Rapyd Cloud: The Best Cloudways AWS Alternative

Key Performance Stats:
Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways

Key Performance Stats from Our Extensive Testing and Analysis.

More Queries Per Second on Rapyd Cloud Compared to Cloudways, according to the WP Performance Tester.

.19 vs. 5.91

Average Performance Score of Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways, respectively, according to the WP Hosting Benchmark.

More number of requests normalized on average in 60 seconds with Rapyd Cloud compared to Cloudways, based on K6 Load Testing.

Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways

Where Performance Meets Simplicity & Customer Empowerment

	Cloudways	Rapyd Cloud	Fleet on Cloudways
Performance	Slower Apache servers, no free Object Caching.	Blazing-fast LiteSpeed Enterprise servers with free OPCache, Object Cache Pro, and Relay—unmatched value!	"Like a tortoise trying to catch me!"
Security	Offers WAF, DDoS, SSL, and malware scanning for free, but no malware clean-up service.	Top-tier security for free, including Monarx and Patchstack, saving you over $100/mo!	"No free malware clean-ups? Seriously?"
Ease of Use & Features	A technical dashboard for pros.	Simplicity redefined. Intuitive dashboards all the way.	"Feels like flying through a fog!"
Support	24/7 support, expert assistance.	Instant, personalized support with live chat—no waiting.	Nothing special here! 😏
Migrations	Free migrations for 1 site, DIY plugins for the subsequent.	Free white glove migrations—for unlimited sites.	"One site? That’s cute."

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Unique Features

Experience the Rapyd Cloud Difference: Power, Protection, and Peace of Mind

Rapyd Cloud offers the unique blend of features and performance that simply unmatched!

Auto-scaling

This feature dynamically adjusts server resources to handle traffic spikes, ensuring uninterrupted performance. It’s designed as a safeguard to prevent the need for plan upgrades during occasional high-traffic events.

Performance Boosts

Anticipating a short-term traffic surge? Don’t upgrade your plan – opt for a performance boost instead. We’ll ensure your website handles the rush with ease.

Malware Insurance

If your site is infected with Malware, even after all the security layers we provide, we’ll remove the malware-free of charge.

Automatic Vulnerability Patching

Benefit from automatic virtual patches and firewall measures for discovered vulnerabilities, ensuring your site remains secure until an official update is released, thanks to our partnership with PatchStack.

Performance

Performance Features –
Face to Face

Comparing Speed, Efficiency, and overall performance features.

Source: Chemicloud.com

Server Technology:
The Backbone of Performance

The server software you choose plays a critical role in your website's performance.

Apache servers, while popular, lag in performance compared to their counterparts and were never designed to handle highly dynamic WordPress environments. However, OpenLiteSpeed takes it a step further with even superior performance.

LiteSpeed Enterprise excels in server response times, handling more requests per second with superior resource management and faster data transfer, ensuring your site operates at peak efficiency.

Server technology significantly influences your site's performance. Latest-generation servers offer remarkable speed improvements over their predecessors, providing top-notch performance for your site. Understanding the specific server model hosting your site can reveal much about its performance capabilities. Lastly, a higher Clock speed doesn’t necessarily mean faster. You may find some of the latest server models that perform better at lower clock speeds.

Cloudways

Cloudways (AWS) uses Apache servers, which tend to be slower and are more suitable for blogs or brochure-type sites. This choice limits the performance capabilities for high-traffic or dynamic sites.

Rapyd Cloud

Employs LiteSpeed Enterprise servers, renowned for their swift response times and ability to handle high traffic efficiently—up to ten times faster than Apache. This server software excels in environments that demand high concurrency, making it ideal for dynamic and resource-intensive WordPress sites.

Boosting Speed with Object Caching

Object caching is a technique that stores data from database queries in memory, so when the same piece of data is needed again, it can be served from the cache rather than querying the database a second time. This is particularly important for Dynamic WordPress site performance because they rely heavily on database queries to serve content.

As of WordPress 6.4, WordPress is now natively optimized for Redis. So this is our preferred option.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways

Both integrate Redis for object caching, significantly enhancing database query responses and page load times. With WordPress 6.4’s native optimization for Redis, Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways ensures superior caching efficiency, crucial for sites with heavy dynamic content. Additionally, Rapyd Cloud includes the Object Cache Pro plugin and Relay for free, which further optimize caching operations and ensure even faster performance for high-demand WordPress sites.

