Get 14 Days Free Cloud Hosting on Digital Ocean via Cloudways

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Spoiler alert:

  • No credit card required
  • No technical skill required
  • Suggested for every blogger and web developer to get free cloud hosting.

Three months back I got to know about Cloudways, which is a managed platform to host your Website on cloud servers of Digital Ocean and Amazon cloud service. The first time when you bump into a new hosting, the big question is how should I trust this hosting. Usually, we Google about the hosting in search engine try to read reviews and most of the time results are good and bad reviews.

Isn’t it simpler to try the hosting before you buy it? That’s how I got hooked to Cloudways and after giving it a test-ride finally I have become a paid customer to their hosting.

In my story, I first signed up for a free hosting account with them which let me host my site on Digital ocean server for one month, and moreover, I got to know about the hosting quality itself. Not to forget this detailed guide by Rajiv where he shared WordPress installation guide on cloud servers and if you are a non-developer like me, you would think it’s some rocket science.

To cut the long story short, hosting your website on Cloud server have various advantages and this I will cover in the next post of this series. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can get 14 days complete free cloud hosting on Digital-Ocean and what all you can do. Especially if you are someone who has waited to try the power of Cloud servers, this is your golden chance. Or, if you are looking forward to test drive WordPress or any other popular CMS this article is for you.

So, without waiting any more time, let’s go ahead and let me show you how you can enjoy the power of cloud-server in next 10 minutes.

7 Minute guide to get free Digital Ocean Cloud Server on Cloudways

  • Head over to Cloudways Homepage and on the home-page enter your email to start your free-trial.
  • You can also click on enter promo code and enter “ShoutMeLoud” as promo coupon, this will be beneficial when you upgrade to upper plan at the later stage to get some discount. (This coupon part is completely optional).

Free Trial Digital Ocean
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Clicking on free-trial will take you to the signup page which will look something like this. Here add your phone number and click on send me the verification code.

Cloudways verification
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Within seconds, you will receive a verification code which you need to enter to complete the verification process, and it’s time to check your Email inbox for the login details of your Cloudways account. Here is a screenshot of the Email that you will receive:

Cloudways confirm email
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Now click on “Click here to set your password” and set your password for the account. Once you are done setting the password, click on login on the same page or go to https://clickngo.cloudways.com and login with your eMail address and password.

Last three steps to your free Digital Ocean server with Installed WordPress

On Digital ocean server you can take 30 days free trial and on Amazon EC2 you can take three days free-trial account. Here are trial offer details:

DigitalOcean

  • One server with 30 days Free Trial
  • 512 MB or 1 GB Server size packages with up to 2TB Bandwidth
  • The US, Europe, and Asia
  • Please note that if you do not perform any activity on your server for five days, it will be paused, and if your server remains inactive for eight consecutive days then it will be automatically terminated.

Amazon EC2

  • One server with 3 days Free Trial
  • Small Plan ( Dedicated server with 1.7 GB RAM ) with 100GB Max Disk size for Web files and Databases
  • US. Northern Virginia

I would suggest you to go for Digital-Ocean as it offers 14 days trial. This would give you ample amount of time to test your application (WordPress, Drupal or any other) and to understand the dashboard of Cloudways.

Now Click on I know my server size and scale the server to 1GB RAM. And this will be your server configuration:

1GB RAM, 30GB SSD Disk, 2TB Transfer, 1 Core Processor

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You have the option to select your server location from multiple options, and I would pick the nearest location from your target audience. For example, if your site is for U.S. Traffic then pick New York, For Indian traffic pick Singapore and so on.

Note: You can anytime scale up or scale down your server configuration at the later stage. I will write a tutorial for the same in my next post in this series.

Click on “Start 14 days free trial” and it will take around 5-6 minutes to prepare your application.

Just to let you know, Cloudways work as a management console for your Website or application hosted on Digital Ocean or Amazon cloud server. They have their layer of the architect which makes it easier for any one without any technical skills to host high performing website (WordPress blog or any other platform) or applications.

I would not break the curiosity here, as once you are done creating all the above steps, you would be amazed to see something new and refreshing.

Testing Cloud server on DO
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Once your server is configured, you will see a screen like above screenshot and here click on Manage server to see your login details of WordPress blog that you have just installed on your Digital Ocean server via Cloudways.

WordPress blog on Cloudways
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Your WordPress blog at this moment is on sub-domain of Cloudways server, and you can scroll down on the same page to link it with any of the domain name you have. I will be sharing those steps in another post but for now, you have already learned how you can get free DigitalOcean cloud server in 12 minutes.

You can also add as many applications ( More WordPress blog or multi-site WordPress by clicking on Add Application) on the same server, or to the same account, you can add more cloud-server to your account. Overall if you are someone who is accustomed to cPanel or WHMCS or Plesk, you would love this customized panel of Cloudways and how easy they have made it for any user like you and me to host our website on cloud-server without the need of any technical skills. Moreover, they are also offering free migration service for a limited time, which you can avail after taking this test-ride of their service.

Get Your Free CloudWays account without Credit card (Coupon code: ShoutMeLoud)

Go ahead and enjoy the power of Cloud server and I assure that you would love it. Don’t forget to share this irresistible offer with your friends on Facebook, Twitter and Google plus.

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

20 thoughts on “Get 14 Days Free Cloud Hosting on Digital Ocean via Cloudways”

  1. Siddharth Rawat

    Thanks for your recommendation sir. I’m now using cloudways and it’s working good. I was using Hostgator before and I can feel the difference in the speed.

