Cloudways vs. SiteGround 2019

Find out which one is the best for your needs

Pricing
Starting price	$0.00 / month	$4.34 / month
Free domain	No	No
Coupons	3 coupons Get free cloud hosting credit worth $30 This is one of the more interesting deals we offer to our faithful HostAdvice users. The Cloudways deal gives you a $30 credit on any of the company’s cloud hosting plans, which include packages for DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud. To get started with this plan, you simply need to: • Sign up for an account with Cloudways • Input your coupon code • Receive your credit when you upgrade with a credit card Getting started takes a few minutes, and can lower your website building costs to give you better results. 30$ Discount We are excited to share this exclusive $30 Cloudways deal with our loyal HostAdvice users. The offer grants you a $30.00 discount on your next payment for Cloudways hosting and places no restrictions on what the discount can be applied to. The company’s offerings start at $10.00 monthly, and include excellent features such as: • Up to 160 GB of storage space for website development • Up to 5 TB of bandwidth for visitors • Choose from DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud, and Vultr for servers Reduce your hosting startup costs and focus your resources where you need them most. 20% Off First Two Months This will provide an instant discount of 20% off your first two months hosting with CloudWays. WP Levels teaches people how to use WordPress with free and premium courses and offers this discount to everyone looking for a fantastic web host.	1 coupon 70% off Shared Hosting We were intrigued to uncover this SiteGround deal for a 70% discount on all the company’s shared plans. The offer, which started for Black Friday, gives you an excellent price reduction if you’re looking to sign up for one of SiteGround’s shared hosting plans. This includes: • StartUp hosting starting at $3.95 monthly • GrowBig hosting starting at $5.95 monthly • GoGeek hosting starting at $11.95 monthly All three plans include excellent features and entitle you to up to 30 GB of web space, along with unmetered data transfers and more. Kickstart your website development with SiteGround’s shared hosting.
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User Ratings
Reliability	9.3 / 10	9.8 / 10
Pricing	9.2 / 10	9.4 / 10
User Friendly	9.2 / 10	9.7 / 10
Support	9.3 / 10	9.9 / 10
Features	9.3 / 10	9.8 / 10

Summary
Max Ostryzhko Senior Web Developer, HostAdvice CTO CloudWays and SiteGround are two of our highest ranked hosting providers to date. If you’ve done your research and narrowed your choices down to these two, you’ve done a great job. If you want the very best, SiteGround has some minor advantages that help to make them the winner here. First, they offer a more stable hosting environment. Their pricing is also quite a bit lower, and you will get a free domain name when you sign up for new hosting. These, along with other things, are what helps to set them apart. Winner! See plans and pricing

Summary

Max Ostryzhko

Senior Web Developer, HostAdvice CTO

CloudWays and SiteGround are two of our highest ranked hosting providers to date. If you’ve done your research and narrowed your choices down to these two, you’ve done a great job. If you want the very best, SiteGround has some minor advantages that help to make them the winner here. First, they offer a more stable hosting environment. Their pricing is also quite a bit lower, and you will get a free domain name when you sign up for new hosting. These, along with other things, are what helps to set them apart.

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User Reviews
Latest positive review	AMAZING customer service Oct. 3, 2019 Reliability 10 Pricing 10 User Friendly 10 Support 10 Features 10 A friend of mine recommended me Cloudways because of their customer service and I must say I couldn't imagine such an amazing... More support. In the process of creating my very first website, I had a lot of trouble pointing my GoDaddy registered domain to the application hosted on Cloudways server. Owais Javed was incredibly helpful and took a lot of time to explain me how to set up my account. Thank you so much Owais, I am a very happy customer Less	Siteground Domain Tran... Jul. 9, 2019 Reliability 10 Pricing 10 User Friendly 10 Support 10 Features 10 I would like to point out todays excellent domain trasfer full service support of my domains to Siteground. Boz was excellent... More and we did it within 25 minutes !!! Less
Latest negative review	Worst Experience Ever.... Aug. 23, 2019 Reliability 2.0 Pricing 2.0 User Friendly 2.0 Support 2.0 Features 2.0 Hi, I had cloudways account which I cancelled due to lack of many things. Ones I even cancelled the account.I got the confirm... More aton email too.then they charge 10USD for next month..When i complaint about it,their support staff said it will be refunded and email with billing department.to the date no body contacted me.Worst experience Less	Never Ever Jun. 1, 2019 Reliability 10 Pricing 2.0 User Friendly 2.0 Support 2.0 Features 10 The customer service was Horrid, the billing 142 dollars a year to host a simple WordPress site about 900% more cost than just about everyone else

Server Locations
North America	Yes	Yes
Europe	Yes	Yes
Asia	Yes	Yes
Oceania	Yes	No
South America	Yes	No
Africa & Middle East	No	No

Shared Hosting Plans
Plan Name	–	StartUp
Space	–	10 GB
Bandwidth	–	Unlimited
Panel	–	cpanel
Number of Sites	N/A	1
Features	–
Price	–	$4.34

Plan Name	–	GrowBig
Space	–	20 GB
Bandwidth	–	Unlimited
Panel	–	cpanel
Number of Sites	N/A	N/A
Features	–
Price	–	$7.08

Plan Name	–	GoGeek
Space	–	30 GB
Bandwidth	–	Unlimited
Panel	–	cpanel
Number of Sites	N/A	N/A
Features	–
Price	–	$13.12
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Number of Sites	N/A	N/A
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Dedicated Server Plans
Plan Name	–	Entry Server
Space	–	500 GB
CPU	–	4 x 3.20GHz
RAM	–	3.91 GB
OS	–	Linux
Price	–	$240.52

