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Cloudways
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4.7
(709)
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Cloudways Reviews & Product Details

Cloudways Overview
What is Cloudways?

Cloudways is a managed hosting provider that focuses on performance and simplicity. Whether you need simple server and application launches, or ongoing server maintenance, Couldways is built to simplify the whole process of server management to support business growth thanks to its powerful suite of tools and services that can help manage your eCommerce stores and business sites. It also underscores user options–from cloud providers and hosting.

Company Cloudways Ltd.
Year founded 2011
Company size 51-200 employees
Headquarters Mosta, Malta
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Cloudways Product Details
Capabilities
API
CLI
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
Cloudways Pros and Cons
Pros
  • Option to add as many website installations as you want
  • Server speed is faster than competition
  • Pay as you go pricing plan
  • Managed app option with database backups
Cons
  • No root access or server modifications
  • Add ons require additional cost
  • Inability to use Plesk or cPanel
Cloudways Features
API Access
Auto-Scaling
Automated Backups
Bandwidth Allocation
Compliance Certifications
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Cost Management Tools
Customer Support
Customizable Virtual Machines
DDoS Protection
Data encryption
Database Options
Dedicated IP
Disaster Recovery
Hybrid Cloud Support
Load Balancing
Managed Services
Migration Assistance
Monitoring and Alerts
Multi-Region Support
Network Security
Operating System Options
Resource Management
Scalability
Serverless Computing
Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
Storage Options
Uptime Guarantee
User Management
Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
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Last updated: November 15, 2024
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709 Cloudways Reviews
4.7 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 20, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Mark H. avatar
Mark H.
Founder
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"Moving Beyond Managed Wordpress Hosting Was Unexpectedly Easy"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Besides the instant and huge speed improvement without lifting a finger, it's having the full visibility of what's going on with my websites when I want to see it and control it. I never imagined I would be able to pile all 12 of my websites onto servers and move them around freely as needed between servers and levels of service as I learn how to do it.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

Honestly I've yet to encounter anything undesirable. I moved 12 websites into Cloudways and never once needed to contact support. It's not really because of any expertise, it's more about having the right attitude - working on a need-to-know basis and incrementally assembling things until done.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudways affords me the detailed visibility of what's actually happening with my websites that's just not possible with managed wordpress hosting at, say, GoDaddy, Bluehost, Siteground, Hostgator, etc. The significant increase in speed happens just because it's cloud-based, but I have the ability to then go in and both see and tweak my way to even bigger speed increases.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 19, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MM
Matthew M.
Founder
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"Great service, very happy across multiple sites for our business"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Help centre is good and support from team is awesome

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

So far I can't really pick a hole in it - keep up the good work.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Secure hosting.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 11, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Carlos A. avatar
Carlos A.
Founder
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"The best hosting I ever had"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

In 30 minutes I had all my hosting and web pages migrated and working, everything is very easy to setup and now my pages run faster than ever

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

Not a dealbreaker buy maybe the db management

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting my web pages, SSL certificate, migrating and setting up landing pages

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 22, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Fabio F. avatar
Fabio F.
Founder & Ceo
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"Best Profesional Managed Hosting Platform"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Everything at Cloudways Platform is tailored to give us what we need: full management of the servers, simple and intuitive yet powerfull console, with one of the best support teams I've ever found on the market.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

I couldn't say I dislike something. It's all so well made and taking in account the customers, that it's hard to find something to criticize. I've been suggesting a few (mostly UI/UX) things, and most of them are acutally being implemented.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has changed my Server Deployment time from 5 days to a couple hours, and my Problem-Solving Timeframe from days or weeks, to a few minutes. With the Cloudways Support Team I also learn to solve issues on my own, with their help, and this makes me a better Hostmaster using the Cloudways Platform.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 29, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Sama T. avatar
Sama T.
Sales Manager
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"Awsome hosting"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

The customer service is great and you get a lot of effective help . The speed of my site became excellent

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

i did not face any issue and they did not help me with

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem was the speed of the site and now it is solved with cloudways hosting

