Cloudways

Avantages

1) pay as you go. A bit confusing but honestly amazing and makes the most sense. 2) Great customer support. I thought I’d need to pay for their premium support but haven’t seen a need yet. Their people are amazing and easy to reach out to. 3) setting up staging sites is so easy. I have multiple ones too for different things. It’s great. 4) Great integration with GitHub as well.

Inconvénients

It’s complicated to set up. Email doesn’t come with it, either does a domain. This wasn’t a problem for me but I can see other users having this issue.

Avantages

I like how you can be in control of all aspects of the server and the applications you run on it

Inconvénients

The UX isn't as intuitive as it looks, and there are many similar options when you are setting up which makes it hard to choose a package

Avantages

1. Using Cloudways can provide your wordpress website some nice loadtimes and help
with SEO performance.
2. The support team is good and helping.

Inconvénients

1. The setup process can be challenging for new users.
2. Cloudways can be expensive, especially for beginners with small websites.
3. The management portal might not be the most user-friendly, especially at first.

Avantages

Fantastic user platform with fast hosting. Web Software to manage AWS, Linide or Google servers are simplified

Inconvénients

Communication could be better. Payment option for PayPal recurring need to be introduced

Avantages

They simplify absolutely everything for the user. So no more typical cPanel to navigate around servers and websites that you host, instead you have their own beautifully laid out, clean, and most importantly *understandable* menu system which is visually eye-pleasing. Simplicity at its best.

Inconvénients

Although they have their live chat where there is always an agent waiting to help 24/7 (which most of the agents can answer your questions and resolve your problems there and then), the only downfall is their ticketing system. If your problem is a little more complexed and requires additional help, a ticket must be opened. The ticketing system can take a day or two to get a reply (which is no good if your website is experiencing problems and is down at that time).

Avantages

I like the fact that I can pay little... And get MUCHO!
They charge very little for the specifications they give.
Better than WP-Engine, and at a lower price.
I spend a few months browsing hosting companies before I landed on them. They have been good to me most of the time. Nobody is perfect, but the tech is. And support is mostly great as well.

Inconvénients

In the beginning, support was swift, like a push of a button... Nowadays, they have a a little more to do.
This results in waiting for the users. When you are new to the platform, you may need more support. I don't use it much now, but I did chat a bit back and forth with them on several occasion. Now, you can expect to wait a bit before an agent is ready to talk, and while you do, you can expect to wait a bit after you have typed what you needed to in the chat. Not really fond of waiting in general.

Avantages

I've been using CloudWays for a long time now, basically since they started and never had any issues so far. They always have good deals for new users, and prices have always been really good for the service they provide. You can pay as you go, which means that you only pay for what you use. They definitely make the life of a developer way easier, making it easy for anyone (even if you don't have experience) to install any CMS and/or PHP based system. Ohhh and let's not forget.. their customer service is a 10/10.

Inconvénients

So far I have not found anything bad about CloudWays, specially now that they just updated their website making it faster and even easier to use. If you're used to do everything through cPanel, get ready to learn how to manage your servers/websites differently (It will only take few minutes if you consider yourself a fast learner).

Avantages

Some of the impeccable features that set Cloudways apart from the crowd are the pay-as-you-go and no-lock-in business model. It's a nice pricing model as it doesn't oblige the customer to any long-term commitment.Cloudways is super fast too and outperforms in terms of security and resources. even with the shared VPS options, it runs pretty fast

Inconvénients

First and foremost, Cloudways only offers 3 day free trial for new customers- sincerely, how well will test its services in just 3 days?Additionally, the pricing tiers for VPS hosting are pretty high too (especially as I get the same quality of service with the digital ocean).The live support service is not friendly, they take longer time to respond and they always seem to be too busy and this gives me the impression that other clients are more valued than others.

Avantages

Cloudways is a managed hosting provider for WordPress and other applications.

From the get-go, I can easily choose a server, select a WordPress installation package, and get started.

It's so quick and easy because they take care of the server management, so I can focus on running my business.

I have used cloudways for a few of my websites and it is the best way to manage your web applications.

The cost is affordable and it is a great place to start if you are managing your websites yourself.

Highly Recommended, especially for those whose websites are based on WordPress CMS.

Inconvénients

They can focus on improving the dashboard speed.

Avantages

- Support staff (live chat and email) are quick, extremely helpful, and actually quite knowledgeable
- The admin panel makes it easy to move/stage/clone apps, and scale your servers on the fly
- A number of one-click installs available (WordPress, Laravel, etc.)
- Great pricing (small margins above base DigitalOcean pricing)

Inconvénients

No reseller/agency options available. Creating external access accounts is a bit limited (can't allow a guest user to only access a single app DB, etc.)

Avantages

The idea of a platform that exposes semi-managed hosting on top of multiple providers (DigitalOcean, GCP, AWS, Vultr, Linode, etc) is very impressive and being able to choose and experiment with different underlying providers is quite appealing. The portal they expose is fully custom and has most of what you would want and they provide relatively easy ssh access as well. Their "clone app" feature will copy your production Wordpress site and spin up a new staging site with a few clicks and it does a good job.

Inconvénients

The portal has a very convenient chat feature with the support engineers and for very simple requests/problems that are in their wheelhouse it is a very quick way to get help - however, I found that most of my requests were outside of their support's wheelhouse, so I was consistently let down. This is a managed service so I wasn't coming at them with crazy requests or anything, but sometimes they simple just didn't have enough experience to understand what I was saying and asking for. So frustrating. Also second level support is much, much slower to respond even during an outage.

The server configuration did not allow for easy setup of some common tools, one in particular is modern nodejs. After asking 3 different support people for help I concluded it was a futile effort as they didn't really understand. The best I could get was an ancient version of nodejs which didn't fit my requirement.

Avantages

The dashboard is incredibly friendly to use, and has a lot of features. Deep integration with server providers means almost anything you would ever need to do can be handled through the dashboard. Cloning, staging and backups are especially good.

Inconvénients

The price is steep, especially for more powerful servers. Basically double the upstream provider cost.Also, cloudways own the server er you use. It is provisioned under their account, not yours. So if you ever leave cloudways you must move server, you can't just disconnect cloudways.

Avantages

I have paid hundreds and thousand of dollars for servers for my websites that don't come near the speed and quality I get with coulways.
And the price is something to consider heavily.
You can select a very cheap server and have your "applications" up and running in literaly less than 5 minutes.
You can transfers your wordpress websites (or blogs) in a matter of minutes with a free plugin that they provide.
Their support is way over than awesome. I have asked so many questions, I have requested so many things and all I get from them is a very nice reply and a a fast response.
your websites will be FASTER!!!!

Avantages

Cloudways gives a quality control board to a cloud server, premium proactive help, and a quick, streamlined WordPress stage at a sensible cost.

Inconvénients

I'm totally happy with the cloud server administration with adaptable and versatile highlights.

Avantages

the best host server providing i use since last few years. it it very helpful up-front server setup, integrated robust security and caching tools which make it very user friendly application. its give website migration plugin free which helps to migrate without any technical knowledge.

Inconvénients

only thing which i found bad or least is support system of Cloudways is not very good it take much more time like others.

Avantages

The support team is just great! they're proactive, hands-on, solving almost everything in both application&server level.

Server&Application management is super easy, tons of documentation!

Inconvénients

nothing really, after trying at least 10 alternatives, cloudways is the hosting for me and my team

Alternatives envisagées 

Avantages

I love how can i manage my WordPress application, The server is optimized for WordPress and the site loads super fast while giving me full control over the server.

Inconvénients

I would like to see an option to connect your own server to Cloudways.

Avantages

Cloudways is fast and I like it and can create different 'servers

Inconvénients

Cloudways is excellent, customer support is good, the platform is good and offers a lot of options for fast website hosting

Avantages

All of the most important features are built-in inside Cloudways. PHP Laravel often uses a queue, scheduling job batching, and many things. CloudWays makes it very simple. Just forget about server management hassle and make something interesting.

Inconvénients

I know CloudWays are very awesome but if I like to say the cons of CloudWays, For a beginner it's few costly if he likes to buy a medium-scale server. Their prices are cheaper than others and they give the user a lot of functionality within their lowest budget.

Avantages

Makes managing a cheap VPS from the likes of Digital Ocean super easy

Very simple and easy to understand GUI
Pricing includes cost of Cloudways and VPS hosting
Offsite backup and restores of your VPS
Easy to create copies and staging sites
Performance is much better than cheap shared hosting

Inconvénients

Support can be a little slow to respond, but always give good answers

Avantages

Inexpensive pricing
Easy to use
Option to pay monthly

Inconvénients

Support keeps getting worse.
Changes are made to server settings without permission.
Posts are pending in the group and complaints are not answered.

Avantages

The fact that it is an inexpensive, cloudbased hosting platform that does NOT charge for SSL Certificates was a big plus.

Inconvénients

Not being able to talk with a live person regarding questions, problems, etc. A customer hotline would be a big improvement in the overall experience with the company.

Avantages

- They manage the servers for me
- Amazing customer service
- Great pricing

Inconvénients

Everything is on point, there are no cons.

Avantages

I love this company. I left GoDaddy behind and haven't looked back.

Inconvénients

I haven't had one problem yet. Hard to find any cons.

Avantages

Incredibly easy to set up (just a few clicks), comprehensiveness of services offered at a most affordable price, very well documented, reliable hosting, and so user-friendly. I migrated over from needlessly complex Google Cloud platform where I previously lost three of my web applications due to configuration issues, that wasted my time without any solution. Never going back.

Inconvénients

So far, I do not have anything on my dislike list for this company.