Cloudways vs. Liquid Web

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudways
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Cloudways, by DigitalOcean, offers a range of managed hosting solutions, including managed Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, and others, with a choice of infrastructure providers and media delivery via CloudwaysVPN, and CloudwaysBot notification system.
$10
per month
Liquid Web
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Liquid Web is a fully managed hosting service, boasting VPS hosting on the Storm Platform, and cloud dedicated hosting on the Storm Platform. Liquid Web supports managed WordPress, managed WooCommerce, VMware Private Cloud, as well as HIPAA and PCI compliant hosting, high availability database hosting, and dedicated or server clusters available for a variety of purposes, as well as websites.
$19
per month
Pricing
CloudwaysLiquid Web
Editions & Modules
Starting Price
$10.00
per month
Maximum Price
$274.33
per month
Managed WordPress
$19
per month
Managed WooCommerce
$19
per month
VPS
$35
per month
Magenta Cloud
$49
per month
Cloud Dedicated
$149
per month
Private VPS Parent
$149
per month
Dedicated
$169
per month
Cloud Servers
$265
per month
HIPPA
$343
per month
Server Clusters
$743
per month
High Performance
1,127
per month
High Availability
1,448
per month
Database Hosting
1,498
per month
VMware Private Cloud
1,599
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudwaysLiquid Web
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$25 per applicationNo setup fee
Additional DetailsCloudways offers 1 free migration to all customers. For any further migration needs the customer can use our free WordPress migration plugin and do it themselves. Or they can request paid migration services for any PHP based application, which start at $25 per application.
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Community Pulse
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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WP Engine
Score 8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
CloudwaysLiquid Web
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.7
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudwaysLiquid Web
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudways has been a great fit for our organization and has allowed us to host as many sites as we need and scale those websites. We have a paid service plan and their team of support agents is the best that I have ever worked with. They have helped us through numerous scenarios over the years and are always there 24/7/365. From simple questions to the most complex hat we could come up with they are always willing to roll up their sleeves and see issues through to completion.
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LiquidWeb is web suited for small and large companies as they offer VPS and dedicated servers, from small to very big servers if you need lot of CPU, RAM or disk.
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Pros
  • Automatic Daily One Click Restore Backups
  • Integrated CDN
  • Easy & Intuitive Alternate Interface to cPanel and WHM
  • Very Affordable for High Specs
  • 24/7 Customer Support is Extremely Helpful
  • Serve & Application Management is a Breeze
  • Choose from Multiple Server Locations
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  • Phone support is somewhat rare, but rapid, knowledgeable, and English-speaking phone support is rarer still. Liquid Web ticks all these boxes and more.
  • Easy staging environments.
  • Partnership with iThemes for complete site management.
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Cons
  • Their free alternative to WP Rocket could be made more user-friendly and easier to understand
  • Create a function to automatically report heavy usage to specific email IDs
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  • The only con I can think of is Liquid-Web is more expensive, but it is a managed VPS so the price is on par with other similar services. There are some cheaper managed VPS plans out there, but in my experience, those often come with mediocre support and periodic server issues.
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Usability
They are constantly improving their dashboards and interface to make it easier to use and find the things that we use the most. It's a lot of features to pack in to one UI and they have done a great job of making it user friendly. Their layout is intuitive and easy to learn and is extremely granular. We are able to control every aspect of our websites and applications from an individual level from scaling, to cache, to DNS, security, WAF, and everything in between.
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Support Rating
Technical support is just 2-3 clicks away and the Cloudways homepage and the operators are available almost 24/7. They also are able to answer any kind of question related to their services, whether economical or technical. I sometimes made mistakes while using their services and they have been keen to help me, and fixed my problems really fast.
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Alternatives Considered
VPS and dedicated hosting are costly, Therefore cloud hosting provides a cheaper way to own a powerful server, and IP is dedicated as well. Cloudways was the decision because:
1) Easy to set up without any linux commands we can set up the server
2) Live chat for technical help. (Excellent agents, they helped out of the scope issues too)
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Liquid Web is more professional than all of them. The main reason is the rock solid support which is 24/7 available. Whenever we contact with queries, the solution is guaranteed. There is no need to create support tickets, all the queries gets solved over live chat.
The organization backend is strong. Servers are costly but good.
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Return on Investment
  • It simplified our systems, it's Cloudways + mainwp for maintenance and hosting now.
  • It allowed us to save on server maintenance work costs.
  • The email is easy to spin up around it if someone doesn't want google workspace.
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  • Positive! Our team voted moving our websites to Liquid Web as a top 3 decision/change made in 2018.
  • Time! We save time managing and maintaining our website thanks to Liquid Web.
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