Cloudways pricing
Managed cloud servers · checked 2026-10-21 · official pricing page
Managed servers on DigitalOcean/Vultr/AWS/GCP. DigitalOcean 2 GB / 1 vCPU / 2 TB transfer from $11/mo, billed hourly. Mostly PHP/WordPress-oriented.
Key prices
- Flexible, DigitalOcean 1 vCPU / 2 GB / 50 GB / 2 TB: $11/mo ($0.0357/hr)
- DigitalOcean 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 5 TB: $88/mo
- Extra bandwidth on DigitalOcean: $0.02/GB
- Autonomous (WordPress autoscaling) from $99/mo
- Offsite backup storage: $0.033/GB
Unclear / check yourself
- Node.js/Next.js apps are not a headline use case (WordPress, Magento, Laravel, PHP are)
- The fetched page listed $11 for both 'Micro' and 'Small' tiers, which looks like a rendering glitch
Good
- Managed server, 24/7 support
Watch out
- Built for PHP apps, not Next.js
Estimated monthly cost
| Workload | 10,000 visits | 100,000 visits | 1,000,000 visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Static site (Astro, Hugo, SPA) | $11.00 | $11.00 | $11.00 |
| Next.js / Nuxt / SvelteKit with SSR | $11.00 | $11.00 | $11.00 |
| Node API (Express, Fastify) | $11.00 | $11.00 | $11.00 |
DigitalOcean 1 vCPU/2 GB server, 2 TB transfer. Geared to PHP apps.
Source: https://www.cloudways.com/en/pricing.php (checked 2026-10-21).
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