Cloudways Review 2 Years Later & Cloudways Setup Tutorial - WordPress Cloud Hosting Provider

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[@pageoneclick7758]

Great video! I’m a long time Cloudways user, and I wanted to point out to those coming from shared cpanel hosting, this is a game changer! Cloudways manages all of the more difficult server admin tasks like server updates & security patches, and you will never have to touch a command prompt. Unlike cpanel, the control panel does not reside on your server, so all of the resources are available for your application to use. You can fit around 5 WordPress sites with a combined 50,000 page views per month on the $10/month DO server. Hope that helps with all of the questions about right sizing the server.

[@DougDtech]

How about physical size? I think my two sites add to around 18GB

[@sandeepakshaya5199]

# Full-length video watched without skipping, because your #each second is very #Knowledgable and #Not Skippable.

[@SamirOumghar01]

I passed days to choose and compare between the best Web Hosting providers for my eCommerce stores and Websites and finally I found the best choice after watching your video so I'm very thankful to you and waiting for more videos about CloudWays. By the way, I just signed up to CloudWays Website and waiting for activation and of course it's via your affiliate link because you deserve! You won a new faithful fan and subscriber. Kind regards my tutor!

[@ICanThrive]

Thanks Adam I have been using Cloudways for 3 or 4 months now, the server speed is amazing and when combined with bunnycdn it costs me less than $11 a month for VPS+CDN hosting!! I way prefer the user interface than cpanel and I love the customer support. It is a bit of a learning curve but massively worth it. Thank you for the staging info I wasn't aware I can do this too. This is the perfect hosting for me and cdn + ssl and elastic email which I use for contact forms is free up to 2000 emails or something like that per month. A1 !! Highly recommended.

[@thelongarmmarine]

I jumped from InMotion to Cloudways a month ago...yes, a slight learning curve, but doable...and blazingly fast...I’m running 6 sites & my 1st bill was $18...there have been a few tech issues with SSL & CDN, but tech support was quick & painless...

[@WPCrafter]

Yet once you get used to using Cloudways it's pretty smooth sailing. I'll have another video on my exact set up.

[@LABOROFLOVETV]

We NEED that exact setup tutorial. Godspeed! Huge fan. Love you man! You know that. Very Best to you Adam~

[@WPCrafter]

Sorry for the delay on it.

[@sandeepakshaya5199]

#WOW Adom Amazing and deep knowledge Every time. I am from India. I am really the #fan of your knowledge, You tell great knowledge ever but others don't.

[@ulfkrueger-hh]

Great information and well served :) For me the staging option is quite the game changer being on a hosted solution until now. I will truly consider changing...

[@WPCrafter]

Yeah I absolutely have to have staging as a feature because I'm constantly testing new things and you just can't do that on your live website.

[@Tiffers963Hz]

Fantastic video as always. I’m definitely going to migrate to Cloudways now after watching your informative video. Thankyou! 🙏🏽

[@LABOROFLOVETV]

Adam!!!!!! You are the man!!!!!!!! You did it!!!!!!!! Totally Epic!!!!!! Love You Man!!!!! This is the content We need. Blessings Your Way!

[@WPCrafter]

Yeah I really wanted this and it should have been out sooner. Sorry about the delay. But the good news is I'm also gonna make a dedicated video on my exact set up.

[@LABOROFLOVETV]

OMG!!!!!!! That would be AWESOME!!! This is what We Need!!!!! Can't Wait! Can't get here fast enough!! THANK YOU!! Godspeed.

[@paulpyle60]

@@WPCrafter It's not like you have anything else to do! :-)

[@newmoneymindframe8694]

Awesome video !!! My team and I absolutely learned from this one !! Thank you for the TONS of detail and perfect explanation

[@WPCrafter]

So glad to hear it, I hope it helps to see more of what Cloudways offers.

[@Amberferchaud]

I'm enjoying Cloudways so far. I was with A2 (my website was super fast there), however, that massive server breach they had back in April scared me, so I left. I'm not super techie so it took a bit of time to figure out. However, this is the best customer service I've ever experienced and they helped me out a lot.

