The Cloudways home dashboard: 1 server and 1 application in our account<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nInside our WordPress application, the menu lists Staging Management, Monitoring, Application Security, Domain Management, Site Manager, Cron Job Management, SSL Certificate, Backup and Restore, Deployment via GIT, Application Settings, Web Rules, Cloudflare (with a free trial) and Migration Tools. The Access Details page also shows database and Redis credentials, a Launch Database Manager button and a new Password Protection switch.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe application menu inside our Cloudways WordPress site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHow We Tested Cloudways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n We created a Flexible server on Vultr in Mumbai, India<\/strong> with 1 vCPU, about 2 GB of RAM and 50 GB of storage, then installed WordPress with the Conserve theme on cloudways.webhostbenchmark.com<\/span>. The application name in our account is GoogieWays and it was created on 24 October 2026. A network check over SSH confirmed the Mumbai location. We used these tools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nUptime and load time:<\/strong> HetrixTools checked the site every minute from New York, San Francisco, Singapore and Mumbai, starting 27 October 2026.<\/li>\n\n\n\nPage speed:<\/strong> Google PageSpeed Insights (Lighthouse) on mobile and desktop, and GTmetrix from Seattle.<\/li>\n\n\n\nNetwork speed:<\/strong> a TTFB test from 22 global locations, a DNS test and a network and response check.<\/li>\n\n\n\nServer power:<\/strong> a WordPress hosting benchmark plugin, Yet-Another-Bench-Script over SSH and Geekbench 6.<\/li>\n\n\n\nTraffic and security:<\/strong> a load test with 20 virtual users, SSL Labs and Security Headers scans.<\/li>\n\n\n\nBackups:<\/strong> the backup settings and an off-site backup in the Cloudways dashboard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nNote:<\/strong> We tested Cloudways support with a real ticket about SSH and ping access, and the support section also lists what Cloudways publishes on its own site. We did not test live chat in this round. Our test site is a small WordPress site, so results will differ for a heavy WooCommerce store.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCloudways Speed Test: Google PageSpeed Insights and GTmetrix<\/h2>\n\n\n\n This Cloudways speed test shows how a normal WordPress site performs. Speed matters because visitors leave slow sites and Google uses Core Web Vitals as a ranking signal. We ran Google PageSpeed Insights on 5 November 2026, and the results were excellent.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMetric<\/th> Mobile<\/th> Desktop<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Performance score<\/strong><\/td>99\/100<\/td> 100\/100<\/td><\/tr> First Contentful Paint (FCP)<\/td> 0.9 s<\/td> 0.3 s<\/td><\/tr> Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)<\/td> 0.9 s<\/td> 0.6 s<\/td><\/tr> Total Blocking Time (TBT)<\/td> 0 ms<\/td> 0 ms<\/td><\/tr> Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS)<\/td> 0<\/td> 0.01<\/td><\/tr> Speed Index<\/td> 3.0 s<\/td> 0.8 s<\/td><\/tr> Accessibility \/ Best Practices \/ SEO<\/td> 96 \/ 100 \/ 85<\/td> 96 \/ 100 \/ 85<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCloudways mobile PageSpeed score: 99\/100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCloudways desktop PageSpeed score: 100\/100<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAn LCP of 0.9 seconds on mobile is far inside Google\u2019s 2.5-second \u201cgood\u201d limit, and zero blocking time means the page responds instantly. The weakest number was the mobile Speed Index of 3.0 seconds, which better image handling can improve. SEO scored 85 because of site content, not hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloudways GTmetrix Test<\/h3>\n\n\n\n GTmetrix tests from Seattle, in the USA, which is a