Cloudways vs Namecheap

Cloudways is strongest for WordPress agencies. Namecheap is strongest for small businesses on a budget. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Cloudways	Namecheap
Starting price	$0.03/mo	$1.98/mo
Best for	WordPress agencies E-commerce (WooCommerce/Magento) Developers wanting managed infra without lock-in to one cloud	Small businesses on a budget WordPress sites First-time website owners Domain + hosting bundling
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	30	undefined
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	Ticket, Live chat, Docs, Advanced Support (paid, $100/mo, 75% lifetime discount promo to $25/mo)	Ticket, Live chat, Docs, Knowledgebase
Compliance	GDPR	Not published
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	Renewal prices are substantially higher than first-term promo prices across all Shared Hosting tiers (e.g. Stellar renews at ~$3.88/mo vs ~$1.98-2.28/mo intro; Stellar Plus renews at ~$6.88/mo; Stellar Business renews at ~$10.88/mo) Shared hosting pricing increased for renewals starting May 2026 per Namecheap KB article 10780 VPS plans are unmanaged (User-Responsible) by default; Basic management adds ~$10/mo and Complete management adds ~$25/mo on top of base VPS price Dedicated servers are semi-custom/build-your-own so headline starting price may not include desired RAM/storage/RAID configuration Free SSL, domain, and migration offers are typically first-year-only promotional inclusions
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18