[@xSayllusx]

GREAT VIDEO!!! Finally something us people with bigger websites can relate too. Could u please go deeper into configuration of emails, transactional emails with amazon and cache using redis or varnish?

[@WPCrafter]

I will do that. How about a video on my exact setup?

[@xSayllusx]

@@WPCrafter YES! That sounds great, ur general worflow should be very interesting. Maybe u can even show us how u got there after many years of experience with simpler setups. We need a new channel Wordpress for semi-techies hahaha for those of us who graduated from shared hosting and simpler setups

[@wordpressstore5150]

@@WPCrafter is it better than siteground.com ? we are using siteground for www.roynac.com and the support is very good so far. what do you think ?

[@MDC885]

@@WPCrafter A video detailing the settings you use on Cloudways, and Cloudflare would be great.. Your site is always fast!

[@WPCrafter]

With a hosting set up like Cloudways it will always be faster then hosting that has cPanel. Just by the very fact of having cPanel, it consumes significant resources on the server. That is one of the primary reasons why Cloudways will always be faster.

[@tiarekelsall2123]

Great info and tutorial delivery! We're doing a website relaunch. Our current one is now stagnant and just blah! A colleague mentioned CLOUDWAYS with WORDPRESS and your tutorial was awesome from start to finish. I'm a tech novice but you've made it all seem doable! Thanku so much!

[@ibadrehman3395]

Thank you for presenting everything in such an easy way. Love the service!

[@paulpyle60]

Well, I did it...migrated a new site to it. It's going to be a LearnDash course site. Migration was easy peasey. And the WP admin is so much faster getting things done.

[@GrantHawkey]

Long time Cloudways user right here. Setup for 4 other companies I've contracted at too 😃

[@WPCrafter]

That's awesome to hear.

[@ericksturm5217]

Thanks for the video. I have been looking at Cloudways for a while, but have not pulled the trigger. My concern is customer support, isn't it always. I agree with you on support, I have had great and terrible support from Siteground, InMotion, GoDaddy, BlueHost, you name it. On those hosts however, I can resolve probably 95% of issues that arise on my own. It will take me some ramp time to become familiar enough with this system to resolve some of my own issues. I also was not impressed with my initial contact with pre-sales support. You have my vote for additional videos on your setup. I may still give Cloudways a go.

[@WPCrafter]

Yeah the silly part is that you can save a lot of money by going directly to the cloud server hosting company but you get no control panel and no support. So it's literally you're paying a premium just to have access to support for those times when you need it.

[@PaulLacey]

Great video Adam. Really well explained as always. Feels like the service part of cloudways is continually improving. I have 10 servers now. Best host I ever had.

[@bobfromca92646]

Thanks, Adam, for this tutorial/review. I tried Cloudways/DO a couple years ago and got a little frustrated coming from a Cpanel/WHM background. First was terminology. In WHM (as a reseller) my websites were listed by domain name. In Cloudways they are referred to as Apps. Then I couldn't find File Manager. Then there was the lack of email. I didn't want to use Cloudways Rackspace because if you ever move away from Cloudways, you lose your stored email. (I personally use ZOHO). Frustration won out and I moved sites back to Cpanel hosting. I think I may try it again, thanks to your video, and move a few of my sites over to test it. I like to have 2-3 hosting options available to my clients. Thanks again.

[@WPCrafter]

Same here. I used them, then moved off their service. Then came back. It is an adjustment.

[@mediumstudio]

great info - thank you! I set up a trial the other week. I stumbled my way through but got a demo site up and running. I honestly didn't know what I did - this is a great explainer! Good effort with the on-screen drawing ; )

[@BrandonClapp]

This would be a dream come true if it wasn't so catered to WordPress and other LAMP stack applications. A cheap solution managing docker containers would be great.

[@sandeepakshaya5199]

#Your youtube video is very developer friendly. I think the courses which you made in #your website will be more Amazing.

