Cloudways alternatives
By Joris van Huët · each comparison from the vendors' own pricing and help pages, prices dated on the page
The short answer: 3 tools are compared with Cloudways on this site, and the line under each one is the verdict from its comparison: who should pick which, with the figures that decide it on the comparison itself. Read the one that names your job. What Cloudways costs and who it suits is in its entry, and how to use Cloudways walks through one job with it.
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Cloudflare
Choose Cloudways if your job is running WordPress on a server you can resize by the hour. Choose Cloudflare on your own account if your job is holding DNS, firewall rules and caching for every site you own, whichever host each one sits on.
Hostinger
Choose Hostinger if your job is keeping several small sites online at the lowest prepaid cost. Choose Cloudways if your job is giving busy WordPress or WooCommerce sites the capacity they need in the weeks they need it.
SiteGround
Choose Cloudways if your job is a store whose traffic jumps with campaigns, on a server you resize by the hour. Choose SiteGround if your job is keeping the store, its mailboxes and a staging copy on one plan that nobody has to size.
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