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About Cloudways is your managed cloud hosting platform. Focus on building great websites, not on web hosting complexities. Our managed hosting platform gives digital agencies and e-commerce businesses flexibility and choice in how websites are hosted. Backed by 24/7/365 support, you’re guaranteed peace of mind. Managed hosting that helps businesses unleash the full potential of their websites. Our cloud hosting platform takes away the complexities of setting up your website and allows you to go live in minutes. We help agencies and businesses to build and manage web apps more collaboratively and efficiently. We are committed to delivering fast performance, ironclad security, and seamless scalability for your websites. We offer expert 24/7/365 problem-solving for everyone. For a closer partnership, choose the Advanced Support add-on that enhances your support experience or the Premium Support add-on where our Senior Support Engineers work as an extension of your in-house team.	About The simplest cloud platform for developers & teams. Deploy, manage, and scale cloud applications faster and more efficiently on DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean makes managing infrastructure easy for teams and businesses, whether you’re running one virtual machine or ten thousand. DigitalOcean App Platform: Build, deploy, and scale apps quickly using a simple, fully managed solution. We’ll handle the infrastructure, app runtimes and dependencies, so that you can push code to production in just a few clicks. Use a simple, intuitive, and visually rich experience to rapidly build, deploy, manage, and scale apps. Secure apps automatically. We create, manage and renew your SSL certificates and also protect your apps from DDoS attacks. Focus on what matters the most: building awesome apps. Let us handle provisioning and managing infrastructure, operating systems, databases, application runtimes, and other dependencies.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Anyone who needs an affordable and reliable web hosting provider	Audience Developers, startups, and businesses seeking a simple, scalable, and affordable cloud infrastructure to build, deploy, and manage applications
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Pricing $11.00/month/user Free Version Free Trial	Pricing $5 per month Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 5.0 / 5 ease 5.0 / 5 features 4.7 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 5.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.8 / 5 ease 4.5 / 5 features 4.8 / 5 design 5.0 / 5 support 4.5 / 5 Read all reviews
Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person	Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information Cloudways Founded: 2011 Malta www.cloudways.com/en/	Company Information DigitalOcean Founded: 2011 United States digitalocean.com
Alternatives Nexcess Managed Cloud Nexcess	Alternatives Google Cloud Platform Google
Hostinger	Google Compute Engine Google
Convesio	Hostinger
ScalaHosting	Akamai Cloud Akamai
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Integrations GitHub Teamstack Traversal n8n BlockSpaces Budibase Bunnyshell CloudCasa Coolify Couchdrop Dataplane DeployBot Docu Dig Doppler HybridMount LaunchWP Magento Opsani SaltStack Sequel Show More Integrations View All 17 Integrations	Integrations GitHub Teamstack Traversal n8n BlockSpaces Budibase Bunnyshell CloudCasa Coolify Couchdrop Dataplane DeployBot Docu Dig Doppler HybridMount LaunchWP Magento Opsani SaltStack Sequel Show More Integrations View All 197 Integrations
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