Side-by-Side Comparison
Verpex vs Cloudways — Detailed Comparison
Compare features, pricing, performance, and support side-by-side. Pick the one that fits your needs.
Company Information
Founded
2018
2011
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Malta
Hosting Types
User Reviews
1,341
746
Pricing & Plans
Cheapest Plan
$2.69/mo
$11.00/mo
Number of Plans
Money-Back Guarantee
30 days
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Performance & Infrastructure
Uptime Guarantee
99.99%
99.99%
NVMe Storage
Yes (All Plans)
Yes (DigitalOcean Premium)
LiteSpeed Web Server
Yes (LSCache)
No (Apache + Nginx + Varnish)
Data Centers
12
60+ (across DO/AWS/GCP)
PHP Versions
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7.4 – 8.3
Inodes (File Count)
Generous (no fixed cap on shared)
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Email Send Limit
100/hour per account
N/A — Rackspace required ($1/mailbox)
Free Features Included
Free SSL
—
—
Free Domain
—
—
Free Migration
Yes (Zero Downtime)
Yes (1st migration free)
Free CDN
—
—
Support
24/7 Support
—
—
Phone Support
No (Chat 24/7)
Control Panel
cPanel
Cloudways Platform
Expert Ratings
User Friendly
Support
Features
Reliability
Pricing
Key Features
Verpex
- 60-Day Money Back Guarantee (Industry-Leading)
- LiteSpeed Web Server + LSCache
- NVMe SSD Storage on All Plans
- Anycast DNS for Global Speed
- JetBackup — Twice-Daily Off-site Backups
- MailChannels Email Delivery
- UNLIMITED Email Accounts on All Plans
- CloudLinux Resource Isolation
Cloudways
- 3-Day Free Trial — No Credit Card Required
- 3 Cloud Providers: DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud
- Lightning Stack (Nginx + Varnish + Redis + PHP-FPM)
- Object Cache Pro Included Free (4GB+ servers, $95/mo value)
- Cloudways Autonomous (auto-scaling)
- Free SSL, CDN & Migration
- Free First Migration by Cloudways Engineers
- 24/7 Live Chat Support
Pros & Cons
Verpex
Pros
- 60-day money-back guarantee (twice the industry standard)
- LiteSpeed + NVMe SSD on every plan
- Anycast DNS for worldwide speed
- Twice-daily JetBackup off-site backups
- Unlimited email accounts on all plans
- Fast, knowledgeable live chat support
Cons
- 3-year term required to lock in the lowest pricing
- Monthly term costs much more ($6-15 vs $2.69-7.50 on 36-month)
- Bronze plan limited to 1 website (need Silver+ for multi-site)
- No Windows shared hosting (Linux only)
- Email send limit: 100/hour per account
Cloudways
Pros
- Choice of 3 enterprise cloud providers (DO, AWS, GCP)
- Managed platform — no server admin needed
- Object Cache Pro free on 4GB+ ($95/mo value)
- Free migration done by Cloudways engineers
- Vertical scaling — increase RAM/CPU with one click
- Pay-as-you-go billing
Cons
- No domain registration
- No email hosting at all (must use Rackspace add-on at $1/mailbox/month)
- Backups cost extra: $0.033/GB
- Higher entry price than shared hosting
- No money-back guarantee (uses 3-day free trial instead)
- No free email — even Elastic Email is paid
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Verpex Plans
13 plans available across all hosting types.
Shared Hosting 3
WordPress Hosting 3
VPS Hosting 4
| Plan | Price | Storage | CPU | RAM | Bandwidth | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS-D4 | $10.00/mo | 80GB Dedicated NVMe | 2 Dedicated Xeon vCPU's | 4GB Dedicated RAM | Unlimited | Get Plan |
| VPS-D8 | $20.00/mo | 160GB Dedicated NVMe | 4 Dedicated Xeon vCPU's | 8GB Dedicated RAM | Unlimited | Get Plan |
| VPS-D16 Best | $40.00/mo | 320GB Dedicated NVMe | 8 Dedicated Xeon vCPU's | 16GB Dedicated RAM | Unlimited | Get Plan |
| VPS-D32 | $55.00/mo | 640GB Dedicated NVMe | 16 Dedicated Xeon vCPU's | 32GB Dedicated RAM | Unlimited | Get Plan |

Cloudways Plans
12 plans available across all hosting types.
Cloud Hosting 12
| Plan | Price | Storage | CPU | RAM | Bandwidth | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Standard 1GB — DigitalOcean | $11.00/mo | 25 GB SSD | 1 Core | 1 GB | 1 TB Transfer | Get Plan |
| DO Premium 1GB — DigitalOcean | $14.00/mo | 25 GB NVMe | 1 Core | 1 GB | 1 TB Transfer | Get Plan |
| DO Premium 2GB — DigitalOcean | $28.00/mo | 50 GB NVMe | 1 Core | 2 GB | 2 TB Transfer | Get Plan |
| GCP Standard Small — Google Cloud | $37.33/mo | 20 GB SSD | Shared | 1.7 GB | 1 GB Transfer | Get Plan |
| AWS Standard Micro — Amazon Web Services | $38.56/mo | 20 GB EBS | 2 Cores | 1.75 GB | 2 GB Transfer | Get Plan |
| DO Premium 4GB — DigitalOcean Best | $54.00/mo | 80 GB NVMe | 2 Cores | 4 GB | 4 TB Transfer | Get Plan |
| DO Premium 8GB — DigitalOcean | $99.00/mo | 160 GB NVMe | 4 Cores | 8 GB | 5 TB Transfer | Get Plan |
| DO General Purpose 8GB — DigitalOcean | $106.00/mo | 30 GB NVMe | 2 Cores | 8 GB | 4 TB Transfer | Get Plan |
| GCP Standard Large — Google Cloud | $152.02/mo | 20 GB SSD | 2 Cores | 7.5 GB | 1 GB Transfer | Get Plan |
| DO CPU Optimized 8GB — DigitalOcean | $164.00/mo | 50 GB NVMe | 4 Cores | 8 GB | 5 TB Transfer | Get Plan |
| AWS Standard Medium — Amazon Web Services | $183.22/mo | 20 GB EBS | 2 Cores | 8 GB | 2 GB Transfer | Get Plan |
| GCP Compute Optimized XL — Google Cloud | $255.37/mo | 20 GB SSD | 4 Cores | 16 GB | 1 GB Transfer | Get Plan |