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.