No add-on shopping list
On Cloudways the CDN, offsite backups and email are separate charges on top of the server. Our plans include caching, CDN, backups every 4 hours and email in the price you signed up at.
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Looking at Cloudways? Managed, without the server admin homework.
Cloudways rents you a cloud VM and a control panel, then leaves the tuning, the CDN and the offsite backups as things you buy or configure. WP Tango gives you a fully tuned LiteSpeed and Redis stack, backups every 4 hours, and US engineers who actually own the server.
Head to head
WP Tango vs Cloudways
The features that matter, side by side. Based on each host's published plans and pricing as of 2026.
| Feature | WP Tango | Cloudways |
|---|---|---|
Starting price Cloudways entry server is DigitalOcean Standard 1GB. | $7/mo | $11/mo |
Renewal price | Same as signup, forever | Same rate, billed hourly |
Money-back guarantee | 30 days | 3-day trial, no refund policy |
Free site migrations | Plugin, plus one manual migration | |
Backups every 4 hours Cloudways offsite backups are a paid add-on billed per GB. | ||
Backup retention | 30 days | Up to 4 weeks, paid |
CDN included Cloudflare Enterprise style CDN is a separate line item on Cloudways. | Paid add-on | |
LiteSpeed + Redis pre-tuned | Nginx/Apache, Redis you configure | |
Staging on every plan | ||
Email hosting | Included | Paid add-on (Rackspace) |
Who patches the server | Our engineers | You pick the upgrades |
Visitor limits | Unmetered | Unmetered, bandwidth charged on AWS/GCP |
Support | US engineers, 24/7 | 24/7 chat, paid premium tiers |
Sourced from Cloudways's public pricing and documentation. Spot a mistake? Let us know.
Why teams switch
The reasons people leave Cloudways for us.
Most of it comes down to honest pricing, real speed, and not having to pay extra for the basics.
Real hardware, not a 1GB cloud VM
The Cloudways entry plan is a 1GB shared-CPU droplet. We run top-tier AMD Ryzen 9950X and Intel 14900K hardware in our own Phoenix facility, so single-threaded PHP work finishes faster.
The stack is already tuned
LiteSpeed Enterprise, Redis object caching and unlimited PHP workers are configured for WordPress before you log in. No Varnish rules to debug, no Breeze versus LiteSpeed Cache decisions.
Someone else owns the server
Cloudways is a panel on a VM you are responsible for sizing and upgrading. If your site slows down on WP Tango, that is our problem to fix, not a scaling ticket you file against yourself.
Backups every 4 hours, kept 30 days
Cloudways charges per GB for offsite backups and runs them on a schedule you set. We snapshot every 4 hours and keep 30 days, included.
Managed WordPress hosting
Plans. Everything included.
Same fast platform, same US engineers, no server work. Pick the size that fits; the renewal price is the signup price.
Switching from Cloudways, made simple.
What our migrations team gets asked most often.