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 04, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Joe W. avatar
Joe W.
Social Media Manager
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"Smooth experience. Up and running fast."
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Cloudways very quickly allows me to put a new website or test instance online - with the development STACK of my choosing. What I appreciate most is the ability to start up a new project very quickly, without having to handle the configuration myself. This saves a great deal of time, spares me needless complexity, and lets me get to work with less friction. As the usage of a project grows, it's also easy to scale up to meet the new performance needs. And it's affordable. It's also very reliable and has helpful and responsive support. With Cloudways, a new project environment is ready to go for me in just a few minutes.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

I have no immediate dislikes that come to mind. Although I had once incurred an issue with log files growing too large, the technical support team resolved it.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web application prototyping. The key benefit is the immediate deployment of a droplet with the development STACK of my choosing ready to go. Skipping the configuration steps saves a great deal of time and frustration.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 23, 2020
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Chris B.
Creative Director
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"Best hosting provider I've used"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

The ease of use of a managed host but with knowledgeable, fast and efficient support and the flexibility to get close to dedicated hosting capabilities and options.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

I honestly cannot say there is anything I dislike.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web hosting for small to medium sized business clients.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 27, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Paul C.
Director
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"Great Choice For Websites That Need Better Than Shared Hosting"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

The user interface on Cloudways is very easy to use. I needed to extend the php maximum execution time for my website and this was very easy to do.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

Nothing, I did not have any problems setting up the system. How to videos were useful.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudways saves me the expense of dedicated hosting.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 25, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Brian K. avatar
Brian K.
Owner
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"Very pleased with Cloudways hosting"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Versatility of server configuration. Easy of SSL deployment. Development and site speed.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

They may need to consider adding email hosting in the future

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web site speed and scaling options.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 04, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Aaron L. avatar
Aaron L.
Chief Product Officer
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"Love it so much that I use it for all new customers"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

The support is probably the best thing about Cloudways. I was one of their beta users back in 2014 and have been using them ever since. Their 24/7 support chat is fast, responsive and solves my problems very quickly. The interface is also so good that it makes my life so much easier

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

They only support the PHP stack. That's a major drawback because there are a lot of solutions and customers that will want to use Node or Python and it's a pain to manage multiple providers for them. So if the customer requires something outside of PHP, I don't end up using them

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

The server administration is so much easier and simple to do without having to SSH into each server. Also the entire stack is optimised as a single integrated stack.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 22, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Christopher J. avatar
Christopher J.
House Elf
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"Best Hosting Provider on the Planet!"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

: I migrated to Cloudways from another leader in the industry. I really like Cloudways pricing structure, its absolutely wonderful. The really like the ability to add cores or space is extremely helpful as well. Love love cloudways!

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

I dislike the lack of a cpanel, that really took some getting used to as well as not having control over my email accounts.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

I migrated 2 sites over to cloudways. One was 16g! No issues, sites came right up using https.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 23, 2019
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Overall Rating:
5.0
PM
Pedro M.
Ceo
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"Great service"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Simplicity, performance and easy of use. Prices are great also!

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

Downsizing a server is possible but a bit tricky and not as clean as everything else

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hosting wordpress sites with quality easily

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 08, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Raymond S. avatar
Raymond S.
Full Stack Web Developer
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"Flexible and Realiable!"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Easy. Very very easy to use, setup and maintain apps. My favourite feature would be the 2 step setup and your Github repo can be pulled. Sure beats writing a bunch of terminal commands! My next favourite feature would be the extremely easy setup of a stating/production environments.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

Only thing I'm missing is the ability to auto pull from Git once a new commit to the master branch has been made.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Uptime and reliability. Our company develops applications mostly in Laravel. Cloudways provided an out-the -box Laravel setup. It's nearly impossible to host Laravel applications on our managed or shared dedicated servers we previously used.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 11, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Khairul Adi Johari T. avatar
Khairul Adi Johari T.
Global Project & Build Deployment Lead
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"Its fast especially for the non techie "
What do you like best about Cloudways?

