Cloudways vs OVHcloud

Cloudways and OVHcloud solve different layers of the hosting problem. Cloudways Flexible is a managed platform for WordPress and PHP applications that sits on supported cloud providers and packages staging, backups, caching, monitoring and support into one workflow. OVHcloud gives you a general-purpose VPS with root-level server responsibility and infrastructure features such as anti-DDoS, NVMe storage and an SLA.

Application operations are already packaged

Cloudways is designed for teams that want to deploy and operate web applications without building the surrounding server-management workflow themselves. Flexible includes staging and cloning, automated backups, built-in firewalling, monitoring, managed migration and caching features, and it can run on AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode or Vultr.

Lower-level control is not the product goal

OVHcloud gives you the VPS itself rather than an opinionated application-management layer. That makes it a more natural fit for arbitrary services, custom daemons, VPNs, game servers or infrastructure that needs to be shaped from the operating system upward. Cloudways is optimized around supported web stacks instead.

Direct VPS ownership

OVHcloud gives you a conventional virtual server with NVMe storage, dedicated IP addressing, anti-DDoS protection, KVM access, API management and a 99.9% SLA. Daily backup is included in the current VPS range, and resources can be scaled without rebuilding the server.

More application work stays with you

The flexibility comes with operational responsibility. Cloudways wraps common web-hosting jobs such as staging, managed migration, backups and application monitoring into its platform. With an OVHcloud VPS, you decide how those layers are installed and maintained.