[@pgutierrez89]

This is a GOLDEN nugget! I knew AWS and Digital Ocean had some good servers but they seem made for advanced developers. I will test CloudWays this week. Thanks

[@senne3315]

Absolutely AMAZING video!!! I've been looking for a reliable host for DAYS now, since I moved from A2 to SiteGround where my experience is not good. I have a web agency, so reliable hosting is extremely important. Thank you! I will probably move to CloudWays, but will start with the trial :)

[@paulpyle60]

So much easier to set things up than with a cPanel! Love the interface. The staging feature is wonderful. Guess I'm going to have to try it soon! Thanks Adam. I've always wondered what Cloudways was and your explanation of how it worked was excellent!

[@AniketNBorhade]

Hey, why do you use cloudflare for dns?

[@nardog10]

Thank you Adam for showing this video

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome, this one was a long time coming. I have another one that I'm in a do with my exact set up.

[@davidsimpson9266]

Hey great video, love your content. I switched to Cloudways and love it, much fast than my previous hosting. I did have some issues with WooCommerce and Varnish, turned Varnish off and it is good now. Are you turning Varnish off for all of your sites (or just WooCommerce) and just using WP Rocket? Thanks!

[@pezreloaded8436]

Soo glad you created this vid. I've been interested in moving to Cloudways but have been hesitant to do so due to not being very tech oriented and mixed reviews concerning their customer service, which I'd depend on if I run into issues.

[@WPCrafter]

Yes some of those have been from me. I think I will do a proper full tutorial on how I have my stuff setup with them.

[@RonBertino]

Hi Adam On a few of your videos you've mentioned that you host your DNS zone at CloudFlare. Any chance of you creating a tutorial video on that please?

[@WPCrafter]

Yea I really need to make that video. I will !!

[@emye35]

Dude, i just switched over today and I am flabbergasted! I was on inmotionhosting's vps r-1000 plan for the past five years. i enjoyed them until working on my latest eCommerce wordpress site.. and it was extremelyyy laggy and i kept getting 500 internal errors. I kept contacting support and they kept telling me that nothing is wrong my configs or server, its just might be the plugins that are bogging my site down..blah blah blah. Yeah right! I wasted 2 days trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with my site and my gut feeling told me it was their server! I there did some research and came across Cloudways. I noticed the free trial and decided to just test my theory. And BAM! Every is running SOoOOO smoothly! I love this service and am now a dedicated customer! I upgraded my plan right away and will soon be migrating all my clients sites into this new server. And might I add their customer service is amazing!

[@CyrusLemonius]

Long time cloudways user here. First started with Plesk + Digital ocean but Plesk was just too much for my needs making it hard to action common settings for apps. Cloudways has a great model. Giving you access to just the key settings you need when working with websites. So it's all easy to find. I run a staging and live site with ease and also have a tracking tool running as another app (a breeze to set up compared to the headaches I had on shared hosting). Speaking of which their caching plugin breeze and their CDN increased my site speed immediately.

[@JohnMarra]

I know this video is over a year old. I'm considering making the switch to Cloudways. I've watched now 2 KZbinrs report issues with Varnish. Is that still the case today in 2020? Thank you for the review.

[@chrispaulgoodrich]

Hi Adam are you still going to do a video on Redis?

[@rineet2423]

Thanks for the vid. They're all really helpful. Please get chapters or a legend, hard to find the right info after coming back to the video.

[@DougDtech]

Do you have a video on configuring Breeze Caching on Cloudways?

[@carlosf3421]

I currently host client websites on WHM and Google Cloud. Google cloud is awesome however a pain dealing with the command line. So Cloudways looks very very promising.

Thank you Adam!! Please, I'd like to know why you prefer cloudways over kinsta. I'm about to upgrade from my current hosting (siteground) and not sure whether to choose cloudways or kinsta. I look forward your thoughts. Thanks again!

[@laurentheck6261]

Hi Adam, great video ! thank you vert much ! i consider to to jump to cloudways, but i'm wondering : how can i figure out how many ram i need ? I come from a slowly shared hosting

[@WPCrafter]

If I were you I would start on the lowest server and you're going to see a massive bump and speed almost instantaneously. Cloudways has automated bots that will notify you of the resource utilization on your server. So if you are running out of memory it will let you know that so that you can consider going up.

