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Cloudways Performance Showdown with WPEngine and Kinsta
Recent tests show how Cloudways can outperform managed hosting providers without a sweat.
Cloudways Plans Speed Tested Against Kinsta and WPEngine
You know we’re less expensive. Now see how many more visitors we can handle, at speed. Whether you’re an agency with dozens of clients or you’re just getting started with your first website, there’s a Cloudways plan for you. There are plans with other providers, too, but these tend to cost a lot more and offer much, much less. Check out how Cloudways is getting edge in the list of WP Engine competitors
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We ran tests on loader.io to compare plans at three levels. Every time, visitor caps on Kinsta and WPEngine plans are tiny against the audience that can be quickly served via Cloudways.
Cloudways Performance Benchmarks
You know we’re less expensive, and now we can prove that we’re faster. We ran these tests on loader.io in July 2020. In three categories—agency, small business, and entry-level.
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| Plan | Business 1 | Growth | 4GB DO |
| Cost | 100 / m | 95 / m | 42 / m |
| Max Visitors | 100,000 | 100,000 | Unlimited* |
| Response Time | |||
| Average | 5000 ms | 8705 ms | 3439 ms |
| Min | 50 ms | 150 ms | 1039 ms |
| Max | 50000 ms | 37649 ms | 9296 ms |
| Response Count | |||
| Success | 500 | 708 | 3707 |
| 400 | 500 | 588 | 0 |
| 500 | 500 | 440 | 0 |
| Timeout | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Network | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Bandwidth | |||
| Sent | 700 KB | 629.70 KB | 1.5 MB |
| Received | 140 MB | 79.48 MB | 443.5 MB |
* Kinsta and WPEngine charge extra for visits above the plan’s cap (figures as of August 2020). Cloudways’ visitor estimate based on speed test data, up to average page load time = 2.5 seconds.
Agency Level Plans Comparison
With Cloudways agencies save $150+ each month and get six times as much storage (and more than ten times the bandwidth). Tests show that a typical WordPress installation will load quickly for over 6.7 million visitors a month. Kinsta and WPEngine charge extra for anything over 400,000 visitors, and cap the number of sites you can host as well. See Kinsta alternative
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| Plans | Business 3 Plan | Growth Plan | Digitalocean |
| Monthly Cost | $300 | $290 | $135 |
| Storage | 50GB | 50GB | 320GB |
| Bandwidth | 500GB (CDN) | 500GB (CDN) | 6TB |
| Visits | 400,000 | 400,000 | 6,700,000+ |
| Sites | 20 | 30 | No limit |
* Kinsta and WPEngine charge extra for visits above the plan’s cap (figures as of August 2020). Cloudways’ visitor estimate based on speed test data, up to average page load time = 2.5 seconds.
Small Business Plans Comparison
Cloudways saves small businesses $50-70 each month and offers more than double the storage (and 20x the bandwidth). Kinsta and WPEngine prices increase after 100,000 visitors, whereas our testing shows that Cloudways will hum along nicely for more than 1.67 million visitors.
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| Plans | Business 1 Plan | Growth Plan | Digitalocean |
| Monthly Cost | $100 | $115 | $42 |
| Storage | 30GB | 20GB | 80GB |
| Bandwidth | 200GB (CDN) | 200GB (CDN) | 6TB |
| Visits | 100,000 | 100,000 | 1,670,000+ |
| Sites | 5 | 10 | No limit |
* Kinsta and WPEngine charge extra for visits above the plan’s cap (figures as of August 2020). Cloudways’ visitor estimate based on speed test data, up to average page load time = 2.5 seconds.
Entry-level Plans Comparison
Cloudways is one-third the cost for more than twice the storage (and 20x the bandwidth). With Cloudways you’re not restricted to a single website or a few thousand visitors. Instead, our testing shows that a typical WordPress site will load quickly for more than 840,000 visitors a month.
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| Plans | Starter Plan | Startup Plan | Digitalocean |
| Monthly Cost | $30 | $30 | $10 |
| Storage | 10GB | 10GB | 25GB |
| Bandwidth | 50GB (CDN) | 50GB (CDN) | 1TB |
| Visits | 20,000 | 25,000 | 840,000+ |
| Sites | 1 | 1 | No limit |
* Kinsta and WPEngine charge extra for visits above the plan’s cap (figures as of August 2020). Cloudways’ visitor estimate based on speed test data, up to average page load time = 2.5 seconds.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is WordPress?
