Cloudways vs. Porkbun

Porkbun

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cloudways	Score 9.5 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
Porkbun	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Porkbun is an ICANN accredited domain name registrar based out of Portland, OR, boasting low registration prices for domains and email hosting, as well as an easy to use website builder. The service includes SSL Certificates, WHOIS privacy, email forwarding for hosted email, cPanel hosting, as well as easy Wordpress & PHP. Porkbun also offers their own website builder that can support ecommerce through their partnership with Weebly.	N/A

Pricing

Cloudways

Porkbun

Editions & Modules

Starting Price: $10.00
per month
Maximum Price: $274.33
per month

No answers on this topic

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cloudways	Porkbun
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

$25 per application

No setup fee

Additional Details

Cloudways 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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Community Pulse
	Cloudways	Porkbun
Top Pros	Pro Customer support Pro Payment method Pro Services offered	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Free tier Minus Not supported Minus Credit cards	No answers on this topic

Best Alternatives
	Cloudways	Porkbun
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Enterprises	Pantheon Score 8.4 out of 10	No answers on this topic
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User Ratings
	Cloudways	Porkbun
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (4 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cloudways	Porkbun
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Kaushik Somaiya Owner Read full review	Porkbun LLC Anyone who generally needs to register domains or who would like to have free email forwarding for their domains, especially thoughts working on a budget considering how inexpensive Porkbun is compared to other registars. Incentivized DM Dakota Miles Web Developer Read full review
Pros	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 Brandon Dith-Berry Senior Information Technology Manager Read full review	Porkbun LLC Extremely competitive domain pricing and discounts Reminders to renew domains far in advance with generous grace periods Easy email forwarding Incentivized DM Dakota Miles Web Developer Read full review
Cons	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 Incentivized Naz Haque Google Consultant Read full review	Porkbun LLC Can't think of anything! Incentivized DM Dakota Miles Web Developer Read full review
Support Rating	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. DP Dario Pedroni Web Developer Read full review	Porkbun LLC No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean VPS and dedicated hosting are costly, Therefore cloud hosting provides a cheaper way to own a powerful server, and IP is dedicated as well. Cloudways was the decision because: 1) Easy to set up without any linux commands we can set up the server 2) Live chat for technical help. (Excellent agents, they helped out of the scope issues too) Incentivized Kaushik Somaiya Owner Read full review	Porkbun LLC Simply put, Porkbun doesn't try to overcharge you. You are paying a near-bare minimum cost for each domain while still getting great support, and unlike a lot of other registrars, you aren't being upsold something due to the lower costs. You just receive a good service. Incentivized DM Dakota Miles Web Developer Read full review
Return on Investment	DigitalOcean Massive ROI compared to Go Daddy's Server Brandon Dith-Berry Senior Information Technology Manager Read full review	Porkbun LLC Lowered our yearly costs for domains Avoided dealing with costly domain name sharks Avoided extra email hosting costs for simple tasks like email forwarding Incentivized DM Dakota Miles Web Developer Read full review
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