Let’s say that you started blogging using a hosting provider that you are not happy with.
Now you feel like using a cloud hosting provider and you are considering Cloudways to help you do that.
The only problem is that you are a beginner and you don’t know much about migrations, server creation, and server maintenance.
Can you migrate your site to Cloudways and let your site live happily ever after there?
Let’s find out
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What Server Should I choose?
The server you choose depends on your site needs, you can choose one of the five cloud hosting providers.
AWS and Google Cloud tend to be more expensive than the other options available.
I have been using Digital Ocean since I migrated a few sites there.
The location of your server should be one that it is close to your website visitors.
The difference between standard and premium is a few dollar so choose one or the other without a problem.
How Many Pageviews can a Server Handle?
One of the major questions before migrating my sites to Cloudways was the number of pageviews that a server can handle.
I searched for answer to this question and the answer comes down to an “it depends”
It depends on several factors and one of them is caching.
Let me give you a secret so this concern doesn’t prevent you from using Cloudways
Use a CDN so your server doesn’t do the heavy lifting.
I use CloudFlare Full Page Caching or CloudFlare APO.
CloudFlare APO is definitely better and it is only $5 a month and your content will be served from CloudFlare servers instead of your server.
This recommendation is the one that makes having several sites using the cheapest Cloudways plan
Concerns about the Pricing
Some user have concern about the pricing model when they read about “pay as you go” and think that it is sort of impossible to know how much you will be charged at the end of the month.
That’s not what “pay as you go” means.
Increases or reductions in prices are linked to creating additional servers or scaling your server.
If you have one server and create an additional for testing purpose and delete it after two weeks
You will be charged what you always have been charged for your main server and you will be charged for the two weeks you keep the second one.
So you don’t get charged for the whole month if you only use a server for two days.
I have always paid $11 for the server and the backups.
Cloudways Security
As long as you keep wordpress, plugins and theme updated and follow some of these recommendations, your site or sites will be fine
If you take my advice and add your site to CloudFlare to get the benefits of CDN caching, you will be able to secure your site using Free Firewall Rules
Besides that Cloudways makes backups and you can make your own backups.
I use All-in-One WP Migration to make backups once a month
Cloudways Customer Service
I like Cloudways customer service, they will do their best to fix problems related to the Cloudways platform.
They can do small fixes for you or suggest the action you can take to fix your problem.
Keep one thing in mind, Cloudways support won’t solve problems you, your plugins, and your theme cause.
You can’t seriously expect to have a developer 24/7 ready to do work for you for $11 a month.
My recommendation is to make backups after running updates or making big changes to your site. If something breaks, you can reverse back those changes.
Final Thoughts
I moved from WordPress.com to Cloudways like three years ago and I haven’t considered hosting my sites elsewhere.
I use Cloudways, I recommend Cloudways, you can host several sites in one server.
If you can afford a managed WordPress hosting provider like Kinsta, WPEngine, Flywheel, or Pressable, try that instead, they will hold your hand so you can focus on whatever you are doing with your sites.
