Cloudways alternative

The Cloudways Alternative Agencies Switch To

Stop running servers. Every client site runs in its own container, so there’s no box to size and no second server when the first one fills up.

Security, safe updates, backups and free done-for-you migrations are in the plan. 20 sites cost $100/mo, all-in, against about $195 on Cloudways once you add what an agency actually needs.

$50 credit for Cloudways switchers, with code CLOUDWAYS50

$50 credit · Free migration from Cloudways · 100% money-back first month

“Moved around 20 client sites over from Cloudways earlier this year and I should have done it sooner.”
Agency owner, Google review, September 2026

For agencies and freelancers running client sites on one or more Cloudways servers.

// the agency maths · 20 WordPress sites

Wordify vs Cloudways, at 20 sites

Wordify
$100/mo
Wordify Max · Starter sites · no contract
Cloudways
$195/mo with add-ons
$54/mo server only, before add-ons
You save
$95/mo
≈ $1,140 a year, against a like-for-like Cloudways bill. Cheaper still if you were paying for Advanced Support.

Wordify prices are derived from our live per-site rate card. Cloudways figures are public list prices as of September 2026.

Not switching today? Take the numbers with you.

We'll email the full Cloudways vs Wordify breakdown for your site count, plus code CLOUDWAYS50 for a $50 credit when you switch.

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// $50 sign-up credit

Get $50 off your move from Cloudways

Switching from Cloudways? We’ll drop a $50 credit into your account, roughly your first month on us. It stacks with your free done-for-you migration and the money-back first month, and it has no expiry, so you can move a few sites now and the rest when you’re ready.

  • $50 account credit, about your first month on us
  • Free done-for-you migration from Cloudways
  • 100% money-back first month

New customers only. One $50 credit per team, auto-applied when you add a payment method (card required). No expiry.

Your code
CLOUDWAYS50
$50 account credit
// why agencies switch

Why agencies choose Wordify over Cloudways

Six reasons the switch pays off, starting with the one that hits the invoice hardest.

Per site, not per server

Every site runs in its own container with its own resources. Nobody works out whether the 4 GB box will take one more client, nobody resizes and restarts the server or splits sites onto a second one when it fills up, and one busy site can’t slow the other nineteen.

Security is in the plan, not the cart

WAF, antivirus and malware scanning are on every Wordify site. On Cloudways the server firewall is included, but the edge WAF and CDN are Cloudflare Enterprise at $1.99 to $4.99 per domain, and automated malware removal is another $2 to $4 per app.

Automated Safe Updates, included

Plugin, theme and core updates applied for you, with a verified restore point, a health check and an automatic rollback if the site fails it. Cloudways sells the equivalent as Site Manager Pro at $3 per app up to five sites, $2 per app from six.

Support that will look at your plugin error

A one-hour first-response SLA in writing, and engineers who read the debug log rather than pointing you at a doc. Cloudways’s included support hands unresolved chats to a ticket with a 12-hour first response; plugin troubleshooting needs the $100/mo Advanced Support add-on.

Grows without a server upgrade

Storage and bandwidth pool across your sites and grow with every site you add. Go over and we bill the difference; we never throttle, never move you to a bigger plan and never switch a site off. No 95% disk warning, no scaling restart.

AI Connector on every plan

Connect Claude or ChatGPT and manage the whole fleet in plain English: provision, clone, push staging, read debug logs, bump PHP, audit every client site. Free on every plan. Cloudways Copilot diagnoses server issues; it doesn’t run your fleet.

// the stack tax

"Managed" hosting you still have to manage isn’t managed.

A Cloudways server is cheap because it is only a server. The agency bill is the box, plus a per-domain charge for the edge WAF and CDN, a per-app charge for safe updates, a per-app charge for malware removal, backup storage, and $100 a month if you want support to look at a plugin error. Then a bigger box, or a second one, when the first one fills up. "Managed" should mean you don’t assemble that yourself.

One Wordify Console bill
  • Hosting + per-site billing
  • Daily backups
  • One-click staging
  • Automated Safe Updates
  • WAF + malware scanning
  • Global CDN
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Free done-for-you migrations
  • AI Connector + fleet management
All included · $100/mo for 20 sites
The typical Cloudways stack
  • Cloudways server, $54/mo for a 4 GB Medium, sized and watched by you
  • Cloudflare Enterprise, $1.99 to $4.99 per domain per month for an edge WAF and CDN
  • Site Manager Pro, $3 per app up to 5 sites, $2 from 6, for safe updates
  • Malware Protection, $2 to $4 per app per month for automated removal
  • Off-site backups, $0.033/GB per server, plus the local disk they stage on
  • Advanced Support, $100/mo for plugin troubleshooting and a named contact
  • The next server, resize it with a restart, or clone to a second box and re-point DNS
Separate bills, separate logins, separate problems
// feature by feature

