Cloudways serves as the “Operational Control Plane” for my cloud infrastructure. It allows me to harness the raw power of enterprise providers like DigitalOcean and Google Cloud without the overhead of manual system administration. I view it as a managed layer that sits on top of bare-metal performance.

I rely on its optimised stack configuration, specifically the integration of Varnish and Redis Object Cache, to ensure high throughput for dynamic sites. It provides the flexibility to scale server resources vertically with a single click during traffic spikes. For my clients, it offers the perfect balance. We get the dedicated resources of a VPS but with a managed interface that handles security patching and backups automatically.