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Cloudways Review – WordPress Hosting

There are a ton of different hosting providers on the market to choose from. Each offers their own set of features, resources, and addons. Over the past decade, web hosts have focused on making their products more powerful and capable of handling larger sites. They offer more concurrent users as well as more user-friendly and targeted towards their customers who are creating websites. Specialized products such as WordPress Hosting and quick-deploying cloud servers have changed the way websites are hosted. Gone are the days where you needed your own tech specialist or on-staff web designer. Cloudways Hosting fits under this innovation umbrella. It has a rather unique way of bundling powerful hosting with an intuitive, user-friendly interface tailored to the Content Management System or website builder you are looking to use.

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Cloudways Hosting has been in business since 2009, operating off of the island of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea. Cloudways is a managed hosting provider, meaning their service goes beyond just providing you access to a server partition and leaving you to your own devices. They have multiple layers of management that simplifies your life. Cloudways allows you to save time by skipping the “system administrator” type tasks and getting straight to your website.

The first management layer is provided by giving you an out-of-the-box solution for a number of the internet’s leading cloud service providers. These include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Digital Ocean, Vultr, and Linode. Cloudways gives you the ability to scale up or down on these cloud based services depending on your website’s needs. You can then have whatever Content Management System or website builder you are most comfortable with and install it on top of this cloud layer. For instance, if your experience with building websites includes WordPress, you can have that installed with your hosting plan and pay monthly or hourly for the resources you use.

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This unique approach to web hosting bridges the gap between the traditional web host, which makes website deployment easy, usually utilizing a control panel such as cPanel. And combines it with the flexibility of a newer cloud infrastructure, which lets you pay as you go for the resources you use. We find this to be one of Cloudways Hosting’s strongest selling points. In order to lock in savings for a traditional web host, you usually have to commit to 2 or 3 years when signing up. If you only need this for a single use, or want to spin up a number of sites, Cloudways may be the best option for you.

Another benefit of having your website hosted on one of these cloud providers is the speed and redundancy it provides your websites. Rather than having your site hosted in one place on one server, you get the benefit of redundancy, ensures uptime, and allows for easy site migration. From a features standpoint, Cloudways offers SSD servers with caching and Varnish, an SSL certificate, a dedicated firewall and regular updates to make sure your site is staying safe and secure. If you find yourself running into any issues, Cloudways has a 24/7 customer support team available via live chat, a very helpful community of users, and an extensive knowledge base filled with articles to help with frequently asked questions.

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Bottom line: If you are looking for a reliable host that leverages some of the world’s top cloud hosting providers and allows you to pay by hour or the month rather than by years, Cloudways Hosting may be the perfect host for you.