Azure Static Web Apps vs. Cloudways

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Static Web Apps
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Azure Static Web Apps, available from Microsoft's Azure suite of apps and services, streamlines full-stack development from source code to global high availability. The solution helps to accelerate app development with managed global availability for static content hosting and dynamic scale for integrated serverless APIs. The service boasts a tailored local development experience, CI/CD workflows to build and deploy apps, and unified hosting and management in the cloud.
$9
per month per app
Cloudways
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Cloudways, by DigitalOcean, offers a range of managed hosting solutions, including managed Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and others, with a choice of infrastructure providers and media delivery via CloudwaysVPN, and CloudwaysBot notification system.
$10
per month
Pricing
Azure Static Web AppsCloudways
Editions & Modules
Standard
$9
per month per app
Starting Price
$10.00
per month
Maximum Price
$274.33
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Static Web AppsCloudways
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$25 per application
Additional DetailsBandwidth Overage - $0.20 per GB per subscription Storage - 2.00 GB / 0.50 GB / per app Enterprise-grade Edge - $17.52/per app/monthCloudways offers 1 free migration to all customers. For any further migration needs the customer can use our free WordPress migration plugin and do it themselves. Or they can request paid migration services for any PHP based application, which start at $25 per application.
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Score 7.3 out of 10
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Azure Static Web AppsCloudways
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.7
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Static Web AppsCloudways
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
DigitalOcean
When you dont know how to set up a cloud server technically, (The LAMP stack or the PHP settings etc) Cloudways comes handy. You can easily modify the server settings with one click.
Less Appropriate - If you want to save costs, go for direct cloud providers. Setting up technical stuff is a one time job.
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Pros
Microsoft
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DigitalOcean
  • Automatic Daily One Click Restore Backups
  • Integrated CDN
  • Easy & Intuitive Alternate Interface to cPanel and WHM
  • Very Affordable for High Specs
  • 24/7 Customer Support is Extremely Helpful
  • Serve & Application Management is a Breeze
  • Choose from Multiple Server Locations
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Cons
Microsoft
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DigitalOcean
  • Their free alternative to WP Rocket could be made more user-friendly and easier to understand
  • Create a function to automatically report heavy usage to specific email IDs
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Usability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
DigitalOcean
They are constantly improving their dashboards and interface to make it easier to use and find the things that we use the most. It's a lot of features to pack in to one UI and they have done a great job of making it user friendly. Their layout is intuitive and easy to learn and is extremely granular. We are able to control every aspect of our websites and applications from an individual level from scaling, to cache, to DNS, security, WAF, and everything in between.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
DigitalOcean
Technical support is just 2-3 clicks away and the Cloudways homepage and the operators are available almost 24/7. They also are able to answer any kind of question related to their services, whether economical or technical. I sometimes made mistakes while using their services and they have been keen to help me, and fixed my problems really fast.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean: harder to set up, hands-on maintenance and controll, but needs work-hours of a linux expert. GoDaddy: absolutely worst of all providers, charges stupid people money for nothing-services. Horrible products in my opinion. HostGator: okay-ish hosting, nowhere to the power of Cloudways, the customer support also is much less knowledgeable. I would advise against all managed hostings. Go managed-cloud instead.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
DigitalOcean
  • We were able to reduce load on our main server.
  • By migrating social sentiment platform to cloudways, we were able to scale and run it effeciently.
  • It saved lot of time as well in terms of server management.
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