Cloudways

Cloudways is a Managed Cloud Hosting Platform that allows customers to install, launch, and quickly scale preconfigured apps onto Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kyup cloud instances.

You can know in advance the monthly cost of your service, something which has historically sometimes been difficult to achieve with cloud based infrastructure.

Importantly, (in an AWS context) you don’t need to build your own AMIs (machine instances) or maintain your own cloud infrastructure.

Why we like Cloudways

Because they offer an optimized WordPress and optimized WooCommerce installations – which actually work – including lots of cool stuff out of the box (like Varnish, page caching, opcode caching and more), all in one-click-installs, plus some hosting management and support, we at Silicon Dales often find we recommend Cloudways as a managed cloud hosting provider when sites are “not-quite-big-enough” to warrant their own managed AWS cluster – this applies to the vast majority of even quite large sites.

Scalable Cloud instances

In particular, if you need to scale your service up and down occasionally (think Black Friday and Cyber Monday, retailers!) Cloudways can be a great way to manage this scaling, without needing to employ a sysadmin or technical consultant in order to get this done.

All our content about or relating to this service can be found below.

WooCommerce Hosting – Best Hosts for your Store

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Clients often ask for our recommendation when buying web hosting for WordPress and particularly WooCommerce websites. Here, WooExpert Robin Scott gives guidance on choosing the right home for your WP site. The below will be updated in future as recommendations are updated. Best Hosts for WooCommerce Here’s a list in order of my personal preference …

Minimum Requirements for WooCommerce

Below are the minimum requirements for WooCommerce and (by extension) WordPress. Some are taken from WooCommerce, some from WordPress, and also, some, we are adding as recommendations. It should be apparent, below, which is which! Before getting started, if you’re here to assess a WooCommerce host, then you may be interested to check out our …

A Fresh Look for Silicon Dales

A new look Silicon Dales website has just launched. If you like the new website and would like something similar for your own website, simply get in touch to discuss your ideas. Update – March 2018 To keep you posted on this, since going live on this version we have: Restructured our URLs Updated the …

Cloudways Voucher Code – a 20% off Coupon from Silicon Dales

Remember when we told you about our favourite WooCommerce hosts, and we mentioned a service called Cloudways, which gives low cost all-but-instant access to managed cloud hosting which doesn’t cost the Earth, and doesn’t require a sysadmin on your payroll? Maybe you don’t. Don’t worry, the important thing is: we have scored ourselves a unique …

Cloudways Black Friday Sale 2020

A massive 40% exclusive discount on all hosting plans for the next four months with code ‘BFCM2020’ Discount ends 2nd December 2020 Cloudways What’s this? Cloudways is a Managed Cloud Hosting Platform that allows customers to install, launch, and quickly scale preconfigured apps onto AWS, Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, Google Cloud Platform and Kyup cloud instances. …

Getting Started with Cloudways Guide

As we often recommend Cloudways as an excellent mechanism through which to access cloud instances from providers like AWS, Vultr, Digital Ocean, Linode and Google Cloud Platform, without taking on the technical debt of managing your own stack, particularly for WordPress and WooCommerce clients, we often find we are repeating some instructions. As a result, …

Cloudways Black Friday Offer for 2019 – 40% off

Here at Silicon Dales we recommend Cloudways as the fastest and best performing host for WooCommerce. As a Black Friday treat, they’ve got you covered with this great new offer for 2019: The offer 40% off for 3 Months on all plans Click here to visit cloudways and signup now. Offer expiry This offer runs …

How to setup WordPress & WooCommerce on AWS using Cloudways

This guide is intended to show how to setup a WordPress and WooCommerce installation on Cloudways (a managed cloud hosting panel, which does most of the “heavy lifting” when it comes to setting up all the necessary components to run a cloud hosted web application). It contains our Cloudways referal link and also there’s our …

Cloudways Summer Voucher Code – 30% off

Our favourite WooCommerce hosts, Cloudways, are now offering a summer sizzler – 30% off for 2 months: Code: SCALEINSUMMER Valid until: 8th July 2019 Use code You can read more about how to use your voucher code in Cloudways here. You can also read about why Cloudways is our favourite WooCommerce host here.

Cloudways Black Friday Offer 2018 – 30% off for first 3 months (on ANY plan)

Cloudways have come in with their 2018 Black Friday offer, and its a pretty good one, if you were considering signing up a new hosting account in the next month or two: 30% off your invoice for the first three months.