Independent hosting research
Hosting and infrastructure, tested by developers.
Independent guides, real benchmarks and practical deployment tools for WordPress, agencies and modern web applications.
Tested by Sam Moreton
Written from real configurations, with method and environment recorded.
Paying Cloudways customer
Roughly $200 a month across multiple servers and add-ons.
Sourced, not invented
Claims carry sources; unavailable data is marked pending, never estimated.
Choose a hosting path
- HostingChoosing and running managed hosting for WordPress, WooCommerce, agencies and modern PHP applications.
- DeployGetting applications safely into production: deployment, CI/CD, domains, DNS and databases.
- BenchmarksThroughput and cost per performance tests, with the environment, method and raw data published.
- ToolsCalculators that turn a workload question into a concrete server and cost decision.
- GuidesStep-by-step production guides, written from setups that actually run.
- SecurityVulnerabilities, hardening and incident coverage: what actually breaks sites, and what to do about it.
- NewsDated coverage: incidents, patch cycles and changes in the hosting market as they happen.
Latest benchmarks
- Managed WordPress throughput benchmarkHow we benchmark managed WordPress hosting, and how to run the same test yourself: what to measure, how to keep runs comparable across hosts, and the mistakes that make most published hosting benchmarks worthless. Measured results follow in updates as the runs complete.8 October 2026
Deployment guides
- Migrate WordPress to CloudwaysTwo honest paths for moving a WordPress site to Cloudways: let their engineers migrate your first site free, or run it yourself with backup, copy, DNS cutover and a week-long rollback window. Plus what to verify before you call the move done.18 June 2026
- Deploy WordPress on CloudwaysA walkthrough of a fresh WordPress deploy on Cloudways at the level of the panel's real flow: create the server, add the application, point the domain, issue TLS, wire Git deployment, and take the first backup before you call it production.16 June 2026
- Deploy Laravel on CloudwaysDeploying a production Laravel application on Cloudways: the composer flow on the server, environment variables in the panel, storage permissions, queue workers and the scheduler running supervised, and a first-deploy checklist that catches what Laravel setups usually get wrong.2 April 2026
Free tools
- Hosting comparison toolCompare audited hosting companies on prices, staging, backups, migrations and support, two head to head or up to five in a matrix, every cell cited and dated from captured vendor pages, with the gaps the vendors do not publish listed instead of filled in.16 July 2026
- Hosting migration plannerPlan a server move that survives contact with the calendar: enter the sites, the method and the hours you can give, and get the effort band, the working days, the cutover freezes, and a calendar with the DNS lead and the propagation tail built in.14 July 2026
- Agency hosting margin calculatorPrice a hosting retainer honestly: what you bill each client against the platform bill and your care hours, with the margin per client, the margin across the whole client base, and the minimum price that hits your target.9 July 2026
How Kite tests hosting
- Tested, not repeated: the test, setup or calculation behind a conclusion is shown with it.
- Production reality: backups, recovery, scaling, support and bills, not just launch day.
- Developer economics: cost includes management time and operational complexity, not only sticker price.
- Clear fit: every review states who the product suits and who should avoid it.
Edited and tested by Sam Moreton
Sam is an active paying Cloudways customer: the reviews and tutorials on this site are written from the servers he pays for and runs.