Managed Cloud Hosting for Developers Made Easy
Skip the server setup. Get SSH access, Git auto-deploy, and instant staging — out of the box.
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Pre-Configured Cloud Environments in Minutes.
Skip manual server configuration. Launch instances pre-loaded with Git, Composer, and Let’s Encrypt SSLs. Push from staging to live with zero downtime.
1-Click Staging & Safe Deployments
Clone your live app in seconds. Test commits and DB changes in staging, then push to production — selecting exactly which files and tables merge.
Automated CI/CD & Git Workflows
Connect GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket. Set push triggers for auto-deployments on every commit — no manual SFTP transfers required.
On-Demand Server Upgrades
Scale RAM, CPU, and NVMe storage on demand with no stack migration required. More capacity, exactly when your application needs it.
Built on Multi-Cloud Infrastructure
Pick your provider, scale your infrastructure, and automate everything via API.
Bring Your Own Cloud
Choose from DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, Vultr, or Linode at signup. Switch providers later without rebuilding your stack — your application config travels with you.
Built-In Performance Stack
NVMe storage, NGINX, Varnish, Redis, and PHP-FPM come tuned and pre-configured. No stack assembly, no caching plugins — server-level performance from day one.
Production Safety Nets
Automated off-server backups, point-in-time restores, and an enterprise WAF run continuously. Recovery in clicks, not engineering hours.
Optimized Cloud Infrastructure & Workflows
Secure, high-performance environments built for modern PHP applications, automated deployments, and team collaboration.
SSD Hosting
NVMe & SSD storage reduces I/O bottlenecks and accelerates database queries for data-heavy applications
Built-in Caches
Memcached, Varnish, and Redis come pre-configured at the server level to minimize database load and accelerate API responses.
Optimized Stack
The Lightning Stack runs NGINX, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP-FPM to handle high-concurrency requests with minimal latency.
PHP 8 Ready
Deploy on PHP 8.x environments built for maximum execution speed, stronger security, and lower memory consumption.
Cloudflare
Protect applications against DDoS attacks and accelerate global delivery via Cloudflare Enterprise edge caching.
Breeze Plugin
A lightweight pre-installed caching plugin that works with Varnish to optimize asset delivery and reduce TTFB.
Dedicated Firewalls
OS-level firewalls block malicious traffic, IP spoofing, and unauthorized connection attempts before they reach your application.
SSL Certificates
Provision and auto-renew free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates to secure data transit and APIs with a single click.
Login Security
Enable Two-Factor Authentication and receive instant alerts for unauthorized access attempts from unrecognized devices.
IP Whitelisting
Restrict SSH, SFTP, and remote database access to trusted IP addresses and team members only.
Multi-App Hosting
Run multiple applications on a single server, each with separate database, organized & easily accessible from a single unified dashboard.
Database Security
Databases are locked by default and accessible remotely only via whitelisted IPs or secure SSH tunnels.
IaaS Providers
Provision infrastructure across 150+ data centers in 50+ countries on DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, Vultr, and Linode.
Block Storage
Attach block storage volumes to expand capacity independently without modifying other server parameters.
Vertical Scaling
Scale RAM, CPU, and storage dynamically to handle traffic spikes without migrating your application stack.
No Contract
Billed strictly for resources consumed. No long-term commitments, fixed contracts, or hidden overage fees.
1-Click Actions
Execute server cloning, application backups, point-in-time restorations, and service restarts instantly via the UI.
PHP Versions
Switch between PHP 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 at the application level via the UI without touching configuration files.
24/7 Expert Support
Reach experienced cloud engineers via live chat around the clock to resolve server-side issues and performance bottlenecks.
Cloudways Copilot
AI-powered anomaly detection that proactively resolves server issues and reduces mean time to resolution.
Knowledge Base
Access technical documentation, CLI references, and API tutorials written specifically for developer workflows.
Ticketing System
Submit technical queries through our portal for detailed responses from senior support engineers.
Support Add-ons
Upgrade to Advanced or Premium SLAs for dedicated account managers, priority routing, and private Slack channels.
Troubleshooting
Identify performance bottlenecks with server monitoring tools, or escalate directly to L3 engineers for critical production issues.
Git Integration
Connect GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket and configure webhooks to auto-deploy commits directly to target environments.
SSH and SFTP Access
Use SSH and SFTP to run WP-CLI or Composer commands, manage files, and provision team credentials securely.
1-Click Cloning
Duplicate applications or entire servers instantly to generate parallel staging environments for safe testing.
Team Collaboration
Assign developers to specific projects or servers across multiple teams without sharing master credentials.
1-Click Staging
Generate free staging URLs instantly to test dependencies and run database migrations before pushing to production.