long way from our Mumbai server. That makes it a tougher test, and it still gave grade A<\/strong> with 88% performance and 92% structure on 4 November 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGTmetrix Metric<\/th> Result<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Grade<\/td> A<\/td><\/tr> Performance \/ Structure<\/td> 88% \/ 92%<\/td><\/tr> Largest Contentful Paint<\/td> 1.8 s<\/td><\/tr> Total Blocking Time \/ CLS<\/td> 0 ms \/ 0<\/td><\/tr> TTFB<\/td> 867 ms (connect 450 ms, backend 417 ms)<\/td><\/tr> First Contentful Paint<\/td> 1.2 s<\/td><\/tr> Fully loaded time<\/td> 2.3 s<\/td><\/tr> Page size \/ requests<\/td> 366 KB \/ 20<\/td><\/tr> Test location and tool<\/td> Seattle, WA, USA; Chrome 154 and Lighthouse 12.6.1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nGTmetrix from Seattle: grade A, LCP 1.8 s and a fully loaded time of 2.3 s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nGTmetrix listed five top issues: defer offscreen images, use explicit width and height on images, use a content delivery network, keep text visible while web fonts load and avoid chaining critical requests. The CDN point matches what we saw in the TTFB test below, because Flexible plans do not include a CDN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloudways Uptime and Response Time Test<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Uptime is the share of time your website is online. We added the test site to HetrixTools on 27 October 2026 and checked it every minute from four locations with a 10-second timeout. Here is what our Cloudways uptime monitoring showed:<\/p>\n\n\n\nCheck<\/th> Result<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Overall uptime<\/td> 100.0000%<\/td><\/tr> Last 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days<\/td> 100.0000% each<\/td><\/tr> Downtime<\/td> None recorded, every day from 30 October to 5 November was green<\/td><\/tr> Average load time<\/td> 523.46 ms<\/td><\/tr> New York<\/td> 881 ms recent, 785 ms current<\/td><\/tr> San Francisco<\/td> 750 ms recent, 723 ms current<\/td><\/tr> Singapore<\/td> 211 ms recent, 226 ms current<\/td><\/tr> Mumbai<\/td> 252 ms recent, 90 ms current<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHetrixTools: 100% uptime since 27 October 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nUptime was perfect, and the load time chart stayed flat at about 500 ms, with one brief spike near 1 November that touched about 1 second and recovered at once. The numbers follow distance: Singapore and Mumbai answered in 90 to 252 ms, while New York and San Francisco needed 723 to 881 ms, which is normal for a single server without a CDN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloudways TTFB Test From 22 Global Locations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Time to First Byte (TTFB) is how long a visitor waits before the first byte arrives. We tested our Mumbai server from 22 locations with a Flying TTFB test. Every location got a 200 response and a cache hit, so these numbers show how far the server is from each visitor, not how slow the site is.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRegion<\/th> Location<\/th> TTFB<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Asia<\/td> Mumbai, India<\/td> 38 ms<\/td><\/tr> Asia<\/td> Delhi, India<\/td> 102 ms<\/td><\/tr> Asia<\/td> Singapore<\/td> 249 ms<\/td><\/tr> Asia<\/td> Seoul, South Korea<\/td> 496 ms<\/td><\/tr> Asia<\/td> Tokyo, Japan<\/td> 542 ms<\/td><\/tr> Asia<\/td> Hong Kong, China<\/td> 543 ms<\/td><\/tr> Oceania<\/td> Sydney, Australia<\/td> 848 ms<\/td><\/tr> North America<\/td> Oregon, United States<\/td> 876 ms<\/td><\/tr> North America<\/td> Los Angeles, United States<\/td> 887 ms<\/td><\/tr> North America<\/td> Dallas, United States<\/td> 1,000 ms<\/td><\/tr> North America<\/td> Toronto, Canada<\/td> 1,078 ms<\/td><\/tr> North America<\/td> Iowa, United States<\/td> 1,089 ms<\/td><\/tr> South America<\/td> Santiago, Chile<\/td> 1,311 ms<\/td><\/tr> South