Cloudways vs Kamatera

Cloudways standardizes web hosting on top of a fixed set of infrastructure partners. Kamatera takes the opposite approach: it sells cloud infrastructure directly and lets you size and operate servers with much finer control. The decision is mostly abstraction versus configurability.

Standardized web operations

Cloudways turns common website operations into managed controls: SSL, backups, caching, staging, server provisioning and application management. Its supported infrastructure choices currently include AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode and Vultr.

IaaS freedom traded away

Kamatera gives you direct infrastructure ownership and much more freedom in how the server is shaped. It offers hourly and monthly billing, 20+ global data-center locations, scalable cloud servers, firewalls, load balancers and private networking, plus a separate managed-cloud option for customers who want operational help.

IaaS freedom gained

Kamatera is stronger when a standard VPS size is the wrong fit. You can choose the cloud resources you need, scale them, automate through a direct infrastructure account and pay on hourly or monthly models rather than working inside a managed web-hosting abstraction.

Managed web layer traded away

The default Kamatera cloud-server path puts more architecture and administration on your team. Cloudways is specifically designed to hide much of that work for web applications and provides a single workflow for staging, backups, SSL and caching.