I find it a bit suspicious

Megan — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:14:00 +0000

I find it a bit suspicious that your first post here is to ask about a hosting provider I've never heard of. But maybe I'm cynical after deleting these types of posts for years

But I'll assume this is a legit question and go with it for now. I don't have experience with Cloudways. We are working on launching a new site on platform.sh, which is quite good and not as expensive as some of the others. They are also optimized for Drupal performance and employ a lot of well known Drupal developers.

On the other had, their GUI is not very intuitive and doesn't have the nice tools that Panthon and Aquia do. Even our seasoned developer had trouble figuring out how to set up Apache Solr on there. Their help is really written for developers.

So, if you don't have that level of technical skills then going with something like Pantheon would probably be a better choice if it's in the budget. Not sure what Cloudways provides e.g. for manging dev/test/production sites and deployments etc.