User Roles
Assign team members restricted, role-based access to specific applications, servers, or billing portals.
PHP 8 Ready. Framework Agnostic.
Deploy any PHP framework or CMS on the same optimized server. Full control over your stack, zero vendor lock-in, zero PaaS restrictions.
Migrate For Free Without Any Glitches
We’ll move your first website to Cloudways from any web host for FREE (Without breaking yoursite hosted on the old host)
Migrate My Website.Predictable Cloud Pricing. Zero Lock-In.
Billed on exact resource utilization. Choose dedicated VM stacks or fully autonomous, autoscaling Kubernetes clusters.
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Cloudways Flexible
Customizable managed hosting for WordPress, Magento, Laravel & PHP apps. Full control over server resources and cloud choice.
Lightning Stack - Now Available
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Cloudways Autonomous
Fully managed hosting for WordPress for dynamic high traffic eCom and LMS sites — built to autoscale for thousands of concurrent users.
Select Cloud Provider
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Fastest growing & affordable cloud provider with high-performance SSD standard and NVMe storage premium servers across 9 locations. Select the perfect fit from their Basic, General Purpose, and CPU Optimized server lineup.
DigitalOcean
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Across 30 locations, Vultr provides standard servers featuring SSD storage and high frequency servers with NVMe storage powered by the fastest architecture available in the Vultr product lineup.
Vultr
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Popular cloud emphasizing consistent performance across 25 datacenters. Choose Linode if you wish top quality performance at a pocket—friendly budget.
Linode
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Flexible Amazon cloud compute (EC2) with configurable storage/bandwidth across 28 datacenters. AWS supports dynamic vertical scaling with options to both upgrade and downgrade server resources. Select the perfect fit from their Standard and Compute Optimized server lineup.
AWS
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Google Compute Engine (GCE) is an extremely powerful cloud hosting infrastructure with the efficient performance that comes with Google's brand name. With 28 datacenters, GCE supports dynamic vertical scaling with options to both upgrade and downgrade server resources. Select the perfect fit from their Standard, Compute Optimized and High Compute server lineup.
GoogleCloud
Select Server Type
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Basic
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
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General Purpose
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
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CPU Optimized
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
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Standard
DigitalOcean is the fastest growing cloud provider.
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Standard
DigitalOcean Standard Droplets, powered by 2nd generation or earlier Intel CPUs and standard SSD, are perfect for general-purpose workloads and all your applications, offering networking speeds up to 2 Gbps.
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Premium
DigitalOcean Premium Droplets are powered by 2nd or 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and faster NVME storage delivering higher network throughput up to 10 Gbps for your most demanding applications.
Micro
Suitable for personal websites and simple blogs.
$11
$11
USD per month
You pay $0.0357 hourly
- 2GB RAM
- 1 vCPU
- 50GB Storage
- 2TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 4 Free AI Copilot Credits
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Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
Small
Suitable for growing businesses & moderate traffic.
$11
$11
USD per month
You pay $0.0357 hourly
- 2GB RAM
- 1 vCPU
- 50GB Storage
- 2TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 4 Free AI Copilot Credits
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Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
Most Popular
Medium
Supports more demanding websites with higher traffic.
$11
$88
USD per month
You pay $0.1310 hourly
- 8GB RAM
- 4 vCPU
- 160GB Storage
- 5TB Transfer Bandwidth
- 4 Free AI Copilot Credits
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Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
8XL
Ideal for e-com stores and resource-intensive applications.
$11
USD per month
You pay $1.0848 hourly
- 128GB RAM
- 24 vCPU
- 2560GB Storage
- 11TB Transfer Bandwidth
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4 Free
AI Copilot Credits
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Lightning Stack
- Unlimited Visits
- Unlimited Websites
$0.033/GB per server will be applied for offsite backup storage.
Free Trial
Try Autonomous' simplicity and autoscaling before committing.
$100
$0For 3 Days
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 01
Bandwidth: 150 GB
Disk space: 20 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
Redis Caching
Object Cache Pro + Relay
Free Managed Migration
Growth
For applications with growing traffic needs.
$100
$99/Month
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 01
Bandwidth: 150 GB
Disk space: 20 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
Redis Caching
Object Cache Pro + Relay
Free Managed Migration
Additional Charges
- Disk Space: $1/GB
- Bandwidth: $0.04/GB
- Autoscaling: $0.07/hr/server beyond baseline
Recommended
Scale
For applications managing consistent traffic growth.
