Cloudways vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Cloudways is strongest for WordPress agencies. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is strongest for enterprises running Oracle DB workloads. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Cloudways	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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 running Oracle DB workloads Cost-sensitive compute at scale ARM (Ampere) workloads Autonomous Database users
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.95%
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	30	49
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 forum, Phone (paid support tiers)
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP
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	Block Volume performance (VPU) is billed separately from raw capacity and charged for the tier selected regardless of actual I/O used Autonomous Database storage billed separately from OCPU/ECPU compute Enhanced OKE clusters add a $0.10/hour control-plane fee (capped at $74.40/month) on top of worker node costs Archive Storage restores take hours and carry a 90-day minimum retention charge if deleted early Object Storage Infrequent Access tier carries a per-GB retrieval fee and minimum retention period
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18