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  "name": "Cloudways hosting test results",
  "description": "Uptime, response time, load test and support results for Cloudways: HostIdea's own monitoring windows under tests[], and published third-party measurements under thirdParty[], each attributed to its source.",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": {
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "HostIdea",
    "url": "https://hostidea.com"
  },
  "measurementTechnique": "https://hostidea.com/methodology",
  "url": "https://hostidea.com/reviews/cloudways",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-14",
  "host": {
    "id": "cloudways",
    "name": "Cloudways",
    "website": "https://www.cloudways.com/"
  },
  "overallScore": 7.8,
  "scores": {
    "performance": 8,
    "uptime": 8.5,
    "support": 7.5,
    "features": 8,
    "value": 7,
    "easeOfUse": 7
  },
  "scoresUpdated": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "pricing": {
    "lastVerified": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
    "source": "https://www.cloudways.com/en/pricing.php"
  },
  "plans": [
    {
      "id": "do-premium-micro",
      "name": "DigitalOcean Premium Micro",
      "type": "cloud",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 14,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 14,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "monthly",
      "termMonths": 1,
      "websites": "unlimited",
      "storageGb": 25,
      "bandwidth": "1 TB of transfer a month",
      "freeDomain": false,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "On-demand and scheduled backups, charged at $0.033 per GB per server for offsite storage",
      "moneyBackDays": 0,
      "highlights": [
        "$0.0208 an hour, billed for what you use",
        "The Standard tier of the same size starts at $11 a month",
        "Unlimited applications and visits on the server",
        "Lightning Stack (NGINX), Object Cache Pro and Redis included"
      ],
      "resources": "1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, NVMe storage",
      "mailboxes": "None; email is a paid Rackspace add-on",
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 14,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 14,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "do-premium-small",
      "name": "DigitalOcean Premium Small",
      "type": "cloud",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 28,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 28,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "monthly",
      "termMonths": 1,
      "websites": "unlimited",
      "storageGb": 50,
      "bandwidth": "2 TB of transfer a month",
      "freeDomain": false,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "On-demand and scheduled backups, charged at $0.033 per GB per server for offsite storage",
      "moneyBackDays": 0,
      "highlights": [
        "$0.0417 an hour, billed for what you use",
        "Unlimited applications and visits on the server",
        "Lightning Stack (NGINX), Object Cache Pro and Redis included",
        "Vertical scaling to a larger size at any time"
      ],
      "resources": "1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, NVMe storage",
      "mailboxes": "None; email is a paid Rackspace add-on",
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 28,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 28,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "do-premium-medium",
      "name": "DigitalOcean Premium Medium",
      "type": "cloud",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 54,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 54,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "monthly",
      "termMonths": 1,
      "websites": "unlimited",
      "storageGb": 80,
      "bandwidth": "4 TB of transfer a month",
      "freeDomain": false,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "On-demand and scheduled backups, charged at $0.033 per GB per server for offsite storage",
      "moneyBackDays": 0,
      "highlights": [
        "$0.0804 an hour, billed for what you use",
        "Sold as the most popular size",
        "Unlimited applications and visits on the server",
        "Lightning Stack (NGINX), Object Cache Pro and Redis included"
      ],
      "resources": "2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, NVMe storage",
      "mailboxes": "None; email is a paid Rackspace add-on",
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 54,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 54,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "do-premium-large",
      "name": "DigitalOcean Premium Large",
      "type": "cloud",
      "intro": {
        "amount": 99,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "renewal": {
        "amount": 99,
        "currency": "USD"
      },
      "term": "monthly",
      "termMonths": 1,
      "websites": "unlimited",
      "storageGb": 160,
      "bandwidth": "5 TB of transfer a month",
      "freeDomain": false,
      "freeSsl": true,
      "backups": "On-demand and scheduled backups, charged at $0.033 per GB per server for offsite storage",
      "moneyBackDays": 0,
      "highlights": [
        "$0.1473 an hour, billed for what you use",
        "Sold for stores and resource-heavy applications",
        "Unlimited applications and visits on the server",
        "Lightning Stack (NGINX), Object Cache Pro and Redis included"
      ],
      "resources": "4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, NVMe storage",
      "mailboxes": "None; email is a paid Rackspace add-on",
      "terms": [
        {
          "months": 1,
          "intro": {
            "amount": 99,
            "currency": "USD"
          },
          "renewal": {
            "amount": 99,
            "currency": "USD"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tests": [],
  "thirdParty": [
    {
      "publication": "HostingStep",
      "author": "Mohan Raj",
      "url": "https://hostingstep.com/hosting-reviews/cloudways/",
      "title": "HostingStep, Cloudways review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-04-04T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "DigitalOcean Standard (entry server)",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 99.9985,
          "windowDays": 243,
          "window": "1 October 2025 to 31 May 2026"
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 442,
      "responseNote": "average TTFB from US locations over the window; 419 to 447 ms across the five Cloudways configurations tested",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 100,
        "avgResponseMs": 443,
        "errorRatePct": 0,
        "tool": "Loader.io"
      },
      "notes": "Monitored since 2020 across five configurations (DigitalOcean Standard and Premium, Vultr, Vultr HF, Linode) with uptime between 99.996 and 99.999 percent in the window. Cached global TTFB 386 ms across 40 cities (SpeedVitals). WPBench hardware 4.7 on DigitalOcean Standard, 7.6 on Vultr HF. Server location not stated."
