--- title: Cloudways Reviews meta\_title: 'Cloudways Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 1140 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Cloudways works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.7 review\_count: 1140 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' parent\_category: name: Web Hosting url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-hosting --- # Cloudways Reviews & Product Details Visit Website Cloudways is a managed web hosting provider that frees businesses from hosting & server management with its two unique managed hosting solutions: Cloudways Flexible & Cloudways Autonomous. Over 100,000 digital agencies, e-commerce businesses, and SMBs trust Cloudways to host their websites across 50+ available data center locations worldwide. Cloudways Flexible combines the core benefits of managed hosting, giving you the unique freedom to choose from 5 top cloud providers and deploy any PHP-based app, including a custom PHP, WordPress, Magento, Laravel, and more. You can also choose server specifications and configure the flexible platform to fit your operational requirements and business processes. With our pay-as-you-go pricing model, you always have the flexibility to pay only for what you need. Cloudways Autonomous in complement & contrast is a hands-off managed WordPress solution with built-in autoscaling. It is built on Kubernetes using Google's C2 machines with integrated enterprise CDN, database caching, and unlimited PHP workers. This unique yet powerful managed experience takes infrastructure and traffic management completely out of the way so businesses can focus on growth without the technical overhead. Both solutions are backed by Cloudways' exceptional 24/7 free technical support, which offers prompt assistance with an average response time of 90 seconds whenever needed. Join the 100,000+ businesses worldwide who trust Cloudways for their undisrupted online presence & experience the simplicity and power of managed cloud hosting today. * * * Product Website Cloudways Seller [DigitalOcean](https://www.g2.com/sellers/digitalocean) Discussions [Cloudways Community](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudways/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Ali Jamil Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Cloudways. ### Managed Digital Ocean 1GB - Standard $11.00 [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudways/pricing) ## Cloudways Integrations (12) What do users say about integrations? 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AN Anshul N. Technical Analyst Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/6/2024 "Great ever since I started to use it in 2019 but prices creeping up so much" 4/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? The new interface is great and it has AI integrated for the autonomous scalability and AI solutions for getting stuff fixed. You can now basically pay like 100$ a month for Wordpress or Woo service with all in one solution with automatic scaling and stuff built right with AI and Kubernetes. You have new site manager portal for your Wordpress stuff and is a one stop management software for all your Wordpress sites. There is a free basic plan too if you wonder. Also if you are just starting Astra Pro is first for a year and you can integrate with Cloudflare services right from the portal which is just excellent. I think they have come so far with this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? I will say, they need to bring back some of their old tech support people and for the autonomous management stuff the price should not be 100$ for month, it should be around 45-50$. They are basically making it more AI friendly and cutting of their staff and making more profit and not forwarding those incentives to the end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? You do not require Cpanel, and you can easily find credentials to go to Filezilla and manage the directories. You can easily scale and the DB is stored for long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/21/2026 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") AR Verified User in Retail Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/8/2022 "Great services from a beginners to an expert stage." 3.5/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? New integrations and discounts with external companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? Over the last year I have had some issues with my sites using their wordpress plugin manager with automatic safe updates. I left this running on my sites for a month, but within the month it had caused some issues on some of the sites. with one site blocking me from logging in to my application and on another site it caused damages that took me almost a month to resolve both with their support but in the end i had to fix the issue myself as the wp manager had uninstalled plugins without my or their knowledge. Also in the last 6 months all of my site speeds have been so slow compared to how they had been in previous years. There are also now other competitors around such as xcloud that offer more for half the price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? It offers more than most web hosting plans compared to other sites while providing more benefits like security, object caching and backups. I was originally using Godaddy, but would experience a different issue every week. Cloudways has made hosting websites super easy and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/23/2026 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller BD Brad D. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/7/2023 "Cloudways is a very reliable and solid host" 4/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? The interface is cleaner and there is an autonomous hosting plan available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? Flexible plans billing downgrade was difficult and WordPress migration didn't always work as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloudways is making installing and managing WordPress sites a lot easier for me as I can create new applications in minutes and when I make changes, I know Cloudways has back ups of my website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/30/2026 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Ndamu T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ndamu T.") NT Ndamu T. Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/19/2026 "Effective Hosting Solution with Integration Perks" 4/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? I like Cloudways for its integration with DigitalOcean, which I use every single day. Having both in the same place is quite nice. It has made it easier for me to sort of manage my APIs and others because it sort of combines everything over a single platform. The initial setup was overall simple, especially for someone like me who was not really tech savvy, but now I am. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? There aren't many tutorials on Cloudways, making it kind of difficult for me as a beginner, despite having some experience. Setting up other things was sort of difficult or something like that, and it's a little bit hard to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Cloudways to host my VPS for the car dashboard or API. It makes managing my APIs easier by combining everything over a single interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite JB Jada B. 1/16/2026 "Empowers Agencies with Stellar Performance and Support" 4/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? I like that the interface is clear and easy to understand. The support team is very knowledgeable and keen to help, providing context when needed. It's great that we can host many sites on shared servers, maintaining high performance across all of them. I also appreciate the strong security features and scanning capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? It would be great to understand and get more context on plugins used across sites and how much resources they're each using in a visual way so this can be clearly communicated to clients. This is often something we have to enquire about directly via our Premium