$100
$199/Month
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 02
Bandwidth: 250 GB
Disk space: 50 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
Redis Caching
Object Cache Pro + Relay
Free Managed Migration
Additional Charges
- Disk Space: $1/GB
- Bandwidth: $0.04/GB
- Autoscaling: $0.10/hr/server beyond baseline
Plus
For large scale applications with critical traffic needs.
$100
$399/Month
Plan Includes
Website: 01
Baseline Autoscale Servers: 03
Bandwidth: 1000 GB
Disk space: 100 GB
Visits: Unmetered
PHP Workers: 100/server
Features Included
True Autoscaling
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN
Redis Caching
Object Cache Pro + Relay
Free Managed Migration
Additional Charges
- Disk Space: $1/GB
- Bandwidth: $0.04/GB
- Autoscaling: $0.12/hr/server beyond baseline
Enterprise
Need more than standard plans? We’ll create a custom plan.
Custom
Optimized resources for your traffic and usage patterns.
Custom resource allocation and baseline capacity.
Expert consultation to match plan to requirements.
Cloudways Managed AI Agents
Deploy Your Agent. We'll Handle the Rest.
OpenClaw and Hermes, live in minutes on secure, dedicated infrastructure. Provisioned, updated, and backed up automatically.
Go Hands-off
Stay Isolated & Secure
Launch in Minutes
One Platform. Five Cloud Providers. Full Control
Pick your provider, scale your infrastructure, and automate everything via API.
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure
Choose from 5 cloud providers based on compliance, budget, or regional latency with no single-provider dependency.
150+ Global Data Centers
Run instances closer to your users across 150+ data centers in 50+ countries, reducing TTFB and improving application response times globally.
Cloudways REST API
Provision servers, manage scaling, and automate infrastructure by integrating our REST API into your CI/CD pipeline.
Real Success Stories. Powered By Cloudways.
Read real-life case studies of companies that used our managed cloud server hosting to take their online businesses to the next level!
Improved site speed by 40% and increased course bookings across AU.
Mo Soltany
Business Development Manager
Cut hosting cost 80% while serving 17M+ users across 160+ countries.
Bryan Feinberg
Founder and CEO
Saw 600% growth, and our homepage achieved a perfect 100% score.
Stephan Eijer
Owner
Managed over $1M in sales and a 200% traffic spike seamlessly.
Sol Lee
Co-founder
Doubled site speed, 20% traffic growth & 50% faster load times.
Great Opomu
Chief WordPress Officer
Scaled to 140+ client sites & hit $1M ARR as performance soared.
Andrew Jackson
Founder & CEO
Streamlined operations for 60+ businesses with reliable performance.
Michelle Coe
President and Senior Creative Director
Saved 25–30% on hosting costs with 40% faster server response time.
Roberto M. Filho
Founder and CEO
30% faster, 280+ sites scaled, $10M+ revenue growth, this year.
Tristan Gatellier
CEO
Achieved 99 PageSpeed score, zero downtime and scalable growth.
Joost Rust
Director
Reduced server costs by 50% and homepage load time dropped to 1.2s.
Florence Luo
Owner and CEO
Grew monthly readership 3x from 3M to 9M after moving to Cloudways.
Simon Treulle
CEO
Improved store speed by 30%, which led to a 22% increase in conversions.
Yogita Khasturi
Co-Founder
Managed over $1M in sales and a 200% traffic spike seamlessly.
Sol Lee
Co-founder
Posted 2.6M views and earned $600K in commissions so rewarding.
Adam Connell
Founder
Handled 20x traffic spikes on 18-year-old site with 5,484 articles.
Jonathan Bailey
Founder
Resulted in a perfect 100% PageSpeed score and 600K page views.
Michael Donovan
Co-founder
Boosted monthly pageviews to 200K, leading to a 6-figure valuation.
Daniel Shuttleworth
Founder
Experienced a 3x increase in traffic and revenue, with 100% speed.
Keith Mint
Founder
Faster performance out of the box, rapid issue resolution from real engineers, and a stable environment trusted by developers worldwide.
20-30%
Faster on Lightning Stack
<45m
Average Issue Resolution Time
100K+
Active Users
Frequently Asked Questions
Which Cloudways product fits my project?
It depends on the app you run. Cloudways Flexible suits PHP apps such as WordPress, Magento and Laravel, with hourly billing and full server control. Cloudways Velocity is managed Node.js hosting that deploys from Git at flat pricing. Cloudways Autonomous autoscales WordPress and WooCommerce on Kubernetes, and it is not built for Laravel or custom PHP. Copilot, the AI diagnostics tool, works on Flexible only and runs on credit-based plans.
Can I run cron jobs and background workers?