Enhancing PHP Efficiency with OPcache

OPcache is a built-in PHP caching engine that significantly boosts website performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory. This eliminates the need for PHP to load from the disk and parse scripts with every request, enhancing efficiency and speed. This is a must-have for dynamic WordPress sites as it can dramatically affect performance.

Allocated memory to OPcache is crucial because it determines the amount of precompiled PHP script bytecode that can be stored. This directly impacts the efficiency and speed of PHP execution on your website. More allocated memory allows for more scripts to be cached, which means faster page load times and improved overall performance.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways

Both provide OPcache out-of-the-box, storing precompiled script bytecode in memory to speed up PHP execution dramatically. This feature is essential for reducing load times and improving the performance of WordPress sites.

Global Reach with Content Delivery Networks

A Content Delivery Network is a network of servers distributed geographically, working together to provide fast delivery of Internet content. By caching content closer to website visitors, CDNs reduce loading times, improve website speed and performance, and decrease bandwidth costs.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways

Both providers include CDN services for free, which distribute content close to the user's location, reducing latency and speeding up content delivery across global locations.

WP Performance Tester - Queries per Second

The plugin assesses your WordPress site's performance. It runs a series of tests to check the speed and efficiency of your WordPress environment, including server response times and database operations, helping identify areas for performance improvement.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 1

Cloudways AWS Medium

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud significantly outperformed Cloudways (AWS), managing nearly five times more queries per second while achieving a substantially lower average execution time. This indicates that Rapyd Cloud provides superior performance and efficiency, making it a more effective solution for high-traffic applications.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 4

Cloudways AWS CO XL

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud significantly outperformed Cloudways (AWS), handling nearly four times the number of queries per second while maintaining a much lower average execution time. This highlights that Rapyd Cloud delivers greater speed and efficiency, making it a more effective choice for high-demand applications.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Performance 3

Cloudways AWS CO 2XL

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud significantly outperformed Cloudways (AWS), managing over three times the queries per second while achieving a notably lower average execution time. This demonstrates that Rapyd Cloud offers superior speed and efficiency, making it a more capable solution for handling high traffic volumes.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Performance 1

Cloudways AWS CO 4XL

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud significantly outperformed Cloudways (AWS), processing over 3 times more queries per second and achieving a much lower average execution time. This indicates that Rapyd Cloud provides superior performance and efficiency, making it a more effective choice for handling high traffic.

WP Hosting Benchmark Tool – Performance Score

WordPress Hosting Benchmarks offers comprehensive performance analysis and comparisons of various WordPress hosting providers. It evaluates speed, reliability, and overall performance, providing detailed results and methodology to give a benchmark score.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 1

Cloudways AWS Medium

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud outperformed Cloudways (AWS), achieving a 55% better score across CPU & Memory, File System, Database, Object Cache, and Network tests on the WP Hosting Benchmark. This highlights that Rapyd Cloud offers significantly enhanced performance and efficiency in key hosting metrics, making it a more robust choice for WordPress hosting.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 4

Cloudways AWS CO XL

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud outperformed Cloudways (AWS), with a 38% better score across CPU & Memory, File System, Database, Object Cache, and Network tests on the WP Hosting Benchmark. This suggests that Rapyd Cloud delivers superior performance and efficiency in essential hosting areas, making it a more effective choice for WordPress environments.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Performance 3

Cloudways AWS CO 2XL

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud outperformed Cloudways (AWS), achieving a 24% better score across CPU & Memory, File System, Database, Object Cache, and Network tests on the WP Hosting Benchmark. This indicates that Rapyd Cloud provides improved performance and efficiency in key hosting metrics, making it a stronger option for WordPress hosting.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Performance 3

Cloudways AWS CO 4XL

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud outperformed Cloudways (AWS), achieving a 19% better score across CPU & Memory, File System, Database, Object Cache, and Network tests on the WP Hosting Benchmark. This suggests that Rapyd Cloud offers enhanced performance and efficiency in key hosting areas, making it a more reliable choice for WordPress hosting.

Load Testing & Concurrency Handling

K6 Load testing simulates a number of users performing the same task on your website at the same time. This helps identify performance bottlenecks, and the ability for the website to keep up during a traffic spike.

