Cloudways versus Pressable

Price

• Cloudways From $14/mo
  • Micro: $14.00 monthly
  • Small: $28.00 monthly
  • Medium: $54.00 monthly
  • Large: $99.00 monthly
• Pressable From $25/mo
  • Signature 1: $250.00 annual
  • Signature 1: $25.00 monthly
  • Signature 3: $600.00 annual ($50/mo equivalent)
  • Signature 3: $60.00 monthly
  • Signature 5: $1,550.00 annual
  • Signature 5: $155.00 monthly

Both list prices on the same basis. Compare what each plan includes; the lower amount alone does not make the better choice.

Documented for both

Websites

Cloudways No limit on the number of applications on one server

Pressable Tiers with 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 80 or 100 WordPress installs, each with the same number of staging and sandbox sitesSignature 1: 1 WordPress installSignature 3: 5 WordPress installsSignature 5: 20 WordPress installsSignature 8: 100 WordPress installs

Storage

Cloudways Micro: 25 GB NVMe storage, 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPUSmall: 50 GB NVMe storage, 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPUMedium: 80 GB NVMe storage, 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPULarge: 160 GB NVMe storage, 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU

Pressable 5 dedicated PHP workers (5 vCPUs) per site on Signature plansSignature 1: 20 GB storageSignature 3: 35 GB storageSignature 5: 80 GB storageSignature 8: 325 GB storage

Traffic or visits

Cloudways Micro: 1 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visitsSmall: 2 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visitsMedium: 4 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visitsLarge: 5 TB transfer bandwidth; unlimited visits

Pressable A visit is counted once per visitor per UTC day.Signature 1: Up to 30K visits a monthSignature 3: Up to 75K visits a monthSignature 5: Up to 400K visits a monthSignature 8: Up to 2M visits a month

Commitment

Cloudways Charged by the hour and invoiced in arrears in the first week of each month; plan changes show on the invoice immediately, and AWS and Google Cloud prices vary by region.

Pressable Monthly or yearly billing (the yearly option is labelled "2 Months Free"), with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Backups

Cloudways Offsite backup storage costs $0.033/GB per server.

Pressable Filesystem backed up daily at 00:00 UTC and database hourly, only when changes are detected

Restores

Cloudways One-click restore from automated or on-demand backups

Pressable Self-service restore from the Backups & Restores tab, including a cross-site restore of one site's backup onto another

Migration

Cloudways Cloudways engineers migrate your first website free from any host.

Pressable Unlimited WordPress site migrations

Staging

Cloudways Staging is listed.

Pressable Staging and sandbox sites equal to the number of WordPress installs

Support

Cloudways 24/7/365 live chat and ticket support on every plan; paid Advanced and Premium support add-ons give quicker responses.

Pressable 24/7 expert support, about 4 minutes average first response

Overage charges

Cloudways DigitalOcean: USD 0.02 per extra GB, AWS: USD 0.12 per GB, Google Cloud: USD 0.10 to 0.17 per GB by region

Pressable Visits: USD 1.20 per 1,000; Storage: USD 1.00 per GB; Pre-bought visits: USD 8 per 10,000; Pre-bought storage: USD 0.50 per GB a month, up to 200 GB

Limits to check

• Cloudways The number of sites is limited by server capacity: you can launch as many applications as the server can support.
• Pressable Visits and storage above the plan are charged automatically as overages.

Not verified yet

No reviewed evidence for either product on renewal rate.

Documented for one product only, shown in the table below: Cloudways: introductory rate.

Not verified means our reviewed sources do not establish it. It does not mean a product lacks the capability or that it costs nothing.

Next steps

• Ask Cloudways about renewal rate; our sources do not establish it yet.
• Ask Pressable about renewal rate and introductory rate; our sources do not establish them yet.

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