Cloudways vs. Wordpress.com

Wordpress.com

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
Wordpress.com	Score 7.5 out of 10	N/A	Wordpress.com is a Wordpress managed hosting service, featuring performant CPUs to process WordPress and WooCommerce-specific queries at speed, and a custom resource management system that automatically scales to over 100 PHP workers.	$40 per month (for Business tier features ideal for developers)

Pricing

Cloudways

Wordpress.com

Editions & Modules

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

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cloudways	Wordpress.com
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

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.

Discount available for annual pricing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Cloudways	Wordpress.com
Considered Both Products	Cloudways Michał Kuczek Programmer Chose Cloudways 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. Incentivized Helpful?	Wordpress.com No answer on this topic

User Ratings
	Cloudways	Wordpress.com
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (6 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.4 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cloudways	Wordpress.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. Incentivized Kaushik Somaiya Owner Read full review	Automattic No answers on this topic
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	Automattic No answers on this topic
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	Automattic No answers on this topic
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 Michael Weisel Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer Read full review	Automattic No answers on this topic
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	Automattic No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Michał Kuczek Programmer Read full review	Automattic No answers on this topic
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 Kaushik Somaiya Owner Read full review	Automattic No answers on this topic
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