[@EricThomson]

Under Server Monitoring they produce a graph for each metric, which will suggest when you should consider bumping up. I have the smallest DO account with about 10 websites and have not reached that level yet (but I don't get much traffic)

[@markdigital9350]

I spoke to tech support re how the resources pan out but I can not get the live chat back up. I suggest contacting them and asking them via live chat. It is not easy for them to estimate on how you are going to use the resources so I said 2 websites on the lower package and how many visits per month could I get without noticing a change in speed etc.. If I remember its like not far of 100k.. Happy for someone to guestimate that who has an account. I am left feeling this is a no brainer :)

[@SriRanga]

Thanks for the video, Adam. Very helpful, as always :)

[@chadulous7929]

Great video Adam, I've been anxiously awaiting your review! Question for you, how do you handle server level file management with Cloudways? I am someone who has always used cPanel and its build in File Manager. I know you can access Cloudways servers and applications through SFTP but it tends to be quite slow, especially when deleting a large amount of files. Has this been a hindrance for you or is there a workaround that I'm unaware of? Thanks Adam!

[@WPCrafter]

Yeah the reason they don't have a file manager in the control panel is because of security issues that it opens up. I personally use an FTP program for that. However they have an article on their blog about a WordPress plug-in that you can add which will allow you to access the files.

[@Hussein_Hamad]

please make a video about scale down on Cloudways, because it is a little tricky and .....

[@anainmazatlan]

Great video Adam! I’m seriously considering switching from Sitegroung to Cloudways but had some fears. This video has helped resolve that. Only thing I’m still unsure about is how many websites can I run on one account? I have about 12 of varying sizes but nothing with heavy traffic.

[@abhayjackful]

why you selected wordpress woocommerce version? what does it do? and why should we select it in place of the first option.

[@dharmamanju272]

Hi Adam, Great video. I was using cloudways for almost a year, website loading speed was good, but the support was worst. Now using wpx hosting, extremely happy with the loading speed and support. I wanted to ask you another question, when you record screen, what screen resolution do you use most of the time?

[@WPCrafter]

Yeah they have since overhauled their live chat support and it's much better than what it may have been two years ago. Their ticket desk is always been good. As far as screen recording, I record in full HD.

[@adriennebosch6175]

Good video, but what about "inode" I run out on siteground. Only installed 4 sites on GoGeek but inodes are on 85%.

[@JuanQuijanoA]

SiteGround shared hosting comes with 450K inodes. Hostinger business share hosting comes with 600K inodes. GoDaddy Business shared hostings starts with 3 Million Inodes at 15$/mo. Cloudways Servers comes with Millions of inodes as well.

[@AndyDOHD1]

Great video Adam. I have clients on shared hosting and looking to move hosts to something more WP-centric as I'm pushing WP these days. So this has come in handy. Also considering Siteground. I had also considered using Gmail for client domain emails but after contacting GSuite they inform me that is not possible and the only option is GSuite's paid services. I'm a bit surprised as I have, within the last few days set up one of my own email addresses on a free Gmail account. I just wondered what your thoughts would be?

[@WPCrafter]

Yes the two hosting options that you're considering are excellent. I will say that Siteground gets expensive depending on how you want to set up and how long you prepay up front. So if you got one shared hosting account was Siteground you can host multiple websites but they won't have separate logins or any separation at all. The nice thing with Cloudways is all the websites have that separation. But the big negative is with the email, when I was talking about using Google apps it's only paid Google apps. Of course Cloudways has that alternative with rack space works only one dollar per email per month.

[@paulpyle60]

@@WPCrafter I would rather pay for Rackspace. I don't want Google in my stuff :-)

[@Tom59Kriek]

@@paulpyle60 I was wondering again. Will it not buy you a few brownie points with google ranking if you use their stuff?

[@paulpyle60]

@@Tom59Kriek No

[@NicolasOsorio]

@@WPCrafter www.rackspace.com/es-co/email-hosting/webmail/pricing is only two dollars per email per month ;) Very cheap.

[@kevinroberts3789]

Loved the video. Do you have any rules of thumb for how many websites you would be able to host on the various configurations?

