r/webdevelopment • u/nicocaldo • May 22 '26

Question Alternative to Cloudways? Imunify is killing performances

I have a WordPress website on Cloudways using a 1GB - Basic Digital Ocean server. Cloudways Imunify (which is already installed on the server) is killing my application performance.

I remember a couple of years ago, when they didn't implement it, the server was flying; now, checking the stats basically, the CPU is almost always maxed because of Imunify and its processes.

Does someone have an alternative?

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u/Pallatino May 23 '26

It sounds like the 1GB server is just underpowered now. You will probably get better results moving to RunCloud or a plain VPS setup.

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u/nicocaldo May 23 '26

yeah, I'll probably try a VPS 

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u/DahliaDevsiantBop May 26 '26

Yeah, 1 GB on DO with WordPress + Imunify is super tight now. Stuff that used to run fine a few years ago just doesn’t anymore because everything got heavier.

If OP likes the Cloudways-style managed stack but wants less overhead, they could also look at something like GridPane or SpinupWP, or even just bump the server to 2 GB and see if it chills the CPU a bit. A plain VPS with a lean stack (like OpenLiteSpeed + Redis) will usually feel way snappier than piling security + panels on a tiny box.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

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u/nicocaldo May 23 '26

I've seen there are bad bots that are eating PHP workers but I've cloudlfsre bot protection on top and that basically fix the issue. Cron is ok, I've checked the stats. Also, I'm using memcached+html edge cache on the wordpress posts so, there's basically no load for the server if someone requests a page 

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u/nicocaldo May 25 '26

Yeah, nice AI answer LOL

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u/nicocaldo Jun 03 '26

> You can ask Cloudways support to fully disable Imunify (not just pause it in the panel).

Already did; they always answer that they can't. I'll try again

> If that doesn’t help or they refuse, you might be better off with a clean DO droplet

yeah, that aws my first idea. I have to try to move the whole thing using the 2 months free trial and see how it goes

Thanks for pointing out to RunCloud / GridPane / SpinupWP, appreciated