America<\/td> S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/td> 1,519 ms<\/td><\/tr> Europe<\/td> London, United Kingdom<\/td> 1,348 ms<\/td><\/tr> Europe<\/td> Madrid, Spain<\/td> 1,367 ms<\/td><\/tr> Europe<\/td> Berlin, Germany<\/td> 1,426 ms<\/td><\/tr> Europe<\/td> Milan, Italy<\/td> 1,462 ms<\/td><\/tr> Europe<\/td> Finland<\/td> 1,545 ms<\/td><\/tr> Middle East<\/td> Tel Aviv, Israel<\/td> 1,628 ms<\/td><\/tr> Middle East<\/td> Doha, Qatar<\/td> 1,701 ms<\/td><\/tr> Africa<\/td> Johannesburg, South Africa<\/td> 1,926 ms<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCloudways TTFB test: 38 ms in Mumbai, 1.9 seconds in Johannesburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nImportant:<\/strong> A server in Mumbai is excellent for visitors in India and fine for Asia, but it is slow for Europe, the USA and Africa. Cloudways does not include a CDN on Flexible plans, so if your audience is global, add the Cloudflare add-on or pick a data center near most of your visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCloudways DNS Test<\/h3>\n\n\n\n DNS turns your domain name into an address. Our DNS test averaged 197 ms across four public resolvers<\/strong>, and the DNS change was fully propagated.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResolver<\/th> Time<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Google<\/td> 18 ms<\/td><\/tr> Cloudflare<\/td> 656 ms<\/td><\/tr> Quad9<\/td> 39 ms<\/td><\/tr> OpenDNS<\/td> 74 ms<\/td><\/tr> Nameservers<\/td> Not detected<\/td><\/tr> Propagation<\/td> Fully propagated<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDNS resolution: 197 ms on average, with Cloudflare the slowest at 656 ms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThree of the four resolvers answered in under 75 ms. The slow 656 ms from Cloudflare\u2019s resolver pulled the average up, and it is a one-time lookup that visitors\u2019 devices cache afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloudways Network and Response Test<\/h3>\n\n\n\nCheck<\/th> Result<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Status<\/td> 200 OK<\/td><\/tr> Response time \/ TTFB<\/td> 147 ms \/ 144 ms<\/td><\/tr> DNS lookup<\/td> 48 ms<\/td><\/tr> TCP connect<\/td> 65 ms<\/td><\/tr> TLS handshake<\/td> 109 ms<\/td><\/tr> HTTP version<\/td> HTTP\/2<\/td><\/tr> Compression<\/td> GZIP<\/td><\/tr> Server to download<\/td> 3 ms<\/td><\/tr> Transfer size<\/td> 22.4 KB<\/td><\/tr> Server and cache<\/td> Nginx, cache hit<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nNetwork and response: 144 ms TTFB with HTTP\/2, GZIP and a cache hit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe page came from Nginx over HTTP\/2 with GZIP compression, and a cache hit kept the TTFB at 144 ms. A small 22.4 KB transfer and a 3 ms download time show how light the cached page is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Page speed tests mostly measure the front end, so we also tested the server itself with a WordPress hosting benchmark plugin. It runs real workloads on the server and scores each one out of 10. Cloudways scored 6.2 out of 10<\/strong> overall on PHP 8.2.35.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTest Area<\/th> Highlights<\/th> Score Range<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> CPU & Memory<\/td> Large text data 6.21, random binary data 7.15, recursive math 3.85, iterative math 8.24, floating point 4.44<\/td> 3.85 to 8.24<\/td><\/tr> File System<\/td> Write ability 8.65, local file copy 9.23, small file I\/O 9.57<\/td> 8.65 to 9.57<\/td><\/tr> Database<\/td> Large data import 5.48, simple queries 8.93, complex queries 7.37, temporary disk tables 4.28<\/td> 4.28 to 8.93<\/td><\/tr> Object Cache<\/td> Persistent object cache enabled: 0<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> WordPress Core<\/td> Shortcodes 6.41, hooks 7.62, options 7.47, REGEX 6.46, taxonomy 6.87, object capability 6.54, content filtering 4.53, JSON 4.75<\/td> 4.53 to 