[@WPCrafter]

What's nice about Cloudways is they have an automated bot that will keep you in the loop of what's going on with your servers. So what happens is if you start getting notifications consistently that the CPU is being close to 100% utilized, then you know it's time to either upgrade that server or add a new one. It all depends on the type of websites that you're adding and the demands that they place on the server. I'll tell you though that you can fit a lot of websites on a single server if it's those simple brochure websites and especially if you have caching enabled.

[@loliradotopper]

You are right. Sometime their support is so helpful. And another time just like, "Their is nothing wrong sir" Dude , I saw the server performance drop in the monitor .

[@P47894]

Hello Adam, Thanks for your wonderful videos! 1. I am using cloudways too, but I have one major problem they can not solve. I work on an woocommerce site with 2000 products (but no traffic yet) and want to have several backups a day, even hourly. In theory this can be done via their control panel which is good. But every time a backup is taken the performance drops to almost zero for many minutes (the time the backup takes). I tried both cloudways' digitalocean as vultr servers, and tried the 1GB, 2GB and 4GB machines, but all have those problems, even the 4GB machine spikes to 60% and often 100% of cpu utilisation. I find out this is due to the duplicity backup software cloudways installs on our servers. Anyway I talked many times to cloudways, and the only suggestion they have to limit the backups to one per day which is not acceptable. I proposed them to run the backups not from the machines itself (which eats up almost all resources) , but to run the backup software from an external server, but they did not take this suggestion serious. Did you run into this problem too? If so, how did you solve this backup problem? 2. Another thing, is it safe do push changes from the staging server to a live woocommerce server with ongoing traffic? If not, how can this problem be solved? 3. Another problem that I have with woocommerce and cloudways is getting the varnish cache, the letsencrypt free ssl, and the cloudflare dns to work smoothly, this setup regularly breaks for some reason. Any experience or advise on this? Thank you very much!

[@eeeeeeehsan]

Hi Adam, I have a quick question. Can you tell me how can I integrate email providers like "Sender.net" to my form in elementor? Email providers like MailChimp have APIs and we can choose it in our form, type the campaign name and done! What about other services that don't have direct integration?

[@WPCrafter]

Your only option is Zapier.

[@markdigital9350]

I am very interested in seeing the whole setup for emails, I have a site on a shared server with appointment forms which have their own apointment@ address, also there is an admin(for staff internally) and contact email for this site too... I am wondering how I would set this facility up with the email clients mentioned in this brilliant video. I have not jumped in yet and this is important and a new change for me. Anyone give me any pointers or even how they work with clients with Cloudways and email. Thanks for the Video Adam, looking forward to seeing more podcasts on Cloudways specifics. I started with your inmotion deal 2 years ago and now its time to MOVE ON UP ! :)

[@WPCrafter]

I'll make it!

[@markdigital9350]

Ok, second comment. I notice a lot of comments about emails (and form integrations) this is the game changer for me too. To those with accounts could you share your experiences with this and i am interesting how this works with your clients, pricing, care plans etc.. Thanks in advance

[@internetsystem]

Great work, Excellent information !!!!Adam, which video recording program you use? My son is 10 years old and wanted to publish his videos on KZbin like you for video games. Thanks,

[@WPCrafter]

My setup is expensive and complicated. But if you watch any of my older videos which were also really good, it was using a simple program named Camtasia.

[@FamilyTravelingAdventures]

Hello, with cloudways would you need a separate video host for videos in courses?

[@wptonic]

Hi, Adam. Great video and review and I agree with your comments connected to SiteGround however of the cheaper traditional model hosting companies they are still probably the best to recommend compared to Bluehost or GoDaddy.

[@websiteheroes6767]

Hi Adam! Do you use Vultr? Do you thank they are better than Digital Ocean? This, of course, is through Cloudways.

[@GauravSharma-jz2rl]

Great Video, though I have 2 questions: 1) For updating the theme for the Wordpress site, I assume need to login to the WP admin area? 2) How to upload files on the server?

[@WPCrafter]

You would have to update in WordPress. Cloudways doesn't offer automation like that, but they should look into it. Cloudways doesn't have a file manager, but you can use an FTP tool, which is what I use.