Wordify vs Cloudways: the full comparison

Feature Wordify Cloudways
20-site agency bill $100/mo, all-in $54 server + about $141/mo in add-ons
Pricing model Per site, pay for what you run Per server, you choose and size the box
Who sizes the server Nobody. Each site scales in its own container You do. Scaling RAM restarts the server
Sites isolated from each other Apps on one server share its RAM and CPU
Daily backups Included; off-site storage $0.033/GB per server
One-click staging
Automated Safe Updates (restore point, health check, automatic rollback) Included on every plan: plugins, themes and core Site Manager Pro: $3 per app up to 5 sites, $2 per app from 6
Edge WAF + global CDN Cloudflare Enterprise add-on, $1.99 to $4.99 per domain
Malware scanning
Automated malware removal Malware Protection add-on, $2 to $4 per app
Free done-for-you migrations Every site, most within the hour First WordPress site; the rest via their plugin, or $99 each for non-WordPress
Support included 24/7, 1-hour first-response SLA, plugin troubleshooting included 24/7 chat; tickets 12-hour first response; plugin troubleshooting is Advanced Support at $100/mo
AI Connector (manage fleet in plain English)
Choice of cloud provider No. We run it, in AU, US, CA, UK and DE DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, GCP
Email hosting No. Bring your own; keep mail wherever it is now Rackspace add-on, $1.50 per mailbox
Visit caps or per-visit fees None None
Contract None, billed by the day None, billed by the hour
Money-back guarantee 100%, first month, no questions asked 3-day trial, no card. No money-back window published
// pricing at every scale

The bigger your fleet, the bigger the gap

Wordify Max · Starter sites at $5/site (a $50/mo team minimum) versus a Cloudways server plus the add-ons at each size. The gap opens the moment you’re running more than a couple of sites.

Sites Cloudways plan Server only Server + add-ons Wordify You save *
5 DO Premium Small (2 GB) $28/mo $83/mo $50/mo $33/mo · 40%
10 DO Premium Medium (4 GB) $54/mo $134/mo $50/mo $84/mo · 63%
20 DO Premium Medium (4 GB) $54/mo $195/mo $100/mo $95/mo · 49%
40 DO Premium Large (8 GB) $99/mo $340/mo $200/mo $140/mo · 41%

Server + add-ons is a DigitalOcean Premium server plus Cloudflare Enterprise, Site Manager Pro and Malware Protection for every site, and off-site backup storage, at Cloudways’s published per-domain and per-app rates. Where a rate card doesn’t say whether a volume price applies to every site or only to the sites inside each band, we’ve used the cheaper reading. It leaves out Advanced Support ($100/mo). Server only is the headline price Cloudways quotes. See the full Wordify rate card →

// free migration from Cloudways

We’ll move every site off Cloudways for free

Hands-off, zero-downtime, and on a schedule you approve. You don’t lift a finger.

1

Tell us where your sites live

Share your Cloudways login, SFTP details or a backup. We take it from there. No migrator plugin, no export to wrangle, no maintenance window.

2

We migrate every site, zero downtime

Each site is copied, tested on staging and verified before anything changes. We cut DNS over only when you give the go-ahead. Most sites are done within the hour.

3

Go live, then delete the server

Keep your Cloudways server running until you’re happy; hourly billing means it costs cents a day. Then delete it. Don’t love Wordify in the first month? You get 100% of your money back and keep a full backup of every site.

Rated 4.9 / 5 on Google & Facebook

Agencies that switched to Wordify

Real Google reviews from the WordPress professionals who run client sites for a living.

I've been using Wordify for a few years now. They're not very well known in the managed WordPress hosting industry, but I can only give positive feedback. The infrastructure is solid, they offer almost all the features you need, and the support is excellent.
Nick Suykerbuyk Nick Suykerbuyk
Moved around 20 client sites over from Cloudways earlier this year and I should have done it sooner. The dashboard is genuinely well thought out, everything is where you'd expect it, and the sites are noticeably quicker than what I was paying more for previously. Nightly backups and on-demand ones have saved me a couple of times already. Support actually knows WordPress, which sounds like a low bar but isn't. Easy recommendation if you're an agency or freelancer looking after client sites.
Agency owner Google review, September 2026. Moved about 20 sites from Cloudways
These guys are freaking great. Price is fair, service is reliable, support is amazing, and migrations are smooooooth. I am very happy with everything, and would strongly recommend to anyone who wants reliable web hosting (especially if you run a web agency).
Nick Gulic Nick Gulic Creative Click, Sydney
// the honest bit

Honestly, when Cloudways is the better pick

Cloudways is a good product for the right customer, and plenty of agencies run happily on it. If any of these is you, it’s worth staying:

  • You want to choose the cloud and the region yourself. Cloudways gives you DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud across 50-plus regions. We run our own platform in Australia, the US, Canada, the UK and Germany, and we made that decision so you don’t have to.
  • You run a few very large sites and want a whole server to yourself. A dedicated 8 GB or 16 GB box you tune (Varnish, Redis, Memcached, PHP workers) is exactly what Cloudways is for. Our answer is per-site Pro plans, which is a different shape.
  • You need client mailboxes on the same bill. Cloudways sells Rackspace mailboxes at $1.50 each. We don’t host email, and we’ll tell you that before you move.
  • You want one autoscaling site on Kubernetes. Cloudways Autonomous does that from $99 a month per site. It isn’t an agency product, but for a single high-traffic store it’s a real option.
  • You’re a single-site owner, not an agency. A $14 Cloudways server for one small site is hard to argue with. Our advantage compounds with the number of sites you run.

Not sure which side of the line you’re on? Tell us what you’re running and we’ll give you a straight answer, even if that answer is "stay where you are".

// cloudways alternative · FAQ

Switching from Cloudways, answered

Move every site free. Feel the difference, then decide.

We migrate every site off Cloudways for free, hands-off and zero-downtime, and you keep a full backup. Don’t love Wordify in your first month? You get 100% of your money back.

Switching from Cloudways? Use code CLOUDWAYS50 for a $50 sign-up credit.

Comparing other hosts too? See our WP Engine alternative and Kinsta alternative pages.