Cloudways
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Control panel on clouds still leaves ops on you.
Consider fortrabbit a more professional alternative to Cloudways for hosting PHP websites.
About Cloudways
Cloudways is a hosting server management software and thus actually a software service not a full hosting service. It helps you to spin up VPS machines on other providers. Cloudways is a marketing driven hosting service with well optimized landing pages. It was acquired by DigitalOcean in 2022. Cloudways also advertises WordPress hosting. We don't have first hand experience.
Why not Cloudways
Cloudways might look like a good option for novice web developers with a tight budget. But take care when using server management software, there is the risk of a responsibility gap. In our opinion the service is not very credible.
Why fortrabbit
fortrabbit is an independent hosting service with a long term commitment. Our solution is more professional and more sustainable for sophisticated web developers and their clients.