Cloudways is a managed cloud hosting platform that provisions and operates servers on DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, AWS, Linode, and Vultr from one control panel. Founded in 2009 and acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022, it runs the Thunderstack PHP stack (Nginx, Apache, PHP, MariaDB, Varnish, Redis, Memcached) and is popular for PHP and WordPress hosting. It targets agencies and developers wanting managed hosting without server administration, offering a short free trial rather than a standing free tier. The platform includes a control panel, automated backups, and staging across multiple cloud providers, though it does not include auto-scaling.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2009
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- No
Server control panel
- Supported providers
- DigitalOcean, Google Cloud, AWS, Linode, Vultr
- Managed stack
- Thunderstack: Nginx, Apache, PHP, MariaDB, Varnish, Redis, Memcached
- Control panel
- Yes
- Auto-scaling
- No
- Automated backups
- Yes
- Staging / clone
- Yes
- Multi-provider
- Yes
- Free tier
- No
Managed WordPress hosting
- Free tier
- No
- Managed updates
- No
- Staging / clone
- Yes
- Automatic backups
- Yes
- Cdn included
- No
- Object cache
- Yes
- Multisite support
- Yes
- Free migration
- Yes
- Git deploy
- Yes
Managed hosting
- Support level
- Managed
- Datacenters
- 0
- Uptime SLA
- 99.99%
- Free migration
- Yes
- Automatic backups
- Yes
- Staging / clone
- Yes
- Managed updates
- No
- Free tier
- No