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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudways

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ACloudways, 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

    Upsun

    Score10 out of 10
    N/APlatform.sh helps companies of all sizes, from SaaS entrepreneurs looking to build, run, and scale their websites and web applications.

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    CloudwaysUpsun
    Editions & Modules
    Starting Price
    $10.00
    per month
    Maximum Price
    $274.33
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudwaysUpsun
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$25 per applicationNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCloudways 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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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    CloudwaysUpsun
    Platform-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Cloudways and Upsun
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Upsun
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Scalability00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Services-enabled integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Development environment creation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Development environment replication00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Issue monitoring and notification00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Upgrades and platform fixes00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    CloudwaysUpsun
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    Flywheel
    Score4.8 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Foundry
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WP Engine
    Score7.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Private
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    AWS Elastic Beanstalk
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudwaysUpsun
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    CloudwaysUpsun
    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
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    Upsun
    In our organisation we are the only team that uses Platform.sh to host any site. This was a cost effective way for us as we were using Acquia Cloud earlier for these websites. We mostly use Platform.sh for those sites which are always in development as it is simpler and faster to handle these operations in Platform.sh. Then we do a lift and shift to Acquia as we move more towards the go live and post production maintenance side.
    Incentivized
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    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
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    Upsun
    • As this is a PaaS it mitigates the complexities of a Cloud infrastructure like Acquia
    • We are easily able to integrate our sites with different technologies like Python and Rest
    • Helps us in providing Continuous Development cloud deployment hosting solution
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    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
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    Upsun
    • Platform.sh is not for beginners in my opinion. It has a good amount of learning curve in my opinion.
    • As this is a PaaS, teams habituated with cloud infrastructure may miss the server side support from their cloud teams. I believe you will have to work on server bugs more on your own.
    • During normal maintenance periods, integrations may fail if you are working on your sites in that time, in my experience.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Upsun
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    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.
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    Upsun
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Upsun
    In our team we use Platform.sh mostly while sites are in developmental phase. Then we do a lift and shift to either Acquia or AWS depending on the type of sites we have. Platform.sh is really cost effective and more fluid in terms of Continuous Development hence the usage. After said development is done, we generally lift and shift to Acquia for more content heavy sites and to AWS for more transaction oriented sites.
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    Return on Investment
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Upsun
    • Continuous development for sites in build has been fluid
    • Platform.sh is really cost effective when comparing to AWS or Acquia Cloud
    • On the other side, lack of server side support demands a big learning curve from its users in my opinion.
    Incentivized
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