Cloudways Editorial Review & Aggregated Reddit Reviews

Cloudways which is the managed part on top of digital ocean is great!
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After getting a recommendation in this sub I switched over to cloudways about a year ago. Cloudways creates an interface for you to have a VPN on another service such as digitalocean or Amazon, depending on your needs. I’m so glad that I did it because I’ve had zero downtime, tech support is fast & friendly, and my website is now on a cloud Network that’s world wide and very fast.
I tried setting up a VPN on another hosting service and the leap in tech know how required was just too much. cloudways makes it as simple and easy as it can possibly be. once the server is setup it’s really no different than services such as GoDaddy, you have an interface that takes care of everything for you.
Basically I have a simple VPN and I can host as many sites on it as the VPN can handle. Right now it’s pumping out about 1,500 hits per day. Also I pay less than $10 a month but the service costs have since increased for people who are new customers.
Setting up the server 2 interface with your domain company can be a little tricky, you have to go into A name records and stuff like that. But I just got a notice from cloudflare that they now host domain names. Once I set up everything through cloudflare it’s interfaced automatically with cloudways and voila
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I absolutely love Cloudways and plan to use it for client websites and certain projects but still need to spin up a VPS for certain sites. Cloudways doesn’t support Ghost.org and Discourse.org.
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Cloudways is a good option for you. Go for it.
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Cloudways is a trash tier control panel that has banned from here for effectively being criminals (stealing user content, fraudulent billing, astroturfing this subreddit.) Under no circumstances should you or anyone else use Cloudways.
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Try Cloudways, you can choose different vendors (Amazon, google, digital ocean, ecc) and can scale up / down very easily according to your needs
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Cloudways has a managed platform that allows you to use digital ocean and a few others. Their platform will setup the server and optimize optimized it. You don’t get root access but it’s really not needed. I use it for my own stuff but I use Vultr over Digital Ocean.
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Cloudways has a managed platform that allows you to use digital ocean and a few others. Their platform will setup the server and optimize optimized it. You don’t get root access but it’s really not needed. I use it for my own stuff but I use Vultr over Digital Ocean.
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Downside of Cloudways as I’ve found is it’s fairly slow compared to a barebones nginx setup.
I just switched to easyengine.io from Cloudways and it’s significantly faster for my wordpress sites.
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I moved over to Cloudways a few months ago and haven’t looked back, decent prices and their customer service is second to none IMO.
I would imagine their support are just trying to provide you with the best package possible. If your site is media heavy or something then 100,000 hits a month is going to take alot.
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I’ve used their support and find it great. I host all my affiliate sites on Cloudways + Digital Ocean. Fantastic setup, never had problems and I really like their interface. Free SSL setup too. Super easy to manage, really I’d say Cloudways is the best choice.
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I am having an awesome time using Cloudways! It’s super easy to set up your own WordPress server with HTTPS and a CDN.
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I would suggest you to try Cloudways. It is one of the best Managed Wordpress Hosting. It allows you to create servers on cloud infrastructures including (DigitalOcean, Vult, Linode, AWS, GCE) .
Cloudways take cares of the hosting pain points of Wordpress developers through the following features:
– One Click WordPress Installation
– Monitor everything with the New Relic monitoring system.
– 24×7 live chat support by cloud professionals.
– Team Collaboration feature assigns server and application access and roles to the members of the team.
– Easy server management features including server cloning and server transfer.
– One click auto backup with frequency ranging from hourly to weekly.
– Configure scheduled cron jobs with cron job manager
– Scale up servers with easy vertical scaling.
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I use Cloudways for my bigger sites and find their product to be excellent and their prices to be very reasonable. I am not a developer, but I have been blogging for 10+ years, so I have tried many different hosting providers. The Cloudways platform is very easy to use, their customer support is attentive and they have a decent amount of documentation on their site. Setting up Magento on their platform would only take a few clicks.
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Cloudways is a shit tier provider and the day they go out of business is the day the world is a better place.
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Cloudways. It’s managed and support is decent.
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Maybe the mods are alseep. Cloudways is amazing.
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Cloudways has been warned repeatedly to stop spamming our sub, but persist. One of their executives even reached out to try to bribe me to allow the spam to continue. They are not, nor will they ever be welcome here.
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Cloudways sucks, they are not a host. They are reselling as a middleman for double the price with just a layer of control panel in between and slow support who’s native language is not English.
Their employees spam discords and reddit, so they are banned.
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Haven’t used Forge, but with Cloudways: no Postgres support, PHP and MySQL are a version behind (7.0 vs 7.1, 5.6 vs 5.7), you’re limited to one database. There’s no way to run a deploy script (they have a button that’ll pull git, but won’t build webpack).
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I have personally used both and currently have my projects on Cloudways. I chose cloudways over forge only because they have auto-scalable kyup servers and they upscale and downscale based on usage/traffic without downtime. This saves some $$ in the long run and also I don’t have to login everytime to scale up the server when I am expecting traffic. They also let me add multiple team members and individually share access of servers and applications across team. and they have a lot of options that you can control via their platform UI. I am not saying that I am not a fan of the command line but cloudways UI makes it easy and quick to do tasks like cloning sites between same server and other servers (even between providers like DigitalOcean to AWS).
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just FYI …. Cloudways did NOT manage any servers… they are setup and remote script only
if you want server management you must hire sysadmin or join managed hosting
these scripts just really “tricking” newbies who dont know how to setup their own server……
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When I was using them I found several things: 1. bad support. 2. varnish caching is outdated, nginx caching is better but you don’t get the control to do it with cloudways. 3. Poor tenant isolation, if you are putting more than one application on a single vps with cloudways be aware that any single application can consume 100% of the VPS resources. There is no way to limit resources per application because they do not use containers in any way.
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FYI: Cloudways is on the shitlist here for being a terrible company. I can not understate how many of their shill accounts I’ve banned and how awful of a company they are. Stay away.
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Cloudways is great, but keep in mind that “managed” doesn’t mean they troubleshoot beyond the server stack. They do have a paid support option that will help you with WordPress/WooCommerce issues (and anything else). This isn’t really unique to them though, but it does seem to be a common misunderstanding of where server support ends and software support begins. If you’re already aware of this, consider this a tip for someone else who may not 🙂
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Hey there! I use Cloudways. Sometimes their support is a little weak but their servers and setup are nice.
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Interesting long review, click on the link.
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I have been using Cloudways for years and never had any problem of unclear pricing, yes every extra feature costs money, but all other hosts also charge for extra service, though it seems lately that the support for those that need it lacks in performance according to users at their community forum, that may be something to consider if your a new user of Cloudways.
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Cloudways: Enforced Hidden Fees
I have just found that they charge for off site backup while it is not stated anywhere in the purchasing process, differently than e-mail and CDN, the backups are automatically enabled and the fee is enforced. Of course off site backups are indeed useful but the pricing should be made well visible in the server activation procedure. They are charging $ 0.033 but I was charged $ 0.5 twice even for VPS not using as much, so twice shady.
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We’ve got a few of our servers operating via Cloudways and I can’t fault their system at all. Their first line support I don’t rate all that highly, nor can I comment much on their marketing as I haven’t seen it, but their core product allows our team to manage multiple client solutions from one dashboard which works really well.
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Rant: Do not use Cloudways.
I’m not sure if this is allowed, so mods do let me know if not.
But I am absolutely appalled at how Cloudways operate. I think that they’ve been banned from here for spam which is why I did not go beyond a trial with them and closed my account. Now I get bombarded with emails almost daily from different Cloudways email addresses with no option to unsubscribe from them – so have resorted to spam filtering their whole domain.
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