Cloud & VPS · Comparison
Kinsta vs Cloudways for WordPress in the Philippines
Both manage WordPress hosting for you and both offer Singapore. They differ in how you pay: Kinsta sells plans by site and visits, Cloudways bills a cloud server by the hour.
| Kinsta | Cloudways (Flexible) | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Managed WordPress plans, priced by site count and resources | Managed servers on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud |
| Entry price | $35/mo (Single 20GB / Launch), regular price | $14/mo for a 1 GB DigitalOcean server; 2 GB $28, 4 GB $54 |
| Trial or promo | For new customers until 1 Dec 2026: first month free on select plans, then 50% off for 3 months | 5-day free trial without a card (not on AWS or Google Cloud) |
| Refunds | 30-day money-back guarantee, counted after any free period | See provider’s page |
| Asia locations | Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Batam | Singapore (DigitalOcean) plus other clouds’ Asia regions |
| Payment | Visa, Mastercard, Maestro, Amex, Discover. No PayPal. Billed in USD | Visa, Mastercard, Amex, PayPal |
| Uptime commitment | 99.9% stated | See provider’s page |
Prices and terms from each provider’s own pricing page, last checked 13 Nov 2026.
Pick Kinsta if
- You run a business WordPress site and want the host to handle almost everything, including migrations (Kinsta offers unlimited free migrations).
- You prefer a fixed monthly plan to a server you size yourself.
- You can pay by card: Kinsta does not take PayPal, and charges come from its UK branch, so enable international transactions on your card.
Pick Cloudways if
- You want a lower starting price and are happy to choose the server size.
- You want to try before paying: the trial needs no card.
- You want to pay with PayPal, or run several sites on one server.
Either way
Choose Singapore unless your visitors are elsewhere, then confirm with the ping tester. If you would rather run the server yourself, see WordPress on OpenLiteSpeed and CyberPanel.
Sources (checked 13 Nov 2026): Kinsta pricing, Kinsta billing FAQ, Kinsta data centres, Cloudways pricing.