Transparent pay-as-you-go pricing. Choose your cloud provider and scale resources as needed.
Cloudways pricing plans start from $14/month. You can pay by hour if necessary and there are no contracts or anything to tie you in. The price you pay depends on the amount of server resources you want and the cloud hosting provider.
Most affordable option, great for small websites
Best value - more resources for growing sites
For larger websites with higher traffic
For e-commerce and resource-intensive apps
Pay only for the hours you use. Perfect for development, testing, or temporary projects. Get charged at the end of each month based on actual usage.
Standard monthly billing with no long-term commitments. Scale up or down anytime. Cancel whenever you want with no penalties.
No lock-in periods or hidden fees. Complete flexibility to adjust your server resources as your needs change. Pay only for what you use.
DigitalOcean Small offers more resources than Micro for just $14 more per month. For growing websites, you get:
| Feature | Cloudways | Traditional |
|---|---|---|
| Free SSL Certificates | ✓ | ✓ |
| 24/7 Technical Support | ✓ | × |
| One-Click Backups | ✓ | × |
| SSH Access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in Caching | ✓ | × |
| Easy Scaling | ✓ | × |
| Real-time Monitoring | ✓ | × |
| Self-Healing Servers | ✓ | × |
Offsite backups are chargeable at approximately $0.033 per GB. This is reasonable considering Cloudways has to pay extra for these storage costs.
Email is only available through a paid add-on using RackSpace email management. Best practice is to host emails separately anyway.
Scale server resources with a few clicks. Takes only 5-10 minutes. For DigitalOcean, scaling down involves cloning your server.
Try Cloudways free with $10 credit. That's enough for a basic DigitalOcean server for one month.
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