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side-by-side comparison of Cloudways vs. WP Engine

based on preference data from user reviews. Cloudways rates 4.8/5 stars with 152 reviews. By contrast, WP Engine rates 4.6/5 stars with 140 reviews. Each product's score is calculated with real-time data from verified user reviews, to help you make the best choice between these two options, and decide which one is best for your business needs.

Add Product	Cloudways (152) 4.8 out of 5 Cloudways Answer a few questions to help the Cloudways community Have you used Cloudways before? Yes	WP Engine (140) 4.6 out of 5 WP Engine Answer a few questions to help the WP Engine community Have you used WP Engine before? Yes
Star Rating	Cloudways 152 reviews	WP Engine 140 reviews
Market Segments	Cloudways Small-Business (95.7% of reviews)	WP Engine Small-Business (76.7% of reviews)
Entry Level Price	Cloudways $10.00 per month	WP Engine $30 per month

Cloudways vs WP Engine

When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Cloudways easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Cloudways overall.

Reviewers felt that Cloudways meets the needs of their business better than WP Engine.
When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Cloudways is the preferred option.
For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Cloudways over WP Engine.

Categories

Cloudways

WP Engine

Cloudways and WP Engine are categorized as Managed Hosting

Cloudways has no unique categories

WP Engine is categorized as Web Hosting

Pricing

Cloudways Pricing

Managed Digital Ocean 1GB

$10.00per month

Managed DigitalOcean 2GB

$22.00per month

Managed DigitalOcean 4GB

$42.00per month

Managed DigitalOcean 8GB

$80.00per month

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WP Engine Pricing

Startup

$30per month

Growth

$115per month

Scale

$290per month

Premium

Enterprise

Free Trial

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Ratings

Cloudways

9.5

Responses: 113

WP Engine

9.3

Responses: 127

Cloudways

9.5

Responses: 114

WP Engine

9.1

Responses: 127

Cloudways

9.4

Responses: 77

WP Engine

9.0

Responses: 98

Cloudways

9.1

Responses: 78

WP Engine

9.0

Responses: 100

Cloudways

9.4

Responses: 114

WP Engine

9.3

Responses: 125

Cloudways

9.5

Responses: 78

WP Engine

9.4

Responses: 97

Cloudways

9.3

Responses: 111

WP Engine

9.1

Responses: 127

Reviewers' Company Size

Reviewers of both Cloudways and WP Engine were most often representing companies in the Small-Business segment.

Cloudways

95.7%

WP Engine

76.7%

Cloudways

2.9%

WP Engine

19.5%

Cloudways

1.4%

WP Engine

3.8%

Reviewers' Industry

Cloudways Industry

Marketing and Advertising

22.1%

Internet

9.3%

Information Technology and Services

6.4%

Design

5.0%

Food & Beverages

4.3%

Other

52.9%

WP Engine Industry

Marketing and Advertising

24.8%

Internet

12.0%

Information Technology and Services

12.0%

Computer Software

7.5%

Design

6.8%

Other

36.8%

Reviews

Ikhbayar M.

Administrator in Marketing and Advertising

Wordpress install is so easy and fast, Therefore server is awesome

Jared M.

Administrator in Hospital & Health Care

WP Engine is a great product for managing website consolidation, quick M&A turnaround and new properties that you need stood up quick. It also makes it seamless for internal and 3rd party development with good staging and production flows to roll things up...

Administrator in Non-Profit Organization Management

Not sure how it really works. Pricing seems to continue to increase, not sure why.

Leon H.

Administrator in Information Technology and Services

Recently we experienced a few outages with WP Engine and the way they have been handling it, is unprofessional and doesn't actually solve the problem. I can't recommend WP Engine as a reliable hosting service. My own (external) monitoring alerted me that...

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Discussions

Cloudways Discussions

What or who do people use for domain and DNS management?

2 comments

I use namecheap.com to regitser all of my domains and manage DNS at dnsmadeeasy.com It's the perfect combination for me!Read more

What is the best way to use it as an reseller hosting?

1 comment

I don't work for them, with that being said: You "own" the host, you can have as many applications (as it can hold) - keep in mind it is not unlimited and...Read more

Why don't you puit an .htaccess editor and a file editor in your panel? It's easier and faster than use FTP or SSH.

1 comment

I don't work for cloudways but in order to access those files the way you want you need a panel like cpanel. Cloudways does not have that. you get a pure...Read more

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WP Engine Discussions

Hosting Other Websites

2 comments

Currently they are only hosting Wordpress sites, its their specialty .Read more

Queue Line

1 comment

yes it does seem to take a bit of time, not sure why.Read more