Cloudways

Cloudways provisions and manages servers on other people's infrastructure — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud — through its own control panel.

www.cloudways.compricing

Control panel in the clouds.

Classification

Categories: Server management
Metal: Resells someone else's 4
Runs on: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform 4
Use cases: CMS sites, Online shops 5
Audience: Agencies, Small and medium businesses 5

Tech stack

Software: WordPress, Laravel, Magento 5

Pricing

Pricing model: Per hour4
Entry price: $5 to $15 a month 4
Starting price: from $11 a month4
Typical ceiling: $150 to $500 a month4
Currencies: USD 4
Billed: Hourly, Monthly4
Paid: In arrears, for usage already run up4
Free tier: Trial only4

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Cloudways is server management software rather than a hosting service in its own right: it provisions virtual machines on five infrastructure providers — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud — and puts its own control panel over them. Billing is pay-as-you-go by the hour and invoiced in arrears, with a short trial ahead of it.

Because the servers sit on other providers’ hardware, the locations on offer are whatever those providers operate, so the geography of a Cloudways account is decided upstream. It was acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022. WordPress hosting is a separately marketed product line.

Worth knowing

The machine and the management layer arrive on one invoice. That is unusual for this category — most panels are billed separately from the server they run on — and it means the cost of the panel itself is not separable from the cost of the compute underneath it.

Identity

Reach: ↑4,994 2
Ownership: Subsidiary 3
Parent: DigitalOcean 3
Status: Active
Wikidata: Q135003129 1

Automation

API: Public6

Sources

2026-09-09: Wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q135003129
2026-09-07: Reach
majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
2026-08-21: Parent, Ownership
www.digitalocean.com/about
2026-08-01: Starting price, Runs on, Metal, Entry price, Typical ceiling, Currencies, Billed, Paid, Free tier, Pricing model
www.cloudways.com/en/pricing.php
2026-07-31: Use cases, Audience, Software
www.cloudways.com/en/
2026-08-09: API
developers.cloudways.com/

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