7.62<\/td><\/tr> Compression<\/td> GZIP 8.46, Deflate 4.01, PHP serialize 6.96, maybe_serialize 6.09, Base64 10<\/td> 4.01 to 10<\/td><\/tr> Image Processing<\/td> Image resize 5.2, multiple thumbnails 3.61, format conversion 4.63, GD filters 5.91<\/td> 3.61 to 5.91<\/td><\/tr> Network<\/td> Download speed test<\/td> 6.87<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCloudways WordPress benchmark: 6.2\/10 server score<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe file system was the star, with scores from 8.65 to 9.57, and simple database queries and GZIP compression were strong too. The weak spots were the single vCPU, which dragged down recursive math at 3.85 and image work such as thumbnail generation at 3.61, and temporary disk tables at 4.28. A 1 vCPU, 2 GB server is the entry size, so a bigger plan will score higher. The plugin also noted that upgrading to PHP 8.4 can improve performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloudways Object Cache: Not Enabled by Default in Our Test<\/h3>\n\n\n\n A persistent object cache stores database query results in memory, so a dynamic WordPress or WooCommerce site does not rebuild the same data on every visit. In our benchmark the persistent object cache scored 0<\/strong>, which means it was not enabled on our site, even though the application shows Redis credentials in its Access Details page.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy it matters:<\/strong> Cloudways says its Flexible plans include a free Redis cache, and Object Cache Pro comes on servers with 4 GB of RAM and above. If you run WooCommerce or a membership site, turn the object cache on after setup, because it is the quickest win for dynamic pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat CPU Does Cloudways Use? Intel Xeon on Vultr, Checked Over SSH<\/h2>\n\n\n\n We ran the free Yet-Another-Bench-Script over SSH on our server and Geekbench 6 on the same machine. Here is what they reported:<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat We Checked<\/th> What the Server Reported<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Processor<\/strong><\/td>Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake)<\/td><\/tr> CPU cores our server sees<\/strong><\/td>1 core at about 2.99 GHz<\/td><\/tr> RAM, swap and disk<\/strong><\/td>1.9 GiB RAM, 2.3 GiB swap, 51.6 GiB disk<\/td><\/tr> AES-NI<\/strong><\/td>Enabled<\/td><\/tr> Operating system<\/strong><\/td>Debian GNU\/Linux 12 (bookworm), kernel 6.1.0-54<\/td><\/tr> Network<\/strong><\/td>IPv4 online, IPv6 offline; AS20473 The Constant Company, host Vultr Holdings LLC<\/td><\/tr> Location<\/strong><\/td>Mumbai, Maharashtra, India<\/td><\/tr> Server uptime when tested<\/strong><\/td>11 days, 21 hours, 53 minutes<\/td><\/tr> Geekbench 6.7.2<\/strong><\/td>Vultr VC2: single-core 1,023 and multi-core 992<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe server details from YABS: Vultr in Mumbai, 1 vCPU and 1.9 GiB RAM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCloudways Disk Speed (fio)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n The fio test mixes reads and writes 50\/50. Disk speed was very good for a small cloud server, and it explains the strong file system scores in the WordPress benchmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBlock Size<\/th> Read<\/th> Write<\/th> Total<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> 4k<\/td> 362.57 MB\/s (88.5k IOPS)<\/td> 363.53 MB\/s (88.7k IOPS)<\/td> 726.11 MB\/s (177.2k IOPS)<\/td><\/tr> 64k<\/td> 852.30 MB\/s (13.0k IOPS)<\/td> 856.79 MB\/s (13.0k IOPS)<\/td> 1.70 GB\/s (26.0k IOPS)<\/td><\/tr> 512k<\/td> 871.26 MB\/s (1.6k IOPS)<\/td> 917.55 MB\/s (1.7k IOPS)<\/td> 1.78 GB\/s (3.4k IOPS)<\/td><\/tr> 1m<\/td> 894.65 MB\/s (853 IOPS)<\/td> 954.23 MB\/s (910 IOPS)<\/td> 1.84 GB\/s (1.7k IOPS)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCloudways Network Speed (iperf3)<\/h3>\n\n\n\nProvider<\/th> Location<\/th> Send Speed<\/th> Receive