[@syedfahyeaqahmedquadri6534]

Hi Adam, you create great videos which help me a lot in designing the best websites through my web agency WebGenWorld by using all free plugins like Elementor and related. Can you please create a video of "How to Create/Design a Bilingual (English & Arabic) Website with Free Elementor & other Plugins?". Or at least suggest the best plugin for bilingual to use with Elementor.

[@WPCrafter]

I do already have a video on translations and I'm using free plug-ins in that.

[@syedfahyeaqahmedquadri6534]

@@WPCrafter Thanks for your reply. I will try find it in your videos list but if you share the link will be great. And I hope you are using Elementor in it.

[@IAmKenArts]

Hey. What do you use to make your nice videos? I like the screensharing while you are still in the picture.

[@dhetherington]

Question Adam: do you use elastic email and the rackspace? If so what are your thoughts?

[@SifatSiddique1]

Hi Adam, I think their biggest negative is that they don't have nameservers. DigitalOcean has them. My question is, why am I paying a premium to have basic services cut off?

[@कनिष्क-घ9थ]

use cloudflare a free service to manage dns for all websites

[@AKordyban]

Thanks for the great review and tutorial! Can i use g-suite and gmail to send out emails to customers? I found some documentation on Cloudways that said you are only allowed 500 emails a day to be sent... but it specified Gmail and i wonder if having g-suite would change that.

[@JoshuaEvansVoltaDesign]

Great Video, I'm moving to cloudways, hosting has always been my bottleneck!

[@viewsquaddigitalmarketing6251]

I NEED YOUR HELP!!I'm a huge fan & thank you so much for what you do!.! Is it possible to do onsite SEO with a page builder?? like for example i want to combine Yoast SEO with Elementor ! A tutorial would be awesome!! thanks dude - Jiri

[@abhishekranjith]

I signed up to cloudways using the link on your website. As soon as I signed up they ask me to verify using my Driving License + LinkedIn profile + Facebook URL + Phone Number. I don't know if this is the experience everyone has. Cloudways won't allow me to login and buy anything unless I send this information before hand. So much friction during signup that I gave up.

[@magiwebdesign3849]

One issue I've run into w/ Cloudways a few times is getting denied access when uploading files via FTP. To resolve, in Application Settings, click "Reset" for Reset Permission and try the upload again. Hope that helps someone!

[@WPCrafter]

Yep, that is a thing for me as well. I will cover that in a future video for sure.

[@aashishsingh3893]

GudDay Adam, How to set up separate servers for the web "front ends" and the database? (on some cloud hosting provider). Thanks in advance.

[@truthseeker3248]

Great video Adam as always, thank you! So I notice that Cloudways isn't a recommended hosting option on the elementor website. So from your experience, how has cloudways been in conjunction with using elementor pro?

[@WPCrafter]

That's more a marketing thing. There isn't any special that any host does regarding Elementor. There are one or two that auto installs the plugin, but that's it really.

[@truthseeker3248]

@@WPCrafter yea good point

[@TDLRest]

If we create a starter website on the same server as the public and staging website, does it slow down the server a lot?

[@AminAnvary]

Amazing Video. Thank's alot.

[@ibrahimadnan4262]

Do you recommend using Cloudways SSL or using your own from comodo ssl ?

[@WPCrafter]

Cloudways. There is no need for paid SSL these days.

[@BowlWithKing]

Just switched over... thanks!

[@MDC885]

When you PULL from the live site, does it completely overwrite the staging site, like starting from fresh, and vice versa with PUSH?

[@WPCrafter]

Yes whether you push or pull it will overwrite those destinations. It would be awesome if they had a way of merging but that is a very complex problem that no one has been able to solve.

[@kernag7688]

Why are you recommending to disable Varnish?

[@bcpatts]

@WPCrafter.com - Adam PLEASE do a video on Redis caching on Cloudways! Varnish just has so many problems!

[@Potenti4lz]

I've always wondered how horizontal scaling works with WP, seems like a nightmare...

