Using our proprietary hosting benchmark, we started to look into our data to find the closest alternatives to Cloudways hosting. It’s not an easy task to find one due to Cloudway’s unique position in the web hosting industry.
After much analysis, looking into our performance data, and other factors like features and pricing, I have both good and bad news to share.
First, the bad news: there is no real alternative to Cloudways. Let’s understand why I say this. Cloudways offers unlimited site hosting starting at just $11/month. This includes an excellent control panel to manage your sites with ease. If you need to host unlimited sites at this price, then shared hosting is the only option, but it comes with the old-age cPanel, which is not comparable to Cloudways control panel. Alternately, many managed WordPress hosting providers offer their services through custom control panels, but they don’t provide unlimited site hosting. So, it’s not an easy cakewalk to find a Clone of Cloudways hosting.
Now, the good news: If these unlimited sites don’t matter to you, then I can help you find the best alternatives to Cloudways based on our data. There are Cloudways speed equivalent shared hosting available at affordable prices, and there are managed WordPress hosting offering better speed than Cloudways but available at a premium price. Let’s explore all.
Rocket.net is the ultimate fastest hosting alternative to Cloudways. Our test shows Rocket.net offers better TTFB and load-handling capacity than Cloudways. It comes with a modern control panel with all essential features included, with no upsells.
WPX offers equivalent performance to Cloudways. Its starter plan, available at $25/month, allows up to 5 sites. The only drawback is its average control panel. If that’s unimportant to you, WPX is the equivalent alternative to Cloudways at the same price.
Nexcess is the Cloudways alternative for agencies. Starting at $21/month, Nexcess offers excellent performance, unlimited email hosting, enormous server resources, and agency-useful features like Visual Comparsion updates, which do break-free WordPress updates.
GreenGeeks is the cPanel alternative to Cloudways for hosting unlimited websites. I recommend them because they brought most of the common cPanel features into their GreenGeekS dashboard. This means that without logging into your cPanel, you can manage most of the tasks at a single click within their dashboard. Another advantage of using GreenGeeks is that it offers better TTFB and load handling than Cloudways.
Hostinger is another excellent alternative to Cloudways due to its custom hPanel. It looks similar to cPanel but comes with a modern user interface, which helps to manage server settings easily. It also performs equally to Cloudways, so you don’t need to compromise on the speed.