Speed<\/th> Ping<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Clouvider<\/td> London, UK (10G)<\/td> 1.52 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 1.85 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 119 ms<\/td><\/tr> Eranium<\/td> Amsterdam, NL (100G)<\/td> 4.38 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 3.56 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 124 ms<\/td><\/tr> Uztelecom<\/td> Tashkent, UZ (10G)<\/td> 3.00 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 2.35 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 194 ms<\/td><\/tr> Leaseweb<\/td> Singapore, SG (10G)<\/td> 6.38 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 4.39 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 60.8 ms<\/td><\/tr> Clouvider<\/td> Los Angeles, CA, US (10G)<\/td> 648 Mbits\/sec<\/td> 852 Mbits\/sec<\/td> 239 ms<\/td><\/tr> Leaseweb<\/td> NYC, NY, US (10G)<\/td> 2.12 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 1.72 Gbits\/sec<\/td> 249 ms<\/td><\/tr> Edgoo<\/td> Sao Paulo, BR (1G)<\/td> busy<\/td> busy<\/td> 409 ms<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSingapore was the fastest route, with up to 6.38 Gbits\/sec at a 60.8 ms ping, and Europe was close behind. The Sao Paulo test server was busy, so it returned no speed. These tests use the server\u2019s own network, so they do not include the Cloudways dashboard layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloudways Geekbench 6 Result<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Geekbench 6.7.2 on the same Vultr VC2 server scored 1,023 in single-core and 992 in multi-core<\/strong>. It reported an Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processor with 1 core at 2.99 GHz, 32 KB L1 caches, 4 MB L2, 16 MB L3 cache, 1.92 GB of memory and AVX-512 support.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWorkload<\/th> Single-Core<\/th> Multi-Core<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> File Compression<\/td> 974<\/td> 928<\/td><\/tr> Navigation<\/td> 1,012<\/td> 1,130<\/td><\/tr> HTML5 Browser<\/td> 1,164<\/td> 1,023<\/td><\/tr> PDF Renderer<\/td> 1,143<\/td> 1,123<\/td><\/tr> Photo Library<\/td> 952<\/td> 1,048<\/td><\/tr> Clang<\/td> 1,305<\/td> 1,350<\/td><\/tr> Text Processing<\/td> 1,130<\/td> 1,055<\/td><\/tr> Asset Compression<\/td> 1,014<\/td> 727<\/td><\/tr> Object Detection<\/td> 952<\/td> 567<\/td><\/tr> Background Blur<\/td> 1,348<\/td> 1,347<\/td><\/tr> Horizon Detection<\/td> 1,210<\/td> 1,301<\/td><\/tr> Object Remover<\/td> 617<\/td> 686<\/td><\/tr> HDR<\/td> 1,118<\/td> 1,170<\/td><\/tr> Photo Filter<\/td> 616<\/td> 1,018<\/td><\/tr> Ray Tracer<\/td> 946<\/td> 934<\/td><\/tr> Structure from Motion<\/td> 1,048<\/td> 983<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nGeekbench 6 on our Cloudways server: 1,023 single-core, 992 multi-core<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe single-core and multi-core scores are nearly the same because the server has only one core. Clang and background blur were the strongest workloads, and object remover and photo filter were the weakest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloudways Load Test: How Does It Handle Traffic?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n We load tested the site with up to 20 virtual users over about five and a half minutes. The test sent 3,458 requests at an average of 10 requests per second<\/strong>, peaked at 13.58 requests per second and recorded zero HTTP failures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nLoad Test Metric<\/th> Result<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Virtual users<\/td> Up to 20<\/td><\/tr> Requests made<\/td> 3,458 (about 3.5K)<\/td><\/tr> Average request rate<\/td> 10 requests per second<\/td><\/tr> Peak request rate<\/td> 13.58 requests per second<\/td><\/tr> HTTP failures<\/td> 0<\/td><\/tr> 95th percentile response time<\/td> 850 ms<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCloudways load test: 0 failures and an 850 ms 95th percentile