Bare Metal Solution vs Cloudways: Complete Comparison (2026)
An in-depth comparison of Bare Metal Solution and Cloudways to help you choose the right tool for your business.
Last updated: November 2026
Bare Metal Solution
5.6/10
Google Cloud service that provides dedicated, single-tenant physical servers in regional extensions for Oracle and other specialized enterprise workloads, connected to Google Cloud.
Cloudways
7/10
Managed cloud hosting platform that runs WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, Laravel and PHP apps on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud servers.
Feature-by-Feature Comparison
| Feature | B Bare Metal Solution | |
|---|---|---|
| Scores | ||
| Overall Rating | 5.6/10 | 7/10 |
| Integration | 8/10 | 7/10 |
| Support | 6/10 | 6/10 |
| Cost | 3/10 | 6/10 |
| Customization | 7/10 | 6/10 |
| Security | 7/10 | 8/10 |
| Reliability | 7/10 | 8/10 |
| Ease of Use | 3/10 | 8/10 |
| Analytics | 4/10 | 7/10 |
| Scalability | 5/10 | 7/10 |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | No | No |
| Cheapest paid plan | Contact for pricing | $14/mo Flexible Micro (DigitalOcean) |
| Estimated cost for 10 users | Contact for pricing | $14/mo Flexible Micro (DigitalOcean) |
| Features | ||
| Managed WordPress | ||
| API and CLI | ||
| Automatic Backups | ||
| Multiple Regions | ||
| Cloud Compute | Not listed | |
| Content Delivery Network | Not listed | |
| DDoS Protection | Not listed | |
| Dedicated Servers | Not listed | |
| Free SSL Certificates | Not listed | |
| Git Deployments | Not listed | |
| Shared Hosting | Not listed | |
| Uptime SLA | Not listed | |
| VPS Hosting | Not listed | |
Bare Metal Solution vs Cloudways cost by team size
| Team size | Bare Metal Solution | Cloudways |
|---|---|---|
| 1 user | Contact for pricing | $14/moFlexible Micro (DigitalOcean) |
| 5 users | Contact for pricing | $14/moFlexible Micro (DigitalOcean) |
| 10 users | Contact for pricing | $14/moFlexible Micro (DigitalOcean) |
| 25 users | Contact for pricing | $14/moFlexible Micro (DigitalOcean) |
| 50 users | Contact for pricing | $14/moFlexible Micro (DigitalOcean) |
The plan that fits each team size, billed monthly, before add-ons and usage charges. Each cost opens that tool's pricing calculator for the team size.
Which One Should You Choose?
BWhy choose Bare Metal Solution
- Higher Integration score (8/10 vs 7/10)
- Higher Customization score (7/10 vs 6/10)
Why choose Cloudways
- Higher Ease of Use score (8/10 vs 3/10)
- Higher Cost score (6/10 vs 3/10)
- Better fit for small business (7/10 vs 1/10)
- Includes Managed WordPress, which Bare Metal Solution lacks
Pros & Cons
BBare Metal Solution
Pros
- Single-tenant physical servers let Oracle BYOL be counted on physical cores, with no soft-partitioning risk.
- Low-latency, Google-managed interconnect to Google Cloud services, with no reported same-region transfer charges.
- A wide range of server sizes, including an 8-core option for licence right-sizing and up to 24 TB memory systems.
- A 99.9% uptime SLO per server, with credits of 10% to 50% of the monthly bill when it is missed.
- Available in 12 regions across four continents.
Cons
- No public pricing; every deployment goes through sales on a multi-year subscription.
- Customers handle OS licensing, patching, security and database administration; Google manages only the hardware and network.
- Storage volumes cannot be expanded after provisioning, and jumbo frames are not supported on VLAN attachments.
- Production deployments have historically needed four to eight weeks of lead time.
- Very few public user reviews (G2 lists only 4).
Cloudways
Pros
- You can choose from five cloud providers and more than 50 locations from one control panel.
- Hourly pay-as-you-go billing, with a 5-day trial that needs no credit card.
- Every server includes free SSL, Layer 3 and 4 DDoS mitigation, a firewall and offsite backups.
- Agencies get one-click staging, cloning and Git auto-deployment for many client sites.
- Ratings are strong, at about 4.7 on G2 and 4.6 on Trustpilot.
Cons
- Email hosting and domain registration are not included.
- Billing gets hard to track once add-ons and bandwidth overages are added, and some reviewers report charges after cancelling.
- Some reviewers say support quality has dropped since the DigitalOcean acquisition.
- Power users report limited low-level control.
- Phone support requires a paid premium support add-on.
Not sold on either?
Frequently Asked Questions
Cloudways scores higher on our Hosting & Infrastructure criteria: 7/10 against 5.6/10 for Bare Metal Solution. The largest gap is in Ease of Use: 3/10 for Bare Metal Solution and 8/10 for Cloudways.
No, neither Bare Metal Solution nor Cloudways lists a free plan.
Cloudways is the better fit for small business: we rate it 7/10 for them, against 1/10 for Bare Metal Solution.
Cloudways has Managed WordPress, which Bare Metal Solution lacks.
