Reddit · r/laravel · 8 days ago
They could not provision servers or deploy client sites for hours during the incident. They patched PHP manually over SSH, and Forge's published instructions were incorrect.
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Reddit · r/selfhosted · 8 days ago
They run their 8-person agency's tooling on 2 cheap VPS managed through Coolify and call it one of their favourite tools, handling deployments and infrastructure. They have also moved client workloads from AWS and Vercel to it.
Reddit · r/laravel · 9 days ago
They found the Forge control panel completely unavailable during the PHP patch incident, not just slow as the post-mortem described.
HostingRecs · Tomasz · 10 days ago
Freelancer here. I run 11 small client WordPress sites on one Hetzner VPS with the Essentials plan. Unlimited web apps on a single server is what makes the maths work for me. The panel takes care of the dull parts: setting up the stack, free SSL, picking the PHP version per app, scheduled backups, and one staging site where I test plugin updates first. Keep in mind you still pay Hetzner for the server, RunCloud only manages it. Prices have gone up more than once since I signed up, and API access is now only on the Business tier, which annoyed me. One time an agent update failed and I had to update it by hand over SSH. Support is ticket based, they answered within a day and were polite but it's not instant.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 16 days ago
They run one Coolify on a single VPS for a Next.js app and find day to day deploys are just git push. The proxy being Traefik cost them debugging time because many older guides use Caddy labels.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 17 days ago
They run Coolify across two servers for side projects and client sites and like its one-click services and template library. They find it heavy on resources and say the UI gets confusing as servers are added.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 17 days ago
They ran Coolify on a single VPS for small apps and internal tools and stayed because it needed so little attention day to day. They could drop down to plain compose when a tweak was needed.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 20 days ago
They found Coolify extremely resource hungry for how little it does, with critical bugs in persistent storage handling for compose services, and would not use it in production.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
During the PHP security release day Forge was unusable for them, taking 3 minutes just to load the servers list.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
They found that a manual PHP update on Forge installed a version without the security fix during the release, which they found very annoying.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
They report that both a manual update and the UI update for PHP 8.5 on Forge still gave them the old PHP version during the security release.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
They were unable to deploy on Forge because deploys were cut off after a few minutes, while the server status page showed green. They also saw a wrong not-updated banner and a buggy Forge UI.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 39 days ago
After more than three years of use, steep upcoming price increases could no longer be justified and prompted a move to CloudPanel.
Reddit · r/laravel · 46 days ago
Seems stable enough now that little is left besides security updates, but it isn't used often because you eventually outgrow it and need stronger security than giving a third party full server access.
Reddit · r/laravel · 48 days ago
Moved from Envoyer to Forge's zero-downtime deployment, though it is not as well supported for multi-site setups.
Reddit · r/laravel · 49 days ago
Keeps a project with a lot of self-hosted setup running without moving to cloud, which would be a huge undertaking with no return; it just works as is for now.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 49 days ago
They are a long-time Coolify user who finds it robust but says it eats too many resources compared with alternatives.
Reddit · r/laravel · 50 days ago
Moved off because it only supported Ubuntu and they did not want Ubuntu 26.04; they now run AI-written config scripts and use Caddy instead of nginx for flexibility.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 51 days ago
They say Coolify makes system updates easy and even notifies them when an update is due. They add that the main overhead is keeping project dependencies current.
Reddit · r/laravel · 52 days ago
They use Managed Queues on Laravel Cloud for ffmpeg audio processing and keep hitting memory and disk limits. They report constant disk usage above 90% warnings and managed queue crashes and restarts.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 62 days ago
They tried Coolify but dependencies would not start after deployment and they filed a GitHub issue.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 66 days ago
They ran Coolify and Dokploy in low-stakes production and found Coolify has a larger community, built-in S3 backups and multi-server support. They say the cost is more surface area, with upgrades occasionally touching unexpected things.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 66 days ago
They tried Coolify and Dokploy, had problems with Dokploy, and found Coolify more stable. They like its recently refreshed UI and constant updates, and plan to keep using it.
Reddit · r/laravel · 69 days ago
Lack of SQLite support and rigid cloud constraints required too many workflow changes compared to a traditional server setup.
Reddit · r/laravel · 86 days ago
Clean user interface and reliable operation prompted a move back after trying an alternative panel.
Reddit · r/laravel · 91 days ago
Straightforward and easy to set up when hosting a WordPress site.
Reddit · r/laravel · 91 days ago
Happy with it and sees no need to migrate dozens of servers; starting on it made an alternative panel's UI feel confusing.
Reddit · r/laravel · 92 days ago
Works well for tiny side projects or full-scale businesses, but pricing shifts made mid-sized projects too expensive and custom processes are restricted.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 107 days ago
They used Coolify and replaced it with Dokploy because they wanted lower resource usage on their server.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 114 days ago
Using Cloudways with Vultr for a while with solid performance and no need to move.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 138 days ago
They ran Coolify on 4GB of RAM without problems and later moved to 8GB for headroom. They say it has some overhead but has been fine for them.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 138 days ago
They run Coolify on a VPS managing a dozen docker apps auto-deployed from GitHub pushes. They do not feel locked in, are moving off Vercel and have had no RAM issues.
Reddit · r/laravel · 146 days ago
They use Laravel Cloud for hobby projects and often throw projects at it and forget to tear them down, so a usage tracker is handy for them.
Reddit · r/laravel · 147 days ago
They say the Laravel Cloud billing page is really good.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 155 days ago
They use Coolify for most of their deployments and fall back to manual docker compose for the finicky ones.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 161 days ago
Used at work for Laravel apps, with automatic zero-downtime deployments, auto-deploy on new releases, and management of workers and queue jobs, and considered probably the best way to get it just working.
Reddit · r/laravel · 164 days ago
Their toy app, deployed 12 months earlier in Frankfurt and untouched with no traffic, ended up in a constant reboot loop so it could not hibernate. Redeploying fixed it.
