Cloudways Flexible
Customizable managed hosting for WordPress, Magento, Laravel & PHP apps. Full control over server resources and cloud choice.
Developers, agencies, and SMBs trust Cloudways for hosting their WordPress apps, enabling fast, reliable, and high-performance websites.
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Cloudways makes it incredibly easy to host and manage your WordPress website because every function is a few clicks away, so your focus is always on your business!
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Pick up a WordPress cloud hosting plan that you can always scale up/down to optimize operational costs.
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Fastest growing & affordable cloud provider with high-performance SSD standard and NVMe storage premium servers across 9 locations. Select the perfect fit from their Basic, General Purpose, and CPU Optimized server lineup.
DigitalOcean
Across 30 locations, Vultr provides standard servers featuring SSD storage and high frequency servers with NVMe storage powered by the fastest architecture available in the Vultr product lineup.
Vultr
Popular cloud emphasizing consistent performance across 25 datacenters. Choose Linode if you wish top quality performance at a pocket—friendly budget.
Linode
Flexible Amazon cloud compute (EC2) with configurable storage/bandwidth across 28 datacenters. AWS supports dynamic vertical scaling with options to both upgrade and downgrade server resources. Select the perfect fit from their Standard and Compute Optimized server lineup.
AWS
Google Compute Engine (GCE) is an extremely powerful cloud hosting infrastructure with the efficient performance that comes with Google's brand name. With 28 datacenters, GCE supports dynamic vertical scaling with options to both upgrade and downgrade server resources. Select the perfect fit from their Standard, Compute Optimized and High Compute server lineup.
GoogleCloud
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DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
DigitalOcean Standard Droplets, powered by 2nd generation or earlier Intel CPUs and standard SSD, are perfect for general-purpose workloads and all your applications, offering networking speeds up to 2 Gbps.
DigitalOcean Premium Droplets are powered by 2nd or 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and faster NVME storage delivering higher network throughput up to 10 Gbps for your most demanding applications.
Suitable for personal websites and simple blogs.
USD per month
You pay $0.0357 hourly
Suitable for growing businesses & moderate traffic.
USD per month
You pay $0.0357 hourly
Supports more demanding websites with higher traffic.
USD per month
You pay $0.1310 hourly
Ideal for e-com stores and resource-intensive applications.
USD per month
You pay $1.0848 hourly
$0.033/GB per server will be applied for offsite backup storage.
Suitable for personal websites and simple blogs.
USD per month
Suitable for growing businesses & moderate traffic.
USD per month
Supports more demanding websites with higher traffic.
USD per month
Supports high-traffic websites and complex applications.
USD per month
If you hit your plan’s resource limit, your sites will be up and running and you’ll have to pay a small additional fee. You’ll be informed via email once you are close to the limits and also once you are over limit.
Visits
$1/1000Â additional Visits
Bandwidth
$0.4/10 GBÂ additional Bandwidth
Disk Usage
$2/1 GBÂ additional Disk space
Limited time offer
Current price is $100/mo or 10% of your invoice New discounted price will be $25/mo flat
Upgrade NowIf you think a 10X boost in visitors has to come with a catch, think again: Not only does Cloudways handle an astonishingly higher volume of traffic.
With Cloudways’ reliable & scalable hosting, you choose how and where to host your sites & leave server management to us.
Large WordPress multisite with hundreds of concurrent users? No problem. We are experienced in handling multisites of any scale.
Smoothly migrate your WordPress website to Cloudways with the ideal migrator plugin in just 3 simple steps.
Try Cloudways Autonomous – Best for high-traffic websites, with autoscaling. Built on Kubernetes
We’ll move your first website to Cloudways from any web host for FREE (Without breaking your site hosted on the old host).
Migrate My Website.Compared to other hosting solutions, Cloudways gives you the best price-to-performance/features ratio.
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Feature-packed WordPress cloud hosting that lets you focus on things that really make a difference.
SSD greatly improves your store’s performance and speed since the data transfer rate is much higher as compared to traditional storage.
Built-in performance-boosting caching such as Memcached, Varnish, and Redis speed up stores while reducing database load.
Our hosting stack comprises NGINX, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP-FPM to tackle high volume traffic and server requests resulting in better performance and faster load times.
Host your website on PHP 8 ready server that’s significantly faster, secure, and more versatile than previous versions.
Expedite your websites, get constant availability, and secure them against DDoS attacks & malicious traffic with the Cloudflare add-on.
We take caching quite seriously that’s why developed a free, light-weight, and feature-rich cache plugin that comes pre-installed on PHP app.
Our platform-level firewalls protect your server against attacks such as IP spoofing, phishing, and everything that’s not authorized.
Get Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificates to indicate your visitors/customers that their data is encrypted and your online store is authentic.
We protect your account with 2FA and also notify you of any login attempts made from an unidentified device.
You can create a whitelist of IP addresses for unrestricted access over regions and networks through SSH and SFTP.
Every PHP app hosted on your server is isolated to keep it protected from other stores on hosted the same server.
Valuable data of your PHP app is well protected and is only allowed to be accessed remotely via whitelisted IP addresses.
Choose from 60+ data centers of world-class providers such as DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services, & Google Compute Engine for fast PHP app.
Leverage high-performance block storage service while expanding your storage flexibly without changing other server parameters.
Scale up your server resources such as RAM, CPU, and storage for high-availability and performance at the lowest possible costs.
With pay-as-you-go plans, you only need to pay for the resources you use. Never pay a fixed amount or enter into any contract.
Our 1-click actions allow you to perform several operational tasks, such as backup/restore, website/server cloning in no time.
