Which is the better cloud hosting provider? In this comparison of ScalaHosting vs Cloudways, we’ll see how ScalaHosting matches up with one of, if not the, industry standard for cloud hosting. Both of these hosts are very suitable for serious WordPress and cloud hosted applications. Let’s see which one you should choose.
Advantages of ScalaHosting over Cloudways:
Advantages of Cloudways over ScalaHosting:
Cloudways focuses specifically on cloud hosting solutions. You can choose from five different cloud providers (DigitalOcean, VULTR, linode, AWS, and Google Cloud). There are also many different configurations you can select. ScalaHosting offers managed and unmanaged cloud hosting plans where you can customize the amount of resources you need. However, ScalaHosting also focuses on cloud hosting specially tailored for WordPress.
ScalaHosting’s WordPress Cloud VPS is particularly impressive. And, their popular WordPress Entry Cloud plan offers great value.
With Cloudways, website speed and performance can vary greatly depending on your choice of cloud provider. In our case, while our Cloudways speed test results were good, ScalaHosting was superior. ScalaHosting posted faster website speeds and better core web vitals. Overall website performance was slightly better. So, while this category is close, ScalaHosting is the winner here.
Here are some of our sample speed test results via GTmetrix.
ScalaHosting and Cloudways both offer responsive 24/7 support. I’ve had good experiences with both support teams. Overall, I would rate Cloudways slightly higher here based on more consistent issue resolution and response times at the Level 1 support tier. Upper Level support at both ScalaHosting and Cloudways is excellent.
Started Business: 2007
BBB Rating: A+
Data Center Location: Seattle, WA; Dallas, TX; New York, NY; Sofia, Bulgaria
Price: $2.95 mo. – $94.95 mo.
Unlimited Bandwidth: Yes
Unlimited Storage: No
Unlimited Email: Yes
Host Multiple Domains: Yes (Except Mini Plan)
Hosting Interface: SPanel
Server Uptime: 99.9%
Full Refund Period: Anytime
Dedicated Hosting Available: No
Advantages of Choosing ScalaHosting:
Started Business: 2012
BBB Rating: N/A
Data Center Location: US, CAN, EUR, ASIA, AUS, South America
Price: $14 mo. – $99+ mo.
Unlimited Bandwidth: No
Unlimited Storage: No
Unlimited Email: No
Host Multiple Domains: Yes
Hosting Interface: Cloudways Dashboard
Server Uptime: 99%
Full Refund Period: Pay as You Go
Dedicated Hosting Available: No
Advantages of Choosing Cloudways:
ScalaHosting and Cloudways are definitely two of the best choices for cloud hosting. In most cases, we would recommend ScalaHosting—particularly if you’re looking for WordPress cloud hosting.
We find ScalaHosting better optimized for WordPress, as they have done an outstanding job of combining Cloud VPS and WordPress. Website speed and performance is superior. I also prefer working within the ScalaHosting SPanel and SWordPress user interfaces that make website tasks quicker and easier.
If you’re an experienced cloud hosting user and want to choose a specific cloud provider offered by Cloudways, then that would be a better fit. Overall though, in this comparison of ScalaHosting vs Cloudways, ScalaHosting is the winner.
See our review ratings below.
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