Plan Name	–	Power Server
Space	–	1000 GB
CPU	–	4 x 3.50GHz
RAM	–	15.6 GB
OS	–	Linux
Price	–	$328.38

Plan Name	–	Super Power Server
Space	–	1.95 TB
CPU	–	12 x 2.00GHz
RAM	–	15.6 GB
OS	–	Linux
Price	–	$657.85
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Cloud Hosting Plans
Plan Name	DigitalOcean Starter Plan	Entry
Space	20 GB	40 GB
CPU	1 x 1.00GHz	2 x 3.00GHz
RAM	1 GB	4 GB
Bandwidth	1 TB	5 TB
Price	$10.00	$70.29

Plan Name	Vultr Starter Plan	Business
Space	25 GB	60 GB
CPU	1 x 1.00GHz	3 x 3.00GHz
RAM	1 GB	6 GB
Bandwidth	1 TB	5 TB
Price	$11.00	$105.43

Plan Name	GCE Starter Plan	Business Plus
Space	20 GB	80 GB
CPU	1 x 1.00GHz	4 x 3.00GHz
RAM	1.7 GB	8 GB
Bandwidth	2 TB	5 TB
Price	$33.30	$140.58

Plan Name	AWS Starter Plan	Super Power
Space	4 GB	120 GB
CPU	1 x 1.00GHz	8 x 3.00GHz
RAM	1.75 GB	10 GB
Bandwidth	2 TB	5 TB
Price	$36.51	$210.86

Plan Name	Linode Starter Plan	–
Space	25 GB	–
CPU	1 x 1.00GHz	–
RAM	1 GB	–
Bandwidth	1 TB	–
Price	$12.00	–

Plan Name	DO 2GB	–
Space	50 GB	–
CPU	1 x 1.00GHz	–
RAM	2 GB	–
Bandwidth	2 TB	–
Price	$22.00	–

Plan Name	DO2GB	–
Space	50 GB	–
CPU	1 x 1.00GHz	–
RAM	2 GB	–
Bandwidth	2 TB	–
Price	$22.00	–

Plan Name	Linode2GB	–
Space	50 GB	–
CPU	2 x 1.00GHz	–
RAM	2 GB	–
Bandwidth	2 TB	–
Price	$24.00	–

Plan Name	VULTR2GB	–
Space	55 GB	–
CPU	1 x 1.00GHz	–
RAM	2 GB	–
Bandwidth	2 TB	–
Price	$23.00	–

Plan Name	DO4GB	–
Space	80 GB	–
CPU	2 x 2.00GHz	–
RAM	4 GB	–
Bandwidth	4 TB	–
Price	$42.00	–

Plan Name	Linode4GB	–
Space	80 GB	–
CPU	2 x 2.00GHz	–
RAM	4 GB	–
Bandwidth	4 TB	–
Price	$50.00	–

Plan Name	VULTR4GB	–
Space	80 GB	–
CPU	2 x 2.00GHz	–
RAM	4 GB	–
Bandwidth	3 TB	–
Price	$44.00	–

Plan Name	AWS Medium	–
Space	20 GB	–
CPU	1 x 1.00GHz	–
RAM	3.75 GB	–
Bandwidth	2 TB	–
Price	$87.00	–
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Space	–	–
CPU	–	–
RAM	–	–
Bandwidth	–	–
Price	–	–

CDN Plans
Plan Name	CloudwaysCDN	–
Bandwidth	25.6 GB	–
Number of Sites	1	N/A
Features	1-click Global Reach HTTPs Support Simple and easy to integrate	–
Price	$1.00	–

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Bandwidth	–	–
Number of Sites	N/A	N/A
Features	–	–
Price	–	–

Resellers Plans
Plan Name	–	Reseller Hosting
Space	–	10 GB
Bandwidth	–	Unlimited
Panel	–	cpanel
Price	–	$4.34

Plan Name	–	–
Space	–	–
Bandwidth	–	–
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SSL Plans
Plan Name	Free SSL	–
Features	1-click installation Auto renewal 24/7 Support	–
Warranty	$0.00	–
Price	$0.00	–

Plan Name	–	–
Features	–	–
Warranty	–	–
Price	–	–

Features
Support Services
Live Chat	Yes	Yes
Phone Support	No	Yes
Email Support	Yes	Yes
Forum Support	Yes	Yes
Video guides	Yes	Yes
Knowledgebase	Yes	Yes

CMS Support
Wordpress	Yes	No
Managed Wordpress	Yes	No
Joomla	Yes	No
Drupal	Yes	No
Magento	Yes	No
Fantastico	No	No
Presta Shop	Yes	No
ZenCart	Yes	No

OS Support
Windows	No	No
Linux	Yes	No

Language Support
PHP	Yes	No
Java	No	No
Python	No	No
NodeJS	No	No
Django	No	No
Perl	No	No
Ruby on Rails	No	No

Database Support
MongoDB	No	No
MySQL	Yes	No
PostgreSQL	No	No

Payment Types Support
PayPal	Yes	Yes
Credit Card	Yes	Yes
MoneyBookers	No	No
Wire Transfer	No	No
Webmoney	No	No
Bitcoin	No	No

Bottom Line
Max Ostryzhko Senior Web Developer, HostAdvice CTO CloudWays and SiteGround are two of our highest ranked hosting providers to date. If you’ve done your research and narrowed your choices down to these two, you’ve done a great job. If you want the very best, SiteGround has some minor advantages that help to make them the winner here. First, they offer a more stable hosting environment. Their pricing is also quite a bit lower, and you will get a free domain name when you sign up for new hosting. These, along with other things, are what helps to set them apart. Winner! See plans and pricing

Bottom Line

Max Ostryzhko

Senior Web Developer, HostAdvice CTO

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