Rapyd

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 1

Cloudways AWS Medium

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud performed better than Cloudways (AWS) across all load-testing parameters. Both hosts encountered no errors except for Site F errors on Rapyd Cloud. Nonetheless, Rapyd Cloud handled 31 times more normalized requests than Cloudways (AWS).

This suggests, Cloudways (AWS) sites would usually not crash under increasing traffic load, even if act a bit slower. Rapyd Cloud sites, on the other hand, should be faster. Both hosting should be able to handle dynamic sites well.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 4

Cloudways AWS CO XL

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud performed better than Cloudways (AWS) across nearly all load-testing parameters. While Cloudways (AWS) did not encounter errors within 60 seconds, Rapyd Cloud still handled 10 times more normalized requests.

Both hosting should be able to handle dynamic sites well. However, Cloudways (AWS) sites can act slower than Rapyd Cloud in high-traffic conditions. Rapyd Cloud sites, on the other hand, should be faster during high-traffic conditions, but it can crash with extremely large number of traffics in some cases.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Performance 3

Cloudways AWS CO 2XL

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud performed better than Cloudways (AWS) across all load testing parameters. Both hosts did not encounter errors within the first 60 seconds, but Rapyd Cloud processed 21 times more normalized requests than Cloudways (AWS).

Both Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways (AWS) sites are not supposed to crash during high-traffic condistions. However, Rapyd Cloud should faster, even during peak-traffic times.

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Performance 5

Cloudways AWS CO 4XL

Result Interpretation

In this test, Rapyd Cloud performed better than Cloudways (AWS). Except for Site D, Rapyd Cloud did not encounter errors within the first 60 seconds of testing, while Cloudways (AWS) experienced no errors on any sites. Despite these issues, Rapyd Cloud handled seven times more normalized requests than Cloudways (AWS).

Both hosting should be able to handle dynamic sites well. However, Cloudways (AWS) sites can act slower than Rapyd Cloud in high-traffic conditions. Rapyd Cloud sites should be faster during high-traffic conditions. But in very limited cases, it can crash with extremely large number of traffics.

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Security Features & Tech Stack Comparison

Unmatched Security: 
Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways (AWS)

A Comprehensive Comparison of Security Features

Web Application Firewall (WAF)

Ensuring Robust Protection Against Cyber Threats. WAF provides a barrier against malicious traffic and attacks, securing your website and sensitive data. Without WAF, your website is exposed to numerous threats, which could lead to data breaches and a loss of customer trust.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Included free of charge, WAF shields your site from cyber threats, ensuring your data remains secure against malicious attacks.

DDoS Protection

Keeping Your Website Accessible During High-Traffic Attacks. This feature mitigates the impact of Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks, ensuring uninterrupted service and reliability. Insufficient DDoS protection can result in significant downtime, potentially costing you traffic, sales, and search engine rankings.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Comprehensive DDoS protection is standard with both Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways (AWS), designed to keep your website accessible even during intense DDoS attacks.

Proactive Vulnerability Detection

Safeguarding Your WordPress Site from Unknown Threats. Regularly scanning for vulnerabilities allows you to address potential issues before they are exploited.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Both Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways offer free proactive vulnerability detection, in partnership with PatchStack, safeguarding your WordPress core, plugins, and themes from unknown threats.

Automatic Vulnerability Patching

Ensuring Continuous Security Without Manual Updates. This feature automatically applies patches to fix vulnerabilities, maintaining the integrity of your site without any downtime. Delayed patch applications can lead to data breaches and exploitation, undermining user trust and compliance.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Thanks to the partnership with PatchStack, both Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways provide automatic patching of vulnerabilities, keeping your site secure between official updates at no extra cost.

Proactive & Automatic Malware Protection

Securing Your Site from Malicious Software Automatically. This proactive approach detects and neutralizes malware before it can cause any damage, protecting your site’s reputation. Without advanced malware protection, your site could become infected, leading to data theft, site blacklisting, and a damaged reputation.

Rapyd Cloud

In partnership with Monarx, Rapyd Cloud’s hosting plans include preemptive malware protection, which automatically secures your site from malicious software.

Cloudways (AWS)

Cloudways also offers server-level malware protection, but with a WordPress plugin called Malcare.

