Nexcess is the easiest alternative to Cloudways, delivering the top-notch performance you crave, without expensive support or unstable pricing
![Snapshots of a sophisticated fashion store hosted on Nexcess, drop down cart descriptions, dynamic product pages, with $20,452 revenue today.](/static/de873ba633dbd258c3649f5d4521a02d/27054/cloudways-alternative-hero.png)
Why you should consider an alternative to Cloudways
Compare Cloudways to Nexcess
Quality support is held hostage
![Young man in a Nexcess shirt and an over-ear headset smiles as he talks to a customer, he says hi, I’m here to help with anything you might need.](/static/4efa9eb83f69cb9ebec313f5afb50f4f/bace9/expert-support.png)
![An online store selling bicycles shows a road bike, sign up form, and online cart including a $200 cruise bike and $125 road bike.](/static/3302a1ac89e4ed201fd15b2536663525/52eb6/cloudways-vs-wp.png)
You won’t get the most out of WordPress
Cloudways WooCommerce isn’t mission-critical
![An ecommerce growth graph sits behind four rectangles with revenue, performance, and insights between August 10 and August 12.](/static/449836442e8f46209a9becd13ff418bd/82892/cloudways-vs-woo.png)
![A site performance graph with an upward arrow in speed, cart, and checkout.](/static/392acc7dcb39b6c39c07f62eee73067e/d6e53/cloudways-vs-nexcess.png)
Working with Magento?
It’s easy to overpay Cloudways
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![A graphic of three boxes that include the numbers 3, 2, and 1 from left to right. An arrow moves from the box with 3 in it, through to box with two in it, ending at the box with 1 in it. The box with one in it is orange.](/static/6ff2d3f844549524d74fc1241c78ae82/d391e/cloudways-three-day-free.png)
Three days, then you pay
Plenty of Cloudways customers seek an alternative
Unreliable managed hosting provider
Unreliable managed hosting provider. They update the OS of your server (without prior notice). They had issues during that (automated?) process and it took more than 24 hours to fix the problem they committed.To avoid for production environments.
Pricey and over-hyped
Unless you select the most basic plans (1 GB RAM and 1-core processor), the cost of the service is expensive for what you get. You choose the PHP version at the server level, so all applications on any one server will have the same PHP version. Having only one PHP version for all applications was a problem.
Very bad service, poor quality of service
After many hours, they didn't even start the migration, installed the migration plug and that's it, another few hours nothing. I could have done more and faster myself. Someone else replies to my e-mails, does not read what was previously in the correspondence, writing another big nonsense. I believe it is a waste of time and money for this terrible company!