Comparison
PressyPress vs Cloudways
Both put your sites on cloud infrastructure with managed tooling on top. The difference is what you are buying: they sell you a server to fill, we sell one site its own container.
Short version
Cloudways gives you more raw resources for the money and is the better answer if you are comfortable thinking about servers and want several sites on one. PressyPress is the better answer if you want one site to have a container to itself, at a euro price with VAT already in it.
Cloudways figures are their own published list prices, read off their site on 1 September 2026. We have no affiliation with them, and product names belong to their owners.
Where Cloudways is the better answer
If one of these is your situation, we would rather you went there than churned out of here in month three.
More resources at the entry price — plainly
Their $11 Micro carries 2 GB RAM and 50 GB storage. Our €12 carries 1 GB and 10 GB. On raw specs at the bottom of the range, they win, and pretending otherwise would make the rest of this page worthless.
Unlimited sites on the server you rent
One server, as many WordPress installs as it will hold. If you run several small sites, that arithmetic is hard to beat and we do not try to.
Choice of cloud and region
DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud and others, in a long list of regions. We run our own European fleet and you do not pick from a menu.
At a glance
What you are actually buying, on both sides, in the units each of us sells in.
| What you are buying | PressyPress | Cloudways |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | €12/moVAT included, and the renewal invoice says €12. | $11/moOn DigitalOcean. Their page adds VAT, GST or sales tax as a separate invoice line. |
| What you are renting | one site, one containerIts own memory, CPU and database. Nothing else runs in it. | a server2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 50 GB storage, 2 TB transfer — and as many sites as you put on it. |
| Who your neighbour is | nobodyOne site per container is the product, not a tier you buy up to. | your other sitesThey share the server's memory and CPU, so a busy one is felt by the rest. |
| Tax in the price | included€12 is what leaves your account, at any of our terms. | added at invoiceListed as a separate line by location. |
| Changing size | any dial, any dayBilled for the days you use, roughly €1 to €5 a step. | resize the serverVertical scaling on the provider, applied to everything on that server at once. |
| Leaving | export and transfer codeFull export over SFTP or one archive; the domain transfer code is one click away. | server-level exportBackups are unlimited and offsite; extra offsite storage is $0.033/GB per server. |
Which one fits you
Pick PressyPress if
- You have one site that matters and a budget that should not surprise you.
- You want every feature on the plan you can afford, not the plan above it.
- Your traffic moves, and you would rather size memory than buy the next bundle.
- You want the renewal price in writing before you sign up.
- You are in Europe and want VAT-inclusive prices and European data centres.
Pick Cloudways if
- You run several sites and want them on one bill and one server.
- You are comfortable choosing a cloud provider, a region and a server size.
- Raw resources per pound matter to you more than isolation does.
- You want a decade of operating history behind the platform.
Trying us without stranding yourself
Your site keeps serving visitors wherever it is now. Nothing happens to it until you point the domain, and that is your move to make.
- 30 days money-back
- If it is not right, ask within the window and we return what you paid.
- Staging on every plan
- Build the copy and click through it on a real URL before anything public changes.
- An export that takes one click
- Everything over SFTP, or as one archive. Your database and your media, whenever you want them.
- The transfer code, one click away
- If we registered your domain, the code to take it elsewhere is on the screen. We do not hold it.
Try the €12.00 version of the same job
One site, its own container, every feature on the plan, and the same number on the renewal invoice.