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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudways

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACloudways, 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

    xCloud

    N/A
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    xCloud offers a server management and control panel designed to streamline the setup, deployment, and administration of WordPress websites. This platform enhances website performance and security, ensuring a robust hosting solution with transparent policies. With a user-centric design, xCloud simplifies server maintenance, so users can focus more on content creation than hosting complexities. It optimizes site speed with Redis caching tailored for WordPress and WooCommerce, and employs stable,…

    $5

    per month Server

    Pricing
    CloudwaysxCloud
    Editions & Modules
    Starting Price
    $10.00
    per month
    Maximum Price
    $274.33
    per month
    AGENCY
    $3
    per month Server, 11+ Server, (Manage Your Own Server)
    PROFESSIONAL
    $4
    per month Server (6-10 Server), Manage Your Own Server
    STARTER
    $5
    per month (1-5)Server, Manage your own server
    PROFESSIONAL
    $45
    per month Server, 8 GB RAM, (xCloud Managed Server)
    ELITE P
    $50
    per month Server, 8 GB RAM, (xCloud Managed Server)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudwaysxCloud
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    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
    CloudwaysxCloud
    Considered Both Products
    DigitalOcean
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    xCloud
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
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    Best Alternatives
    CloudwaysxCloud
    Small Businesses
    Flywheel
    Score9.9 out of 10
    cPanel
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WP Engine
    Score8.8 out of 10
    VMware vCenter
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    VMware vCenter
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CloudwaysxCloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudwaysxCloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    DigitalOcean
    When you dont know how to set up a cloud server technically, (The LAMP stack or the PHP settings etc) Cloudways comes handy. You can easily modify the server settings with one click.
    Less Appropriate - If you want to save costs, go for direct cloud providers. Setting up technical stuff is a one time job.
    Incentivized
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    xCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Pros
    DigitalOcean
    • 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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    xCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Cons
    DigitalOcean
    • 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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    xCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    DigitalOcean
    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.
    Incentivized
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    xCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    DigitalOcean
    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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    xCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean: harder to set up, hands-on maintenance and controll, but needs work-hours of a linux expert. GoDaddy: absolutely worst of all providers, charges stupid people money for nothing-services. Horrible products in my opinion. HostGator: okay-ish hosting, nowhere to the power of Cloudways, the customer support also is much less knowledgeable. I would advise against all managed hostings. Go managed-cloud instead.
    Incentivized
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    xCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    DigitalOcean
    • We were able to reduce load on our main server.
    • By migrating social sentiment platform to cloudways, we were able to scale and run it effeciently.
    • It saved lot of time as well in terms of server management.
    Incentivized
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    xCloud
    No answers on this topic
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    xCloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of xCloud Adding site to a serverProduct screenshotScreenshot of xCloud Bring & Manage your Own ServerScreenshot of xCloud Bring & Manage your Own ServerScreenshot of xCloud Setting up site