[@LG-ny7ig]

Hey, I see you have on your front page a text that is changing, I like the effect of it and want to do it on my own site, but how did you managed to do it because is it a video or just text?

[@WPCrafter]

That is a module in Elementor Pro. So my homepage is made using Elementor.

[@LG-ny7ig]

WPCrafter.com WordPress For Non-Techies Hey, thanks for your respond, is there also a way to do this effect through a video On the homepage?

[@niklaswennerstrand1010]

Question: Can you do a video about what resources you need to host a video lesson site like yours? You say in this video that you use Vultr: 8GB RAM, 4Core, 160GB disk, 5 TB bandwidth. That is a lot but you have lots of content and customers. What kind of resources do you need if you only have one course with 10h of video? And if you host the video on Vimeo would the bandwidth count through your hosting or would that video stream go directly to the end user without affecting your hosting bandwidth? Are there better solutions for where you place the videos?

[@WPCrafter]

You can do it on a $20 per month server.

[@niklaswennerstrand1010]

@@WPCrafter Yes I probably can in the beginning but as someone that doesn't have any data on how much traffic videos generate I am uncertain how video hosting works in relationship to bandwidth traffic. That would be an interesting video if you did one. As you have data and experience and know if it matters if you host the videos on your wordpress site or on Vimeo or AWS etc. I have heard that hosting videos on your own server gets tricky in terms of server settings and codecs etc. If I have 10h 1080p videos that will max out traffic quite fast I Guess?

[@michaelbryan112]

Hi I purchased cloudways through your link thanks :) how do I get the bonus and what is the best way to set up the emails ? great videos!

[@fernandatv]

Adam, any idea of how much space I would need if I add a business directory database with 20 million listings? :/ I'm just thinking if I sign up to Cloudways @ say $11/month with Vultr and then I add 20 million pages to the website, what could that do to my cost.. Thanks.

[@WPCrafter]

If you are not using caching and you use image optimization, maybe 20gigs.

[@fernandatv]

@@WPCrafter Thank you Adam.

[@fernandatv]

Would that be 20 GB RAM or 20 GB storage?

[@tributesalute]

Adam, I just noticed that you're a "leftie" which explains why you're not a Non-Techhie yourself, even though you provide information for that segment. Another great video production and thanks for all you do for the Wordpress community and beyond.

[@WPCrafter]

Very observant! And yes I am VERY technical, but I think my gift is in being able to understand highly technical things and explain them in a way that anyone can understand. Logical mind! I guess the drawing gave it away haha.

[@AljaleyaTV]

Hi Adam, now you are using Cloudflare do you recommended?

[@mohamedaznkd2061]

sir, I choose a name for my website on google adwords because I want to use it on my website, and my niche is about car insurance and if you heard about "Microniche" i think you will understand what I'm talking about, so when i searched i found this name: "car insurance definition" and i'm targeting USA and Canada but in Avg monthly search its just "10 - 100" and in competition its "Medium", is this a good name for my website ??!! i hope you to answer me Sir, thanks

[@jamieprescott100]

Has anyone noticed the Live Chat on Cloudways website just doesn't show up anymore?

[@WPCrafter]

I haven't noticed this.

[@jamieprescott100]

@@WPCrafter It happened during my trial. I noticed that the chat dialog disappeared. When connecting to another network, I noticed the chat dialog popped up so I don't know whether they block IP's or something. I've been in touch with them and they said they are going to see what's happened with their tech team.

[@vitlastovka2728]

I wanted to create an account on clouways but for confirmation they’re asking for my password or ID scan.... is that normal?

[@PROHadFX]

How do we know how much storage and bandwidth we would need for our site?

[@WPCrafter]

Most WordPress websites use under 100 MB of storage. As you start adding images of course more storage gets consumed. Also I've noticed most like traffic websites will use less than 1 GB of traffic per month. Every website is different. The WPCrafter.com website is around 500 megs in size and consumes around 75 GB of traffic per month.

[@NoRoads2AllRoads]

@@WPCrafter so even a website like yours, the basic plan would be enough per their specs? or 1GB of ram probably too low? even pricing doesn't seem that bad... especially considering that other hostings you have to jump through hoops to get special pricing and once that period is over, their regular pricing is way higher. I guess they cater to different niches/audience.

