Cloudways Changelog
A dated record of confirmed pricing, plan, and rebrand changes on Cloudways that affect claims made in our Cloudways review. Every change logged here is already reflected in the current review text — this page exists so you (and search engines) can see exactly what changed and when, without digging through revision history.
Changelog
What changed: Cloudways now presents itself as "Cloudways by DigitalOcean" on its pricing page, with a restructured tier matrix (Basic/General Purpose/CPU Optimized server-type categories replacing the old flat plan list). The old "DO Standard" ($11/mo, 1GB RAM, SSD) tier no longer exists as a separate option -- the entry tier is now called "Micro" ($14/mo, 1GB RAM, NVMe storage), which appears to have absorbed/replaced both the old $11 Standard and $12-cited DO 1GB tiers under a single NVMe-only entry point. A new "Small" tier was also confirmed live at $28/mo (2GB RAM, NVMe). Pricing remains flat (no promo/renewal gap, no billing-interval toggle found) -- this is a rename/reprice, not a shift away from flat pricing.
Why it matters: This was the largest single-host fix in the 2026-08-29 Rule 14 follow-up pass: affected 20+ pages across the site, several of which were ALREADY internally inconsistent before this rebrand (citing $11, $12, or $14 for what was meant to be the same entry tier). All of these were corrected to $14 (Micro) in the same pass, not just the ones caused by the rebrand itself. renewal_pricing.json updated (plan DO 1GB -> Micro, price 12.00 -> 14.00, still 1.0x multiplier / Flat pricing verdict). Badge regenerated. Higher tiers (4GB-class server, ~$54/mo cited in cloudways-managed-hosting-review.md) were NOT re-verified in this pass -- flagged as unconfirmed post-rebrand rather than guessed, since only Micro and Small were directly confirmed live.
Affects: Cloudways Review — Pricing: What You're Actually Paying For, Web Hosting Renewal Prices — The Ranking
Confirmed live via Claude in Chrome (2026-08-29): Micro and Small tiers captured directly from cloudways.com/en/pricing.php. Did not verify whether price varies by selected cloud provider (DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Linode vs AWS vs GCP) -- the displayed $14 was captured without confirming which provider was the default selection; host_pricing_urls.json's existing note already flags this as a known variable worth remembering. Found during the 11-host Rule 14 batch (Session 2026-08-29), confirmed and fixed in a follow-up pass same day.
See the full Cloudways review for our current take, or see how Cloudways compares in Kinsta vs Cloudways and WP Engine vs Cloudways. See how Cloudways' renewal pricing stacks up against other hosts in our Web Hosting Renewal Prices ranking.