Cloudways on new websites
Managed application hosting (acquired by DigitalOcean).
- Sites using Cloudways
- 8,380
- since Apr 2026
- Last 30 days
- 0.1%
-
of new sites, to Oct 18
-0.1 pts on the 30 days before - Last 7 days
- 0.1%
- of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
| In our data since | Apr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Last seen | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Website | cloudways.com |
What we found
- Cloudways appeared on about 2,300 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
- Almost all new Cloudways sites also use PHP.
- It is unusually common among productivity launches: 19%, against 4.9% across new sites.
Share of new sites using Cloudways
The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Cloudways, since 10 September.
Who uses Cloudways
| Type | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | 340 | 19.1% | |
| Health | 315 | 17.7% | |
| E-commerce | 203 | 11.4% | |
| Finance | 178 | 10.0% | |
| Education | 165 | 9.3% | |
| Marketing | 98 | 5.5% | |
| Content | 91 | 5.1% | |
| AI | 75 | 4.2% | |
| Developer Tools | 61 | 3.4% | |
| Games | 60 | 3.4% | |
| Directory | 53 | 3.0% | |
| Social | 53 | 3.0% |
| Country | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
 South Korea |
399 | 24.9% | |
 US |
338 | 21.1% | |
 UK |
311 | 19.4% | |
 Canada |
114 | 7.1% | |
 Australia |
83 | 5.2% | |
 Ireland |
43 | 2.7% | |
 New Zealand |
43 | 2.7% | |
 Brazil |
40 | 2.5% | |
 India |
39 | 2.4% | |
 Spain |
34 | 2.1% | |
 France |
25 | 1.6% | |
 Sweden |
21 | 1.3% |
| Ending | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 6,411 | 76.5% | |
| .uk | 337 | 4.0% | |
| .org | 262 | 3.1% | |
| .net | 171 | 2.0% | |
| .ca | 157 | 1.9% | |
| .online | 134 | 1.6% | |
| .co | 109 | 1.3% | |
| .site | 90 | 1.1% | |
| .au | 80 | 1.0% | |
| .in | 65 | 0.8% | |
| .nz | 63 | 0.8% | |
| .ie | 55 | 0.7% |
| Sites | Green | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudways | 43% | |
| All new sites | 47% |
Hosting on new sites
| # | Movement | Tool | Share of category[4] | Bar | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – |
Vercel
|
32.7% | ||
| 2 | – |
Hostinger
|
21.5% | ||
| 3 | – |
Netlify
|
12.0% | ||
| 4 | ▼1 |
GitHub Pages
|
4.8% | ||
| 5 | ▲1 |
IONOS
|
4.5% | ||
| … | |||||
| 21 | ▲2 |
Cloudways
|
0.3% | ||
All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Hosting tool. Among September launches it ranked #19 in Hosting, up from #21 in August. All 4771 in Hosting
Often used with Cloudways
Recently launched products built on Cloudways
189 of the 8,380 sites using Cloudways are product launches we list individually. The other 8,191 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.
Switzerland
Showing the most recent 12 of 189.
Watches, exports and the API give you all 8,380 sites using Cloudways, from £15 a month.
Notes
- These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
- Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
- Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
- Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: CDN.
How this page is made
FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards Cloudways when we detect Cloudways on it at that look.
Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies · How we find new sites