[@nizamudheen37]

Hi sir, which one is best messaging plugin for WordPress?

[@design126]

Fantastic video! I switched to Cloudways for all my sites about 6 months ago and LOVE it! Would like to know more about the downsides to Varnish. It seems to make things much faster for my sites. Thanks for the great content Adam! 👍

[@WPCrafter]

Yes varnish will cause problem with dynamic websites such as e-commerce or learning management system websites. For normal brochure websites you won't have a problem at all.

[@design126]

@@WPCrafterThanks Adam! I don't do a lot of e-commerce, but I'm going to start looking into Redis!

[@maziarfiroozmand]

Sorry to post this here but this is the only channel left to try to contact you! I contacted you from your business and personal websites as well as Linkedin regarding partnership but no reply since a month ago. Do you accept partnerships at the moment?

[@mrfurious0011]

how many WP install can be done on 10$ digital ocean server with sites having 0 to non traffic?

[@WPCrafter]

Let me just tell you that you can fit a ton of websites on a single server especially if they have light traffic and you have caching enabled. I personally haven't push the envelope that far but I have had up to 40 websites on one server. No issues.

[@NoRoads2AllRoads]

@@WPCrafter wow. Just for that and because of the login separation, I am tempted in changing. Im going to try them out.

[@thelagoowners7867]

Cloudways have horrible technical support, we are trying to get our billing figured out for the second day and they just ignore and close the chat before I have a moment to read their template reply! Very disappointing

[@astrologya602]

Just looked at Cloudways pricing page www.cloudways.com/en/pricing.php and there's a lil tiny fine print that reads, "Note: $0.033/GB per server will be applied for offsite backup storage." I'm looking for a host for my first website and just wondering if this is a standard practice for most hosts? My impression was it's not but being new to this I'd like to know what you guys think about this? Thanks.

[@school674]

I don't know coding, how i can make a website using wordpress.

[@marquez1469]

Really I don't understand, why this company ask for your personal information: They ask for your 1)facebook/twitter account, 2) your identity (your id, passport-issue photo), IT IS RIDICULOUS for a company establish in Malta!!! In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King

[@EveryCountryInTheWorld]

What's the cheapest hosting company for a website with 30,000+ daily visitors? Cloudways?

[@christophfrenzel2863]

What about the speed when I am from Germany and want to target people from all around the world? Should I choose a US Server because most people probably will come from there or should I choose the german one (because of legal reasons it's better when the data is on german servers) ? Or does it even matter because it's gonna be fast anyway?

[@NoRoads2AllRoads]

Adam, so this vs Siteground ... doesn't look that much pricier... Siteground the GrowBig plan offers 20GB for 25,000 visits/mo and is 5.95 however regular pricing is 19.95 ...this is only 11$ or so ... siteground is shared hosting this is not... so what gives the pricing? there are no free lunches so I am scratching my head to see what is going on here?

[@WPCrafter]

Well with Cloudways its just gonna be a lot faster because it doesn't run cpanel. There is no traffic limitation or limitation on resource utilization. Also with Siteground you don't get staging on that plan, no Redis, no Varnish, non of that. Really 25k visits across all sites is extremely low. If you have 2 websites, that's only 416 visits per day per website. Heck bots will take up half of that.

[@NoRoads2AllRoads]

@@WPCrafter it seems like a no brainer then. Especially considering that w/ Cloudways you don't have too jump through hoops for the pricing. Its just transparent pricing and no neeed to create new account 3 years later in order to save whatever. And for what it seems a much better product. Never looked into these hosting companies because I thought they were so pricey, but looking at it now... does not look to be that way! Even if someone only has a few websites, cloudways seems a better value and probably cheaper.

[@WPCrafter]

Yea there has been so much downward pressure on prices and the quality has gone up. It's such a unique offering, but not new since they have been around for quite some time. No games with the pricing either. But for me, I really like WordPress specific features like I kept repeating.

[@MajidiOmar]

Finally

[@WPCrafter]

And I'll have another one coming out on my exact website setup.