They give you a server. The rest is add-ons.
Cloudways Flexible starts at $11/mo for a box. Email, a domain, and offsite backup storage sit on other invoices. JuJu is one bill: leftover-time credit, domain registration and yearly renewal, 10 mailboxes. $19.95/mo or $199/yr. Price is the price.
We're not the cheapest host. We're the one that just works.
Someone who thought $11 was the host
This page is for the person who opened Cloudways, saw $11, and thought that number bought WordPress, mail, and a .com.
You run one WordPress site — brochure, consultant, small shop front. You want the site built and kept working. You want you@yourdomain.com without opening a mailbox add-on. You want the .com on the same invoice. You want leftover time on Cloudways to become JuJu time — up to 12 months, at our price. We don't write a check.
You're not buying a droplet you size yourself, not parking unlimited apps on one box, and not trying to match their 2 GB RAM / 50 GB disk entry card. We won't pretend we're that machine. If you need Kubernetes autoscaling for a high-concurrency store, that's their Autonomous product — not this one.
One WordPress site
USD. Cloudways Flexible DigitalOcean entry vs JuJu. Dated 21 August 2026.
| JuJu | Cloudways Flexible (DO entry) | |
|---|---|---|
| What you're buying | A complete host — engineer, domain, 10 mailboxes | A managed server. Apps, mail, DNS, CDN are separate decisions. |
| AI on the site | Engineer, builder, morning briefing, copilot | Copilot: 4 free credits on the cards we opened — server/app monitor, not an engineer |
| Price | $19.95/mo · $199/yr ($16.58/mo) | From $11/mo (Micro card: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB, 2 TB transfer) |
| Intro / promo | None. Price is the price. | Page hero: 30% off 3 months. FAQ: 40% off 4 months (code SUMMER404) through 15 Sep 2026. |
| Sites | 1 | Unlimited apps on the server (you size the box) |
| Storage | 10 GB NVMe | 50 GB on the Micro card |
| Domain | Registration and renewal included | Not sold on pricing/add-ons. DNS Made Easy from $0.50/mo is DNS, not a registrar. |
| 10 mailboxes included | Rackspace add-on from $1/mailbox/mo | |
| Object cache | Redis, included | Redis listed free; Object Cache Pro free on 4 GB+ servers |
| Backups | Daily, included | Automated backups; Flexible offsite storage $0.033/GB (rounded to $0.50) |
| CDN / WAF extras | Edge cache + WAF included | Cloudflare Enterprise from $4.99/domain/mo; malware protection from $4/app/mo |
| Their other SKU | One plan | Autonomous Small: $35/mo — 1 WordPress app, 15 GB, 30k visits, 100 GB bandwidth |
| Money-back | 60 days on hosting | 3-day free trial (no card). Longer refund unpublished. |
| Migration | Free + time credit (up to 12 months, our price) | Free WordPress migration (first site; summer FAQ also says unlimited through 15 Sep 2026) |
$11 is a real published server price. Redis and staging are listed free on Flexible. The argument is not “they have no cache.” The argument is a server vs a host — leftover-time credit, domain, 10 mailboxes, and a price that is the price.
$11 is the server. The add-ons are the rest.
| Path | Server / host | Domain | 3-year total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JuJu annual | $597 | $0 | $0 | $597 |
| Flexible $11, server only | $396 | — | — | $396 — not the complete host |
| Flexible $11 + 1 mailbox + .com | $396 | $36 | ~$10–23/yr | ~$462–$501 |
| Same + Cloudflare Enterprise | $396 | $36 | ~$10–23/yr | ~$642–$681 |
| Autonomous Small $35 | $1,260 | still an add-on | still a registrar | $1,260 + extras |
Being straight with you: the $11 server alone can beat JuJu on cash — $396 vs $597 — if you never buy mail, a registrar, Cloudflare, malware protection, or offsite backup storage. That $11 is not the host. Their own add-ons page is the rest of the invoice.
Assumptions: one WordPress site, no tax. Flexible held at the published $11/mo for 36 months — we do not bake the 30% / 40% intro into the three-year total. One Rackspace mailbox at the published $1/mo = $36. Cloudflare Enterprise at the published $4.99/domain/mo × 36 = $179.64. Domain is a separate registrar, about $10–23/yr. Offsite backup storage is $0.033/GB on Flexible — usage-based, so we don't invent a monthly backup total. Autonomous Small at the published $35/mo = $1,260; backups are included on Autonomous. JuJu $199/yr with leftover-time credit, domain, 10 mailboxes, and Redis included.
Leftover-time credit. Domain. Ten mailboxes. Price is the price.
Cloudways is a serious managed-cloud platform — DigitalOcean / Vultr / Linode / AWS / GCP, hourly billing, vertical scaling. If you want to pick a box and bolt things on, that's their product.
What they sell at $11 is a server. What they don't sell at $11 is the rest of a host. Email is Rackspace from $1/mailbox/mo. Domain registration isn't on the pricing or add-ons pages we opened — DNS Made Easy is DNS from $0.50/mo. Flexible offsite backups are $0.033/GB. Cloudflare Enterprise starts at $4.99/domain/mo. Malware protection starts at $4/app/mo. Advance Support is listed from $100/mo on the add-ons page (the pricing page also shows a $25/mo lifetime promo).
Their Copilot is 4 free credits on the cards we opened — a server/app monitor with SmartFix, not an engineer that builds the WordPress site. We put an AI site engineer on every site: a builder, a morning briefing, a copilot in the panel.
If you have time left on Cloudways, we add that time to your JuJu plan — up to 12 months, at our price. We don't write a check. Domain registration and yearly renewal, plus ten mailboxes, sit on the same $19.95 / $199 invoice. No 30% / 40% intro to explain later.
A different machine — and they can win on the box
10 GB NVMe, 256 MB PHP, one site, ten mailboxes. Their DigitalOcean Micro card is 2 GB RAM, 50 GB disk, unlimited apps on that server. We won't imply we're that box. We don't publish a visit cap; they don't meter visits on Flexible. Autonomous is built for high-traffic eCom and LMS — we are not.
This SKU is a brochure / SMB WordPress site — not a huge WooCommerce catalog, not a high-concurrency membership app, not a fleet of apps on one droplet. No contractual uptime SLA (we target 99.9%). Not white-label. Running several sites? Let's talk volume.
Leaving Cloudways?
Leftover-time credit, domain, 10 mailboxes. The price is the price.
60-day money-back on hosting · Cancel anytime · Free white-glove migration (typical 1–2 business days) · Leftover old-host time becomes JuJu time — up to 12 months, at our price
Hosting refund: first 60 days of the initial purchase, one guarantee refund per customer (Refund Policy). Domains already provisioned are not refunded.