You have the option to easily switch between different versions of PHP. We support PHP 5.6 and the latest versions of PHP 8.2.
We offer 24/7 live chat support in all areas to help you run your PHP app without any hiccups.
Our effective and strong community of PHP experts who share their skills and knowledge to help users around the world.
We have a centralized resource center for our customers. You can refer to the Knowledge Base for any help related to our platform.
Leave your queries through our ticketing system to avoid waiting in queues. Our engineers respond promptly to every query.
We offer advanced and premium add-ons for priority support. Tell us about your requirements and we’ll take care of it.
We have a server and application monitoring tool for troubleshooting. You also can contact our support engineers to take you out of the situation.
Pre-installed Git on our managed PHP hosting platform helps you set up auto-deployment on your live servers without worrying about code changes.
SSH and SFTP allow you to securely access servers and update files for your application. You can also create SFTP credentials for your team members.
Make copies of your PHP app or clone the entire server in just 1-click. You will get new staging URLs for themes/plugins compatibility testing, etc.
It is easy to split projects between relevant teams since we allow one team member to be a part of different teams for collaboration.
We offer free staging URLs and areas that you can use while setting up, testing, and developing your PHP app.
You can divide work within the team, regardless of their location and assign them full or limited access to your PHP app or server.
Cloudways provides accelerated website performance using a combination of performance enhancing feature set.
We have partnered with the leading cloud providers to bring you 99.99% uptime and loading speeds of around 200–400 milliseconds.
“Migrated to Cloudways, Varnish setup seems faster than our Litespeed config ever was. This seems to have been a great decision.”
Stay fully protected with Cloudways’ end-to-end encryption, free SSL certification, and two-factor authentication – not to mention advanced mitigation of DDoS attacks with Cloudflare Enterprise.
“Best way to protect the WordPress site: Cloudways bot protection + Cloudflare + Wordfence Security + Google reCAPTCHA”
Cloudways’ 96% CSAT score speaks volumes of our best-in-class support that includes 24/7 access to a team of experts.
“Best service we use with probably the best customer support experience ever. They fix our website and are just so easy to work with.”
No page loading delays during traffic spikes or when your site grows. Scale up with Cloudways with ease when you need additional resources.
“I’ve received nearly a month’s worth of traffic in three days. Their server is never slowed down and remains fast despite the pressure.”
Simple & clear pricing plans. No website or visitor caps. No overage charges. And no renewal costs. Just pay for what you use.
“We’re saving a lot from hosting our websites with Cloudways. It can get very expensive if you use other WordPress-focused hosting companies.”
Cloudways Autonomous
Get a hosting solution with zero configurations, 1-click operations, and zero downtimes with autoscaling servers. Simply host your website and focus on growing your business, while Autonomous does the rest!
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Read real-life case studies of companies that used our managed cloud server hosting to take their online businesses to the next level!
WordPress is an open-source content management system built to easily create, manage, edit, and update content-based sites. The dashboard and admin panel provided by WordPress are easy to use and interact with, making content and user management hassle-free. 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.
It also allows users to build websites or blogs quickly. A unique feature that makes it so popular is its beginner friendliness. Users can make customized web pages with responsive themes that fit their needs and preferences. As it is a free open-source CMS, there is a huge variety of WordPress themes and plugins that provide the additional benefit of adding features and functionality to websites. It is a robust and efficient platform supporting a webpage’s performance.
Hosting for WordPress websites is a specialized web service designed to improve the performance, security, and speed of websites built on the platform. These servers are configured to optimize WordPress-specific functionality, ensuring smooth operation even for high-traffic websites. A dedicated WordPress server can further boost resource availability and efficiency.
These are some features that are typically offered by many of the WordPress web hosting providers.
You can enjoy these and many more with Cloudways.
The main benefit of WordPress web hosting is that it’s optimized around WordPress websites and, in most cases, includes additional features like premium WordPress plugins, the right server resources, auto-updates, and staging environments. For larger websites, a dedicated WordPress server can further boost performance. Unlike specialized hosting, typical web hosting services don’t offer these unique benefits.
Cloudways is counted among the best hosting provider for WordPress, thanks to its speed, performance, security, and uptime. It offers WordPress-optimized hosting servers with top cloud providers like DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Cloudways platform is specifically built to run WordPress sites optimally, ensuring they perform well and deliver an unmatchable user experience. Also, their 24/7 top-notch support is readily available for prompt help.
Cloudways WordPress web hosting starts from $11/mo if you opt for DigitalOcean as your cloud provider. Other cloud providers on Cloudways are priced as follows:
Cloudways charges you hourly. This means you are charged only for what you use. As soon as you change your cloud hosting pricing plans, it will be reflected immediately on your invoice. There is also a 3-day free trial, which does not require a credit card to activate.
Cloudways is definitely one of the most secure hosting platforms available in the market today. It has a number of unique features making it safe for your websites.
Cloudways supports all WordPress themes and plugins available in the WordPress repository.
Cloudways offers one free migration to all its users, where Cloudways professionals handle all the migration complexities. Also, WordPress users can use the Cloudways WordPress migrator plugin to help you quickly migrate your websites to Cloudways for free.
You can migrate WordPress sites to Cloudways in just 3 simple steps:
Yes, you can easily scale your server anytime on our WordPress Web hosting platform. Simply log in to your Cloudways account and use the slider in the Vertical Scaling menu to scale your server manually as per your needs.
Automatic vertical scaling is available with Cloudways Autonomous. It detects high traffic and automatically scales up the server accordingly. So your websites keep on running smoothly even in the case of heavy traffic spikes.Consider the following factors when choosing a hosting plan for your WordPress site:
After purchasing a hosting plan, you should: