Cloud Ways 8XL, $ 342.00/mo. on Linux Cloud


8XL has been added on Jan 7, 2026, Aggregate Rating (4.7 out of 10 from 6 reviews)
Cloud Ways
52 Springvale, Pope Pius XII Street
Mosta mst2653
MT
☎ Phone +44 33-0001-03
  • 💡 Plan Name: 8XL (sku #p142132)
  • 🔧 Category: Cloud / Linux
  • 💰 Price:$ 342.00/mo.
  • 💿 Disk Space: 2500 GB
  • 📶 Traffic bandwidth: 11 TB
  • 💲 Setup Fee: free
💪 CPU/Cores :24 vCPU
🔋 RAM :128000 MB
🔌 Hosted domains :unlimited
🆓 free domains :0
📌 Dedicated IPs :0
💳 Payment Methods :Credit / Debit / Prepaid CardsPayPal
🔨 Control Panel :[In-house]
🔧 Category :BackupCDNWordpressFully ManagedE-CommerceDDoS Protection
✍️ Support Options :Help DeskLive ChatAvailable 24/7
🌏 Server Locations :Australia Canada Germany India Netherlands Singapore United Kingdom United States
Targeting :US
🚀 Uptime :99.99 %

See also initial 8XL plan location on their website!


*📜 Plan description

8XL on Cloudways Flexible is the top end configuration surfaced on the pricing page, built for very demanding workloads with 128000 MB of RAM, 24 vCPUs, 2560000 MB of SSD storage and 11000 GB of transfer bandwidth each month. With a base cost of 342 USD per month or roughly 1.0848 USD per hour, it targets high traffic ecommerce platforms, media sites, multi tenant SaaS applications and large agency clusters that require substantial in memory caching, parallel PHP processing and a deep storage pool for product catalogs, user generated content and analytics data. Despite its scale, the 8XL plan still allows unlimited visits and unlimited websites per server, giving technical teams freedom to consolidate multiple mission critical applications on a single managed cloud instance while relying on Cloudways to provide the optimized Lightning Stack, security hardening and performance tooling around it. Customers receive the same add ons and benefits as smaller Flexible tiers, including free SSL, firewall with IP blocking, Redis and Object Cache Pro, offsite backup storage billed at 0.033 USD per GB, advanced staging and cloning, one click vertical scaling within the provider family and expert support that can advise on best practices for tuning PHP workers, database configuration and caching for very heavy traffic profiles.

Cloudways Flexible is the managed cloud hosting option built around full control of server resources and cloud choice. Servers run WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel and custom PHP applications on top providers such as DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS and Google Cloud through an NGINX based Lightning Stack optimized for high performance and low latency. Every Flexible server can host unlimited applications, supports multiple PHP versions, includes free Lets Encrypt SSL certificates and a hardened server level firewall, and offers staging environments, cloning and seamless vertical scaling from the control panel. Automatic and on demand backups are available with one click restores, with offsite backup storage billed per gigabyte so that protection scales with usage. The platform exposes detailed monitoring for more than fifteen metrics, auto healing behavior for many common issues and convenient tools like DNS management and a built in MySQL manager to streamline operations. Cloudways operates pay as you go billing with no long term contracts, offers promotional introductory discounts, and targets a 99.99 percent uptime service level on infrastructure distributed across over fifty global data centers including regions in the US, EU, India, Singapore, Australia and Canada while delivering 24x7 expert support via live chat and ticketing, optional Advanced and Premium support add ons, and free expert migrations for new projects.

📄 Editorial Review

Cloudways operates as a managed cloud hosting platform rather than a traditional shared hosting provider. Instead of renting space on their own servers, they sit on top of major cloud infrastructures – DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode / Akamai.com, AWS and Google Cloud – and provide a simplified control panel, performance stack and managed services around them. This makes Cloudways an option for agencies, ecommerce businesses, developers and serious bloggers who want the power of cloud servers without running Linux boxes themselves.

The company started in 2012, co-founded by Aaqib Gadit and Pere Hospital, and later became part of DigitalOcean in 2022. It originally grew out of Malta and now runs under its US-based parent with a distributed team across more than twenty countries. The platform today powers a large number of websites and sits firmly in the managed cloud and premium WordPress hosting segment rather than the low-cost shared-hosting market.

Product portfolio and positioning


Cloudways groups its hosting into two main product lines:
  • Cloudways Flexible – customizable managed hosting for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel, custom PHP apps and multi-site setups. Customers choose the underlying cloud provider and instance size (RAM, vCPU, SSD, bandwidth etc.), and Cloudways adds its management layer, monitoring, backups, security and performance stack (the newer Lightning Stack, built around NGINX, PHP-FPM, caching and Imunify360 firewall). In practice this behaves much more like managed VPS or managed cloud servers than classic shared hosting.
  • Cloudways Autonomous – fully managed, Kubernetes-based, high-availability WordPress hosting built on Google Kubernetes Engine with integrated Cloudflare Enterprise, autoscaling and load balancing. This line is aimed at high-traffic WooCommerce stores, LMS platforms and media or event sites with big, spiky traffic where autoscaling and resilience matter more than manual control over server sizes.

On top of these core hosting lines there are several add-on and companion services:
  • Cloudflare Enterprise CDN add-on for global caching, WAF and DDoS mitigation.
  • SafeUpdates for automated WordPress core, plugin and theme updates with testing.
  • Malware Protection Add-on for proactive scanning and cleanup.
  • DNS Made Easy integration to accelerate DNS resolution.
  • Client Billing & Reporting for agencies that resell hosting and need automated invoicing and white-label reports.
  • Cloudways AI Copilot, an AI-assisted troubleshooting and monitoring layer that helps detect issues in the stack and suggests remediations.

In everyday use, Cloudways functions as a middle ground between doing everything on raw cloud infrastructure and paying for very high-end boutique WordPress hosting. It removes most sysadmin work – OS patching, basic security hardening, performance stack configuration, server monitoring, backups – while still letting users decide how much RAM/CPU/storage they need and which cloud region to use.

Typical use cases include:
  • Agencies who manage dozens of client sites and want centralized management, staging and client billing.
  • Online stores (especially WooCommerce) that need strong caching, integrated CDN, autoscaling options and good support.
  • Developers who want an opinionated stack (SSH, Git, staging, multiple PHP versions) without building it from scratch.
  • Growing SMB sites that have outgrown cheap shared hosting but do not want an in-house DevOps team.

It is less suitable for users who simply want a very cheap shared plan with bundled domain, email and cPanel, or for workloads that fall outside the PHP/WordPress/Laravel/Magento ecosystem.

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