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Cloudways is a managed cloud hosting platform, owned by DigitalOcean since 2022, that lets users run WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel and other PHP applications on servers from providers such as DigitalOcean, AWS and Google Cloud without managing the servers themselves. It is popular with agencies and freelancers managing client sites. It is billed pay-as-you-go by server size. Sites hosted on Cloudways are often agency-managed PHP sites, prospects for competing hosts, WordPress plugin vendors and maintenance services.

Cloudways serves 22,469 websites, which is 0.1% of all PaaS detections we record. Websites on Cloudways are most often served from United States (6,264), Germany (1,913) and United Kingdom (990), and .com, .org and .net are the most common domain endings.

Websites using Cloudways

Preview filters with coarse ranges. Exact ranks and registration dates are available in the dashboard when you download a list.

22,469 websites. Sign in to download the full list (free sample below, full lists from $69/mo)

23 days ago 21,178 websites used Cloudways; today it is 22,469 (+6.1%).

Top countries for Cloudways

United States
6.3K
Germany
1.9K
United Kingdom
990
Netherlands
719
France
600
Canada
376
Australia
368
South Korea
282

Top TLDs

.com
12.2K
.org
1.2K
.net
800
.de
727
.uk
684
.nl
585
.it
560
.au
362

Sample of 15 websites using Cloudways

best-ranked first; the full list has 22,469
DomainCountryMajestic rankNetAPI rankContactsFirst seen
score808live.tv - - 5,470 2026-10-23
xarxxx.com - - 6,453 2026-10-12
x-alarab.com - - 6,478 2026-10-12
zebawe.com - - 6,524 2026-10-13
yotpo.com US 14,468 9,883 2026-10-08
kamihq.com US 731,466 13,358 2026-10-13
cccs.edu - 335,898 13,625 phone 2026-10-10
masrix.com - - 15,428 2026-10-26
99percentinvisible.org - 10,283 20,357 2026-10-12
travelandtourworld.com - 12,454 21,586 email phone 2026-10-27
scidev.net - 13,448 24,927 email phone 2026-10-20
metropolismag.com - 15,369 27,697 2026-10-11
businessinsurance.com - 16,383 28,351 2026-10-15
geekie.com.br - 398,852 43,115 2026-10-11
srmap.edu.in IN 426,559 43,509 2026-10-11

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Questions about Cloudways websites

How many websites are hosted on Cloudways?

As of November 2, 2026, 22,469 websites are served through Cloudways, recognised from the response headers and the hostnames our crawler sees. The number is recalculated every night from our own crawl of the web.

Who buys lists of websites hosted on Cloudways?

Competing hosting and infrastructure providers, monitoring, security and performance vendors, and agencies and developers who specialise in Cloudways. A website on Cloudways tells you how technical its team is and how much it spends on infrastructure; one that just moved there is mid-migration, one that left is choosing a new provider.

Where are Cloudways websites hosted?

United States leads with 6,264 websites, followed by Germany (1,913) and United Kingdom (990). The country is where the website is served from; sites on a hosted platform show the platform's country.

How do I find websites that just moved to Cloudways?

The New tab on this page lists websites where our crawler saw Cloudways for the first time in the last days, newest first; the Dropped tab lists the ones that moved away. Both download with a subscription and refresh every morning.

How do I get a list of websites on Cloudways?

A free BetaScan account downloads a {sample_rows}-row sample. A subscription from $69 a month gives the full list of 22,469 domains, or a dataset with emails, phones, country, hosting and ranks, filtered by country, TLD, rank and registration date. See pricing.

How does BetaScan detect Cloudways?

Our crawler fetches the homepage of every domain we track and matches the page and its response headers against the signatures of 7,636 technologies. A website counts as using Cloudways when its latest crawl shows the signature; when the signature disappears, the site moves to the dropped list.