Acquia Personal, $ 148.00/mo. on Linux Cloud

Personal has been updated on January 29, 2025 (added April 29, 2017)

💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp Desk
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	US
💰 Money-back guarantee :	0 days
🚀 Uptime :	99.95 %

See also initial Personal plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

Acquia is a Boston-based enterprise cloud and digital experience company founded in 2007 by Drupal creator Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson. Drupal remains at the center of its hosting business, with Acquia Cloud Platform providing a fully managed, Drupal-optimized Platform-as-a-Service rather than conventional shared hosting, VPS hosting, reseller accounts, or unmanaged dedicated servers. Vista Equity Partners became the majority shareholder in September 2019, while Dries Buytaert continues as Co-Founder and Executive Chairman.

The main hosting product is Acquia Cloud Platform, an enterprise managed Drupal environment built for organizations where websites and digital services are business-critical. It combines development, staging, and production environments with automated deployment workflows, centralized permissions, APIs, application monitoring, security controls, backups, CDN integration, and enterprise technical support.

The service fits large companies, government institutions, universities, healthcare organizations, publishers, agencies, and other teams that need controlled development workflows and predictable production operations. Instead of concentrating on the usual hosting metrics such as the number of mailboxes or FTP accounts, Acquia is centered on Drupal applications, development environments, deployment pipelines, application performance, security, scalability, and governance.

Cloud IDE provides preconfigured browser-based Drupal development environments, while Code Studio adds managed CI/CD functionality for building, testing, reviewing, and deploying application code. Content Hub supports centralized Drupal content distribution across multiple sites, and Multi-Experience Operations (MXO) is designed for organizations operating large portfolios of websites and applications from a centrally governed infrastructure.

Node.js Hosting extends the platform to JavaScript applications and modern decoupled front ends. Acquia Search, powered by SearchStax (searchstax.com), provides enterprise search functionality, while Site Studio adds reusable components and visual page-building capabilities.

Acquia Edge combines content delivery, Web Application Firewall protection, and DDoS mitigation. Its globally distributed edge infrastructure includes more than 200 points of presence and is intended to improve both website performance and protection against malicious traffic.

Acquia Site Factory is designed for businesses managing many related Drupal websites. Administrators can create, clone, update, govern, and maintain multiple sites from a centralized environment. This is particularly useful for multinational businesses, universities, government organizations, franchises, agencies, and companies operating numerous regional or brand websites.

Acquia Source is a managed SaaS CMS offering that combines Drupal with centralized administration, reusable components, permissions, governance tools, domain and SSL management, CDN delivery, content optimization, and AI-assisted content and site-building functions. It reduces the infrastructure administration normally associated with maintaining a large Drupal deployment.

Acquia has expanded well beyond hosting into a broader Digital Experience Platform. Acquia DAM provides digital asset management, while Acquia PIM centralizes product information. Acquia Web Governance handles website accessibility, quality assurance, privacy, and policy compliance. Acquia Content Optimization focuses on SEO, content quality, and search visibility.

The marketing technology side includes Acquia CDP for unified customer profiles and segmentation, Acquia Campaign Studio for marketing automation and multichannel campaign management, and Acquia Conversion Optimization for experimentation, personalization, behavioral analysis, and A/B testing. Several of these services work independently of Drupal, making Acquia a considerably broader platform than a specialist Drupal hosting company alone.

Acquisitions have played an important role in this expansion. Mautic was acquired in May 2019, strengthening Acquia's marketing automation technology. Widen was acquired in 2021, adding the technology that became central to Acquia DAM and PIM. The acquisition of Monsido was completed on January 9, 2024, expanding the portfolio into website accessibility, governance, SEO, privacy, and content optimization.

The result is an unusually comprehensive environment for organizations that want managed Drupal hosting together with development automation, content delivery, search, digital asset management, product information management, marketing automation, customer-data management, accessibility, SEO, site governance, and conversion optimization.

Acquia also supports international customers through localized website content, including English, French, Japanese, and Spanish. Some technical resources and product documentation are available in multiple languages as well.