Reddit · r/laravel · 164 days ago
They had trouble moving from Forge to Cloud and found that Cloud still needs more resources than Forge ever did for their Horizon setup.
Reddit · r/laravel · 165 days ago
Platform stability has improved since launch and migrating from Vapor was fast, though support responses across paid tiers can still be slow.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 166 days ago
They moved from Vercel to self-hosted Coolify and have never looked back.
Reddit · r/laravel · 170 days ago
Works great for managing VPS servers with zero downtime.
Reddit · r/laravel · 170 days ago
Auto-scaling eliminated server maintenance and weekend provisioning worries for five e-commerce apps, though a stuck 20-hour deployment exposed slow support.
Reddit · r/laravel · 170 days ago
Brief trial ended quickly because the platform did not support running Puppeteer for the project.
Reddit · r/laravel · 174 days ago
They have had so many issues with Laravel Cloud that they think they are the only person using it.
Reddit · r/laravel · 175 days ago
Their dev and preview environments broke over a cache certificate issue, and deployments failed. Support took over 24 hours to acknowledge it, and a Redis scheme env flag finally fixed it.
Reddit · r/laravel · 175 days ago
They had a poor experience testing Laravel Cloud with many hiccups. Error logs from the caching system used up the whole 100K free Nightwatch messages.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 186 days ago
They use ServerPilot on their DigitalOcean droplets and find it makes server setup simple.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 210 days ago
Has been with Cloudways for years and never felt any reason to leave.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 210 days ago
A great product but RunCloud means friction: server commands to add disk space and failed agent updates needing manual installs.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 211 days ago
Runs around 100 sites across 9 Linode and Vultr servers on RunCloud and calls it flawless.
Reddit · r/webdev · 214 days ago
They deployed a client web platform with Next, MongoDB and Redis managed via Coolify and say it ran like clockwork.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 218 days ago
Ten days and nine Cloudways support agents could not resolve a Google InspectionTool "blocked by robots.txt" error, finally calling it out of scope.
Reddit · r/laravel · 235 days ago
They run a large comic database app (Livewire, Filament, Horizon, Reverb, PostgreSQL) on Laravel Cloud and call it a smooth experience. Deployments are simple and not managing infrastructure freed their time.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 235 days ago
They could not get Coolify installed on Ubuntu 24.04: they had to change the DB password manually and the real-time service and localhost were unreachable, a very frustrating experience.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 236 days ago
They run a couple of Node apps on a cheap VPS with Coolify. They found setup painless, with GitHub repo builds and deploys handled automatically.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 241 days ago
Early adopter preparing to leave the platform because current pricing has become extortionate.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 241 days ago
Automated server backups work without needing external WordPress plugins after switching over from RunCloud.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 241 days ago
Ridiculous API pricing prompted a move of their servers away from RunCloud to an alternative panel.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 241 days ago
Using Linode servers with the control panel for a handful of clients has never brought a server down, and a good VPS with a server panel is seen as unbeatable on price and performance.
Reddit · r/laravel · 247 days ago
Ships apps super quickly, though from India the nearest Singapore region adds noticeable request latency compared to a local VPS.
Reddit · r/laravel · 248 days ago
They moved to Laravel Cloud around November and run millions of items through queue clusters, finding the flexibility and response good. They note the Postgres side costs a bit more and early quirks with unconfigurable queue clusters running out of memory.
Reddit · r/laravel · 248 days ago
They paid only 1.5 USD in their first month on Laravel Cloud for testing, and say good hibernation settings keep the cost low.
Reddit · r/webdev · 253 days ago
After years of nightmare hosts, found Cloudways a godsend: fast, affordable with great tech support.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 264 days ago
They have been using Coolify and so far really like it. They have not tried Dokku.
Reddit · r/laravel · 266 days ago
Their third-party monitor alerted them to downtime on a site they host on Laravel Cloud, and the main dashboard was unreachable too. The status page for Cloud was hard to find.
Reddit · r/laravel · 266 days ago
They run an ecommerce back end on Laravel Cloud, and it went down during the outage.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 268 days ago
Their software company chose Coolify to run client deployments and found it great for the most part. They wish it had better metrics, logs and observability and docker volume backups, since only database backups are automated.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 269 days ago
They run Coolify on a Hetzner server with three Supabase instances, Appwrite, PocketBase, Grafana and more in about 23 GB, using less disk than a Dokploy server with the same specs.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 269 days ago
Ran a MemberPress and LMS site with about 8,000 paid members on a 16 GB Cloudways server with 100% uptime and engineers reachable by chat.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 273 days ago
Hosts several dozen sites on Cloudways for years without issue and found WP Engine slower in testing.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 274 days ago
Cloudways has good tech support; WP Engine support is friendly but not better.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 274 days ago
Cloudways support chat works directly through problems and has been very helpful for client sites.
Reddit · r/laravel · 283 days ago
They moved a few apps from self-managed DigitalOcean to Laravel Cloud. Uptime and performance are good, and the cost is higher but worth not managing infrastructure.
Reddit · r/laravel · 283 days ago
They run smaller apps on Cloud and had breaking changes applied to existing apps, with a dismissive support response. They also report slow fixes, including 9 days of silence on an infrastructure issue.
Reddit · r/laravel · 283 days ago
They migrated 3 apps to Laravel Cloud on the $20 plan, found setup easy, and needed only two support requests handled via Slack. Auto scale works well under traffic spikes, with no stability issues.
Reddit · r/laravel · 283 days ago
Six months of running mid-sized projects delivered solid stability, fast node scaling during traffic spikes, and quick support replies, though usage costs can sneak up fast.
Reddit · r/laravel · 287 days ago
Their static assets on Laravel Cloud had no cache TTL despite the docs promising edge caching, which hurt their Lighthouse score and SEO. They spent a long time on a support ticket that ended in a public dispute.