Support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloudways helps our agency by hosting and maintaining client websites efficiently. It allows us to promptly handle site downtime, manage server resources, and host development sites for clients. The Premium Support is valuable for investigating issues quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite MO Muhammad O. Founding Member Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/24/2026 "Intuitive UI and Seamless Scaling Across Cloud Providers" 4/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? I like its institutive user interface. Cloudways easily allows us to chose between cloud providers. One more thing, it allows us to scale resource without any downtime. Right now, we are building WriterIO and continuously using deploying and testing our platform and honestly, it is very useful for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? While scaling resource like RAM is easy and does not cause downtime, however we need to higher price for the additional resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps us manage cloud servers without any complexity. Its interface is very user friendly. Its bit costly, but very useful for our work. As it allows us to host our AI native platform without any hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Ella C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ella C.") EC Ella C. Web Strategist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/19/2026 "Effortless Hosting with Great Support" 4/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? I like that Cloudways is easy to use with a UI that isn't overcrowded, making it much faster for me to navigate and manage multiple sites, which is really important. I appreciate their good support team. It also allows us to have multiple websites in one place and easily control servers, applications, SSLs, and domains. The initial setup was easy too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? SSL errors could benefit from being more specific. The error messages just need more detail or some how-tos to help you understand the exact issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloudways allows me to have multiple websites in one place, making it easy to control servers, applications, SSLs, and domains. It's easy to use, with a non-crowded UI and good support, which speeds up management of multiple sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite AB Antonio b. owner Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/8/2023 "Easy managed hosting for Wordpress" 4/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? I like the flexibility that Cloudways offers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? Support is good - I had problems before with support and got an email response from one of the leads who personally helped me with my problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? I needed a managed VPS in which I can host multiple Wordpress sites. Cloudways benefits me by being a good value for the money paid. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Marium Idrees of Cloudways [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/cloudways-review-7809552/official_response/edit) Hello there! Thank you for sharing your feedback about your experience with Cloudways. We truly appreciate your perspective. Please share your registered email address with us via DM on Facebook or Twitter (X). Without specific account details, it's challenging to pinpoint the exact cause of the delay in receiving your password reset emails. We value your input and want to ensure a smoother experience for you. If you've any other concerns, feel free to contact us. We're committed to resolving any issues and ensuring a positive experience for our users. Thank you for your understanding. 5/21/2026 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic ![Ashish T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ashish T.") AT Ashish T. Sr DevOps Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/28/2025 "Best Platform Service for Magento Hosting" 4/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? Cloudways makes managed cloud hosting incredibly easy—even for someone without a deep technical background. The interface is intuitive, and I can deploy applications like WordPress in just a few clicks. Server management is automated, which frees up a ton of time. benefits : 1. Super-fast website load times thanks to built-in caching and CDN 2. Daily backups and strong server security 3. Helpful and fast 24/7 support 4. Flexibility to choose from top cloud providers like DigitalOcean, AWS, and Google Cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? There's a bit of a learning curve at the start, especially understanding the billing model (since you pay per server usage), but once you're familiar with it, everything runs smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloudways takes the hassle out of managing cloud infrastructure. I no longer need to worry about security updates, backups, or server optimization. This gives me peace of mind and more time to focus on my clients and growing my business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/22/2025 "Solid Performance, But Needs Better Support for Developers" 4/5 What do you like best about Cloudways? Cloudways makes server management incredibly hands-off. I like that I can deploy a site in minutes, choose from multiple cloud providers, and not worry about OS-level stuff. The performance is solid out of the box — even without aggressive optimization, websites load fast. Also, the ability to scale resources up and down without migrating to a new server is a real plus. It’s a good middle ground between shared hosting and fully managing your own VPS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Cloudways? The biggest letdown is the lack of deeper developer tooling and modern workflow support. The staging environment feels basic, and there’s no built-in support for things like Git-based deployment pipelines or environment variable management. Also, support can be inconsistent — sometimes you get helpful answers, other times it feels like you’re stuck explaining the same thing multiple times. For a service aimed at agencies and devs, it doesn’t quite go far enough in making advanced workflows easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Cloudways solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloudways helps bridge the gap between raw VPS hosting and fully managed platforms. I’m using it as a web operations (WebOps) and cloud platform to manage multiple client projects — and it saves a huge amount of time. Instead of manually setting up and maintaining individual VPS servers, I get a clean UI, quick app deployment, server monitoring, backups, SSL, and scaling options all in one place. It lets me focus more on development and less on server maintenance, patching, or firefighting hosting issues. It’s especially useful when juggling several client sites that need reliable performance without the headache of full sysadmin work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about Cloudways? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Cloudways ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudways/discussions/new) JC Jimmy Chama • Last activity over 3 years ago How do l move a website created from the Godaddy site builder to Clouways hosting? 3 Upvotes 36 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/35415-how-do-l-move-a-website-created-from-the-godaddy-site-builder-to-clouways-hosting) GU Guest User What is Cloudways? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-cloudways) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudways/discuss) ## Pricing Options Pricing provided by Cloudways. ### Managed Digital Ocean 1GB - Standard $11.00 ### Managed Digital Ocean 2GB - Standard $24.00 ### Managed DigitalOcean 4GB - Standard $46.00 ### Managed DigitalOcean 8GB - Standard $88.00 [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/cloudways/pricing) ## G2 Deals ### Exclusive savings on Cloudways through G2 Deals Cloudways takes away all your hosting and server management hassles so you can focus on growing your business. 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