Bluehost vs Cloudways

Bluehost is strongest for beginners. Cloudways is strongest for WordPress agencies. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Bluehost	Cloudways
Starting price	$2.09/mo	$0.03/mo
Best for	Beginners Small business websites WordPress blogs WooCommerce stores	WordPress agencies E-commerce (WooCommerce/Magento) Developers wanting managed infra without lock-in to one cloud
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.99%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	1	30
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	24/7 Live Chat, Phone (Business+ plans), Ticket, Knowledge Base	Ticket, Live chat, Docs, Advanced Support (paid, $100/mo, 75% lifetime discount promo to $25/mo)
Compliance	PCI DSS (WooCommerce plans)	GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	Steep renewal price increases after the intro term (e.g. Starter $3.99/mo intro renews at $9.99-$15.99/mo) Free domain is only free for the first year, then charges standard domain renewal price Domain privacy is free only for the first year on Business+ plans, then billed annually SiteLock/backup/CodeGuard style add-ons and Pro Email upsells prompted during and after checkout Longer contract terms (36-month) required to get the lowest advertised intro price	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