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DigitalOcean Servers (Flexible) · $11/mo (1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB SSD, 1000 GB transfer)
Cloudways' $11/mo DigitalOcean plan is significantly overpriced compared to direct DigitalOcean ($4/mo for 512MB) and other managed alternatives. You're paying a 2.75x markup for Cloudways' management layer on top of DigitalOcean's infrastructure. Several cheaper alternatives offer comparable or better specs with lower renewal-price risk.
Direct access to the same underlying infrastructure Cloudways resells, at 73% lower cost; includes 500GB transfer and 10GB SSD.
Caveat: You lose Cloudways' managed dashboard, backups, and support; bandwidth overages at $0.01/GB apply, same as Cloudways' underlying DigitalOcean cost.
Matches Cloudways' 1GB RAM and 1 vCPU spec at 64% lower cost; includes 20GB NVMe and 5TB transfer (5x more bandwidth).
Caveat: Non-dedicated CPU thread; bandwidth overages at $0.01/GB; powered-off servers may still accrue charges; managed services cost extra ($50-150/mo).
Unmanaged 1GB/1vCPU/20GB SSD/1TB transfer at 65% lower cost; includes user-responsible management by default.
Caveat: Renewal pricing substantially higher (exact renewal rate not disclosed); unmanaged by default; Basic/Complete management add $10-25/mo if you want support.
Matches 1GB/1vCPU spec at 68% lower cost; includes 10GB Standard SSD and industry-leading 99.999% SLA.
Caveat: Backups are a percentage surcharge (10-60% depending on frequency); data transfer overages possible despite 'free egress' marketing; previous-gen AMD CPU.
Managed 1GB/1vCPU/30GB SSD/1TB transfer at 55% lower cost; published 100% uptime SLA and includes management.
Caveat: Advertised price is promotional; renewal pricing meaningfully higher; bandwidth overages and storage add-ons billed separately.
Before you switch
| Vultr | Cloud Compute · Regular 1vCPU/0.5GB | $2.5/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB | Visit |
| InMotion Hosting | Shared Hosting · Core | $2.99/mo | 512 MB RAM, 100 GB SSD | Visit |
| Fly.io | Machines (Shared CPU) · shared-cpu-1x - 512MB | $3.32/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU | Visit |
| AWS Lightsail | Virtual Servers · GP 0.5GB (Linux, IPv6) | $3.5/mo | 512 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB SSD | Visit |
| UpCloud | Cloud Servers - Starter · STARTER-1xCPU-1GB | $3.5/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB Standard SSD | Visit |
| Microsoft Azure | Virtual Machines · B1ls | $3.8/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU | Visit |
| Namecheap | VPS Hosting · Spark | $3.88/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD | Visit |
| DigitalOcean | Droplets · Basic 512MB | $4/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB SSD | Visit |
| Kamatera | Cloud VMs · Type A base (Availability, 1 vCPU/1GB) | $4/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB NVMe SSD | Visit |
| Alibaba Cloud | Simple Application Server · economy-e-2c-0.5g | $4.55/mo | 512 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 40 GB SSD | Visit |
| IONOS | VPS Hosting (VPS+) · VPS S+ | $5/mo | 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 90 GB NVMe | Visit |
| Liquid Web | VPS Hosting · Compute 1 | $5/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 30 GB SSD | Visit |
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