Pantheon is a powerful WebOps platform but gets too complex for non-developers. Cloudways puts your sites on the world’s fastest servers with a point-and-click interface that makes it all too easy.
Get Started FREE“How fast and easy it is to spin up a new website, especially for WordPress, and manage staging or development copies. Plus, free let’s encrypt SSL certs on all domains.”
Pantheon score: 8.8
Web hosting average: 8.8
Pantheon score: 8.7
Web hosting average: 8.7
Pantheon score: 7.8
Web hosting average: 8.8
Pantheon is good for advanced developers but it gets too expensive and complex for anyone else to justify.
“If your anything but super technical, they might not be ideal.”
“We’re losing out on a couple of exciting features which we read through blogs but couldn’t really deploy.”
“I’m pretty solid in PHP and javascript, but I’m not super comfortable in the command line. And yet they have created a platform that requires a lot of work there.”
“It’s complex and it’s very logical, but requires a bit of a learning curve.”
“It really stinks that «dealing with Pantheon» is a skillset/industry all to itself.”
“Can be expensive if you aren’t an enterprise with a big budget.”
You deserve fast, reliable hosting, whether you’re building on your own or with a team of developers.
Cloudways lets you control your server through a visual interface. No coding required.
You won’t have to learn a new way of working or hire people with specific skills to host your apps with us.
Keep your dev team working on money-making tasks instead of babysitting your site.
Build your sites on any PHP app you want. WordPress and Drupal, yes! But also Magento, Laravel and custom PHP applications.
Get an optimized tech stack with ready-to-use caches including Memcached, Varnish, Nginx, and Redis to deliver expedited responses.
Pantheon limits your monthly visits and the number of sites you can launch. Cloudways gives you as many websites as you want without sacrificing performance.
“Cloudways is the ultimate combination of ease of use and power that I’ve found. I’m moving away from other hosts entirely and transitioning all my clients to Cloudways servers.”
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+150 articles to guide your way through the basic and not-so-basic elements of launching your sites. Our documentation offers an answer to all your questions.
“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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| Dedicated Firewalls |
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| Lowest available plan | $50/mo
MANAGED HOSTING STARTUP
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$14/mo
Digital Ocean
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25,000
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Unlimited
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20GB
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25GB
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5 domains
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Unlimited
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As low as 4
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Our experts handle your 1st site migration absolutely free, from Pantheon 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.
“The support and ease of migration was extremely helpful. I easily understood the process and of course felt much more at ease with the whole transition because of the support that Cloudways provided.”
Managed hosting is the kind of hosting service where your hosting platform handles every aspect of your server, including administration, management, security, and maintenance.
What that means to you is that all you need to do is select the hosting plan you want and your hosting service handles the rest. Cloudways’ team of administrators, developers and security experts will ensure your websites are properly managed to ensure maximum uptime and security.
Note that Cloudways is a managed web hosting service that offers managed WordPress hosting plans while supporting most other major CMS and Ecommerce platforms such as Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and other popular PHP-based applications.
Managed WordPress hosting is a hosting service that makes installing and managing your WordPress websites easier, where most technical and server-side issues are managed by the web hosting platform. Choosing a managed WordPress hosting service means freeing up your time from having to handle security risks, backups, monitoring your WordPress websites’ uptime, and scaling your infrastructure when your WordPress websites grow.
Cloudways is a managed WordPress hosting provider and also supports other applications, such as Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and other PHP-based apps.
With Cloudways, you get a world-class hosting platform and managed WordPress hosting services. All our pricing plans run on top-of-the-line cloud servers provided by DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Amazon AWS and Google Cloud Platform. Cloudways is a managed hosting platform that gives you virtually unlimited cloud hosting resources and services for all your hosting needs, at very affordable prices.
As a fully managed hosting provider, Cloudways takes care of the maintenance of your servers. You get your own control panel to launch and manage your websites. You can host and manage one website or an unlimited number of web applications and control them all from the same user-friendly management panel. Most tasks can be done in just a few clicks.
All Cloudways pricing plans include these features and developer tools:
At Cloudways, we believe no business should stress about their hosting services being down or not working. We put a lot of effort into making that a reality, with the help of our expert engineers.
Standard Support: It’s free and includes 24/7/365 access to Live Chat assistance. Every request is routed to a specifically trained Support Team member.
Advanced Support add-on: For businesses running mission-critical websites. The Advanced add-on opens up a wider range of Cloudways expertise. You get a dedicated account manager, on-demand database and tech-stack customization, deeper application-level support, and proactive monitoring.
Premium Support add-on: Includes everything in Standard and Advanced support, with access to a private Slack channel, that connects you 24/7/365 to our Senior Customer Support Engineers, and direct phone support.
Security is a top priority at Cloudways. We take a proactive approach to keeping your servers safe and secure from malicious traffic, malware and attacks.
To ensure your cloud server security, these features are available on all hosting plans:
There are many Pantheon alternatives in the hosting and managed WordPress hosting space. The main issue with Pantheon is that is good for advanced developers but it becomes expensive and complex for anyone else to justify.
Cloudways gives you high-speed cloud servers and reliable WordPress hosting for high-traffic websites, with an easy-to-manage interface that both web developers and beginners can work with.
We believe no other web hosting provider gives you the same performance and ease of use as Cloudways does, which makes us one of the best alternatives to Pantheon.