Reddit · r/laravel · 287 days ago
They have contacted Laravel Cloud support several times and found the responses and commitment really good.
Reddit · r/laravel · 291 days ago
They switched to Ploi because of US politics and have had no complaints after a year of use.
Reddit · r/laravel · 291 days ago
Over a year on the platform and the paid plan's auto-updates and firewall rules save tons of development time.
Reddit · r/laravel · 308 days ago
They deployed a very low-traffic client app with two branches and two databases, and were billed $30 then $27 for almost no use. They moved to a VPS with Dokploy for a fraction of the cost.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago
They ran their apps on Coolify before moving back to Kubernetes, finding debugging poor and docs basic-only, and worried about the single-maintainer bus factor, though they say Coolify is not bad.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 313 days ago
They run a lot of their self-hosting on Coolify with no stability issues and quick setup, though the GUI options are limited and need workarounds.
Reddit · r/laravel · 337 days ago
Staging environments run dead slow even on the most expensive instance tiers compared to running the exact same app and database on AWS.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 343 days ago
On Cloudways, CPU spikes to 100% whenever working in WordPress or WooCommerce admin, crippling the site and slowing the backend.
Reddit · r/laravel · 356 days ago
They use Laravel Cloud for several small client projects and are happy with deployment, zero-management and CDN performance. Invoices have been manageable, though they worry about uncapped bandwidth costs.
Reddit · r/laravel · 363 days ago
They found the database cost on Laravel Cloud far too high for a non-commercial project and switched it off.
Reddit · r/laravel · 364 days ago
They moved a number of projects from Forge to Laravel Cloud, say it works fine, and report a bill under $20 a month.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 377 days ago
Cloudways with Varnish and its Breeze plugin solves caching mostly well with odd breakages and ties into Cloudflare Enterprise.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 378 days ago
Used to host hundreds of sites at Cloudways but calls its Varnish bad and the stack mediocre; upgraded to GridPane.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 378 days ago
Cloudways forces its Varnish handling and only the Breeze plugin connects properly, making granular caching frustrating.
Reddit · r/laravel · 392 days ago
They have used Coolify for a while on some deployments as an open-source Heroku/Netlify alternative and say they have been loving how easy it makes self-hosting.
Reddit · r/laravel · 392 days ago
They run Coolify on a private server and find it surprisingly good enough, but note minor issues when adding team members.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 399 days ago
They say Coolify works decently well though a bit clunky, liking the automatic PR preview setup but disliking the lack of snapshot and clone options before deploy.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 400 days ago
They reinstalled Coolify multiple times but domain resolution was always buggy and clashed with their other non-Coolify apps.
Reddit · r/laravel · 401 days ago
In the new Forge UI many links do not work for them when clicked, so they have to edit URLs to reach things like PHP settings.
Reddit · r/laravel · 408 days ago
After Forge changes, their provisioned server was suddenly moved to a different region, so business email stopped going out because of geo blocking.
Reddit · r/laravel · 408 days ago
They have used Forge with around 50 sites in a single dropdown for over 5 years and like the new release that organizes sites by team.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 409 days ago
As a Docker beginner they had odd problems with Dokploy templates but never had issues spinning up a template in Coolify.
Reddit · r/laravel · 410 days ago
Fantastic tool for managing over 200 deployed sites across multiple servers, though it lacks a native way to migrate sites between servers.
Reddit · r/laravel · 410 days ago
Repeated critical bugs including provisioning errors, broken server toggles, phantom background workers, and outdated AWS gp2 defaults make production use risky.
Reddit · r/laravel · 413 days ago
Years of use, and the new command palette is loved.
Reddit · r/laravel · 414 days ago
Running an entire agency on the platform since 2016 has been great, and small UI improvements like matching Cloudflare SSL field order are helpful.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 420 days ago
An agency runs 140+ WordPress sites on Cloudways and automates updates, caching and server tasks through the Cloudways API.
Reddit · r/webdev · 424 days ago
Cloudways is set-and-forget for personal sites, but Redis setup caused errors on larger client sites and support is not great.
Reddit · r/webdev · 424 days ago
After a few months Cloudways felt overpriced at scale, managed features were subpar (PHP limits) and credit card management was locked by design.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 426 days ago
They call Coolify really good but too unstable, with new features breaking old ones and regressions such as broken status checks or DB SSL permissions lingering for months.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 430 days ago
Transitioned over from CloudPanel after a vulnerability got 20 WordPress sites hacked, and paying for a proper management panel has been well worth it.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 431 days ago
Says Cloudways uses decade-old consumer-grade CPUs; moving a customer from its premium offering to a custom server loaded the site 5x faster.
Reddit · r/laravel · 440 days ago
Saves enough setup and maintenance time to be the default choice for all client projects.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 440 days ago
Manages about 40 sites across two Cloudways servers with no overload issues, calling it simple but feature packed with amazing support.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 441 days ago
Has worked well enough for several years and keeps slowly adding new features, running on a server in Azure thanks to sponsorship credits.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 441 days ago
About 16 live sites with staging on Cloudways for over a year; amazing experience and support is a huge reason to stay.
Reddit · r/laravel · 449 days ago
They shipped a Blade and Alpine app on Cloud with small pages and optimized queries. Page navigation still feels slow, at 1-2 seconds in Chrome, even though Nightwatch request durations are low.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 450 days ago
Cloudways was the clear winner for front-end loading in tests, but the lowest-tier Autonomous backend took 10-25 seconds per page versus 3-6 on other hosts.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 453 days ago
Moved to Cloudways on a DigitalOcean server: saved money, better performance, and no hacked-site incidents since.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 459 days ago
They ran Coolify on the cheapest Hetzner box and every Next.js build spiked CPU and froze the server until reboot. They fixed it by building the image on GitHub Actions and having Coolify pull it.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 459 days ago
They run dozens of services including some react and node apps on a 4 CPU 8 GB box and never had a problem. Only an unoptimized react frontend briefly froze the server before it recovered.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 461 days ago
A WordPress developer always hosts on Cloudways and likes its features, great support and ease of use.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 463 days ago
They compared the self-hosted options a while ago and settled on Coolify, saying none are perfect but it suits them.
