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SiteGround vs Cloudways
Integrated Website Hosting vs. Managed Multi-Cloud Layer
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Quick pick
→ SiteGround is a better fit for teams that want an integrated hosting account with email, backups, CDN, and WordPress tools.
→ Cloudways is a better fit for teams that want managed applications while choosing and scaling the underlying cloud infrastructure.
SiteGround and Cloudways both manage much of the infrastructure for you, yet the abstraction level is different. SiteGround sells a complete website-hosting environment with its own tools, email, backups, and CDN. Cloudways manages applications on servers supplied by AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode, or Vultr.
If you choose SiteGround
What you get
SiteGround packages SSL, email, automatic backups, a free CDN tier, caching, managed WordPress updates, and Site Tools into one account. Higher shared tiers add staging, on-demand backups, Git, and collaboration features, so the workflow stays website-centric.
What you give up
You are using SiteGround's infrastructure and product tiers rather than selecting an external IaaS vendor. Cloudways gives more freedom to choose the underlying provider and server class, then scale that server as workload needs change.
If you choose Cloudways
What you get
Cloudways Flexible adds a managed layer over five infrastructure providers with staging, automated backups, monitoring, server firewalls, SSL, and 24/7 support. It can host multiple applications on the same server as long as the selected resources are sufficient.
What you give up
Cloudways is less of a bundled website account and more of a managed cloud platform. SiteGround is easier when domain email, site-level tooling, and a single hosting ecosystem are more important than infrastructure selection.
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