Cloudways vs. Web.com

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudways
Score 9.4 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
Web.com
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Web.com provides business across all industries with tools to build a business's online presence. Formed more than 20 years ago, Web.com brings website, email, security and online marketing solutions into one place. Web.com boasts serving more than three million customers around the world and managing over nine million domain names.
$14.99
per month
Pricing
CloudwaysWeb.com
Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$10.00
per month
Maximum Price
$274.33
per month
Basic Website
$14.99
per month
Business Essentials
$19.99
per month
eCommerce Essentials
$32.99
per month
eCommerce Premium
$49.99
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudwaysWeb.com
Free Trial
YesNo
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.Discounts available for annual pricing. First month available at a discount.
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Community Pulse
CloudwaysWeb.com
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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Score 7.3 out of 10
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Score 7.3 out of 10
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
CloudwaysWeb.com
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudwaysWeb.com
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.
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Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
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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.
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Newfold Digital (Endurance + Web.com)
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