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Leaving Cloudways

Cloudways is a thin management layer over cloud infrastructure. You get the cloud's reliability and Cloudways' WordPress workflow, paying both layers a markup.

10-year cost projection

Staying with Cloudways
€3,773
~€25/mo, 5% inflation
Switching to lastupdate.site
€600
€600 once. No monthly.
You save
€3,173
over the next decade

What Cloudways actually is

Managed WordPress on top of DigitalOcean / Vultr / AWS / Linode.

Pricing: Plans from $11/mo (DO Premium) to $80+/mo (AWS). Bandwidth and storage tiers add up.

For active WordPress development, the markup buys you a real workflow. For a frozen brochure site, you're paying for orchestration that no longer orchestrates anything.

What they do well

  • Reliable infrastructure (the cloud underneath is good)
  • Reasonable WordPress tooling

Why people leave

  • Bandwidth surprises
  • Stacked markups (you pay Cloudways for managing your DO droplet)

What you keep when leaving

  • Every URL
  • All content
  • Domain

What you lose leaving

  • Server-level access
  • Multiple-site management on one server

Our take

Cloudways is fine if WordPress is still load-bearing. Once it's not, the cloud underneath becomes overkill.

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