Templ vs Cloudways
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Templ and Cloudways.
Quick Verdict
3.7/5
Templ
0 reviews
3.9/5
Cloudways
0 reviews
Cloudways is rated higher (3.9 vs 3.7). Templ is a Swedish managed WordPress hosting provider running on Google Cloud, with 30 selectable datacenter locations including ten in Europe. GDPR compliant, Swedish support, per-website pricing. Managed hosting layer that sits on top of DigitalOcean, AWS, GCP, Vultr, or Linode. You get managed control with one-click staging, Breeze caching, and 24/7 support.
Templ Managed WordPress in Scandinavia | Cloudways Managed cloud hosting on your choice of provider | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.7 (0 reviews) | 3.9 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | From $15/mo | From $11/mo✓ |
| Best for | Nordic and European businesses and agencies running WordPress or WooCommerce sites that want managed performance, EU data residency and local support over raw compute | Agencies, freelancers and SMBs running WordPress/WooCommerce/Magento/Laravel who want managed cloud hosting with provider choice and no ops staff |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB | 25 GB✓ |
| Bandwidth | 0 TB/mo | 1 TB/mo✓ |
| SLA uptime | — | 99.99% |
| Data-center count | 30 | — |
| €/vCPU/mo | €15.00 | €11.00✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €15.00 | €11.00✓ |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | 30 Google Cloud locations: 10 North America, 10 Europe (incl. Sweden, Finland, Germany, UK), 8 Asia, Sydney, Sao Paulo | United StatesUnited KingdomGermanyNetherlandsSingaporeAustralia+1 |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | managed optionbackups includedeu datacentergdpr compliant | managed optionddos protectionbackups includedeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenter |
| Visit Templ → | Visit Cloudways → | |
Templ
Pros
- + Full public price list: plans, custom per-core/per-GB rates, overage, domains and extended support all published
- + Daily backups, staging, cloning, CDN, Redis cache, SSH with WP-CLI and free speed optimization on migration included in every plan
- + 30 Google Cloud locations with ten in Europe — strong EU data residency story including Sweden
- + Swedish WordPress-specialist support with a hacked-site fix guarantee and a no-credit-card 10-day trial
- + Per-website pricing with immediate prorated upgrades suits agencies running multiple client sites
Cons
- - Modest resources per dollar — $29/month buys 1 shared core and 1 GB RAM on the Small plan
- - Bandwidth included is small (10-160 GB pooled per account) with automatic $0.20/GB overage
- - No published uptime SLA; availability commitment is reputational rather than contractual
- - WordPress-only platform — not a general-purpose hosting environment
- - Out-of-scope help is billed as Extended Support ($169/hour engineering rates)
Cloudways
Pros
- + Choose the underlying cloud (DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, GCP) and region per server
- + Entry pricing from $11/month on DigitalOcean with hourly billing and no contract
- + Managed stack with free migration, staging/cloning, automated backups, caching and 24/7 human support
- + Unlimited sites and visits per server on Flexible plans
- + Autonomous line adds real autoscaling, Cloudflare Enterprise CDN and a no-credit-card 3-day trial
Cons
- - Management markup of roughly $5-$35/month over buying the same server direct
- - No formal uptime SLA on the Flexible line
- - AWS/GCP plans include only 1-2 GB transfer; overage at $0.12/GB (AWS) adds up fast
- - Root-level control is limited — no custom kernels, bare metal, GPUs or own object storage
- - Owned by DigitalOcean since 2022 while reselling competing clouds — a roadmap consideration
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