  2. David

    Would using their Vultr platform be good also? I noticed that for an identical price, Cloudways offers 1GB of RAM and more storage with Vultr when compared to Digital Ocean’s 512RAM . I am not a big wordpress user, nor a techie, but I feel having more memory wouldn’t hurt.

  3. Amit

    I used cloudways, I don’t think it secure server tech team can use my account without user name and password.

    I want to ask Harish is it right to use any account without taking permission

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @Amit
      This is most common practice among managed hosting providers. They do it to reduce the time on support.

  4. Arkaprava Majumder

    I have ~1,20,000 visitors monthly on my site. Can you please suggest, which plan (digital ocean) should be suitable for me.

  5. Navajit

    Hi Harsh,

    Thanks for your inputs. I do have following questions in my mind:
    No1# Say, my traffic will be from India…so if I host my site with Hostgator India , will it be advantageous for me for the fact that the site will be fast in India ? I could experience their softaculous auto installer provided with HG India takes less than a minute to install ecommerce OS softwares like prestashop.
    No#2:- I am a non-techy person but tried DigitalOcean to spin up a server and install PrestaShop. To be frank…I simply failed as so many steps to be followed…which is not simple for starters like me. I wish digital ocean could have auto installers within their panel!

    Now..kindly guide me…where to continue… with Hostagtor india or Digitalocean singapore. ( I tried business plan of HG india for two months @695/-pm+tax and could get complementary dedicated IP+ SSL but still confused whether to continue wid HG or wid DO).
    Please put your valued comments and guide us .

  6. Nuthan

    I need a good WordPress hosting with lower price to host my clients sites. I think both digital ocean and amazon are costlier if it comes to multiple wordpress hosting.

  7. Chetan Bhasin

    Interesting. Have you tried Openshift. They have a free three small gear plan. It’s not too much, but for those who look for free hosting accounts, I think it’s better to get a taste of cloud with it before diving deeper inside.

  8. gurvi

    Hi harsh,
    I have heard about the cloud hosting features and also read about the top cloud hosting sites. In cloud hosting the most beneficial point is that you can expand the server for some time in case of traffic burst on your site. The free cloud hosting site you have provided, I am eager to try this,

  9. I. C. Daniel

    “We will pay you double if you are not happy.”
    CloudWays seems to be very confident on their services. Nice!

  10. Navneet

    Tried Cloudways yesterday , they are good , however what i noticed is there are multiple limitations attached to it. They deny to give root access which is required for many operations if you want to play with your server. And you really cannot have private nameservers(if you want). Moreover they don’t allow Cpanel , VestaCP and any panel. You are forced to use their management panel. Now when it comes to mail servers they provide no support and when i asked and confirmed with them , i was shocked , they asked me to pay 2 USD a month for it as they provide rackspace email hosting. Only way to send mail free is using their gmail addon. and you can’t have free mail hosting on their server. I think these are very basic functionality which a startup blogger would also require and are also available on shared hosts. I signed up with them yesterday and now bogged down with their limitations.

  11. Virendar Warwal

    Hi! I signed up for Cloudways trial 1 month,

    I have added a domain name to it.

    I want to know how to redirect root domain to subdomain (example.com to http://www.example.com) on Cloudways I have tried everything but not working and when I open my site like http://www.example.com it got stuck at white screen how do may I solve this problem? Help me I want to redirect it to www .

    Thanks!

    1. Navneet

      Virendar to achieve this , you have to perform following steps : First create [A] nameservers on your domain registrar with both www and non www and point them to your server ip, which can be found under app management in cloudways panel. After this add your domain to cloudways apps , if you done it then skip this step.
      Now login to wordprwess and goto Settings > General
      and here chenge WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to http://www.example.com and now login again , thats it 😀

  12. Dave

    We moved from WPEngine to Cloudways and have been very happy with the performance. At first, we tested Cloudways by taking advantage of their free trial offer, mentioned here, and went with Digital Ocean. We were very pleased with WPEngine, however, we were quickly outgrowing the Professional plan and would have to upgrade to their business plan at $249.00 per-month.

    WPEngine offers unlimited data transfer, but places limits on visitors. Our plan was limited to 100,000 monthly visits. WPEngine includes bots as visitors, and bots represented about 30 per-cent of our visitors.

    We just upgraded our Coudways trail to a paid version with double to server resources and performance is incredible. We’re seeing vast performance improvements over WPEngine at 1/3 the cost.

    We still have lots of room in out budget to increase our server size on Cloudways as it’s required, and still remain well under the costs we would incur at WPEngine.

    I’d like to be clear about WPEngine – they have a great worry-free dedicated WordPress hosting service. But they need to improve their hosting plans now that the competition is offering equal or superior performance at a fraction of the cost.

  13. Navneet

    Are you also using digital ocean now ? They are damm good , btw i never heard about cloudways , i just checked now but their pricing plans do not mention their fees , like for 512 MB ram on DO we have to pay 5USD a month , but how much they charge ??

  14. Rohit Dwivedula

    This service doesn’t appear to have servers in India….

    I have seen many advertisements about Host Gator’s $0.01(one penny) hosting advertisements. Do you have any idea whether they are good?

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @Rohit
      Digital ocean and Hostgator are world apart in terms of server quality and support. You can host on Singapore here as that is nearest server from India.

  15. Parampreet Chanana

    I tried setuping the Digital ocean two time, Don’t know. How to do that, I know Digital Ocean is Super fast, I Tried Installing Kloxo everytime but getting problem in Solving DNS Issue.

    Is there any guide to Solve that and setup it properly?

    1. Harsh Agrawal

      @Prampreet
      In this case you should try Cloudways, as it will make the setup process easy with their GUI interface.

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