I have kept an exclusive list of all these companies from the start \u2014 just an effort to serve my clients with the best eCommerce hosting solution available in the market.\u00a0Cloudways Hosting<\/strong><\/a> is one of the companies that has been rocking my list since the beginning.<\/p>\n Their managed eCommerce hosting solution has everything that online store owners need to run their business smoothly. Over the years, I have set up a lot of eCommerce stores on their hosting platform, and they have never disappointed me \u2014 not even a single time.<\/p>\n Today, I am excited to share everything that makes Managed eCommerce Cloudways Hosting Platform an excellent match for your eCommerce website. So let’s get started!<\/p>\n Cloudways<\/a>\u00a0is a managed cloud hosting platform which enables you to host and manage your sites on a number of IaaS platforms<\/strong>.\u00a0Aaqib Gadit<\/a>,\u00a0Pere Hospital<\/a>, Uzair Gadit, and Umair Gadit and the brains behind this venture which started in 2011. The headquarters of this company is in\u00a0Mosta, Lija.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49\u00a0Since 2011, the company has grown to 50+ employees, and it has become a great competitor to a lot of major hosting companies.<\/em><\/p>\n Cloudways takes care of the technical knowledge that you need to deploy your site or web application on the IaaS platforms. It gives you access to six platforms \u2014 \u2705Vultr<\/strong>, \ud83d\udca5Kyup<\/strong>, \ud83d\udd30Linode<\/strong>, \ud83c\udf1fDigital Ocean<\/strong>, \ud83d\udee1Google Cloud Platform<\/strong>, and\ud83c\udf97AWS \u2014 Amazon Web Services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n Cloudways Hosting also runs a Managed eCommerce Hosting service<\/a>. This service caters almost every eCommerce platform available on the Internet. Some of these platforms include:<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49\u00a0We reviewed Cloudways Hosting<\/a> in our #WPHostingWeek18 at WPCouple<\/a>. You can check it out over here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n As I mentioned earlier, it is straightforward to set up a shop using Cloudways hosting and can be accomplished in just a few steps. Let’s take a look at how you can set up a WooCommerce Store on this hosting.<\/p>\n Create an account on Cloudway<\/a>s, or if you already have one, then log in<\/a> to the hosting website. To add a website, you will have to create a new server first. Click on the “+”<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 add button \u2014 and it will open a menu. Now, click on the\u00a0Add Server<\/strong>\u00a0link from the menu.<\/p>\n In this step, you need to select the type of\u00a0application<\/em> you want to install on your web server. In our case, I am selecting\u00a0WordPress with WooCommerce<\/strong>. After selecting the application, enter the names for your application and server instance.<\/p>\n Next, you need to select the IaaS platform<\/strong>, Server Memory<\/em><\/strong>, and the\u00a0location of the server<\/strong>. All of these selections will vary according to the needs of every store owner. But the location of your shop’s server should be close to the one from where the majority of the traffic comes from.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude80 Once done, click on the\u00a0LAUNCH NOW<\/strong> button to start the installation.<\/p>\n It will take a couple of minutes before your store is up and running. Once it is complete, you can get the credentials from the server’s dashboard to log in to your website’s admin panel and start adding products.<\/p>\n Now that your online store is good to go, let’s take a look at the type of management tools that are available to you to manage your site. These tools are typically divided into two categories:<\/p>\n These are the kind of tools related to server management. They help you give access to your server, monitor traffic, suspicious behavior and manage the security of the website. The following tools are available in the Cloudways’ server panel.<\/p>\n These tools help you manage your store on the level of an application. You can manage SSL certificates, CDN service, applications settings, and a lot more using these tools. Following is the complete list of tools available for application management.<\/p>\n Sales season can be a double-edged sword for online shop owners. On the one hand, they get to earn cash pretty fast due to the enormous amount of traffic. But on the other side, their site can quickly go under trying to accommodate the very same traffic.<\/p>\n An eCommerce website is put to test during sales season. If your store is not ready for it, then there is a good chance that your site will not make it through the season. So, a lot of store owners make special preparations before the start of the sales season. Some of these preparations include:<\/p>\n Cloudways<\/a> has got you covered in every one of these cases. Let’s take a look at how you can use Cloudways Hosting to help you get through the online sales season.<\/p>\n This cache allows you to decrease the page load time of your online store from 2000 ms to only 6 ms<\/strong>. These results are from a study done in this article<\/a>\u00a0by Cloudways. Cloudways has made this cache available for WooCommerce based eCommerce stores to help the store owners get more sales and conversion.<\/p>\n It is\u00a0essential for a store owner to monitor the metrics<\/a> of the server and website in real-time such as health and traffic. The statistics from these monitorings enables you to decide when you need to upscale and when your site is less busy so that you can do the maintenance.<\/p>\n Cloudways<\/a> offers the\u00a0pay-as-you-go service<\/strong> which means that you only get to pay for the amount of hosting resources that you use. This service is incredibly useful, especially during the sales season because you will not need to buy a hosting package for a whole year to get through a season.<\/p>\n As I mentioned earlier that the needs of a store owner could change during the sales season, this is why Cloudways Hosting allows you to upscale your server only when you need it. It means increasing the size of a\u00a0server’s resources<\/a> such as RAM<\/strong>, CPU<\/strong>, storage<\/strong>, and bandwidth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Cloudways Hosting’s support is one of the most responsive support. They are live 24\/7 throughout the year so that when you face any issue related to your hosting, you can contact them via live chat their website.<\/p>\n Here is a list of detailed services available to you to help increase your sales on Cloudways Hosting.<\/p>\n Pricing at Cloudways Hosting varies with the IaaS providers. They start from $10 per month<\/a> for a beginner’s package<\/strong> on Digital Ocean and go as high as $226 per month<\/a> per\u00a0instance<\/strong> on Google Cloud Platform. For details, you can check out their pricing page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\ud83c\udf10 Cloudways Hosting<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\ud83d\uded2 Setting Up an Online Shop with Cloudways<\/h2>\n
\u2192 Step #1<\/h3>\n
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1\ufe0f\u20e3 Server Management<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u2705 Preparing for Sales Season<\/h2>\n
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\ud83c\udfce Varnish Cache<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udda5 Real-Time Monitoring<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udcb8 Pay-as-you-Go (PAYG) Service<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udcc8 Vertical Scaling<\/h3>\n
\ud83e\udd1d 24\/7 Human Support<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\ude80 Other Services<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\ud83d\udcb0 Pricing at Cloudways Hosting<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\ud83e\udd11 Membership Discount<\/h2>\n