Reddit · r/laravel · 476 days ago
They pushed support and worked with an engineer to find that their compute server had failed and was redeployed by monitoring, which took about 15 minutes. It was why nothing showed on the status page.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 476 days ago
During a bot attack that caused 503 errors, Cloudways chat support blocked the malicious IPs and rebooted the server.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 483 days ago
They name Cloudways on DigitalOcean as their favourite host.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 486 days ago
They are a long term GridPane customer as an agency and call it great. They note the primary market is agencies running their own hosting.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Switched from WP Engine to Cloudways about a year ago with more transparent resource usage and easier scaling.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Moved about 100 client sites from WP Engine to Cloudways, scaling easily and saving a fortune.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Experienced WordPress host says Cloudways support sucks.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Cloudways premium support at 500 dollars a month is decent with senior techs on Slack, but there is no root access or stack customization.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Moved an enterprise client from WP Engine to Cloudways and found it easy for budget, caching and speed, though there is no root access.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Agency uses Cloudways with Cloudflare Enterprise; support is quick with the agency add-on though it sometimes only bumps memory, and the Breeze plugin is limited.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Personally loves Cloudways. Expressed as a plain personal opinion about the hosting provider in a thread about WP Engine alternatives.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 495 days ago
A Cloudways customer of years never has problems and finds support very responsive, paying about $120 a month for an 8GB server.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 496 days ago
Liked Vultr and Cloudways VPS hosting but neither was really that fast; moving clients to managed dedicated servers.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 497 days ago
Running the control panel alongside Linode servers and Wasabi storage for years has been rock solid.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 497 days ago
Felt outdated and basic with little innovation, though it was nice and worked.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 498 days ago
Trouble-free experience managing WordPress sites with zero issues and a helpful Circle community.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 498 days ago
Dashboard operations and even simple WordPress installs sometimes fail with no error, needing support, and there is no real staging while pricing feels a bit expensive.
Reddit · r/laravel · 504 days ago
They ran a tiny API and test website and were surprised by a $70 bill, saying it was their last time.
Reddit · r/webdev · 508 days ago
While trying Coolify, a deploy failed and took down both Coolify and their site.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 519 days ago
They have used Coolify for a year and like it a lot despite a rough GUI. Multi-server was smooth and moving to another server only needed copying data directories.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 536 days ago
Easier to use than Ploi with better WordPress site cloning, though backups can be finicky and some backup destinations require the top-tier plan.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 537 days ago
Solid server management panel with fast customer support responses, though the support staff is not deeply technical.
Reddit · r/laravel · 541 days ago
They tried Laravel Cloud for an app with user photo uploads and OCR, first struggled to find a way to resize images, then got GD working there. They said it seemed nice so far.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 543 days ago
They have used Laravel Forge, along with Appliku, and say both are pretty good paid options for automated deployments.
Reddit · r/laravel · 546 days ago
They needed a support request to get wildcard subdomains working because of a Cloudflare issue. Support fixed it on their side and it has worked since.
Reddit · r/laravel · 546 days ago
They run about 80 subdomains on Laravel Cloud. They note the whole domain must be managed by Cloud, so a marketing site cannot live elsewhere on the same domain.
Reddit · r/laravel · 548 days ago
In a one-month test with two Livewire apps they saw databases failing to wake, apps dropping mid-session, daily restarts, wonky logs and weak support. They found it expensive versus Forge with DigitalOcean.
Reddit · r/laravel · 553 days ago
Manages five Laravel apps, TanStack/Next.js frontends, Postgres, and mail across multiple VPS instances for three years with zero problems.
Reddit · r/laravel · 554 days ago
Forge was used previously, but VPS problems took a lot of time and meant constantly being online to fix things, which led to a move to Laravel Cloud.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 554 days ago
Wants to move a few sites off Cloudways because it got quite expensive, though migration to it was easy.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 555 days ago
A Cloudways customer on a DigitalOcean server reports a lot of downtime, about every two weeks.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 556 days ago
Works pretty good for their small VPS with web apps, so they considered it for a bare metal box to avoid a complex server setup.
Reddit · r/webdev · 557 days ago
They run Coolify on their own VPS and say it takes care of certificate management for them automatically.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 561 days ago
They deployed their app stack on Coolify (on a Hetzner Cloud instance) and found it a smooth layer on Docker. Webhooks give automatic deployments on push and one-click PostgreSQL.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 568 days ago
Small attack surface and well-tuned Nginx page caching keep basic servers fast and lean, though built-in email, country blocking, and scheduled restarts are missing.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 569 days ago
Used for a SaaS, mainly for VPS management, and the developer they work with liked it a lot; they say it is full of features, though they use few of them.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 570 days ago
They left ServerPilot about 4 years ago for RunCloud while managing over 50 WordPress sites, and found it excellent with very quick support and steady improvements.
Reddit · r/laravel · 571 days ago
Chosen because weekend outages and failed failover used to cause stress on vacation; having a service that just works is worth the few extra dollars.
Reddit · r/laravel · 571 days ago
Moved all projects away because of unpredictable pricing; a proof of concept with sporadically two test users cost as much as a dedicated DigitalOcean server.
