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Cloudways review
Managed cloud servers on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud, billed hourly, with unlimited sites per server.
ResearchedFrom public pricing and specs. Not hands-on tested.
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- From
- $11/moDigitalOcean Standard Micro (1 GB), monthly
- Renews at
- $11/mosame as the intro price
- Try it
- 3-day trialno card needed
- Checked
- from the vendor’s own page
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What the prices say
Cloudways DigitalOcean Standard Micro (1 GB) costs $11/mo billed monthly and renews at the same price. Paid plans have a 3-day free trial. Prices checked 9 Oct 2026.
Worked out from the plan and price records on this page, not an editor’s opinion. No editorial verdict has been published for Cloudways yet.
Every plan and term
| Plan and term | Intro | Renews at | Jump | Notes | Price checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean Standard Micro (1 GB) · Monthly | $11.00 | $11.00 | none | Flexible, DigitalOcean Standard (Basic server type); billed hourly at $0.0164/hr, invoiced monthly in arrears; no intro discount shown; excludes tax and offsite backup storage | (source, opens in a new tab) · screenshot (opens in a new tab) |
| DigitalOcean Premium Micro (1 GB) · Monthly | $14.00 | $14.00 | none | Flexible, DigitalOcean Premium (Basic server type); billed hourly at $0.0208/hr, invoiced monthly in arrears; no intro discount shown; excludes tax and offsite backup storage | (source, opens in a new tab) · screenshot (opens in a new tab) |
| DigitalOcean Standard Small (2 GB) · Monthly | $24.00 | $24.00 | none | Flexible, DigitalOcean Standard (Basic server type); billed hourly at $0.0357/hr, invoiced monthly in arrears; no intro discount shown; excludes tax and offsite backup storage | (source, opens in a new tab) · screenshot (opens in a new tab) |
| DigitalOcean Premium Small (2 GB) · Monthly | $28.00 | $28.00 | none | Flexible, DigitalOcean Premium (Basic server type); billed hourly at $0.0417/hr, invoiced monthly in arrears; no intro discount shown; excludes tax and offsite backup storage | (source, opens in a new tab) · screenshot (opens in a new tab) |
| DigitalOcean Standard Medium (4 GB) · Monthly | $46.00 | $46.00 | none | Flexible, DigitalOcean Standard (Basic server type); billed hourly at $0.0685/hr, invoiced monthly in arrears; no intro discount shown; excludes tax and offsite backup storage | (source, opens in a new tab) · screenshot (opens in a new tab) |
| DigitalOcean Premium Medium (4 GB) · Monthly | $54.00 | $54.00 | none | Flexible, DigitalOcean Premium (Basic server type); billed hourly at $0.0804/hr, invoiced monthly in arrears; no intro discount shown; excludes tax and offsite backup storage | (source, opens in a new tab) · screenshot (opens in a new tab) |
| DigitalOcean Standard Large (8 GB) · Monthly | $88.00 | $88.00 | none | Flexible, DigitalOcean Standard (Basic server type); billed hourly at $0.131/hr, invoiced monthly in arrears; no intro discount shown; excludes tax and offsite backup storage | (source, opens in a new tab) · screenshot (opens in a new tab) |
| DigitalOcean Premium Large (8 GB) · Monthly | $99.00 | $99.00 | none | Flexible, DigitalOcean Premium (Basic server type); billed hourly at $0.1473/hr, invoiced monthly in arrears; no intro discount shown; excludes tax and offsite backup storage | (source, opens in a new tab) · screenshot (opens in a new tab) |
Key facts
| Fact | Value | Captured |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | DigitalOcean Premium: Micro 25 GB, Small 50 GB, Medium 80 GB, Large 160 GB NVMe. Standard: same sizes on SSD | |
| Monthly visit limit | Unlimited visits on every plan (limited by server resources and bandwidth: 1 TB to 5 TB; extra DigitalOcean bandwidth $0.02/GB) | |
| Sites allowed | Unlimited websites per server | |
| Free SSL | Yes, Let's Encrypt | |
| Backups | Automated and on-demand backups; offsite backup storage billed at $0.033/GB per server | |
| Staging site | Yes, free staging environments | |
| Data centers | 50+ data centres across the cloud providers | |
| Control panel | Cloudways' own platform dashboard | |
| Managed WordPress | Yes, managed hosting for WordPress and other PHP apps; Cloudways Autonomous is a separate fully managed WordPress product |
Price log
We have checked Cloudways's pricing page once so far. Every re-check and every price change will be listed here.
- First captured: 8 prices from the vendor's pricing page.