Cloudways
vs
Hot Aisle
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
- Single-GPU MI300X VMs, billed per minute
- Full 8x MI300X bare metal with root access
- 3.2 Tb/s RoCEv2 networking on bare metal nodes
- Datacenter powered by 100% renewable energy
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Cloudways | Hot Aisle | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $88.00 /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
Hot Aisle offers 1 GPU model. We track no GPU listings from Cloudways. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Cloudways | Hot Aisle | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
MI300X
7 configs
|
-- | $3.39 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | Hot Aisle only |
Hot Aisle bills on-demand and reserved (1 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Cloudways | Hot Aisle |
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers | ||
| Managed MySQL | ||
| Managed Redis®* | ||
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Cloudways | Hot Aisle |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2023 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 1 |
| Example customers | Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko | -- |
| Website | www.cloudways.com | hotaisle.xyz |
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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Hot Aisle on Oct. 1, 2026.