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With WPEngine, you’re paying for traffic you’re not utilising.
When you excede your plan limits, WPEngine charges you overages and you risk a crash.

Cloudways as the WP Engine Alternative

High Performance. Effortlessly Delivered.

Cloudways vs WPEngine isn’t just a showdown – it’s a clear win. Choose Cloudways for:

  • Half the Price

  • More Features

  • Flexible Control

  • 5X Coverage

  • Auto Scaling

  • Actual Support

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WP Engine VS Cloudways

Why Choose Cloudways as the WP Engine Alternative

Uncover how Cloudways isn’t merely another player among WP Engine competitors – it’s the frontrunner, delivering High performance and earning the trust of business owners like you.

Get More, Pay Less

Choose Cloudways for all the features you need while keeping your wallet happy. Who says you can’t have it all?.

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5X More Data Centers

Cloudway boasts 5 times the number of data centers as WP Engine, distributed across 3 times as many locations.

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Flexible Control

Cloudways offers total freedom without plugin restrictions or hidden controls, unlike WP Engine’s rigid, limited setup.

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G2’s Top Rated

While WP Engine doesn’t even make it to the top 5, G2 has recognized Cloudways as the #1 hosting outshining WP Engine and all other alternatives to WP Engine.

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Handle Traffic Spikes

With Cloudways Autonomous™, your website can handle traffic spikes with seamless autoscaling and pay-as-you-go flexibility.

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Real 24/7 Support

People claim WPEngine’s support is like a ghost – there, but not really. At Cloudways, we’re hauntingly reliable.

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People Love Us

Our customers value our service almost just as much as we value them. Cloudways is the people’s choice of quality hosting.

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The WPEngine alternative that is

Faster. Limitless. affordable. Cloudways is the Better Choice

Cloudways offers more power, speed, and no traffic limits – at a price that WP Engine can’t match. Check out the comparison table below and make the smart move .
Price
Price per month Starting From $11 Starting From $20
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Features Features
No. of websites Unmetered on all plans Starting from 1
Monthly Visits Unlimited on all plans Starting from 25,000
Bandwidth Starting from 1 TB Starting from 50 GB
Disk Storage Starting from 25 GB SSD Starting from 10 GB
Scaling Instant • 1-Click Overages at $2/1000 visitors
Support
24/7 support
Slack Channel (Paid add-ons)
Customization Support (Paid add-ons)
Performance
Global Data Center Coverage 55 Unique Locations,
116 Data Centers 		18 Unique Locations,
26 Data Centers
Infrastructure GCP, AWS, DO, Vultr, Linode GCP, AWS (Premium),
Azure (Premium)
Security
Malware Scanning Proactive Not proactive
Free SSL
DDoS Protection (Paid Cloudflare Enterprise)
Backups & 1-Click Restore
WAF (Anti-Hack System) Add-on
Add-ons
Add-ons
  • Support Add-ons
  • Gmail SMTP
  • DNS Made Easy
  • Application Upgrade
  • Application Migration
  • Rackspace Email Hosting
  • Cloudflare CDN
  • Client Billing
  • Site Monitoring
  • Smart Plugin Manager
  • Global Edge Security
  • Genesis Pro
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Cloudways is the WPEngine alternative that gives you

5X More Data Centers

Cloudways, with 5X the data centers in 3X as many locations compared to WP Engine, means faster load times & lower latency. With WP Engine’s handful of data centers, let’s just say their idea of ‘global’ is a bit more regional.

  • Cloudways

    116 Data Centers
    55 Unique Locations

  • WP Engine

    26 Data Centers
    18 Unique Locations
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Cloudways is G2’s #1 Cloud Web Hosting Provider

While WP Engine doesn’t even make it to the top 5, Cloudways sets the standard above WP Engine and WP Engine alternatives as the top-rated cloud web hosting provider. Consider the bar officially raised.

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Plugin
Freedom

True Server
Control

No Force
Updates

Full Developer
Access

Flexible Control with Cloudways

Cloudways puts you in the driver’s seat with flexible plugin control and no hidden limitations. While WP Engine imposes plugin bans and shields you from real server control, Cloudways hands you the reins.

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Handle Traffic Spikes with Cloudways Autonomous

While WP Engine users may be worried about traffic limits, Cloudways Autonomous scales your site automatically, charging only for what you use without compromising performance. We’ll handle all the heavy lifting – you just keep growing.

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With Cloudways’ Pay-as-you-go model, you pay only for what you use – no under utilisation, no crash risks!

Cloudways Support is Your Extended Team

Cloudways Support goes beyond their normal duties to ensure any problem you have is solved instantly – unlike WPEngine, where Support can feel like an afterthought.

Priority Support

24/7/365 priority Live Chat and ticketing support from our Senior Engineers, with improved SLAs.

Plugin/Theme Troubleshooting

Our Support Engineers will help you troubleshoot errors and conflicts with plugins and themes.

Performance/DB Optimization

On-demand optimization tweaks to ensure your application is performing well.

Handle Traffic Spikes

With Cloudways Autonomous™, your website can handle traffic spikes with seamless autoscaling and pay-as-you-go flexibility.

Server Error Investigation

We’ll collaborate with your team for deeper investigation of common server errors (500, 502, 503, etc).

Proactive Monitoring

If your server or stack is down, we will go beyond sending you alert and proactively start investigating.

Customization

Customization of your stack/server, e.g. deploying additional packages, specific configurations etc.

