Cloudways vs Google Cloud

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

Feature	Cloudways	Google Cloud
Starting price	$0.03/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	WordPress agencies E-commerce (WooCommerce/Magento) Developers wanting managed infra without lock-in to one cloud	Enterprises Data & AI/ML workloads Kubernetes-native teams BigQuery/analytics-heavy stacks
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.99%
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	30	40
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Live chat, Docs, Advanced Support (paid, $100/mo, 75% lifetime discount promo to $25/mo)	Ticket, Docs, Community, Phone (paid support tiers)
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA (BAA available), GDPR, FedRAMP (select services)
Hidden costs to watch for	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	Network egress to internet billed per-GB and rises past free tier (200 GiB/month egress to certain destinations) Sustained-use and committed-use discounts are separate mechanisms and easy to miss when comparing to flat-rate competitors Custom machine types carry a 5% premium over predefined machine type pricing GKE charges a $0.10/hour cluster management fee per cluster (Standard and Autopilot alike) Cloud SQL high-availability configuration doubles vCPU, memory, and persistent disk costs Nearline/Coldline/Archive storage classes carry early-deletion minimum storage durations (30/90/365 days) and per-GB retrieval fees
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18