Cloudways rents you a managed server from $14 a month and lets you fill it; malware protection, safe updates and email are sold per site on top. WP Start is $8.33 a month on yearly billing, with those included for one WordPress site and engineers on the other end of the ticket.
Their published price against ours, both on the terms each of us asks for. Checked in a browser on the date under the table.
Cloudways sells the server and lets you put on it what you like. We sell the WordPress site itself, managed, with protection and updates in the price.
Cloudways figures as published at cloudways.com/en/pricing.php, read on 11 October 2026; prices exclude tax. inSave figures come from our own price list.
Cloudways bills by the hour up to $14 a month, so the server alone comes to $840 over five years against our $499.50 for one site — but a Cloudways server can carry more than one. Add Malware Protection and Site Manager's safe updates for one site, which WP Start includes, and it is $21 a month: the second row below. If speed is why you are looking, start with Why is my WordPress site slow on shared hosting? Check these five things first.
| Plan | After 1 year | After 3 years | After 5 years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudways DigitalOcean Premium 1 GB, monthly | $168 | $504 | $840 |
| inSave WP Start, yearly billing | $99.90 | $299.70 | $499.50 |
| Cloudways 1 GB + Malware Protection + safe updates, one site | $252 | $756 | $1,260 |
| inSave WP Start, both included | $99.90 | $299.70 | $499.50 |
Everything billed by the end of each year, in US dollars. Cloudways figures as published at cloudways.com/en/pricing.php, read on 11 October 2026; prices exclude tax. inSave figures come from our own price list.
| Cloudways DigitalOcean Premium 1 GB, monthly | inSave WP Start, yearly billing | |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress sites | No set limit — as many as the server holds | 1 |
| Storage | 25 GB NVMe | 40 GB NVMe |
| RAM | 1 GB | 2 GB |
| Malware protection | Server firewall included; malware removal from $4 a site a month | cPFence, included |
| Safe automatic updates | Site Manager add-on, from $3 a site a month | ✓ |
| Staging websites | ✓ | 1 |
| Daily backups | Automated; offsite copies $0.033 per GB | ✓ |
| Redis object cache | ✓ | ✓ |
Their column is what their pricing page lists; where it lists nothing, we say so rather than guess. Ours is the same table as on our plan pages.
24/7 support from their engineers, as their pricing page says. Help with plugins, themes and performance is the Advanced Support add-on, $100 a month.
A broken plugin or a slow page is part of support here, not an add-on: the ticket goes to the engineers who run the servers, on every plan.
You run one or a few WordPress sites and keep buying per-site extras to get what a managed WordPress plan should include. Or you would rather have one yearly price per site than an hourly bill. Our cycles discount up to 30%, and the move is free.
You run many sites, or PHP apps that are not WordPress, on one server and like choosing the cloud and resizing it yourself. A $14 Cloudways server holds as many sites as fit, and hourly billing suits short-lived projects.
Free on every plan, done by an engineer rather than handed to you as a tool, and with the old host left running until you have checked the new copy.
Send the login to the current host, or a backup file. One site or forty — the migration is free on every plan.
The site comes up on our platform on a temporary address. Nothing points here yet, so you can click through it before anything changes.
When you say go, the name points at us. Done outside your busy hours if you ask, and with the old host still running until it is finished.
For one WordPress site, no: WP Start is $8.33 a month on yearly billing, against $14 for the Cloudways server alone and $21 before tax with the malware protection and safe updates that WP Start includes. A Cloudways server can carry more than one site, though, so several sites on one server can come out cheaper there.
Yes, free and with no limit on how many. Give us access to the application or a backup; we restore it here, you check it on a temporary address, and we switch the DNS when you say so. A site moves within a day.
Cloudways offers a 3-day trial without a card. Our WordPress plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee instead, so you can move a real site and decide on it.
Premium managed WordPress on Google Cloud, priced for enterprises. The same managed features cost a fraction here.
The cheapest headline on the market, on a four-year commitment, renewing at roughly four times the price.
Cheap reseller accounts on cPanel. We give a different platform and five times the NVMe, not a cheaper copy.
Renewals stopped on 1 October 2026 and the plans shut down a year later. Where a reseller and its clients can go instead.
$2.99 a month for the first year, $17.99 a month after it. Ours is the same price at every renewal.
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