Cloudways vs Pressable
Cloudways and Pressable 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
Automattic's managed WordPress host: dedicated PHP workers, four origins, failover, a 100 percent SLA, from $25 a month
Cloudways wins 2 of the six sub-scores and comes out ahead overall (7.8 vs 7.7).
How do the scores compare?
Cloudways leads on 2 sub-scores, Pressable on 3. Higher is better.
Which one is faster and more reliable?
Which one costs less?
On renewal, Cloudways is cheaper ($14.00/mo vs $20.83/mo). Intro prices need the listed term.
| Cloudways | Pressable | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest plan | DigitalOcean Premium Micro | Signature 1 |
| Intro price | $14.00/mo (better) | $20.83/mo |
| Renewal price | $14.00/mo (better) | $20.83/mo |
| Required term | 1 months (better) | 12 months |
| Websites | unlimited | 1 |
| Storage | 25 GB | 20 GB |
| Money back | 0 days | 30 days (better) |
What does each include?
| Cloudways | Pressable | |
|---|---|---|
| Free domain | No | No |
| Free SSL | Let's Encrypt certificates on every application | Included; a Jetpack Security licence comes with every plan |
| Backups | On-demand and scheduled server backups with one-click restore; offsite storage billed at $0.033 per GB per server | Hourly database and daily full backups, restorable from the site dashboard, per the support policy |
| Free migration | Free migration of existing sites | Unlimited site migrations on every plan |
| Free CDN | No | Built-in edge cache and global CDN across more than 24 edge locations |
| Caching | Lightning Stack (NGINX), Object Cache Pro and Redis included on every plan | Edge cache, OPcache, page cache and query cache |
| Staging | Advanced staging and cloning on every plan | One staging and one sandbox site per WordPress install on every Signature plan |
| No | No | |
| 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 | Los Angeles, Dallas, Ashburn or Amsterdam per site at creation, with an account default; a secondary server in another region takes over on failure |
| Uptime guarantee | No | 100 percent network, infrastructure and hardware SLA with a credit of 5 percent of the monthly fee per 30 minutes of downtime, up to the full month |
| Security | Built-in firewall with IP blocking, WordPress vulnerability scanner, bot protection and dedicated firewalls per the pricing page | Jetpack Security, malware monitoring and threat response, Secure Hosting Alliance certification |
| Free trial | 3 days without a credit card | Not stated |
| Phone support | No | No |
| Windows hosting | No | Not stated |
| Dedicated resources | Not stated | 5 dedicated PHP workers (5 vCPUs) per site with 512 MB each and burst capacity; no shared memory pools |
| Developer tools | Not stated | SSH and WP-CLI described on the features pages, an API, an MCP server, DupliKits site templates, multisite and headless support |