Hosting.com vs Cloudways

Hosting.com is strongest for developers wanting fast Turbo/NVMe shared hosting. Cloudways is strongest for WordPress agencies. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting)	Cloudways
Starting price	$2.99/mo	$0.03/mo
Best for	Developers wanting fast Turbo/NVMe shared hosting Small businesses needing cPanel VPS Agencies needing reseller hosting	WordPress agencies E-commerce (WooCommerce/Magento) Developers wanting managed infra without lock-in to one cloud
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.99%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	4	30
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Live chat, Phone, Docs/Knowledge base	Ticket, Live chat, Docs, Advanced Support (paid, $100/mo, 75% lifetime discount promo to $25/mo)
Compliance	Not published	GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	Renewal rates are reported at 2-3x the introductory rate across shared hosting tiers Dedicated server and reseller pricing is not published; requires a sales call to obtain a quote Free domain and some promotional pricing require longer-term (12/24/36-month) prepay commitments	Bandwidth overages billed per-GB and vary by underlying cloud: DigitalOcean $0.02/GB, AWS $0.12/GB, GCP $0.10-$0.17/GB Offsite backup storage billed at $0.033/GB per server Cloudways Autonomous disk overage $1/GB and bandwidth overage $0.04/GB beyond plan baseline Cloudways Autonomous autoscaling billed $0.07-$0.12/hour/server depending on tier Add-ons (Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, Site Manager, Malware Protection, Rackspace Email, DNS Made Easy, Advanced Support) are all separate recurring fees not included in base server price
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18