Reddit · r/laravel · 571 days ago
Laravel projects were moved from cloud hosting to a local VPS configured with Ploi; everything works so far and bills are much lower.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 571 days ago
They have used GridPane since 2020 and like the performant stack, easy provisioning, reliable backups and staging. They feel the vendor is dishonest, with features stuck in beta for years while prices rose and plans were changed.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 582 days ago
They used ServerPilot with DigitalOcean for years and found it stable, but it has had no new features in over 5 years apart from price changes. They miss basic features like easy backups, site cloning and team management.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 582 days ago
They used RunCloud in the past for managing agency sites and liked it overall. Support was quick and everything worked almost perfectly.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 582 days ago
They tried Coolify in November and liked its customizability, but found it too beta and buggy to trust with live customer projects.
Reddit · r/laravel · 586 days ago
They moved an app from Vapor to Laravel Cloud with a manual SQL dump and DNS switch at a quiet hour. So far they see lower costs.
Reddit · r/laravel · 595 days ago
They deployed a bare test app on the $0 sandbox plan, forgot it, and got a $6.31 invoice. Support said nothing could be done, so they will not use or recommend it.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 604 days ago
They migrated away from Coolify because CPU usage was stuck at 100%. They reported the problem and say it was never fixed, and they now run the same apps at half the cost on Dokku.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 604 days ago
They had a bad experience and removed it after a test period. Their reports and issues were ignored.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 604 days ago
They tried it about 6 months earlier on a 1 vCPU test server. Base resource usage was too high for them to consider it.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 609 days ago
A user switched from Bluehost to Cloudways, which is so much better and costs no more than Bluehost's second-year renewal.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 609 days ago
A user says Cloudways is good for hand-holding, with excellent chat support that is patient and knows its stuff.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 610 days ago
After migrating from WP Engine, images offloaded to an S3 bucket went missing and Cloudways support had no idea how to help.
Reddit · r/laravel · 618 days ago
They found their initial experience smooth and enjoyable, but the shared MySQL credentials at cluster level are a non-starter for them.
Reddit · r/laravel · 619 days ago
After a few months they still find the product good and deployments easy, but backups on a 30 GB Postgres database gave their client a surprise invoice over $300. They switched to MySQL.
Reddit · r/laravel · 621 days ago
They set up two sites on Laravel Cloud in under two minutes and found it easy, but noted 8-18 second wake-ups from hibernation, high cost and limited control.
Reddit · r/laravel · 621 days ago
They tried the free tier with little cost and liked it, but publicly exposed databases are a dealbreaker for them until private ones exist.
Reddit · r/laravel · 621 days ago
They compared it with a VPS plus Ploi: setup is quicker, but costs multiply per app, hibernation start-up takes at least 7 seconds, and databases and Redis add up.
Reddit · r/laravel · 621 days ago
They moved from a Fly.io setup and found Cloud servers faster at similar configuration, with smooth setup and easy environments, databases and cache. Object storage was the one hard part.
Reddit · r/laravel · 621 days ago
They have found it great so far, flexible and easy to use.
Reddit · r/laravel · 621 days ago
After evaluating Forge they chose Ploi as much cheaper with good features, running EC2 for production and Lightsail for dev and testing.
Reddit · r/laravel · 621 days ago
They use Forge and Envoyer, which cost more than their DigitalOcean droplets, but like the convenience; Forge feels hacked together yet highly functional.
Reddit · r/laravel · 621 days ago
They find Forge really excellent and see little reason to move to Laravel Cloud at this stage.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 622 days ago
They find Coolify good but say its API is incomplete and its documentation is lacking.
Reddit · r/laravel · 626 days ago
They tried a serverless Postgres cluster on Laravel Cloud, connected with a TablePlus deeplink and created a per-tenant database, showing multi-database tenancy is possible.
Reddit · r/laravel · 626 days ago
They got their multi-tenant app running on Laravel Cloud, with per-tenant databases created without problems.
Reddit · r/laravel · 626 days ago
They set up several production sites on Laravel Cloud but cannot see what they will cost without manual calculation. They called the billing visibility a hot mess.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 636 days ago
They use Coolify commercially on EC2 and find it a quick install that gets extra apps running fast. They say it still needs service discovery and better docs on inter-server networking.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 639 days ago
They hit the same registry login problem with AWS ECR in Coolify. They worked around it with an aws ecr login line in the entrypoint or pre-deployment hook, which only works when deployment is triggered via github action and not the Redeploy button.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 647 days ago
Backup restoration works well and the platform is mature, though sharp price increases and feature limits on lower tiers hurt value.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 648 days ago
Managing small agency client servers for years has been a breeze, with fast server provisioning, staging site creation, and app cloning.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 648 days ago
Solid platform overall, but stalled feature development, higher prices, and reduced server and API limits make alternatives more appealing.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 648 days ago
A few days of testing so far has been satisfying, and they see it as one of the most stable services around despite slowed development and somewhat high pricing.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 654 days ago
They were frustrated by Coolify and similar tools because they could not bring their own docker-compose files, so they kept one big compose file on their server instead.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 665 days ago
They tried RunCloud, ServerPilot, SpinupWP and CloudPanel and prefer Ploi paired with Vultr high frequency servers. They have used it about a year, find it reasonably priced and say the devs are active on Discord.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 665 days ago
They use GridPane with Vultr and find the docs thorough and the stack impressive and generally reliable for performance. They say the community support model on entry level plans is hit or miss.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 666 days ago
They have used SpinupWP for many years on sites hosted at Akamai and are quite happy, running backups several times a day to S3. They find the logs system only OK.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 666 days ago
They have run Coolify in production for over a year without problems.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 666 days ago
They say SpinUpWP has exceeded all their expectations, including the support.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 666 days ago
They currently use Coolify for deployment on their home server because it is easy and everything works automatically.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 666 days ago
They love Coolify for its versatility and features for complex environments, and use it to manage a semi-professional setup for a self-developed application.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 666 days ago
They call it a bit brave but run Coolify in production anyway.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 667 days ago
They say Coolify handles domains and SSL automatically, though they sometimes had to restart the proxy and once had to reach Coolify by IP because the proxy locked them out of the domain.