The migration tools its very awesome, you can migrate your site on the fly without having any issues. Monitoring tools that been use in cloudways its very effective

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

Development on the new software examples the SQL/PHP usually delay in the rollout plan.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Im migrating from the shared hosting to Cloudways. Its give me better speed and easy to manage without doing more configuration or customized my server.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 13, 2019
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Overall Rating:
5.0
NR
Nathan R.
Life Coach And Mentor
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"They are by your side 100%"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Not provided

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

Not provided

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not provided

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 08, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
PL
Piotr L.
Ceo
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"Great service and product"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Server literally works out of the box and works smoothly. Any questions I have are answered quickly and professionally.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

There is not much to dislike. Of course, answers could be faster but again I am currently on smaller server option where answers are within a timeframe that represents option I am using and I had experience with the different company that used to answer much faster but their answers were often not valid while cloudways answers with detailed explanation.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are quickly expanding company and we were looking for managed hosting that will provide us with out of the box good service with possibility to update and customize and cloudways seem to fit right in.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 22, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AM
Artem M.
Founder
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"Fast, secure, and cost-effective managed VPS platform"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Cloudways provides a quality control panel for a VPS/cloud server, premium proactive support, and a fast, optimized WordPress platform for a reasonable price. CloudWays installs and configures a performant stack, including Nginx reverse proxy in front of Apache, PHP 7.2 FPM (latest in 2018), Varnish, Redis, and Memcached. Even though I chose the smallest DigitalOcean server plan through Cloudways, my client's eCommerce WordPress site works really fast in my experience.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

It is hard to find a reasonable complaint at this point. On the contrary, their willing and proactive support, no-root-access sFTP/SSH, and a GUI for managing the server, makes it easier to hand over server management to the client, if needed.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudways manages the VPS/cloud hosting for my client's eCommerce website.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 29, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
NS
Nirmala S.
Blogger
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"Amazing Hosting Experience"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Cloudways is the best managed cloud hosting service that offers me the stress-free hosting experience so that I could focus on my blogs' growth. I have 3 blogs hosted on Cloudways and didn't have any bitter experience till now. I'm completely satified with the cloud server service with flexible and scalable features. I can see the organic ranking improvements with the great uptime, security and speed and hence I would like to recommed this managed cloud platform for the digital enthusiasts.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

A free domain should be available so that we can avoid relying on the third-party domain registers to purchase the domain. Also, CDN feature should be offered for Free. Likewise, the email accounts can be offered for no cost. Otherwise, everything is fine. The company should consider adding these features for their beloved customers like me.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

My blogs are loading fast and perform well in search engines. Besides, the security features are good. Out of all, the customer support is great and knowledgeble. Another important benefits is, my blogs are 100% up so that it enhances my reputation among the readers and the search eigines. The pricing plans are affordable and more convenient to pay montly . No yearly renewal headaches and it is the key advantage of Cloudways.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 12, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
NH
Neil H.
Founder
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"Best Cloud Platform"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Cloudways is cheap and affordable, there are plans starting at just $5 as well as much other pay as you go options which are great for different users and gives them the freedom to choose according to their need. the support is excellent, i had several issues on the service and they sorted out every one of them. the service is active 24/7 and replies almost instantaneously and executives know what they are saying. the servers are really awesome, for a newbie it gives wide flexibility to choose from a wide range of industry-leading cloud service providers as well a huge range of scripts to install on them. the setup is really simple and you can deploy servers with few clicks. another great thing is the free trial option which doesn't need any billing information for you to get started and allows you to try their service for a few days. I basically started out with the free trial and i have to say i'm more than impressed by them.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

the email service cost extra when most of the services give this feature for free. there is no option to register domains so you have to register it elsewhere and update nameservers to work with cloudways,

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

hosting my website in the cloud servers. i have to say this is one of the best services in the cloud hosting industry,

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 08, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
LM
Luis M.
Founder
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"Best Cloud Platform"
What do you like best about Cloudways?

Starts from the pricing its self Cloudways is great. they offer so many choices that you could find a package that best suits your need. its one of the most affordable cloud platforms available. the free trial provided them is great so that you can try their platform without paying anything. The best part of Cloudways is their support, they are always online and reply instantly to your queries.they also offer SSH access that most cloud hosting platform does not offer. The setup and one-click Installations are also great that you don't have to sweat much to launch your server. The performance of the Servers is really good that my website was up almost all the time.

What do you dislike about Cloudways?

the plans and interface are a bit confusing in the beginning that a newbie to hosting can find it difficult to find whats best for them. another problem with cloudways is the lack of supported applications, they mainly offer only PHP based Scripts.i also had trouble with my Database when I tried to add SSL socket to my website which was resolved later.

What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you?

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