Yes. Schedule jobs in the Cron Manager and tune them with the Cron Optimizer. For Laravel queue workers and other long-running processes, Supervisord keeps them running. You can also set your own webroot, write custom Varnish rules and automate servers through API v2, while WP-CLI comes pre-installed for WordPress work. CloudwaysBot watches 16+ metrics around the clock, so you can keep an eye on how your scheduled jobs affect the server.
Does Cloudways host Node.js apps?
Yes, through Cloudways Velocity, managed Node.js hosting that deploys from Git. Velocity became generally available on September 14, 2026. One plan runs multiple Node.js apps at flat pricing, and it supports frameworks including Next.js, Express, Astro and Angular. Velocity is a separate product from Flexible, so choose Velocity for Node.js apps and Flexible for PHP applications. Provisioning, security and monitoring are handled for you.
What is Cloudways Site Manager?
Cloudways Site Manager is a WordPress site manager built into the Cloudways platform. It detects available updates and, on Pro, backs up each site and tests updates on a staging clone before they go live. It also monitors WordPress performance with PageSpeed Insights, tracks PHP errors, sends Slack or email alerts, and lets you manage plugins, themes and users across your connected sites from one WordPress management dashboard.
What is developer hosting?
Developer hosting is cloud hosting that gives you the tools developers need out of the box. On Cloudways Flexible that means SSH and SFTP access, Git integration with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket, WP-CLI, Composer and a REST API for infrastructure automation. Unlike shared or standard managed hosting, you also get root-level server control, vertical scaling on demand and a pre-configured Lightning Stack, all on the cloud provider you choose: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud.
Does Cloudways include staging and production environments?
Yes, Cloudways includes staging and production environments as a standard feature. Use 1-click cloning to create unlimited staging URLs and test code, plugins or updates safely. You can clone a whole server, not just a single application, to build a parallel test environment. Once the copy checks out, push changes to the live production server through Git integration or the platform's deployment tools. Because staging and production stay separate, a failed experiment never reaches your visitors.
What is the Lightning Stack and how does it improve performance?
The Lightning Stack is the Cloudways server stack built on NGINX and PHP-FPM, with Varnish, Redis and Memcached caching on top. It costs nothing extra. In Koddr.io's benchmark against the previous Hybrid stack, response times improved by up to 53% in uncached WordPress, WooCommerce and LearnDash workloads, and throughput was 21% higher on average. Everything is configured at the server level, so there is no manual tuning. It does not support .htaccess files, so review your rewrite rules before you switch.
Does Cloudways support CI/CD and automated deployments?
Yes. Cloudways supports Git integration with GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket, and webhooks can trigger a deployment to your target environment on every commit. Combined with SSH access, WP-CLI, Composer and API v2, it fits into a modern CI/CD workflow without extra tooling. Because the whole pipeline runs through Git, manual SFTP uploads drop out of your release process, and you can script server tasks through the API instead of working in the dashboard. API v2 has endpoints for servers, billing, Copilot, the Security Suite and Cloudflare.
Which PHP versions does Cloudways support?
Cloudways supports PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4, and PHP 8.4 is available on Cloudways Flexible only. Switch versions per application from the dashboard without touching configuration files, so a legacy project and a new build can run side by side on the same server. Anything older than 7.4 is deprecated. Servers also run MariaDB 10.11 or 11.4, with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch available when your application needs search. Redis is part of the default stack, and new servers run Debian 12.
How secure is the Cloudways platform?
Every Cloudways server sits behind a dedicated OS-level firewall powered by Imunify360, which filters malicious traffic and unauthorized connection attempts before they reach your application. Other layers include Cloudflare DDoS mitigation, free Let's Encrypt SSL, two-factor authentication, IP whitelisting for SSH and SFTP, and regular automated OS security patches. The Malware Protection add-on adds Imunify360 monitoring and automated cleanup. Cloudways also displays SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and PCI DSS badges. Fail2Ban and a web honeypot add more filtering at the server level.
Can I scale my server, and do I pay separately for infrastructure?
Yes, you can scale vertically from the dashboard, and infrastructure costs are included in your plan. Scale RAM, CPU and storage without migrating your application stack. The server may restart briefly, so off-peak hours are the safer time. Billing is pay-as-you-go and hourly: you pick DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud and pay only for the resources you use, with no fixed fees, long-term contracts or hidden overage charges. Add-ons such as Cloudflare Enterprise and Malware Protection are priced separately.
How many databases can I use with my server?
Each Cloudways server comes with a single database. If you need more, remote MySQL connections make it simple to connect to other databases, which suits a project that needs a database separate from the one on the server. You can still host multiple applications on one server and manage all of them from the same dashboard. Databases are locked by default and reachable remotely only through whitelisted IPs or secure SSH tunnels.