Our managed hosting recipe simplifies your entire experience, so you stay focused on growing your business.
Proactive Cloudways security practices keep all your servers safe and secure.
All Cloudways hosted servers are protected by OS-level firewalls that filter out malicious traffic and keep out the intruders.
Regular Security Patching
We perform regular OS patches and firmware upgrades on your server. This ensures a secure managed cloud server and avoids vulnerabilities.
Our built-in Let’s Encrypt SSL improves website security with a trusted certificate that fulfills all your HTTPS requirements for free.
Two-Factor Authentication
TFA is an easy and effective extra layer of safety for your Cloudways account, keeping your server safe from any intruder.
Lets you create a whitelist of IPs, making it easy to collaborate with networks or regions with unrestricted access to SSH and SFTP.
With the least restrictions and more freedom, you can take your business to new heights.
You have the option to choose from a variety of world-class providers, namely Google, Amazon, DigitalOcean, Linode and Vultr.
All PHP Apps Supported
All PHP based applications are supported. Our Platform combines the freedom of dedicated servers with the ease and agility of PHP PaaS.
You have the option to extend your server storage space. Scale the storage in just a few clicks without changing other server parameters.
Multiple PHP Versions
On Cloudways you can switch PHP versions in just a click. Latest versions of PHP 5.6, and 7 are supported.
Seamless scaling of your servers with 1-Click hosting feature that scales resources (RAM, CPU and storage) without affecting your customization.
MySQL and MariaDB Supported
Latest versions of MySQL and MariaDB supported on all our servers. Switch between the databases that work best with your application.
Why enter into a contract or pay a fixed amount? We offer a pay-as-you-go payment model, allowing you to pay only for what you’ve used.
Global Availability
We know page load times mean the world to you. Choose from 60+ data centers, whichever is closer to your target audience.
Launch 10+ Apps Through 1-Click
We understand an agency’s quench for convenience. With 1-Click you can deploy a number of WordPress and Magento sites on a single server.
Our unique performance tweaks guarantee nothing but the best!
All servers launched on Cloudways have dedicated resources. Contrary to the limitations of shared hosting, our dedicated environment allows you to maximize server and app performance.
Free WordPress Cache Plugin
Breeze is engineered in-house to offer better WordPress performance than any other plugin in the industry. With simplicity at zero cost, Breeze comes pre-installed on Cloudways.
SSD drives are 3x faster, facilitating breathtaking performance and reduced page load times for your dynamic websites.
Redis Support
Enabling Redis improves the performance of databases. Combined with Apache, Nginx, and Varnish get you unbeatable performance.
We provide an optimized stack with ready to use caches including Memcached, Varnish, Nginx, and Redis to deliver expedited responses.
Free Magento Full Page Cache
Built-in Full Page Cache gives you one of the fastest hosting stacks. It significantly improves the performance of Magento 1.x stores.
All our server are PHP 7.x ready. PHP 7 is known to be significantly faster than its predecessor.
Pre-configured PHP-FPM
PHP-FPM dramatically speeds up your website and improves the loading times of your PHP environment with much faster processes.
CloudwaysCDN
CloudwaysCDN is a powerful yet simple service that delivers superior performance and top-of-the-chart global response times. It can be integrated in a few clicks without any technicalities.
HTTP/2 Supported Servers
Cloudways servers are HTTP/2 enabled which significantly increases the speed of communication between the web servers and clients.
Auto-Healing Managed Cloud Servers
You don’t have to worry about your website crashing. Most of the issues within the server are resolved with auto-healing restarts.
You don’t have to wait in queues anymore to resolve your issues.
Our Customer Success Team is always active, any day of the year. You just have to type your query and our team will do the magic.
Strong Knowledge Base
A comprehensive information hub for our customers. If you need any help related to the platform, this should be your go-to resource.
You’re never alone! Our team of experts takes care of all queries. The ticketing system helps you keep track of a particular issue.
Managed Migrations
You never have to worry about migrating your application to Cloudways. Tell us about your application, and we’ll move it in one piece.
Cloudways has a strong and effective community, where experts contribute to the community by sharing knowledge, skills, and experience.
