directly with us in a real-time group setting.
At Cloudways, we take security seriously. In fact, it’s our top priority. Rest assured that our staff takes a proactive approach to keeping our servers safe and secure from malicious traffic, malware and attacks.
Keep in mind that the following security measures are available on ALL plans:
