Cloudways review

Cloudways lists an entry price of $11 a month, and that rate applies for an introductory term of 3. After that term the plan moves to the renewal price of $11, which here matches the entry rate rather than rising above it.

Renewal sits at $11, the same figure as the $11 entry rate, so budgets do not step up after the first term. That makes the opening number a fair guide to what a managed server costs month to month.

The range covers managed cloud hosting, managed WordPress hosting and Magento hosting, so one provider can carry a WordPress blog, a Magento store, a WooCommerce shop and a Laravel or Node.js application. Managed AI agent hosting is also listed, which suits teams placing a first agent workload on managed infrastructure.

Data centres run in New York, Amsterdam and Bangalore, spanning North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. A server placed near most of your visitors will usually serve pages faster than one on another continent, so the region matters more than the number of cities listed.

Support covers email, chat and phone, so a phone call, a live chat message or an email ticket all reach the same team, with a help centre and community for self-service questions. Cloudways also publishes an uptime guarantee of 99.99%.

Access starts with a free trial, which is the only entry model listed under free trial. There is no permanent free plan to return to once the trial ends, so plan a paid budget from the start if the trial converts.

Every server carries unlimited websites, so extra client or campaign sites add no per-site charge on top of the plan. Included extras are listed under free ssl, backups and staging, covering free SSL, backups, staging, CDN and email.

beginners, small business and enterprise lists beginners, small business and enterprise, and Cloudways LLC is headquartered in the US. Beginners and small sites land on the entry plan at $11, while larger setups move up through the same managed range.