Cloudways vs Flightcontrol

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Cloudways

Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups

Flightcontrol

Your AWS infrastructure is managed by a seasoned devops team at a fraction of the cost
Excellent documentation and easy-to-use dashboard
Great developer experience: preview environments, rollbacks, notifications, monitoring
Deploy close to your users, supports 28 AWS regions

Price comparison

How do Cloudways's prices compare against Flightcontrol?

Example configuration	Cloudways	Flightcontrol
VM Small	$11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB)	--
VM Medium	$88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB)	--
VM Large	$149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB)	--
Managed Redis®*	Included depending on plan	--
Free egress allowance	1-12 TB / mo	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider)	--

Flightcontrol charges a fixed monthly fee to use their service in addition to the standard AWS usage costs. They claim this model gives you up to 75% lower costs at scale when compared to traditional PaaS offerings.

There are currently 4 plans available:

Free: limited to 1 user, but commercial use is allowed.
Starter $49/mo: includes 5 services and multiple users.
Business $249/mo: includes 10 services, preview environments, RBAC and multi-region.
Enterprise: custom pricing, SLAs, premium support.

Additional services cost $15-30/mo, depending on the plan.

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Cloudways and Flightcontrol offer:

Service	Cloudways	Flightcontrol
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry	--
Load Balancer	--
Managed Containers
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage	--
Serverless Cron Jobs	--
Static Sites	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Cloudways	Flightcontrol
Website	www.cloudways.com	flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012	2021
Data Center Locations	--	--
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane

	Cloudways
Website	www.cloudways.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko

	Flightcontrol
Website	flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane