With Kinsta, you don’t get a say in how your website is set up. Cloudways lets you choose where your site is hosted and how it’s built – total performance control.
Get Started FREE“The entry prices are low, but you get much better performance and control than on shared hosting.”
Who knows your business better than you do? Nobody. But Kinsta sets up every website the exact same way and restricts you from making the performance optimizations you need.
“I wish they didn’t artificially limit PHP workers. I run a membership site and worry that I’ll have to migrate once we really start to grow.”
“They allow you no control of your server.”
“I contacted customer support several times and was basically told to figure it out myself.”
“They are forcing all sites that use Cloudflare to continue to use their service AND requiring every single site hosted with them to make an IP change to Cloudflare”
“I wasn’t overly impressed and didn’t like the inability to have granular control of my server.”
“They have arbitrary limitations on things like PHP workers and are absolutely unwilling to budge if you need extra headroom for your server.”
Host other popular PHP-based apps such as Drupal, Magento, Laravel, and Joomla.
Cloudways offers 5 different providers: Digital Ocean, Linode, Vultr, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Why pay for every single website? Launch as many as you want — all under the same account.
Our PHP 7.3 servers running on PHP-FPM (Fast Process Management) will optimize your website for fast, reliable load times.
Kinsta only offers Google Cloud Platform (still a great choice). But maybe one of our other cloud providers fit your budget better, or give you higher performance. With Cloudways, you’ve got hosting options.
Kinsta limits your PHP workers per site. If you need to process more requests at once, your visitors are stuck waiting. Cloudways doesn’t limit your PHP workers allowing you to handle more traffic, faster.
To backup 1 website, Kinsta will charge you at least $3/GB. And if you want hourly backups, slap another $100 on top. With Cloudways, you get hourly backups at $0.033/GB per server. You do the math.
Kinsta only provides support via their messaging system. Cloudways gives you free, 24/7/365 support, including access to Live Chat. For mission-critical sites, you can get priority support via phone, email, and Slack.
Kinsta roughly doubles their pricing every time your web traffic multiplies. Your Cloudways plan serves unlimited visitors and only grows if you need more server resources.
Results based on loader.io, comparing hosting plans at three levels.
Results based on loader.io, comparing similar sites and plans for speed optimizations
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| Plan | BUSINESS 1 | 4GB DIGITAL OCEAN |
| Average | 5,000 ms | 3439 ms |
| Min | 50 ms | 1,039 ms |
| Max | 50,000 ms | 9,296 ms |
Here’s all the available data centers when you choose Cloudways
The following are the estimated server requirement based on the data you provided earlier.
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| Entry Level | $300 | As low as $100 |
| Sites Included | 20, 40 or 60 WordPress installs, depending on your plan | Unlimited sites on any plan (not just WordPress) |
| Monthly visits | 400K, 600K or 1MM, depending on your plan | Unlimited visits on any plan |
| Dedicated Partnership Manager | Undisclosed | For Gold and Platinum partners |
| Agency Perks | Free site migrations + Free hosting for your agency site | Get 10% OFF for 6-12 months |
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| Early Feature Access | Offered for Gold and Platinum partners | |
| Swag Box | For Gold and Platinum partners |
Your 1st site migration is on us. Tell our team about your app and the traffic it gets. We’ll take care of the entire process of moving your current site.
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Bugs Guaranteed! Our migration experts work closely with you to ensure that your Cloudways site is up and running in tip-top shape.
Yes and no. Kinsta does not offer a free trial on any of its pricing plans, but they do offer a 30-day money back guarantee. Keep in mind, however, overages and one-time fees are non-refundable. All Cloudways plans, on the other hand, are 100% free to start. No credit card needed. We’ll even cover the costs of migrating your first site.
No, Kinsta only does WordPress hosting. You can’t pick your own server either, as Google is the only cloud hosting provider they offer. As you can see, Kinsta gives you very little control over the tools you use to set up your website.
Cloudways supports WordPress, plus any website that’s based on a PHP Content Management System such as Drupal, Magento, Laravel, and Joomla. In addition to Google Cloud, you can choose from 4 other cloud providers: Digital Ocean, Linode, Vultr, AWS.
Cloudways even gives you twice as many global data centers (65+) to choose from. The closer they are to your customer base, the faster load times they’ll experience.
Security is our #1 priority at Cloudways, forming the very foundation of our cloud hosting experience. No matter which hosting plan you’re on, your dedicated Cloudways server comes security features such as: