# Cloudways > Managed cloud hosting on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloudways runs managed servers for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel and other PHP apps on a cloud provider you pick, such as DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud. It handles the server, SSL, backups, staging and security, and an AI tool called Copilot watches the server and helps diagnose problems. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Cloudways, LLC - **Website:** https://www.cloudways.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing Cloudways's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Choice of cloud provider:** Servers run on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud, and you pick the provider, size and location, then scale up later. - **Managed server essentials:** Cloudways sets up and maintains the server with free SSL, backups, one-click staging and Object Cache Pro, and moves an existing site over for free. - **Copilot AI monitoring:** Cloudways Copilot watches the server's critical components and uses AI to diagnose issues and suggest fixes. - **Security and malware scanning:** Servers get malware scanning and vulnerability alerts, with a fuller malware protection service and a Cloudflare CDN sold as add-ons. - **Cloudways API:** Cloudways publishes an API, linked from every page, for working with the platform from your own scripts and tools. ## Good for - Sites that have outgrown shared hosting but do not want to run a server - Agencies hosting many client apps on servers they control - Developers running Laravel or other PHP apps alongside WordPress ## Worth knowing - Cloudways' pages answered our readers with a bot check, so its server prices could not be read and are not listed here. - Email hosting, the Cloudflare CDN and the malware protection service are paid add-ons rather than part of the server price. - You choose and size the server yourself, which takes more decisions than a shared hosting plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Cloudways sits between shared hosting and running your own server: you pick a cloud provider and a server size, and it handles SSL, backups, staging, security and an AI monitor called Copilot. You can try it for 3 days with no card. But we couldn't read its prices, and email, the CDN and fuller malware protection all cost extra. - **Value for money: C.** No price on record: Cloudways' pages answered our readers with a bot check, so no two-year figure can be worked out. With nothing to compare, it sits at C, the grade for no stated price. Email, the CDN and malware protection are extra on top. - **Free plan and trial: D.** A 3-day free trial with no credit card, which is nice. But three days is less than a week, too short to judge a host properly, so it lands at D. - **Features: C.** Managed servers on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud, with SSL, backups, staging, Object Cache Pro, Copilot and free migration. The gaps the listing names: email, the CDN and the malware protection service are paid add-ons. - **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. You choose and size the server yourself, which is more decisions than a shared hosting plan asks of you. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** A web console with no app on record, plus a published API and a choice of five cloud providers, with WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento and Laravel apps on top. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Cloudways's own pages on 17 October 2026. Its pricing page answered our reader with a bot check when we checked it again that day. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Cloudways's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 7 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 7. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 12 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 19). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Cloudways you would be making an engine that recognises new malware as it appears. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, WooCommerce and Magento among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel, DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Cloudflare **Tags:** AI features, Public API, Malware protection ## Alternatives - [Kinsta](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kinsta): Managed WordPress hosting priced by sites, visits or bandwidth. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloudways-vs-siteground) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://www.cloudways.com/en/pricing.php - https://www.cloudways.com/en/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/cloudways Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).