Cloudways vs Bunny.net

Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. Ridiculously affordable CDN + video streaming + edge compute

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Pricing tiers

Cloudways

Autonomous — Free Trial

3-day free trial. 1 server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.

Free

Flexible — DO Micro

DigitalOcean-backed. 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage, 2 TB bandwidth. Starting tier.

$11/mo

Flexible — DO Medium

4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB, 5 TB bandwidth.

$88/mo

Autonomous — Growth

WordPress-optimized autoscaling. 1 baseline server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.

$100/mo

Autonomous — Scale

2 baseline servers, 50 GB disk, 250 GB bandwidth.

$200/mo

Flexible — DO 8XL

24 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2.56 TB storage, 11 TB bandwidth.

$342/mo

Autonomous — Plus

3 baseline servers, 100 GB disk, 1 TB bandwidth.

$400/mo

Enterprise

Custom autoscale, volume pricing.

Custom

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Bunny.net

CDN Volume — 1-2 PB

$0.002/GB at 1-2 PB volume.

$0/mo

CDN Volume — First 500 TB

$0.005/GB Volume Network (10 PoPs) for high-volume.

$0/mo

CDN Standard — EU/NA

$0.01/GB. 119 PoPs Standard Network in Europe + North America.

$0/mo

CDN Standard — Asia + Oceania

$0.03/GB.

$0/mo

CDN Standard — South America

$0.045/GB.

$0/mo

CDN Standard — ME/Africa

$0.06/GB.

$0/mo

Monthly Minimum

Minimum $1/month.

$1/mo

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Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs volume-1pb-2pb on Bunny.net.

Metric	Cloudways	Bunny.net
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Cloudways · 17 features

Autonomous (WordPress) — Fully managed WordPress with autoscaling.
Backups — Automated daily + on-demand. Retention configurable.
Bot Protection — Cloudflare Enterprise bot filtering add-on.
Bot Scaler — Autonomous: auto-scale based on traffic patterns.
Breeze (WP cache plugin) — In-house WordPress caching plugin.
CloudwaysCDN — Built-in CDN add-on (StackPath-backed).
Flexible Plans — BYO-sized servers on any of 5 providers. Full control over stack.
Free Let's Encrypt SSL — 1-click cert install + auto-renewal.
Free Migration — 1 free app migration per plan. Cloudways team moves your site.
Horizontal Scaling — Auto-scale app servers (Autonomous plans).
Malware Protection — Add-on ($4/app/month). Scan + clean.
Object Cache Pro — Included on certain plans. Redis-backed object cache for WP.
SafeUpdates — Automated WordPress plugin/theme updates with rollback.
Staging Environments — 1-click staging clones with push-to-live.
Team Collaboration — Invite team members with granular role permissions.
Thunderstack (Optimized) — Apache + Nginx + Varnish + Redis + Memcached preconfigured for speed.
Vertical Scaling — Resize server specs without migration.

Bunny.net · 14 features

Bunny CDN — Standard + Volume networks. 119 PoPs globally.
Bunny Database — Edge-distributed key-value DB.
Bunny DNS — Free anycast DNS.
Bunny Optimizer — On-the-fly image + video optimization.
Bunny Shield (WAF + DDoS) — DDoS protection + WAF + bot defense.
Bunny Stream — Video hosting + transcoding + HLS delivery.
Custom Hostname — Use yourdomain.com with CDN.
Edge Scripting — JavaScript at the edge (like CF Workers).
Edge Storage — Object storage replicated across regions.
Free Let's Encrypt SSL — Auto cert issuance/renewal.
Hot-linking Protection — Block unauthorized embeds.
Instant Purge — Global invalidation.
Magic Containers — Serverless containers at edge.
Real-Time Analytics — Per-zone + per-country usage stats.

Developer interfaces

Kind	Cloudways	Bunny.net
SDK	—	bunnycdn.js (community)
REST	Cloudways API	Bunny.net API
OTHER	Cloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTP	Bunny Dashboard, CDN HTTP base URL, Edge Scripting

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