Reddit · r/webdev · 670 days ago
They use Coolify to manage a self-hosted multi-service stack and find it makes management easy. They say it is still not as easy as they would like and staging environments are not simple to set up.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 671 days ago
Tested in depth with no problems and still undecided; it seems oriented toward developers and power users, with flexible stack choices and an easy load-balancer setup.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 671 days ago
Runs around 100 WordPress sites on RunCloud with DigitalOcean, Linode and Hetzner servers, with far less bloat than WHM/cPanel, easy and robust backups, and pretty decent support.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 674 days ago
They found Coolify easy to set up and deploy simple projects on a VPS or homelab, but switched to Dokploy because Coolify lacked easy horizontal scaling and had complex docs.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 674 days ago
A Cloudways user still rates it among the better options but says prices are rising while quality drops, and support is meh.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 674 days ago
An agency on Cloudways since 2020 runs 6 servers there and finds the 25%+ markup worth it versus managing DigitalOcean directly.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 674 days ago
A developer hosts over 50 websites on Cloudways and everything works flawlessly.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 675 days ago
An agency that moved clients to Cloudways was happy at first but ended up paying about $400 a month in markup on top of $400 of servers.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 676 days ago
Cloudways lets you terminate servers immediately and only bills for seconds used; a cancelled DO server cost one cent.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 676 days ago
Vouches for Cloudways performance for a WooCommerce site.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 680 days ago
They set up Coolify to host websites and Flask and Node apps but could not get it running properly. Their sites ended up returning 404 and then 500 errors and they deleted the server.
Reddit · r/web_design · 693 days ago
They moved from AWS servers to Cloudways for its simplicity and say it has worked great for years. They note support quality has deteriorated.
Reddit · r/laravel · 694 days ago
Used to manage projects manually before switching, and the service really saved a lot of time.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 701 days ago
Has solved several issues through Cloudways support chat and tickets.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 701 days ago
A Cloudways customer says support is great at times but they take months to honour promises and credits, then delete servers immediately if a payment is 24 hours late.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 703 days ago
They self-hosted Postiz with Coolify quick deploy with default settings; it deployed but the main domain pointed to the backend API instead of the frontend.
Reddit · r/laravel · 704 days ago
They deployed Soketi websockets on the same $5 instance as their Laravel app using Forge and found it surprisingly smooth. They also say Forge makes deploying even non-Laravel things easy.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 714 days ago
A WordPress developer hosts all clients on their own Cloudways servers, which keeps management streamlined compared with client hosts like GoDaddy.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 714 days ago
A developer hosts client sites on Cloudways and finds it trivial to give clients or anyone access to an application.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 715 days ago
Letting the panel subscription lapse reportedly trapped them from managing their own VPS, which the author says should not happen even though the backup service stopping is understandable.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 722 days ago
Moved from DreamHost VPS to Cloudways; TTFB is now very slow and CPU usage runs high despite no changes, and support costs a lot.
Reddit · r/webdev · 726 days ago
A first-time self-hoster runs Coolify on a Hostinger VPS and can deploy Next.js projects in about ten clicks with auto-deploy on push.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 732 days ago
They say Cloudways and Kinsta both served them well, each with its ups and downs.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 734 days ago
They moved from DigitalOcean to Cloudways and find support and price relatively good. The downside is no root access, which forces workarounds for unusual builds.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 735 days ago
On Cloudways Autonomous the site died on its first day of decent traffic; support was a single powerless L1 chat agent who blamed Wordfence and could not explain the cause.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 736 days ago
Cloudways support always goes beyond duty to help a beginner with technical setup and fixing problems.
Reddit · r/startup · 741 days ago
Used it to make releases and database management for a Laravel app smoother and less of a headache.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 750 days ago
They use Coolify for a staging instance with automatic GitHub deployments and Slack notifications and like it a lot once past the learning curve. Their main complaint is that it installs on the host, which got messy next to existing Portainer containers.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 750 days ago
They tried Coolify briefly, struggled to make it work with Cloudflare tunnels, and went back to Docker with Portainer.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 753 days ago
Had a billing issue at Cloudways with no refund, repeated high-usage problems blamed on the user, and found the same sites much faster elsewhere.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 757 days ago
A WordPress host user calls Cloudways great service with a choice of data centers.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 757 days ago
A freelancer runs 38 client sites on Cloudways servers with zero complaints and finds it cheaper than WP Engine.
Reddit · r/laravel · 765 days ago
They have run a site with multiple instances on Forge for a few years and say it has worked great for most of their needs.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 766 days ago
They have used SpinupWP for a couple of production sites for a couple of years. They say it provisions and sets up the sites on their own VPS and avoids many pitfalls.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 766 days ago
They use SpinUpWP as the control panel on top of DigitalOcean for client sites. They say it removes SSL, SSH key and backup maintenance, gives clients a good panel and still gives them root access.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 766 days ago
On the cheapest Cloudways plan the WP admin for a WooCommerce site is slow with CPU constantly maxed out.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 769 days ago
A brand-new site on Cloudways scores high on speed tests but the admin console loads incredibly slowly; a CDN made a substantial difference.
Reddit · r/webdev · 772 days ago
Core Web Vitals collapsed in July on a dedicated Cloudways DigitalOcean server and the host could not determine the cause, telling the owner to contact a developer.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 775 days ago
Simple setup with DigitalOcean, thoughtful platform updates, friendly support, and clear documentation make running WordPress affordable and reliable.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 777 days ago
More than five years on Cloudways and very happy with it for all sites.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 778 days ago
Cloudways servers run slow, forced maintenance can take hours with the site offline, and the WAF cannot whitelist blocked customers.
Reddit · r/runcloud · 779 days ago
Pro plan limits which external backup storage systems can be used, which they see as limiting just to upsell; they wrote shell scripts run from crontab that work the same without the price increases.
