Cloudways vs FastComet
Cloudways and FastComet compared on measured uptime, response time, pricing and features from our own tests. Cloudways scores higher overall.
By Jennifer T. · Updated
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Verdict
CloudwaysWins overall
DigitalOcean's managed cloud layer: servers from $11 a month on five clouds, billed hourly, staging and caching included
cPanel hosting on LiteSpeed with 30 daily offsite backups and 12 locations; small disks, now part of World Host Group
Cloudways wins 3 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.8 vs 7.5).
How do the scores compare?
Cloudways leads on 3 sub-scores, FastComet on 2. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, FastComet is cheaper ($9.95/mo vs $14.00/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
| Cloudways | FastComet | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest plan | DigitalOcean Premium Micro | Starter |
| Intro price | $14.00/mo | $1.99/mo (better) |
| Renewal price | $14.00/mo | $9.95/mo (better) |
| Required term | 1 months (better) | 12 months |
| Websites | unlimited | 1 |
| Storage | 25 GB | 10 GB |
| Money back | 0 days | 30 days (better) |
What does each include?
| Cloudways | FastComet | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | No |
| Free SSL | Let's Encrypt certificates on every application | Yes |
| Backups | On-demand and scheduled server backups with one-click restore; offsite storage billed at $0.033 per GB per server | Not stated |
| Free migration | Free migration of existing sites | Website and server migrations by staff |
| Free CDN | No | Not stated |
| Caching | Lightning Stack (NGINX), Object Cache Pro and Redis included on every plan | Not stated |
| Staging | Advanced staging and cloning on every plan | Not stated |
| No | Not stated | |
| Resource limits | A whole server per customer: 1 to 8 GB RAM and 1 to 4 vCPU on the listed sizes, larger sizes and other providers available | Not stated |
| Data center choice | The provider's regions, chosen per server: DigitalOcean 9, Vultr 30, Linode 25, AWS 28, Google Cloud 28 | Not stated |
| Uptime guarantee | No | 99.9% website availability excluding maintenance; 10% of the monthly fee credited per hour of downtime, up to 100% |
| Security | Built-in firewall with IP blocking, WordPress vulnerability scanner, bot protection and dedicated firewalls per the pricing page | Not stated |
| Free trial | 3 days without a credit card | Not stated |
| Phone support | No | 24/7, +1 855 818 9717 |
| Windows hosting | No | No |
| Daily offsite backups | Not stated | Up to 30 daily backups in a separate data center, unlimited full or incremental restores from the web interface |
| Web server | Not stated | LiteSpeed Enterprise with the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress, AMD EPYC CPUs, NVMe storage |
| Malware scanner | Not stated | Yes |
| Node.js and SSH | Not stated | Yes |
| Choice of data center | Not stated | Six locations at shared checkout (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Sydney, Mumbai); 12 locations across all products |
| Resource policy | Not stated | No constant utilisation of 80% of plan resources for an hour; 400 emails per hour; 10 simultaneous IMAP/POP3 connections; slow queries under 1% a day |