What is Cloudways?
Cloudways is a managed hosting provider that emphasizes performance and simplicity. From the simple server and application launch to the ongoing server maintenance, Cloudways takes away all the hassles of server management so that you can continue to focus on growing your business.
When you join Cloudways, you get a suite of powerful tools and services to manage your ecommerce stores and business websites. The core USP of Cloudways is choice - the choice of cloud providers, the choice of hosting almost every PHP powered application, the choice of using a paid or free SSL and the choice of developer and agency-focused workflows.
The ideas of choice and freedom to focus on what’s important to the users start right from the moment of server & application launch. With the choice of five IaaS providers (AWS, GCE, DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode) and multiple versions of popular applications (including four flavors of WordPress and two of Magento), the users can configure the Cloudways platform to fit their operational requirements and business processes.
The theme continues throughout the platform where users can deploy almost 50+ server and application management operations in a few clicks.
Affordable Pricing: Cloudways is quite affordably priced with it's base plan starting at just $10/month (Technically $10.5/month considering minimum $0.5 for compulsory offsite backups)
Multiple Data Centers: With Cloudways, you can choose from one of the several data centers offered by Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Free Object Pro Cache: With 2GB RAM or higher plan, Cloudways offers free Object Cache Pro Plugin which can considerably improve database fetching.
Rock Solid Uptime: All the Cloud Hosting providers available at Cloudways provide top-notch uptime. Cloudways too does not add on much downtime from its side.
Developer Friendly: Cloudways offers several development friendly features including SSH access.
No Long Term Commitment: Cloudways bills you per hour with a maximum monthly cap. The billing too is postpaid. So, you don't even have to pay in advance for days, forget about months and years.
CloudFlare Enterprise Plan At Nominal Cost: At Cloudways, you can also choose to get the Cloudways Enterprise plan by paying a nominal cost of $4.99/month/website.
Highly Scalable: Cloudways is highly Scalable. From 1GB RAM Server to up to 384 GB RAM Server (AWS), whether you are a small business or a large enterprise business, Cloudways has a solution for you.
Great Speed: Though Cloudways does not offer LiteSpeed WebServers, it's server stack powered by NGINX + Apache is lightning fast. The free Object Cache Pro plugin available with 2GB and higher plan makes your website even faster.
Summary :
Cloudways is an affordable Programming as a Service (Paas) provide that procures servers from Cloud Hosting Providers like Digital Ocean, Linode, Vultr, AWS and GCP. The performance of their servers is good and since they only work with the best Cloud Hosting providers, the uptime is top-notch.
Their Server Stack called Thunderstack is really quick. So, you can expect faster page load times. In addition, with 2GB RAM and higher plans you get free Object Pro Cache worth $79/month which can further speed up mission critical websites
Another feature that boosts their speeds is the Cloudflare Enterprise Addon that comes at a nominal cost.
Their support too has improved a lot in the last few months. From waiting several minutes for a response to quick and fast solutions, they have improved leaps and bounds.