Cloudways alternative
Liquid Web is the easiest alternative to Cloudways, delivering the top-notch performance you crave without expensive support or unstable pricing.
Compare Cloudways to Liquid Web
One, then
$25 each
One, then
$99-$199
At least
$100/month
At least
$100/month
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Quality support is held hostage
Web vitals are mission-critical for online businesses. Even small errors can affect conversions and rankings. If you expect responsive, expert support from Cloudways, you may need to choose an alternate provider.
Cloudways policy states if your business has an urgent issue, you’ll have to wait in line. Or, you can pay Cloudways $500/mo for the deep expertise that solves problems fast.
At Liquid Web, we don’t hold premium support hostage. Our deep expertise is available free of charge 24/7/365. We escalate urgent issues, respond promptly, and resolve your concerns thoroughly.
You won’t get the most out of WordPress
WordPress runs on plugins. Cloudways offers tools to help you manage and monitor plugins—for an extra fee. If a plugin update goes wrong and you’re not paying, you’re doing damage control.
Managed hosting is supposed to solve problems, not create more. Making WordPress run at its best shouldn’t be out of pocket.
At Liquid Web, our expertise extends to plugin management. Use free tools like Plugin Performance Monitor and visual compare to safely update your site. Plus, get fast and free plugin conflict resolution 24/7/365.
Cloudways WooCommerce isn’t mission-critical
Ecommerce on WordPress has a multitude of moving parts: caching, concurrent users, speed, checkout ease, and more. Cloudways accommodates the basics, but nothing more.
For example, you pay separately for domains (essential to shoppers remembering your brand) and email hosting (for cart abandonment and drip campaigns). Not to mention, there’s no sales monitoring.
As the first WooCommerce host in the industry, Liquid Web knows what it takes to run a successful store. That’s why we include sales tools, checkout monitoring, and unlimited email. Plus, free plugins for cart abandonment, advanced variations, and much more.
As a pay-as-you-go provider, Cloudways is at the whim of their vendors. That means if Google, AWS, DigitalOcean, or Vultr raise their prices, Cloudways will too. And in an economy of tough choices, that may happen sooner than you think.
There’s more. You’ll pay when you need a backup or bots burn through your bandwidth. It’s up to $558.49/mo if you want to use their add-ons. Before taxes.
Liquid Web uses independent infrastructure to maintain better cost control. We own our servers, so email, DNS, and CDN are free. No vendors, no outrageous expenses. Just stable, reasonable billing.
Three days, then you pay
Cloudways offers a three-day free trial. That means you have 36 hours to spin up your server, optimize it for your application, set up credentials, proof your migration (and fix any errors), propagate DNS, integrate your workflow, check version compatibility, set up email accounts, start staging, configure scaling, monitor performance analytics, and decide if it’s right for you.
On top of everything else you have to do every day, that’s…a lot.
Liquid Web, on the other hand, has a 30-day money-back guarantee. You have plenty of time to experience our premium hosting and unbeatable expert support. If you’re not satisfied, you receive a full refund.
Unreliable managed hosting provider
Unreliable managed hosting provider. They update the OS of your server (without prior notice). They had issues during that (automated?) process and it took more than 24 hours to fix the problem they committed. To avoid for production environments.
- Jozef on Trustpilot