Cloudways Promo Codes & Deals

Cloudways Flexible's entry DigitalOcean plan costs $11 a month for 2GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 50GB storage, and 2TB transfer bandwidth, with unlimited websites and visits regardless of server size. It includes 4 free AI Copilot credits for automated troubleshooting and the newer NGINX-based Lightning Stack for faster page loads. Suited to personal sites and simple blogs rather than high-traffic stores.

Cloudways' Medium DigitalOcean plan, marked as the most popular tier, costs $88 a month for 8GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 160GB storage, and 5TB transfer bandwidth. It's built for websites with more demanding traffic than the entry Micro plan comfortably handles. Every core feature, including free migration and staging, carries over unchanged from the cheaper tier below it.

Cloudways Autonomous starts at $99 a month for the Growth tier, built on Kubernetes to automatically scale server resources during traffic spikes rather than requiring manual intervention. It includes Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, Redis caching, and Object Cache Pro plus Relay built in. Extra disk space runs $1 per GB and bandwidth $0.04 per GB beyond the plan's included allowance.

Autonomous Scale, Cloudways' recommended tier, costs $199 a month and includes two baseline autoscale servers rather than the single server on Growth, along with 250GB of included bandwidth. Autoscaling beyond the baseline runs $0.10 per hour per additional server. Aimed at ecommerce stores, event sites, or LMS platforms expecting sustained rather than occasional traffic surges.

Cloudways offers a 3-day free trial on both Flexible and Autonomous with no credit card required upfront, letting you launch a real server and test the dashboard before paying anything. This is Cloudways' main risk-free testing mechanism, since billing runs hourly rather than a traditional subscription with a separate refund policy. Cancel anytime during or after the trial with no penalty.

Cloudways' Advance Support add-on, normally $100 a month or 10% of your invoice, is currently discounted to a flat $25 a month for the life of your account rather than a temporary window. It adds plugin and theme troubleshooting, performance help, and deeper technical support beyond standard 24/7 chat and ticketing. Worth it if you regularly need hands-on help beyond basic server issues.

Cloudways bundles Object Cache Pro, normally priced around $95 a month elsewhere, plus Redis caching worth roughly $100 a month, into every plan at no extra charge. Object Cache Pro requires a server with at least 4GB RAM to activate. This speeds up database-heavy WordPress and WooCommerce sites significantly compared to hosts that charge separately for the same caching layer.

Cloudways migrates your first website over from any host for free, with the company's own engineers handling the entire process rather than a self-service migration plugin. This removes the technical risk of a botched manual transfer for anyone switching from shared or another managed host. Reach out through the dashboard or support to schedule the migration once your account is set up.

Cloudways' Enterprise Cloudflare CDN add-on starts at $4.99 per domain per month, adding edge page caching, Argo smart routing, and extra performance features on top of the free SSL and firewall already included. It's optional rather than bundled into base pricing, so you pay for it only on domains where extra speed genuinely matters. A worthwhile add for content-heavy or global-audience sites.

Cloudways bills hourly and in arrears, meaning invoices reflect actual usage from the previous month rather than a flat prepaid subscription. Changing plans mid-month reflects immediately on your next invoice with no penalty, and there's no long-term contract locking you into a specific tier. This differs from traditional hosts that charge multi-year terms upfront with steep renewal jumps later.