Comprehensive Malware Insurance

Providing Cost-Free Malware Removal Services. If your site gets infected, this feature covers the removal costs, ensuring minimal disruption to your business operations. The cost and complexity of malware removal can be significant, impacting your business operations and financial health.

Rapyd Cloud

Should the worst happen, Rapyd Cloud provides malware removal services at no additional cost.

Cloudways (AWS)

Offers no such insurance, leaving users to manage and finance malware removal on their own.

Application Containerization

Isolated Containers for Optimal Performance and Security. Each site operates in its own container, preventing issues from spreading and ensuring consistent performance. Shared resources can lead to security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and potential data breaches.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Both Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS) sites operate within their own isolated container, ensuring top-tier security and performance.

Customer Support & Services Comparison

Superior Customer Support:
Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways (AWS)

Evaluating Support Channels and Service Offerings

Live Chat

Immediate Assistance for Real-Time Problem Solving. Live chat gives you a chance to get your questions answered and issues resolved quickly with round-the-clock live chat services.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Both platforms offer 24/7 live chat support, providing real-time assistance to address your immediate needs.

Fair Comparison Insight

Both services ensure that help is just a chat away, allowing you to resolve issues promptly and efficiently.

Phone Support

Direct Communication for Enhanced Support. Once launched, phone support will offer personalized and immediate help, enhancing problem-solving efficiency.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Phone support is an anticipated addition to our Elite Support Plans, aiming to enhance direct communication. Cloudways also offers phone support on their premium support add-on.

Future Benefit of Rapyd Cloud's Feature:

When launched, phone support will offer a more personal touch, enabling real-time conversations that can lead to faster and more nuanced problem-solving.

Slack Support

Seamless Communication for Business Efficiency. Directly connect with support teams through Slack, streamlining interactions and accelerating resolutions.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Available as part of Elite Support Plans, integrating Rapyd Cloud support directly into your team's Slack channels. Cloudways also offers phone support on their premium support add-on.

Unique Benefit of Rapyd Cloud's Feature:

Slack support facilitates immediate responses and seamless integration with your team's operations, making it invaluable for businesses requiring close communication and a quick turnaround.

Account Manager

Personalized Support for Strategic Guidance. An account manager provides tailored advice and proactive assistance, helping you optimize your hosting experience.

Rapyd Cloud

Available through Enhanced Support Plans included free with all Performance plans starting at $299/month and all Enterprise plans, or as an add-on for $100/month.

Cloudways (AWS)

Doesn’t offer dedicated account manager support.

Advantage of Rapyd Cloud's Offering:

Rapyd Cloud provides personalized support via account managers at a more accessible price point compared to Cloudways (AWS), enhancing value for businesses that require dedicated, strategic guidance and proactive assistance without significantly higher costs.

Free Migrations

A free migration service helps you migrate your existing site from your current hosting provider to your new hosting provider. Smooth and expert-led migrations are critical, as they minimize downtime and technical issues during the transfer process.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Both Cloudways (AWS) and Rapyd Cloud provide a white-glove migration service for free, ensuring professional handling and minimal disruption. However, with Cloudways, you only get one free migration, and Rapyd Cloud offers free migration for as many sites as you want.

User Experience & Ease of Use Comparison

User Experience & Ease of Use
Comparison: Rapyd Cloyd vs. Cloudways (AWS)

Comparing Dashboards, Staging, and Management Tools. Evaluate how intuitive and accessible each platform’s tools and interfaces are for managing your site.

Intuitive Dashboards for Easy Management

This is the interface that allows for efficient management of hosting features, site health, and more. A well-designed dashboard simplifies website administration, making it easier for users to access and manage their site’s functionalities.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Both Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways (AWS) offer intuitive dashboards. Rapyd Cloud’s is notably simpler and more intuitive, enhancing the user experience significantly.

Staging

Staging sites provide a replica of your live website where you can test updates and changes before going live. Staging environments are essential for preventing errors on your live site, allowing for safe pre-deployment testing.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Both Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways (AWS) provide robust staging features, enabling secure and straightforward testing environments.

Automated Backups

Automated Backups create automatic copies of your website data. They protect against data loss and provide a quick recovery solution in case of website issues.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways (AWS) both offer automated backup solutions, ensuring your website data is always safeguarded.

