Autonomous currently supports WordPress & Woocommerce applications.

High availability in WordPress hosting refers to a hosting solution’s ability to operate continuously, without any disruptions, even in the face of hardware or software failures. This is achieved through server redundancy, load balancing and failover mechanisms. Autonomous’s infrastructure has a 99.9% uptime SLA, which helps ensure your website is always accessible to your customers.

The static content is cached through Cloudflare CDN for quick delivery from the nearest data center, and dynamic content is cached through Cloudflare’s Edge caching which stores web pages at the edge. Additionally, database queries are cached using Object Cache Pro, reducing database load and enhancing performance under varying traffic conditions.

Although we don’t provide a trial for Autonomous yet, our hourly billing model offers flexibility. You can easily activate & deactivate Auto at your convenience, and you’ll only be charged for the plan up until the time of deactivation. For example, if you subscribe to the $35 plan and use it for 5 days you’ll be charged approximately $5.83 (the calculation is based on a 30-day month). Learn more about the hourly billing here

The resources continue to scale even if you hit your plan limit on any of the allocated resources and as a result your website remains up & running. You will incur small overage fees based on your additional usage: $1 per 10 GB of extra bandwidth, $1 per 1,000 additional visits, and $2 per 1 GB of extra disk space. Learn more about pricing here.

Autonomous’s pricing operates on a plan based system with each plan offering a specific allocation of Sites, Visits, Bandwidth & Disk Space plus overages for additional visits, bandwidth & disk space. The billing is on an hourly basis which makes upgrading, downgrading or deactivating a plan very easy. You will only be charged for a certain plan until you are subscribed to it. As soon as you switch to a different Autonomous plan, the billing transitions to the new plan’s hourly rate from that moment. If you choose to deactivate your subscription, the billing stops entirely. You can learn about Autonomous’s pricing in depth in this KB.

A greater number of PHP workers are important for high-traffic WordPress sites, dynamic websites, as they allow for more simultaneous request processing, reducing wait times and improving overall site performance, especially during traffic surges.

Since the scaling is automatic and horizontal, you should expect no downtime during the scaling.

Autonomous is a completely hands-off solution designed for users who would rather not deal with server choices, configurations, and traffic fluctuations. With Autonomous, it’s all managed and taken care of with a robust Kubernetes infrastructure tailored for high availability WordPress Hosting and high traffic WordPress Hosting with built-in load balancing .

Cloudways regular managed hosting is for users who like their hosting managed but with control over their cloud provider and servers;, they can host more than WordPress here, including custom PHP, Laravel and Magento.

You can learn the difference in pricing models for both here.

Autonomous is a fully-managed infinitely scalable WordPress hosting capable of scaling resources up & down on its own as per traffic needs. It doesn’t limit you on the number of PHP workers nor include hassles of manually scaling your resources or contacting support when you need to scale up.

True autoscaling offers complete peace of mind in the face of expected and unexpected heavy traffic. You don’t need to manually upgrade/downgrade your servers or plans during and after traffic. Your website will automatically adjust resources within seconds based on traffic demand for smooth operation.

Cloudways Autonomous leverages the power of Kubernetes for WordPress autoscaling. Instead of being confined to a single server, your website is distributed across multiple pods.These pods are capable of automatically scaling horizontally (up & down) in response to changes in traffic The system automatically spins up additional pods when traffic increases, and scales down pods when traffic decreases, optimizing resource use.

With Cloudways Autonomous, your application always has the right amount of resources available for a smooth and consistent user experience.

Yes, Cloudways offers managed migrations with 1 free migration. Alternatively, you can choose to migrate your site to Cloudways Autonomous with our free migrator plugin as well.