Reddit · r/runcloud · 779 days ago
Pro Plan user running about five servers is fed up, says every subscriber is looking for an alternative and wishes RunCloud would lose the business.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 780 days ago
Long-time Cloudways user: cost rises as you scale but support has been fantastic throughout.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 783 days ago
A basic site on Cloudways with a 2 GB Vultr High Frequency server loads really fast.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 784 days ago
Over a month of repeated 100% CPU spikes on a Cloudways DigitalOcean server, support only said they had changed things on their end.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 786 days ago
Agency staging sites on Cloudways have underwhelming performance even on expensive plans and sometimes go down; would not choose it for production.
Reddit · r/webdev · 792 days ago
They run Coolify on an old Orange Pi3 LTS and say it works great, with problems only coming from their own network configuration.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 800 days ago
They tried Coolify for a week and found it pretty great and very impressive. They had to work around websocket support to get the dashboard running behind Nginx Proxy Manager.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 808 days ago
They have been trying to host their SvelteKit app on Coolify and keep hitting Docker-related problems, so they are looking at alternatives.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 811 days ago
After migrating from SiteGround, logged-in pages were 4-5x slower on Cloudways and 4 days of support handoffs never fixed it.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 811 days ago
Has been with Cloudways for years with nothing but good support; chat found a bot-traffic issue quickly.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 818 days ago
They kept running into issues with Coolify and switched to Dokploy, which gave them a deployment in about 5 minutes.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 836 days ago
A Cloudways customer had severe email deliverability issues from a blacklisted IP that support could not fix, and found the platform extremely slow.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 841 days ago
Cloudways support called a collapsing-page problem a cache issue but did not solve it; the cause was an Ajax form addon.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 848 days ago
They get a random registry error in Coolify. Sometimes it works, sometimes only after deleting the registry or restarting the project, and they cannot work out what fixes or breaks it.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 850 days ago
A new WordPress admin login stuck on pending approval was fixed by Cloudways support after contacting them.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 854 days ago
They hit the same private registry authentication problem in Coolify and never cracked it, so they moved on to another solution.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 860 days ago
They host a number of WordPress sites on Cloudways.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 863 days ago
They tried Coolify and found it functional but still buggy and a bit unstable, and ended up preferring Dokploy for their projects.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 864 days ago
Several Cloudways-hosted sites lost Vimeo oEmbeds and Cloudways support said it could do nothing.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 871 days ago
Deploying an existing project on Coolify took 1 hour on 2 vcores and 4GB RAM, versus 4 minutes on Vercel. After disabling IPv6 it became fast as expected.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 874 days ago
A small Cloudways server was slow in the WooCommerce backend until more cores and 4 GB RAM were provisioned; Cloudflare add-on with Breeze is fantastic.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 874 days ago
A basic Cloudways server was slow to navigate in the WordPress backend despite no traffic.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 874 days ago
Cloudways support is good, but even an 8 GB server is still pathetic in speed.
Reddit · r/laravel · 877 days ago
They deployed a private GitHub repo on Coolify following its docs. It took some tinkering because the docs were not extensive, but they found it not that hard.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 884 days ago
They found Coolify lacking a plain ssh clone from any git-compatible server, which was a deal breaker for them.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 886 days ago
They tried Coolify and found it really easy to set up and use, only wishing it had built-in monitoring.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 887 days ago
They are testing Coolify and have had no issues so far with two of three projects, and note an active developer and community.
Reddit · r/laravel · 888 days ago
They once set up a custom VPC in Forge using an ARM EC2 instance and say it worked great.
Reddit · r/laravel · 889 days ago
After more than two years on Ploi, they find the interface outdated and the features largely unchanged. They also say the docs miss details such as using a dedicated IP from DigitalOcean.
Reddit · r/laravel · 889 days ago
They say they reach the Ploi owner directly on Discord for support.
Reddit · r/laravel · 890 days ago
Manages unlimited servers cleanly with one-click manual deploys on production and automatic Git merge deploys on staging.
Reddit · r/laravel · 890 days ago
Strong feature set with active updates like Sentry integration and responsive customer support.
Reddit · r/laravel · 890 days ago
Moving over from Laravel Forge was a great call because it packs extra developer features at a lower price.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 900 days ago
Cloudways has strong server-level security including fail2ban on SSH, a MySQL firewall and optional SSH IP whitelisting, with Imunify360 coming.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 915 days ago
Agency partner level at Cloudways with 24/7 live chat support that has always been very good; Vultr servers feel faster than DigitalOcean ones.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 916 days ago
Has used Cloudways, Rocket.net and RunCloud and found Cloudways slow, sometimes buggy with so-so support and scammy billing.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 916 days ago
Liked Cloudways' simplicity but disliked not having full control of the servers, preferring RunCloud with self-bought servers.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 917 days ago
On an 8 GB Cloudways SSD production server without WooCommerce, generic WP admin pages take 4-5 seconds.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 917 days ago
A developer hosting nearly 100 sites says Cloudways beat every other WordPress host they have used, including WP Engine and DreamHost, with solid features and incredible price.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 918 days ago
Loves Cloudways with awesome support for the cost, and finds WP Engine not worth the price.
Reddit · r/webdev · 922 days ago
They could not log in to Coolify despite changing passwords and confirming their credentials, and gave up on it.
Reddit · r/webdev · 931 days ago
They run Drupal sites on DigitalOcean with RunCloud instead of platform hosts. They praise RunCloud and say every issue had a real person looking at it within 20 minutes.
Reddit · r/webdev · 931 days ago
They say they have not experienced such responsive support anywhere else as with RunCloud.