WordPress Theme Management

Tools to update and manage WordPress themes directly from the dashboard. Effective theme management helps maintain the site's appearance and functionality, reducing security risks associated with outdated themes.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Both Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways (AWS) offer theme management for free, but only Rapyd Cloud offers rollback capabilities.

WordPress Plugin Management

Tools to update and manage WordPress plugins. Keeping plugins up to date is crucial for site security and functionality.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Similar to Theme, Both Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways (AWS) offer plugin management for free, but only Rapyd Cloud offers rollback capabilities.

Elastic Search

Elastic Search is a powerful search engine that enhances the search capabilities of your WordPress site. Elastic Search speeds up query times and improves the search experience for users, crucial for larger sites.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Both hosting providers include Elastic Search, offering advanced search capabilities to their users.

BuddyBoss App

Tools specifically for managing BuddyBoss app builds and accessing developer toolkits. These tools are crucial for extending your community or eLearning platform into a native mobile experience.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

This feature is exclusive to Rapyd Cloud, providing significant advantages in managing mobile applications compared to Cloudways (AWS).

WooCommerce Enhancements

Features designed to optimize the performance of WooCommerce stores, including caching technologies and setup tools. They ensure a smoother shopping experience by enhancing the performance and user experience of WooCommerce stores.

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways (AWS)

Rapyd Cloud offers 1-click WooCommerce setup while Cloudways (AWS) doesn’t. Apart from that, both providers offer WooCommerce enhancements like Automatic Cache Smart Purge Technology and Live Cart features, but Rapyd Cloud integrates these seamlessly within its dashboard for optimal performance and user experience.

Affiliate Opportunities:
Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways (AWS)

Compare the benefits of Rapyd Cloud’s one-time and recurring commissions against Cloudways (AWS)'s affiliate payouts.

Rapyd Cloud

Rapyd Cloud offers up to $500 in one-time commissions per sale. Furthermore, Rapyd Cloud provides a continuous 10% recurring commission for each successful referral, ensuring consistent earnings over time.

Cloudways (AWS)

Cloudways offers up to $125 per affiliate with three flexible commission models and lifetime recurring commissions.

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Real Success Stories with Rapyd Cloud

Hear from Our Customers: Dramatic Improvements in Performance and Engagement.

KC360
GetAConnect
English Pro

Droga Odważnych Improves
Page Load Times by 66%

Problems they faced

Frequent Downtime: Faced frequent downtime on the previous hosting.

Crashes Under High Traffic: Site crashes under high-traffic conditions.

Slow Load Times: Slow load times impacted the user experience.

Solutions with Rapyd Cloud

Virtually Zero Downtime: Dramatic reduction in downtime; virtually eliminated to zero.

150% Faster Load Times: Page load times improved by 150%.

30% Enhanced User Engagement: Enhanced user engagement (time on site, pages per session) by about 30%.

How Reiki Time Academy Went
From F to A on GTmetrix

Problems they faced

Slow Loading and Crashes: The site experienced slow loading times and crashes, especially during live events.

Inadequate Support: The previous hosting had inadequate support.

User Performance Complaints: Users often complained about the site's performance.

Solutions with Rapyd Cloud

Improved Loading Times: Rapyd Cloud significantly improved loading times and eliminated site crashes.

GTmetrix Score F to A: The GTmetrix score improved from F to B, with occasional A ratings.

Smooth and Efficient Migration: The free migration service was smooth and efficient.

How HumanDesign.ai Increased
Member Engagement by 300%

Problems they faced

Faced Performance Issues: Faced issues with website performance on previous hostings.

Generic Configurations: Generic configurations at previous hosts did not meet specific needs.

High Cost vs. Performance: High hosting costs compared to the performance.

Solutions with Rapyd

300% Increase in Engagement: Achieved a 300% increase in member engagement after moving to Rapyd.

30% Reduced Hosting Costs: Reduced hosting costs by 30% compared to previous providers.

Enhanced Community Traction: Enhanced community traction and user activity.

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You asked, we answered.

How do the performance features of Rapyd Cloud compare to Cloudways (AWS)?

Rapyd Cloud uses LiteSpeed Enterprise servers, which are significantly faster than the Apache servers used by Cloudways (AWS). Both platforms offer Object Cache Pro and OPCache enabled by default, but Rapyd Cloud’s overall performance, especially in handling queries per second and performance score, is superior. Discover more about our performance solutions.

