Cloudways
vs
HIGHRESO
What's good about each
- Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
- Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
- Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups
- Flat-priced Node.js hosting with PostgreSQL on every plan
- GPUs from A4000 and A100 to H200 and B200
- Four company-owned GPU datacenters across Japan
- Data transfer included in instance pricing
- Japanese-language engineering support
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Cloudways | HIGHRESO | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $14.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $99.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $149.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | Included depending on plan | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 1-12 TB / mo | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (DO provider) | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
HIGHRESO offers 4 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Cloudways.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Cloudways | HIGHRESO |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2007 |
| Headquarters | USA | Japan |
| Locations | -- | 4 |
| Example customers | Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko | Senju Pharmaceutical, Nagase & Co., Tohoku University, Kyoto University, Waseda University, NTT PC Communications |
| Website | www.cloudways.com | highreso.jp |
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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for HIGHRESO on Sept. 18, 2026.