Migrate from Cloudways in a weekend — we'll do it for free.
Same panels you love, half the markup, real owned hardware in 14 regions. Up to 25 sites moved overnight, plus a clean rollback button for the first week.
Same Magento. Same Woo. New price.
All numbers in USD. Cloudways pricing as listed on their public site, April 2026 — taken before any promo discounts.
| Workload | Cloudways | HostEngine |
|---|---|---|
| Smallest server, 1 vCPU / 1 GB | $14/mo | $5/mo |
| 2 vCPU / 4 GB Linux droplet | $36/mo | $18/mo |
| 4 vCPU / 8 GB Linux droplet | $66/mo | $24/mo |
| Add-on: bandwidth (per TB) | $0.02/GB after free | $0.01/GB after free |
| Add-on: SafeUpdates | $3.99/site | Free |
| Add-on: PHP 8.3 + LiteSpeed | $4.99/server | Free |
| Add-on: cloned staging | $3/server | Free |
| Bring-your-own DNS | Limited | Full DNS + DNSSEC |
| Real customer dashboard API | Limited | Full Terraform + REST |
| Free migration | Up to 1 site | Up to 25 sites |
Four steps. Your weekend stays yours.
- Step 1
Inventory (1 day)
We pull a list of every site, server, application and DNS record from your Cloudways account in 30 minutes.
1 - Step 2
Mirror sites (overnight)
Each site goes onto a tuned LiteSpeed-backed cPanel container. We test each URL with synthetic traffic before announcing.
2 - Step 3
DNS cutover (one window)
Lower TTLs for 24 hours, switch DNS, watch the logs together with you in Slack. Rollback button stays armed for 7 days.
3 - Step 4
Decommission Cloudways (week 2)
Once invoices line up and your team is comfortable, we help you cancel — keeping a final snapshot for 30 days just in case.
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Estimate your savings.
- Same panels (cPanel / WP Toolkit)
- Free LiteSpeed + staging
- Partner program at 30% margin
"We white-label HostEngine cPanel for every retainer client. Provisioning a new tenant takes 90 seconds and the API is the cleanest in the industry."
Frequently asked questions
Don't see yours? Reach out — a real human replies in under five minutes any day, any hour.
Talk to us-
Is this really free?
Up to 25 sites, yes. Beyond that we charge $30/site flat — usually about a tenth of what an agency would pay an internal dev to do it.
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Will my client emails break?
We mirror your MX records, DKIM and SPF before flipping DNS. We've moved 30,000+ inboxes and the migration playbook covers Outlook, Gmail and self-hosted MTAs.
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What about WP-Rocket / SafeUpdates / Breeze?
Cloudways' Breeze is replaced by LiteSpeed Cache (faster, free). SafeUpdates is replaced by our managed update queue with rollback. WP-Rocket keeps working unchanged.
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Can my client billing carry over?
Our partner API exposes hooks for Stripe, Paddle and FreshBooks so you can keep client invoices on your branding. We bill you monthly in USD/EUR/GBP.
Move 25 sites this weekend, free.
Send us a Cloudways API key (read-only) and we'll have a quote in your inbox the same day.
- No credit card to start
- Free migration from any provider
- 99.99% uptime SLA, in writing
# spin up a 4 vCPU / 8 GB cloud VPS in 55s $ hostengine vps create --plan "performance-4x8" --region "fra1" ✓ provisioned vps_2x9k1q (172.247.18.42) ✓ image debian-12 ready · ssh keys attached ✓ snapshot policy: hourly · backups: 30 days $ hostengine domain attach "trading.acme.io" --ssl ✓ DNS verified · Let's Encrypt cert issued in 6.4s