TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    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

    DigitalOcean

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    Pricing
    CloudwaysDigitalOcean
    Editions & Modules
    Starting Price
    $10.00
    per month
    Maximum Price
    $274.33
    per month
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudwaysDigitalOcean
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    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.—
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    CloudwaysDigitalOcean
    Considered Both Products
    DigitalOcean
    Chose Cloudways
    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.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cloudways
    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. …
    Incentivized
    DigitalOcean
    Chose DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    CloudwaysDigitalOcean
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Cloudways and DigitalOcean
    Feature
    Cloudways
    -
    Ratings
    DigitalOcean
    8.3
    33 Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.228 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings7.021 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings10.027 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings10.032 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings7.531 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings8.331 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    User Ratings
    CloudwaysDigitalOcean
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.2
    (33 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (2 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)