✔ Cloud Ways review

📄 Editorial Review

🔧 Services: Web HostingDomain Registration
🔃 This company is a reseller of Digital Ocean

New Sep 2022: DigitalOcean Completes Acquisition of Cloudways.
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Right when the company was founded, Cloudways established a number of principles that had become the bedrock of the company ever since. These are based on the following ideas: Simplicity in everything; Customer always comes first, Win as a team, Innovative at heart, and Data driven ideology.

Cloudways tries to offer plans suitable for every customer's needs. With a platform made out of the best technologies and industry-leading infrastructure, they promise their customers reliability, performance and support in order to help each business grow to its full potential. Their plans are highly flexible, they care for their customers and are ready to help them accommodate with their services. At the same time, they promise a great functioning of their hosting facilities.
Their managed servers assure high quality performance. Some of the elements that assure the operation of this feature are, as follows:

• Auto-Healing Managed Cloud Servers;
• Dedicated Environment – every server has dedicated resources that help the customer grow the performance of the server;
• CloudwaysCDN;
• PHP7 Ready Servers;
• SSD-Based Hosting;
• Free WordPress Cache Plugin;
• Built-in Advanced Caches – with caches, such as Memcached, Varnish, Nginx or Redis;

Their managed hosting is secure and safe. This is made sure through elements, such as:

• IP Whitelisting;
• 1-Click Free SSL installation;
• Regular Security Patching;
• Dedicated Firewalls;

Flexibility is at its home here! Cloudways promises to manage your server exactly the way you want to. There are hardly any restrictions regarding this aspect. The customer has control over their page. These are some of the features enabled for the customers to make their experience with Cloudways great:

• 1-Click Stop App;
• Server Settings and Packages via UI;
• Supervisord Queue Manager;
• App Settings via UI;

Cloudways offers the customers various facilities that can help boost the page. Here are some of the services they provide:

• Cloudways API;
• Rackspace Email Add-On;
• Application Upgrade Add-On;
• DNS Made Easy Add-On;

Their Cloud Hosting Servers come with affordable prices for any budget, not to mention that their servers are made for any kind of business. They offer pay-as-you-go servers. Their fully managed hosting plans are made to assure great performance for your WordPress sites.

Of course, as in the case of every hosting website, there might be several disadvantages. One thing which might make customers choose another web hosting is the lack of the option for a domain name registration. This makes it difficult for customers – especially for beginners – to go through a complicated process, and in order not to complicate themselves, they might go for other web hosting services. Then, there is no email hosting provided by Cloudways which might be another inconvenience for the customer.

However, in comparison to the usual range of features offered by hosting services, we could say that what Cloudways offers is of higher quality than in the case of others. Among its particular characteristics, as we compare it to other websites, Cloudways stores your site on multiple servers and they use SSD storage drives to assure that performance is better.

They use services from:

• Digital Ocean
• Linode
• VULTR
• Amazon (AWS)
• Google Cloud

⌛ Reliability

Compared to other companies on the field, Cloudways comes with 100% uptime guarantee! This is a great advantage for customers, as no one wants to face downtime issues and stress over such problems. Even if these might occur here as well, the cases are sure to be rare.

🏢 Data Center

The web hosting company is established in Malta. Their data centers are spread on a large area, including USA, Europe, Asia or South America. Overall, they have 62 data centers.

✍️ Customer Support

The team from Cloudways wants their customers to be fully satisfied with the features and functionality they promise. Cloudways offers a 24/7 expert support that is always active and ready to help in case of trouble. Not only do they come with permanent support facilities, but they also offer a good knowledgebase for the customers. And more than that! If you purchase one of their plans, they provide you with a CloudwaysBot that will become your smart assistant. In case of problems, the customer can contact them by phone, email, live chat, ticketing system and even join the community forum.

🔨 Control Panel

Cloudways comes with a dedicated console which is slight different from the standard control panels. Some customers might not be truly content with the lack of a cPanel or Plesk control panel, as users already accustomed to hosting platforms have to get used to a new kind of control system.

🎯 Conclusion

Cloudways is a great provider of Cloud servers that guarantees great performance with any plan you choose. As it is a Cloud-based web hosting website, the options regarding other types of products are limited. It does not use cPanel or Plesk control panels – a detail which might not be convenient for every customer. Another thing that might make customers think twice whether to choose Cloudways or not is the complexity of the website. They would probably not know how to use a few things, as there are a variety of technical particularities. Indeed, their support team offers great assistance, but it could still be confusing. However, in terms of cloud servers, this is an excellent choice for a remarkable running of your page.

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