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Cloudways vs GitHub Actions

Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. CI/CD native to GitHub — workflows + marketplace + hosted runners

Cloudways website ↗GitHub Actions ↗

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
Cloudways website ↗

GitHub Actions

Public Repos
$0. Free unlimited minutes on hosted runners (Linux). No private runners.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free (Personal)
$0. 2,000 minutes/mo private repos (Linux). 500MB Packages storage.
Free
Per-minute Overage
$0.008/min Linux ($0.08 macOS, $0.016 Windows) after included minutes.
$0/mo
Team
$4/user/mo. 3,000 minutes/mo. 2GB storage. Org management.
$4/mo
Enterprise
$21/user/mo. 50,000 minutes/mo. 50GB storage. SAML SSO, audit.
$21/mo
GitHub Actions ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs free on GitHub Actions.

MetricCloudwaysGitHub Actions
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.

GitHub Actions · 18 features

  • Actions Cache — Persistent cache across runs.
  • Actions Marketplace — 20K+ reusable actions.
  • ARC (K8s Controller) — Autoscale self-hosted on K8s.
  • Artifacts — Upload/download job outputs.
  • Composite Actions — Actions made of other actions.
  • Concurrency Groups — Cancel / queue overlapping runs.
  • Container Jobs — Run a whole job in a Docker image.
  • Environments + Approvals — Gate deploys with manual approval.
  • Job Summaries — Markdown summaries in UI.
  • Larger Runners — 4-64 vCPU, ARM, GPU.
  • Matrix Strategy — Fan out over axes.
  • OIDC Cloud Auth — Exchange JWT for cloud credentials.
  • Reusable Workflows — workflow_call.
  • Secrets + Variables — Encrypted org/repo/env secrets.
  • Self-Hosted Runners — Your own runners.
  • Service Containers — Sidecar containers (DBs, Redis) per job.
  • Triggers — push, pull_request, schedule, workflow_dispatch, etc.
  • Workflows — Event-driven YAML workflows.

Developer interfaces

KindCloudwaysGitHub Actions
CLI—gh run CLI
SDK—@actions/* toolkit
RESTCloudways APIGitHub Actions REST API
GRAPHQL—GitHub GraphQL (Actions)
OTHERCloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTPActions Marketplace, Actions Tab (Web), workflow_* webhooks, Workflow YAML
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