Reddit · r/webdev · 935 days ago
They found that Coolify's pull latest image and restart for Moodle does not actually update the image, as the Moodle version stays old.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 936 days ago
They use Coolify regularly and say v4 is a huge jump in functionality and improvements over the earlier version.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 962 days ago
Had issues with Cloudways as a company and fully switched elsewhere.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 981 days ago
They provision servers with Laravel Forge together with Bedrock, AWS backups and a weekly WP-CLI update cron, managing 100+ WordPress sites with no hacks since adopting the workflow.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 987 days ago
A user with 15 servers and over 200 apps on Cloudways vouches for its quality and exceptional support, but avoids its autonomous offering's pricing.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1008 days ago
Enabling Cloudways Varnish caused untraceable problems so it was shut off; Cloudways also preinstalled Breeze on every app and had to be asked to disable it, but the setup has run well since.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1027 days ago
Cloudways deleted the server and website, with all data, after a 14-day unpaid-invoice deadline, and settling the invoice afterwards did not restore it.
Reddit · r/webdev · 1034 days ago
They found Cloudways support solid and say the service has helped them a lot, including its Laravel setup.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1035 days ago
A Cloudways customer of years finds it fantastic; moving a site back to shared cPanel hosting was a mistake.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1061 days ago
A 24 dollar, 2 GB one-core Cloudways server stayed slow; the 2-core server costs 46 dollars, which is too much.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1064 days ago
A freelancer who hosts their own sites on Cloudways has had a few negative support experiences and a steeper learning curve, but the price savings are big.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1064 days ago
An agency uses Cloudways for all medium to large clients and says its support is quick, experienced and professional, unlike Bluehost's.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1064 days ago
An agency partner left Cloudways after almost 8 years: they pushed upgrades without explaining bottlenecks, reps contradicted each other, and a support queue showed 28 people.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1064 days ago
A Cloudways customer of years had three DigitalOcean servers repeatedly go offline during backups; moving to Vultr fixed it, and support once blocked all search engines.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1064 days ago
A user finds Cloudways very good but says high CPU load takes the whole account down for 3-5 minutes, especially on dynamic Ajax and REST sites.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1064 days ago
A Cloudways customer of over two years finds support quick and friendly and servers fast, if a little pricier than other options.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1064 days ago
A Cloudways customer of several years has had zero problems and finds most support reps really good.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1064 days ago
A Cloudways customer finds pricing great but support hit or miss; far from as bad as Bluehost but not as good as WP Engine.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1064 days ago
A freelancer who switched to Cloudways from WPMU DEV says support and hosting are good and it saves thousands a year hosting client sites.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1065 days ago
A Cloudways customer since 2018 saw a very noticeable speed increase moving clients there and has no complaints.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1065 days ago
A consultant with several clients on Cloudways finds it good but notes it doubles the underlying VPS price, with support less accessible than Bluehost but knowledgeable.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1065 days ago
A Cloudways customer uses it for multiple WordPress sites and finds the hosting itself super smooth.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1074 days ago
Finds the Cloudways migrator plugin more reliable than ManageWP cloning, which ended in errors about half the time.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 1085 days ago
They use Coolify v4 for their own infrastructure and find it really cool, but need to redeploy to update the reverse proxy and it lacks zero-downtime deployments.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1108 days ago
Cloudways deleted a site's server and backups after an unpaid invoice 14+ days overdue, showing little grace; a user of Cloudways themselves.
Reddit · r/laravel · 1145 days ago
They manage an app on a 2 GB DigitalOcean droplet with Ploi (nginx + php-fpm), under 500 daily users, and say they have never had any issues.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1160 days ago
Moving to Cloudways is easy but moving away is harder; used Duplicator, FileZilla and ChatGPT to migrate to Hetzner.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1161 days ago
Pays 340 dollars for a Cloudways VPS for a site with 3,000 daily unique visitors.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1171 days ago
Cloudways support has been quite bad recently, often giving incorrect answers.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1172 days ago
Cloudways hosting support was a waste of time for a wp_kses fatal error on a client site.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 1173 days ago
Worked with a VPS and RunCloud for two years without in-house technical staff, and it worked.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1212 days ago
Not crazy about Cloudways: too technical for average WordPress users and its caching plugin can be a nightmare to configure.
Reddit · r/webdev · 1302 days ago
As a freelancer weak on server knowledge, they rely on Forge to handle most server management for a client platform they have run for years.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1309 days ago
Switched from Bluehost to Cloudways a year ago: very easy to use, reliable, good support, easy to scale and works well with Cloudflare.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1309 days ago
Several years with Cloudways, super pleased, with fast and helpful support whenever needed.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 1325 days ago
They could not get Coolify to authenticate with a private registry on a raspberry pi or with DockerHub. Even after docker login and restarting Coolify nothing changed, and they found the docs say little about registries.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 1381 days ago
Cloudways is ridiculously cheap for many sites on one managed server but leaves you on your own, with a conflict of interest since high CPU usage means selling more resources.
Reddit · r/laravel · 1469 days ago
Chosen as a paying customer because it is an EU company, but the lack of a Data Processing Agreement leaves unknown subprocessors and what they call a basic GDPR violation.
Reddit · r/laravel · 1557 days ago
Multi-year Unlimited tier user managing personal and client servers, and the neat feature set, generous free tier, and supportive Discord community are top-notch.
Reddit · r/laravel · 1557 days ago
Migrated from Laravel Forge a couple of years ago and found both support and functionality much better, especially automatic file and database backups to Google Drive.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 2020 days ago
Tested over a weekend and really liked the product and business model, but the lack of an active user community is a serious negative.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 2056 days ago
Attractive pricing and its dedicated Nginx page caching plugin make it much stronger for WordPress than Bunnyshell.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 2113 days ago
Handles automatic security updates, locks down root login easily, and support resolved an SSL renewal hiccup in about 30 minutes.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 2251 days ago
Lack of built-in automated DNS record creation and SSL issuance when cloning staging sites eats up time compared to Plesk.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 2683 days ago
Had multiple issues with Cloudways in the first few months and finds ServerPilot's pricing poor, so recommends RunCloud on either Vultr or DigitalOcean.