What security features does Rapyd Cloud offer compared to Cloudways (AWS)?

At Rapyd Cloud, we prioritize security with features like WAF, DDoS protection, and proactive vulnerability detection included in all our plans, just like Cloudways (AWS). However, we go a step further by offering free malware insurance, ensuring your site is clean and safe at no extra cost. Learn more about Rapyd Cloud security.

Does Rapyd Cloud offer the same level of database management as Cloudways (AWS)?

Yes, both Rapyd Cloud and Cloudways (AWS) use MariaDB for database management. As long as the latest version is used, your site will run smoothly.

Can I manage WordPress themes and plugins on Rapyd Cloud as I can on Cloudways (AWS)?

Absolutely! Both platforms allow you to update and manage WordPress themes and plugins from the dashboard. However, Rapyd Cloud offers the feature for free, while Cloudways (AWS) charges for this service.

Does Rapyd Cloud offer free site migrations like Cloudways (AWS)?

Yes, we do! Rapyd Cloud provides free white-glove expert migrations for unlimited sites, whereas Cloudways (AWS) only offers one free migration. For additional migrations, they provide a DIY WordPress plugin. Get details on migration services.

How easy is it to switch from Cloudways (AWS) to Rapyd Cloud?

Switching to Rapyd Cloud is straightforward and stress-free. Our team handles everything for you, ensuring a seamless transition without any downtime.

How does the pricing of Rapyd Cloud compare to Cloudways (AWS)?

Rapyd Cloud offers competitive pricing, with a lot of value-added features included for free that Cloudways (AWS) charges extra for. Our plans are designed to be cost-effective while providing top-notch performance and security. View our pricing plans.

Are there any hidden costs with Rapyd Cloud compared to Cloudways (AWS)?

No hidden costs here! At Rapyd Cloud, we pride ourselves on transparency. All our features and services are clearly listed in our plans, so you know exactly what you're paying for.

What makes Rapyd Cloud different from Cloudways (AWS)?

Rapyd Cloud stands out with our faster LiteSpeed servers, comprehensive free security measures, including malware insurance, and our user-friendly, intuitive dashboard. Plus, our support and migration services go above and beyond.

How does Rapyd Cloud's support compare to Cloudways (AWS)?

Rapyd Cloud offers robust support through live chat, Slack, and dedicated account managers on our Enhanced Support Plans. While Cloudways (AWS) also offers live chat, they do not provide account managers. Learn about our support options.

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Cloudways (AWS) Plan | Rapyd Cloud Plan

Growth VS Startup 1

Scale VS Startup 4

Why choose Rapyd Cloud over Cloudways?

Key Performance Stats: Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways

Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways

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Auto-scaling

Performance Boosts

Malware Insurance

Automatic Vulnerability Patching

Performance Features –Face to Face

Server Technology: The Backbone of Performance

Cloudways

Rapyd Cloud

Boosting Speed with Object Caching

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways

Enhancing PHP Efficiency with OPcache

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways

Global Reach with Content Delivery Networks

Rapyd Cloud & Cloudways

WP Performance Tester - Queries per Second

Level 1: $25 to $74

Category

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 1

Cloudways AWS Medium

Result Interpretation

Level 2: $75 to $149

Category

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 4

Cloudways AWS CO XL

Result Interpretation

Level 4: $300 to $399

Category

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Performance 3

Cloudways AWS CO 2XL

Result Interpretation

Level 5: $400 to $499

Category

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Performance 1

Cloudways AWS CO 4XL

Result Interpretation

WP Hosting Benchmark Tool – Performance Score

Level 1: $25 to $74

Category

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 1

Cloudways AWS Medium

Result Interpretation

Level 2: $75 to $149

Category

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Startup 4

Cloudways AWS CO XL

Result Interpretation

Level 4: $300 to $399

Category

Rapyd Cloud

Cloudways (AWS)

Plan Name

Rapyd Cloud Performance 3

Cloudways AWS CO 2XL

Result Interpretation

Level 5: $400 to $499

Category

Rapyd Cloud

Why choose Rapyd Cloud over Cloudways?

Key Performance Stats:
Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways

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Performance Features –
Face to Face

Server Technology:
The Backbone of Performance

Unmatched Security: 
Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways (AWS)

Superior Customer Support:
Rapyd Cloud vs. Cloudways (AWS)