WordPress is an open-source CMS built to easily create, manage, edit, and update content-based sites. In a technical context, WordPress is coded in PHP and uses a MySQL database. Over 810 million websites use WordPress, which amounts to around 43% of all websites on the internet.
What is managed WordPress hosting?
A managed WordPress hosting provider works as your extended team and takes care of all the website & server-related issues, hence the term ‘managed hosting.’ This gives you a hassle-free experience so you can focus on your business instead of your web host.
At Cloudways, we provide optimized servers for WordPress web hosting. Instead of resorting to manual installation, you can install WordPress with just a click on our managed hosting servers.
Our managed WordPress hosting offers the latest version of WordPress, a built-in cache plugin, and 24/7 support that is always available to answer your questions. With Cloudways, you’re never managing your websites alone. Our WordPress web hosting platform is built to run WordPress optimally, ensuring your websites perform well and deliver an unmatchable experience to your users.
How much does Cloudways WordPress Hosting Cost?
Cloudways provides a vast variety of hosting packages and plans which are suitable for different requirements. The starting price based on the choice of cloud providers include
DigitalOcean: $12/month
Linode: $12/month
Vultr: $ 13/month
Amazon Web Services: $36.51/month
Google Compute Engine: $33.18/month
Also, you can get premium add-ons at minimal cost like automatic WordPress updates for an additional $3, Cloudflare Enterprise at $5, etc. Cloudways has a Pay as you go pricing model through which we make sure that our customers get the best value for their money.
How many WordPress websites can I migrate to your managed cloud hosting?
Using our WordPress Migration Plugin, you can migrate as many WordPress websites as you want without incurring any costs. In essence, you can deploy an unlimited number of WordPress websites on a single server.
Do you restrict the use of WordPress Plugins or Themes on your Cloud hosting platform?
No! When you host your websites on our managed WordPress hosting, you can use any plugin or theme you like.
While we help you manage your WordPress website, their ownership lies entirely with you. This is one of the reasons why so many people choose our WordPress web hosting solution to host their high-priority websites.
Do I have to pay separately for the infrastructure?
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.
How can I scale my WordPress hosting server?
You can easily vertically scale all aspects of your server on our managed WordPress hosting platform.
When there’s a surge in traffic on your WordPress website, you can go to your platform and simply use the slider in the Vertical Scaling menu to scale your server manually. Now your website is ready for the next big event!
How secure is your WordPress hosting platform?
We take the security of websites on our managed WordPress hosting very seriously & platform-level firewalls are deployed on all our servers that host WordPress and other applications. Other top-notch security hardening techniques include end-to-end encryption, Malcare bot protection, Cloudflare Enterprise Addon, SafeUpdates, free SSL certificates, WAF & many more making Cloudways one of the most secure WordPress hosting platforms available. You are protected from DDoS attacks, malicious traffic & malware.
No matter how big or small, all customers are hosted on dedicated and jailed WordPress managed hosting, so their websites are completely secure.
I have a WordPress website with thousands of daily visitors. Will your WordPress web hosting be able to handle it?
Our managed WordPress Hosting platform can host WordPress websites of all sizes. In fact, you can scale your servers with hosted WordPress websites with just a single click.
How is Cloudways better than other WordPress hosting providers?
With our high-performance managed WordPress hosting platform, you have everything from monitoring, scaling, and cloning to backups, restores, and much more, all through 1-Click operations.
Additionally, our managed hosting platform offers scalability and can handle WordPress multisite and ecommerce websites using WooCommerce. Compared to other managed WordPress hosting providers, we offer you the opportunity to experience the pioneering CloudwaysBot, along with an optimized WordPress hosting platform.
Developers can choose to use the API for integrations, automation, and development on top of our managed WordPress hosting platform.
Would your WordPress cloud hosting improve my website speed?
For the deployment of your WordPress site on our managed hosting platform, we utilize a unique performance-optimized stack.
The performance-optimized stack is a potent combination of the powerful features of Varnish, Redis, Apache, and Nginx. This unique formula gives you the fully optimized and managed WordPress hosting experience that guarantees better performance and speed for your WordPress websites.
Will you help migrate my website to your WordPress cloud hosting platform?
Migrating your WordPress website to Cloudways is easy. The Cloudways WordPress migrator is a dedicated plugin that we created to quickly migrate your websites to our managed WordPress hosting.
Additionally, we offer one managed migration without any cost if you wish for assistance with your migration.