CloudFyre as a brand was founded by Caffeinated Projects in 2014, when they first released a subscription version of their in house managed WordPress hosting platform they had been using for their clients.
The founders who are WordPress veterans started building client sites using the CMS right from the outset and have contributed widely to the platform ever since. The platform has become especially popular with businesses and agencies thanks to easy workflows and time saving tools.
They have datacenters in the following 15 worldwide locations:
- New York City, United States
- San Francisco, United States
- Freemont, United States
- Atlanta, United States
- Newark, United States
- Dallas, United States
- Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- London, United Kingdom
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Toronto, Canada
- Bangalore, India
- Mumbai, India
- Singapore
- Tokyo, Japan
- Sydney, Australia
Platform Features
They provide several different plans depending on what your need. The smallest plan Personal comes with 5GB local storage, 25GB bandwidth and is recommended for 10,000 visits per month, which is great for bloggers and small site owners.
These specifications can be upgraded larger plans that can host up to 150 sites with up to 1.5TB of bandwidth and up to 1TB of local storage. This plan is perfect for enterprise businesses that have multiple sites and agencies that look after their client sites.
All plans come with 1TB of DDoS protection along with malware scanning and removal to make sure that your site is protected at all times. Newbies and expert developers alike love the platform that have been custom built for WordPress and is intuitive and easy to use. They also have one-click website deployment to make sure your site set up is all smooth sailing.
CloudFyre’s hosting platform includes:
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Free website migrations
- Free ‘Lets Encrypt’ SSL certificates
- Server Level Caching
- Automated 24hr backups
- 99.97% Uptime Guarantee
- Built-in Global CDN
- Plugin/ Core Update Manager
- Malware Scanning & Removal
- 99.97% Uptime Guarantee
- 24/7/365 Live Chat Support
Pricing
CloudFyre’s WordPress hosting plans are not that much more expensive than basic shared hosting. And unlike shared hosting providers their WordPress specific hosting infrastructure means your site will be on average 45% faster than if it was hosted on shared hosting.
Meaning, you get more visitors and higher conversion rates for everything from product purchases and enquires to mailing list signups.
Take a look at these recent results:
- Budget shared hosting load time: 3.60 secs
- CloudFyre load time: 1.97 secs (that’s 45% faster)
In this test, a basic GeneratePress site was added on a shared hosting HostGator account. We then compared this site to one we created with an identical configuration but this time hosted on the CloudFyre platform (Personal Plan).
The sites were also tested with GTmetrix where we saw similar improvements.
From the above test it is clear that by upgrading from shared hosting to a faster dedicated WordPress hosting service like CloudFyre can have an massive effect on speeding up your site’s loading time.
When you factor in user experience and conversion rate improvements, you can see what can be uplifted just from increasing your site speed.
The hosting package also includes free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates and also has a 7 day free trial.
Support
It’s also worth noting that they offer free site migrations which are typically completed within 24hrs of you making the request to support.
With CloudFyre’s multiple hosting plans, you can select to pay monthly or annually with the annual option offering 2 months free hosting.
If you want self-support, there are detailed walkthroughs and how to’s in the knowledge base.
Otherwise, there is also 24/7 fast live chat support and support tickets available.
Bottom line
How much does CloudFyre cost?
There are plans available from £4.99 to £999.99, so cover a wide range of hosting needs.
Which CloudFyre plan is right for me?
You should start with a plan that just about fits your needs, you can always upgrade later if you need to as there’s no need to move your sites, you just click the upgrade button and your set.
CloudFyre is a smaller, WordPress specific hosting provider, even though these days they have over 10,000 customers. That is still considered small compared to general hosting providers, so as a customer, you are more important to them and their fast support team certainly bears this out.
CloudFyre is a specialist WordPress hosting provider and has 24/7/365 support available on live chat and support tickets.
CloudFyre offers a great service at very reasonable rates, but can it compete with the top hosting companies?
Well, it certainly does in our book!