Troubleshooting
Our Cloud Engineers are expert bug hunters. If you face a server related issue, simply contact our team and let them do the trick.
You can set automatic backup of any frequency (from 1 hour to every 7 days). You can even take a backup on demand.
Up-To-Date Applications
Managed hosting for a range of applications, supporting all the latest versions of Magento, WordPress, Drupal, Laravel and many more.
Achieve your goals with a smooth and collaborative workflow.
Git auto-deployment allows you to get updated code deployed on live servers as soon as the changes in the remote repositories occur.
Staging Area & URLs
Cloudways offers dedicated Staging environment where you can test application changes and push them in just 1-Click without breaking the live version.
Securely access servers, update files and folders on your app via SSH or SFTP. You can even generate individual SFTP credentials for your team.
Add Team Members
Distribute your work with co-workers, regardless of their location, and assign them limited or full access to your server or app.
Clone entire servers or make copies of individual sites with just 1-Click. This makes copies of files and databases on new staging URLs.
Server Transfer
Server Transfer allows you to easily transfer ownership of the servers to your clients or any other party using the 1-Click hosting feature.
Cloudways allows one team member to be a part of different teams so that every little project is split between the relevant teams.
Cloudways WP Migrator Plugin
Migrate your WordPress site from an old hosting provider to Cloudways without any hassle and for free!
Projects
Are you managing a lot of websites? You can group apps and classify them by creating Projects. You can even assign them to your teams.
Our easy-to-use UI enables you to control your application and server like a pro.
Powerful options allow you to control a number of server parameters and deploy applications and upgrade packages on the server.
App Settings via UI
No need to run complicated commands at the command line. Change all app settings from the intuitive and user-friendly Cloudways Platform.
Your automated or on-demand backups are created at an offsite location and can be restored with 1-Click. You can even revert with 1-Click.
Advanced/Custom Varnish Settings
Easily control Varnish cache rules via the Cloudways Platform. Exclude or include URLs or cookies as per needed.
Scheduling cron jobs are easier via the Cloudways built-in Cron Job manager. Set rules and enable cron jobs with just a few clicks.
Supervisord Queue Manager
The integrated Supervisord process manager is available for Laravel applications that allows you to control processes.
Control WordPress websites like a pro via the powerful commands of WP-CLI. All our servers are installed with the latest version of WP-CLI.
Change Application Webroot
Changing the web root of an app on Cloudways is easy. With just a few clicks the web server will start serving files from a new location.
1-Click Stop App
With just 1-Click you can disable the access to an application from over the web, SFTP/SSH and stop any cron jobs for the application.
With Cloudways you get many Cloud conveniences through add-ons and various web services.
CloudwaysBot sends real-time notifications of different selected events via your favorite channels such as Slack, API, and HipChat.
Rackspace Email Add-on
Get cloud-based email inboxes powered by Rackspace in just $1 for guaranteed uptime, supreme protection and around-the-clock support.
Build your own solutions to control the Platform. Develop, integrate and manage your servers and apps on Cloudways using the RESTful API.
Application Upgrade Add-on
Our cloud engineers observe the inner details of your apps and all tasks are performed in a staging area with virtually no downtime.
Our migration experts migrate sites perfectly with minimal downtime, offering one free migration, guidance on infrastructure and more.
DNS Made Easy Add-on
A premium DNS service so you never have to face DNS errors. If your site goes down all traffic is redirected to a preconfigured secondary IP.
A reliable and easy way to configure an external SMTP service to be used as a gateway to deliver emails from your server.
Cloudways Support Add-ons
Grow your team with our Advanced or Premium Add-on. You’ll get extended app level support, priority resolution and much more.
Cloudways offers around the clock server monitoring so you can have the peace of mind.
Your server is being monitored in real-time 24/7/365 and you get to see over 16 different metrics from the comfort of the console.
CloudwaysBot Notifications
The AI-based smart assistant that sends real-time performance insights to help optimize servers and apps and integrates with Slack, emails, etc.
New Relic can be enabled for insights on app performance so you can troubleshoot and identify issues causing bottlenecks.