SrvBot vs Cloudways, side by side
Same numbers we'd want if we were choosing. Prices verified from public pricing pages.
SrvBot vs Cloudways
| Feature | SrvBot | Cloudways |
|---|---|---|
| Renewal price | Flat rate: the price you sign up at is the price you renew at, forever | Pay-as-you-go, billed hourly ($0.0357/hr, about $11/mo for the DigitalOcean Micro 2GB server). No intro discount and no renewal increase |
| Entry-level price point | $29/mo flat per site, with backups, SSL, migration and support included | $11/mo buys a 2GB server, not a finished site. Offsite backup storage ($0.033/GB), email ($1.50/mailbox) and the Cloudflare Enterprise CDN ($4.99/domain) are add-ons |
| Migration | Done for you, free | Free migration by the Cloudways team, plus a self-service WordPress migrator plugin |
| Human support on every plan | Real humans over chat and email, every day | 24/7 chat, email and ticket support on all plans. Faster responses and a dedicated engineer cost extra: Advanced Support is a $100/mo add-on |
| Daily backups with restore-drill | Daily backups stored offsite at no extra cost, plus a tested restore-drill so you know recovery actually works | Automated backups with adjustable frequency; offsite backup storage billed at $0.033/GB per server. Restores are self-service, with no published restore-drill |
| Public live status page | status.srvbot.io, with real uptime and response times | Public status page at status.cloudways.com |
| Choice of cloud provider and region | Europe, US, and Asia regions today, with Canada and more rolling out | Five cloud providers (DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud) and dozens of data center locations. You pick the provider, the region and the server size |
| Who runs the server | We run the whole stack for each site in its own isolated container. You never see a server | You rent a server and Cloudways manages the stack on it. Sizing, scaling and which server each site lives on are your decisions |
| WordPress-focused hosting | Managed WordPress, focused and personal | Managed cloud for any PHP application, WordPress included. Free SSL and staging on every server |
Prices and features verified 2026-08-13 from public pricing pages. Corrections: hello@srvbot.io.
Founding price $19/mo (regular $29) for the first 100 customers.
The price you sign up at is the price you renew at.
Founding pricing is the only lifetime discount we will ever offer. When the 100 slots are gone, the lifetime lock is gone with them.
Free migration by our team, and a 60-day money-back guarantee.
What happens after you sign up
Pick a plan
Checkout takes a couple of minutes. Your trial starts immediately.
We migrate you
Our team moves your site, checks it, and you approve before DNS switches.
Your price stays put
The price you sign up at is the price you renew at.
Common questions
Cloudways starts at $11/mo for a DigitalOcean 2GB server, billed hourly with no renewal increase. Backup storage, email and the CDN are add-ons, and the server is shared by whatever sites you put on it. SrvBot is $29/mo flat per site with backups, SSL, migration and support included.
No. The choice of five providers and dozens of regions is a genuine Cloudways strength if you want that control. SrvBot picks the infrastructure and runs it for you. You choose a region at sign-up and that is the last infrastructure decision you make.
Yes, free. We don't have a dedicated Cloudways migration guide yet, but our team handles the move over chat and email, and you approve the result before DNS switches.
No. On Cloudways you size, scale and monitor a server, even though the stack on it is managed for you. On SrvBot each site runs in its own isolated container that we operate, patch and back up.
Switching from Cloudways is free
We handle the whole migration: files, database, and DNS, at no charge. Your site stays up throughout.