Cloudways Black Friday 2026: 80% Off for 2 Months (Code BFCM802)

I've run my own WordPress sites on Cloudways for over four years. I moved there from InMotion and haven't moved since. This Black Friday deal is the cheapest way to try it.

Cloudways' Black Friday deal

• What it covers: every hosting plan (Flexible, Autonomous and Velocity), AI Agents, the AI Website Builder and add-ons.
• Who it's for: new customers only. It can't be combined with other codes.
• After 2 months: you pay the standard price of your server. There's no long contract: Cloudways bills by the hour and charges monthly.
• The code doesn't apply itself. Enter BFCM802 at checkout before you pay.

What each Cloudways plan costs with BFCM802

These are the Flexible plans on DigitalOcean, the cheapest cloud on Cloudways. Every plan runs unlimited websites.

Start on Micro. You can add RAM and CPU later in a few clicks, so there's no reason to pay for a bigger server before your traffic needs it. If you're moving several sites at once, Small gives them twice the memory.

The $200-a-month cap only matters on servers that cost more than $250 a month. On every plan above, you get the full 80%.

Why Cloudways, and not cheap shared hosting

On shared hosting, your site sits on one server with many other sites and shares its CPU and memory. That's why it can cost $2 a month, and why a busy neighbour can slow your site down.

On Cloudways, your sites get their own server on the cloud you pick: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud. Cloudways then manages it for you, so you don't touch the command line:

• Scaling in a few clicks. When traffic grows, you resize the server instead of moving host.
• A tuned stack built in. Nginx, Apache, Varnish and Redis are set up for you, and Cloudflare is integrated.
• Staging and cloning. Test a theme or plugin update on a copy before it touches your live site.
• Automatic backups, a firewall, free SSL and security patching on the server.
• Unlimited sites per server. You pay for the server, not per website.

That's what you're paying for after the two months: a server that's yours, without having to run it yourself.

What you'll pay after Black Friday

On Micro, you pay $5.60 for the first two months, then $14 a month. Over three years that's $481.60, against $71.64 for Hostinger's Black Friday plan.

So Cloudways isn't the cheap option, and I won't pretend it is. It's worth it once your site matters to you: it earns money, gets steady traffic, or you run several sites and want them fast in one place. If you're starting your first blog, Hostinger is the better buy, and Cloudways will migrate it for free when you're ready.

A few costs to know about up front:

• No email hosting. You'll need Google Workspace, Zoho or Cloudways' paid Rackspace add-on for email on your domain.
• Transactional email is extra. For contact forms and order emails, use an SMTP add-on or your own service.
• Offsite backups are charged at $0.033 per GB per server.

How to claim the Cloudways Black Friday deal

1. Open Cloudways' Black Friday page and sign up. You can try the Flexible plan for free first, without a credit card.
2. Launch a server. Pick DigitalOcean and Micro to start, and the data centre closest to your readers.
3. Enter BFCM802 when you add your billing details. It won't apply automatically.
4. Request a free migration for each existing site. With this deal, migrations are unlimited.

Quick take

My take

If your site has outgrown cheap shared hosting, or you're about to start one you're serious about, this is the time to move to Cloudways. Take Micro with code BFCM802, ask for free migrations, and resize the server when you need to. It's what my own sites run on.

I've covered what you get in more detail in my Cloudways review. And if you're still comparing hosts, see every Black Friday hosting deal side by side.

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