Cloudways is usually described as best for managed cloud and developers. That is a fair description. Here is where we differ.
What Queantic does that a host does not
- Nothing to set up. No server, no cPanel, no WordPress install, no PHP version to pick. You choose a template and the site is live on an address with SSL already issued.
- Mailboxes are part of the plan. Real mail at your own address, as many as you need, on every plan — not a per-mailbox add-on and not a trial that lapses.
- Analytics are already wired in. Not a plugin you install and a dashboard you learn: the numbers arrive with the site, and they are written as what to change on which page, in order of impact.
- Traffic is not a bill. You pay for pages, never for visitors, so a good week never turns into an overage.
Where each of us fits
Cloudways
- You choose a cloud provider and a server size, then scale it
- Staging, SSH and deployment tools aimed at developers
- Billing follows the server you provisioned, hourly or monthly
- Email is an add-on, usually through a third party
- The site on top of it is entirely your responsibility
Queantic
- No provider to choose and no server size to guess at
- Built for the person who wants a site, not a stack
- One flat monthly price that does not follow a server
- Mail at your own address included on every plan
- Analytics and growth recommendations come with the site
Questions worth asking either of us
We would rather you decide on answers than on adjectives. These are the questions that actually separate hosting plans, and you should put all of them to us as well as to Cloudways.
- What does it cost on renewal, not in the first term?
- Who installs the updates, and who is responsible when one breaks the site?
- What happens to the bill on the week the site does unusually well?
- How many mailboxes are included, and what do they cost after that?
- When traffic arrives, what tells me which page to change next?
Cloudways is a good choice if you want a server and you are happy to run what sits on it. Queantic is the better choice if you would rather not have a server at all — and would rather the site told you what to fix next.
We describe Cloudways at the level of how their kind of hosting works, not their current plans — those change, and we would rather send you to check than tell you something stale. Everything stated about Queantic is what our plans do today.