    },
    {
      "publication": "Kripesh Adwani",
      "author": "Kripesh Adwani",
      "url": "https://kripeshadwani.com/cloudways-review/",
      "title": "Kripesh Adwani, Cloudways review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "DigitalOcean Standard, $11 server",
      "location": "Singapore (the page also mentions Bangalore)",
      "tool": "Better Uptime",
      "checkIntervalSeconds": 30,
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 99.99,
          "windowDays": 365,
          "window": "last 365 days to August 2026"
        },
        {
          "pct": 99.99,
          "windowDays": 30,
          "window": "last 30 days"
        }
      ],
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "p95Ms": 68,
        "errorRatePct": 0,
        "requests": 10400
      },
      "notes": "Server response 1 ms from Singapore, 68 ms from Japan, 82 ms from Mumbai; page load 860 ms from India and 3.66 s from the US, which mostly measures distance from a Singapore server. Peak 47.33 requests a second in the load test."
    },
    {
      "publication": "Cybernews",
      "author": "Miglė Šeikytė",
      "url": "https://cybernews.com/best-web-hosting/cloudways-review/",
      "title": "Cybernews, Cloudways review",
      "kind": "independent",
      "updated": "2025-12-19T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "plan": "Cheapest DigitalOcean server",
      "location": "United States",
      "uptime": [
        {
          "pct": 100,
          "windowDays": 14,
          "window": "two weeks of monitoring",
          "outages": 0
        }
      ],
      "responseMs": 515,
      "responseNote": "average response during the window",
      "loadTest": {
        "concurrentUsers": 50,
        "errorRatePct": 0,
        "requests": 7280
      },
      "lcpMs": 461,
      "notes": "Reachability 99.93 percent. LCP 461 ms on a blank site and 598 ms with demo content, fully loaded in 0.8 s. The five-minute stress test served 7,280 requests without failures."
    },
    {
      "publication": "HostScore",
      "url": "https://hostscore.net/review/cloudways/",
      "title": "HostScore, Cloudways review",
      "kind": "aggregate",
      "updated": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "accessed": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "uptime": [],
      "notes": "Overall HostScore 82.8 percent. Says its monitoring kept Cloudways above 99.95 percent without a window, and discloses that HostScore's own site runs on Cloudways. Dates the founding to 2011 by Aaqib Gadit, Pere Hospital and Uzair Gadit."
    }
  ],
  "supportTests": [],
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
      "change": "First version built from verified sources, with the plan and home pages read in a headed browser because Cloudflare's bot check refused plain requests and headless automation during the session: the pricing page (Flexible plans on DigitalOcean Premium as the page renders them by default, with the monthly and hourly price, RAM, vCPU, storage and transfer per size, the $11 Standard entry price, backup storage pricing, the 3-day trial, included features and paid add-ons, and the provider location counts), the legal index (which links the DigitalOcean terms of service and the Cloudways support SLA updated 1 January 2025), the DigitalOcean terms (recurring billing, credits at discretion) and DigitalOcean's 8 September 2022 release on completing the Cloudways acquisition. Published measurements by HostingStep (five configurations since 2020), Kripesh Adwani (365 days on a Singapore server) and Cybernews (December 2025) are stored in thirdParty[]; HostScore is kept as an aggregate; no WPBeginner review of Cloudways exists. The 2011 founding date comes from HostScore's account, which the review says. No HostIdea monitoring window is open, so the scores are provisional: uptime rests on three independent windows, performance on US TTFB in the 440 to 515 ms range against clean load handling, support on chat and tickets with phone as a paid add-on, features on staging, caching and server control against paid CDN, email and backup storage, value on $14 for a 1 GB server with no renewal markup. The weekly price check needs a browser the bot filter accepts.",
      "source": "https://www.cloudways.com/en/pricing.php"
    }
  ]
}