Dedicated Account Manager

Your primary contact at Cloudways is here to help and guide you, whatever you want to achieve.

Private Slack Channel (Premium support)

24/7/365 private Slack channel connects your team directly with our Senior Support Engineers. We partner with your team to help you grow.

Phone Support (Premium support)

Call our Senior Support Engineers any time for in-person support.

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The Verdict is in.
Cloudways is THE WP Engine Alternative.

Cloudways isn’t just another hosting option – it’s the one people can’t stop talking about. From killer performance to support that’s always got your back, here’s what our users are buzzing about.

Alin-Lonel Banut

Verified Trust Pilot User

I’ve been a loyal Cloudways customer for over 6 years, and my experience has been nothing short of exceptional. What truly sets Cloudways apart is their outstanding customer support. The live chat team is incredibly professional, always quick to respond, and goes above and beyond to resolve any issues. Their dedication to customer care is truly impressive. If you’re looking for a hosting provider that combines top-notch performance with excellent support, I highly recommend Cloudways!

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Shane Boring

@shaneboring

@wpengine has to have some of the WORST customer service on earth. WHY? HQ in Austin, TX, where BARE MINIMUM effort is challenged daily by sloths occupying human bodies. ….thanks for continuing to bill an account that I have ZERO access to, and that has been inactive for 12 mo+++.

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Paul D

Creative Director & Owner

You pay for what you get. Instead of paying a low introductory fee and then getting high prices a year or two later, you just pay for what you need now. It’s easy to scale up and down. Cloudways makes cloud hosting easy to start. The process of setting up your websites and server is simple and quick. The UI/UX design is great too. Very intuitive and simple. It’s also fast and reliable which is something you don’t want to mess with for websites. Also their support team has been great. They’ve been quick to respond to any issues I’ve experienced.

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it-guy

@johnffrenemy

@wpengine makes millions and try to gaslight when it could of just help the community is it time to boycott overpriced hosting. #boycottwpengine

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Ant Ekşiler

@anteksiler

PhpMyAdmin access at @wpengine is always awfully slow. I can’t even list the tables.

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Emil Andersen

@EmilAndersen

Unfortunately we’ve experienced a very slow server even though we are paying around 700 USD per month. I wouldn’t recommend WP Engine to anyone that are looking for a quick server. Furthermore it’s almost impossible to get to know you server details. Even the most basic information like RAM they wont tell you. Probably because they are putting your site on a shared hosting.

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Jonathan Bailey

@Plagirismtoday

I want to give a quick shoutout to @Cloudways, the host of my site.With the events taking place this week, I’ve received nearly a month’s worth of traffic in three days. Their server is going strong, never slowed down and remains fast despite the pressure.Thank you!

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Diana Urban

@DianaUrban

Gah I wish @wpengine didn’t have traffic caps for their web hosting plans. Anyone have great web hosting with 99.9% uptime and fast support?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Managed WordPress hosting is a form of web-hosting that makes installing and managing your WordPress site easier, where most technical and server-side issues are managed by the company you hire. Managed hosting means freeing up your time from having to handle security risks, backups, monitoring your sites’ uptime, and scaling your infrastructure when your site grows.

Cloudways provides managed WordPress services, but doesn’t stop at WordPress. You can also host other applications, such as Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and other PHP-based apps.

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The main difference between WP Engine and Cloudways is that WP Engine offers plans based on core feature limitations and number of sites you can host.

With Cloudways you can launch as many sites as you want, on any plan. And you get access to the same set of features, no matter which plan you choose. We believe that structuring our plans this way helps all kinds of business start and grow with total control on their websites’ performance.

WP Engine’s lowest plan starts at $30/mo and includes only 1 site. With Cloudways you can get started for as low as $11/mo, with unlimited sites.

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At Cloudways, we believe no one should stress about their website being down or not working. We put a lot of effort and resources into making that a reality, with the help of our support team.

Standard Support: It’s free and includes 24/7/365 access to Live Chat assistance with trained Support Team members.

Advanced Support add-on: Speeds up Live Chat response times and includes deeper application troubleshooting, customization support, and proactive monitoring.

Premium Support add-on: For businesses running mission-critical sites where every minute matters. Advanced service with even quicker response times, a dedicated Account Manager, a private Slack channel, and direct phone support.

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Yes! You can read our own articles comparing overall performance and speed tests, or read this 3rd party review of Cloudways vs. WP Engine (with speed tests)

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Cloudways offers an out-of-the-box caching stack which includes Memcached, Varnish, Nginx, and Redis to deliver fast responses. WP Engine forces you to install an Advanced Caching plugin to match this level of performance.

WP Engine also disallows plugins like WP Super Cache, WP File Cache, and W3 Total Cache, preventing you to apply further optimizations that can’t be done server-side.

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Yes — it’s included on any plan you choose. You can easily set up CDN from your dashboard, even if you’ve never done this kind of integration before. Cloudflare Enterprise delivers extremely fast experiences for your user, starting as low as $5/app/month.

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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.

These measures are available on any plan you choose:

  • Dedicated Firewalls
  • 1-Click Free SSL Certificate
  • IP Whitelisting
  • Regular Security Patching
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Bot Protection
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1. All information regarding WP Engine has been sourced from their official website and is accurate as of 10th September 2024.

2. The information in this section has been procured from G2 in October (2024) and may be subject to change.

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