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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.
In short
WP Tango is a managed WordPress hosting alternative to Cloudways. Plans start at $8/month on 12-month billing, with the renewal price matching the signup price for that term, and every plan includes LiteSpeed Enterprise, Redis object caching, unlimited PHP workers, unmetered visitors, staging, SSH and WP-CLI, backups every 4 hours kept 30 days, and free engineer-led migration from Cloudways, with US engineers in Phoenix, Arizona.
Last updated September 2026
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, billed month to month with no prepay. | $4/month (12 months) | $11/month |
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.
The Cloudways alternative
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.
A bigger pool keeps sites fast as traffic and plugins grow.
Included with Lite
No surprise limits
Unlimited visitors, no bandwidth overage
A busy week does not add a fee to the bill.
No caps on files or inodes
The disk figure is the only storage number to watch.
Free SSL
HTTPS is issued and renewed for every domain you add.
Emails from the site are delivered
Form and order mail goes out through SMTP2GO, free up to 2,000 a month.
Add teammates without sharing your password
Scoped logins for developers, designers and clients.
The price you start at is the price you renew at
Renewal uses the same rate, not a first-term teaser.
Automatic WordPress updates
Core updates are applied and checked for you.
Stays fast
LiteSpeed Enterprise and page cache
Built pages are cached and delivered quickly, tuned for WordPress.
Redis, so the store and logged-in pages stay quick
In-memory caching for carts, dashboards and dynamic queries.
Switch PHP versions with one click
Run a different PHP version per site, changed from the panel.
FlyingPress is included
The performance plugin is licensed and set up, at no extra cost.
Store ready
WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads run without special settings.
One click into wp-admin
Open the dashboard from the panel, without a second password.
A tuned database, so queries stay quick
The database is set up for WordPress workloads, not a generic default.
Safe to change
Try changes on a copy of the site first
Staging mirrors the live site, so you can test before pushing.
SSH, SFTP, and WP-CLI for your developer
Full command line access on every plan.
Your site is isolated from other sites
Your files and database sit in their own account space.
See errors as they happen
Site and PHP errors surface in the panel as they occur.
Locked down
Login attacks are blocked
Repeated bad sign-in attempts are stopped automatically.
Two-factor login on your account
Add a second step to your own sign-in.
DDoS protection is included
Volumetric traffic is filtered before it reaches your site.
Switching from Cloudways, made simple.
What our migrations team gets asked most often.