response time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe server held steady for the whole test, and the response time chart stayed between roughly 500 ms and 1.2 seconds without errors. Important:<\/strong> This is a cached WordPress page on a 1 vCPU server, so it shows how a small cached site behaves, not how a busy WooCommerce store would. For sustained heavy traffic, move to a bigger server size or the Autonomous plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCloudways Security Test: SSL Labs and Security Headers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Security is a big part of managed hosting, so we scanned the test site on 5 November 2026 with two standard tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cloudways SSL Labs Test: Grade A<\/h3>\n\n\n\nSSL Labs Check<\/th> Result<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Overall rating<\/td> A<\/td><\/tr> Certificate and protocol support<\/td> Full score in the chart<\/td><\/tr> Key exchange and cipher strength<\/td> About 90 out of 100<\/td><\/tr> TLS 1.3<\/td> Supported<\/td><\/tr> Post-quantum key exchange<\/td> Not supported<\/td><\/tr> SNI<\/td> Required, so the site works only in browsers with SNI support<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSSL Labs: grade A with TLS 1.3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nGrade A is a strong result and TLS 1.3 is supported. The only warning is that the server does not yet support post-quantum key exchange, which almost no hosts offer today. Cloudways includes a free Let\u2019s Encrypt SSL certificate on all Flexible plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Security Headers by Snyk gave the test site an A+<\/strong>, with six security headers present:<\/p>\n\n\n\nHeader<\/th> Value We Saw<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> X-Frame-Options<\/td> SAMEORIGIN<\/td><\/tr> X-Content-Type-Options<\/td> nosniff<\/td><\/tr> Content-Security-Policy<\/td> default-src ‘self’; script-src ‘self’; object-src ‘none’; base-uri ‘self’; frame-ancestors ‘none’<\/td><\/tr> Permissions-Policy<\/td> geolocation=(), microphone=(), camera=()<\/td><\/tr> Strict-Transport-Security<\/td> max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains<\/td><\/tr> Referrer-Policy<\/td> strict-origin-when-cross-origin<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSecurity Headers: A+ with all six headers present<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe raw headers also showed an Nginx server, an HTTP\/2 200 response, GZIP encoding and a cache hit with an age of 96,672 seconds, about 27 hours. The tool listed three upcoming headers that were not set: Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy, Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy and Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note:<\/strong> Headers such as Content-Security-Policy can also come from a plugin or the site\u2019s own configuration, so we do not count the A+ as a Cloudways default. The platform side of security is the firewall, free SSL, the WordPress vulnerability scanner and password protection that Cloudways lists on its plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCloudways Backups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Cloudways makes backups part of the server. The Backups page lets you choose the schedule, the frequency and how long copies are kept, and you can run an on-demand backup at any time. Our server used these settings:<\/p>\n\n\n\nBackup Setting<\/th> What We Saw<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Schedule time<\/td> 00:11 UTC<\/td><\/tr> Backup frequency<\/td> 1 day<\/td><\/tr> Backup retention<\/td> 1 week<\/td><\/tr> Local backups<\/td> Off (switch available)<\/td><\/tr> Off-site backup size<\/td> 113 MB, last updated 4 November 2026<\/td><\/tr> On-demand backup<\/td> Available with a Take Backup Now button<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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