Cloudways sits on top of DigitalOcean, Vultr, and AWS — you pick the underlying cloud, they handle the WP-tuned stack. Bought by DigitalOcean in 2022, still operated semi-independently. Best-in-class for WooCommerce.
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What works, what doesn't.
7 findings
+ Pros
✓Choice of underlying cloud (DO/Vultr/AWS/Linode)
✓Hourly billing
✓Excellent WP-specific caching
✓Lifetime 7% revshare on affiliates
– Cons
✗Email is a paid add-on (Rackspace)
✗Backup add-on costs extra
✗Owned by DigitalOcean since 2022
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Pricing receipts.
Published rate
Monthly
$11
Billed annually
Yearly
$132
First-year intro price
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