Cloudways vs. WordPress VIP

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudways
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Cloudways headquartered in Malta 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 VIP
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.N/A
Pricing
CloudwaysWordPress VIP
Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$10.00
per month
Maximum Price
$274.33
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudwaysWordPress VIP
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.
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Features
CloudwaysWordPress VIP
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Cloudways
-
Ratings
WordPress VIP
9.1
1 Ratings
12% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
Cloudways
-
Ratings
WordPress VIP
9.1
1 Ratings
16% above category average
API00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Cloudways
-
Ratings
WordPress VIP
8.5
1 Ratings
11% above category average
Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Admin section00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Publishing workflow00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
Cloudways
-
Ratings
WordPress VIP
9.1
1 Ratings
21% above category average
Bulk management00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Community / comment management00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Best Alternatives
CloudwaysWordPress VIP
Small Businesses
Liquid Web
Liquid Web
Score 7.3 out of 10
ManageWP
ManageWP
Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Pantheon
Pantheon
Score 8.8 out of 10
Image Relay
Image Relay
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Pantheon
Pantheon
Score 8.8 out of 10
Tridion
Tridion
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
CloudwaysWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
9.1
(17 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(3 ratings)
8.9
(17 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudwaysWordPress VIP
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudways
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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Automattic
WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.
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Pros
Cloudways
  • 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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Automattic
  • Security - class leading security, ensuring sites are protected and operate hassle free
  • Scalability - provide patches and updates first before the market place
  • Reliability - up to 99.9% up time, with a fantastic track record
  • Performance - hitting the high notes for Core Web Vitals and ensuring WordPress is operating at its peak performance
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Cons
Cloudways
  • PayPal is not supported.
  • Some Norwegian credit cards might not work properly.
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Automattic
  • There aren't any smaller hosting packages for organizations with lower budgets
  • Plug-in updates through the repo can be somewhat tedious
  • Timezone issues with support can happen occasionally
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Likelihood to Renew
Cloudways
No answers on this topic
Automattic
Most clients never even consider moving to another platform once they are set up on WordPress VIP.
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Usability
Cloudways
No answers on this topic
Automattic
There is documentation for everything you might need.
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Support Rating
Cloudways
They answer quick and always help solve my problems. Their documentation is also robust.
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Automattic
The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.
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Alternatives Considered
Cloudways
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)
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Automattic
Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered Pantheon, but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.
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Return on Investment
Cloudways
  • 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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Automattic
  • Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.
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ScreenShots

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