Cloudways
Direct (also listed on Awin, merchant ID 89935)
Up to $125 per sale with 90-day cookie
Managed cloud hosting platform with simplified deployment
Cloudways pays up to $125 per sale (tiered slab model), or a hybrid $30 upfront + 7% lifetime recurring, through a program you apply to directly. There is no reward for the referred customer. Verified 22 Aug 2026 from Cloudways's own published material.
Paid when
Referred customer signs up and becomes a paying subscriber.
Payment delay
Initial commission stays pending until the referred customer upgrades to a paid plan and pays two full invoices.
Minimum payout
$250 approved commission for PayPal; $100 for transfer to a Cloudways hosting account credit; $1,000+ for wire transfer.
Click counts for
90-day cookie
Your commission
Up to $125 per sale (tiered slab model), or a hybrid $30 upfront + 7% lifetime recurring
Customer incentive
Nothing
The terms that decide whether you get paid
Paid whenReferred customer signs up and becomes a paying subscriber.
DurationSlab model pays a one-time flat bounty per sale; Hybrid model ($30 + 7%) pays the 7% share as a recurring lifetime commission for as long as the referred customer stays subscribed.
Attribution window90-day cookie
Payment delayInitial commission stays pending until the referred customer upgrades to a paid plan and pays two full invoices.
Payment scheduleMonthly, transferred during the last week of each month once the threshold is met.
Minimum payout$250 approved commission for PayPal; $100 for transfer to a Cloudways hosting account credit; $1,000+ for wire transfer.
Payout formPayPal, wire transfer, or credit applied directly to a Cloudways hosting account.
Must you be a customerNo — anyone can create a Cloudways account and register as an affiliate without being a paying hosting customer.
Important
A flat $125 commission is a solid one-time payout for a hosting referral, and the unbounded flag suggests no cap on total earnings across referrals. The program is direct (sign up in your Cloudways account), with a confirmed 90-day cookie, but commission is held back until the referral pays two full invoices, and self-referral policy is not published.
Verified - $30 + 7% lifetime or up to $125 tiered, 90-day cookie, Awin network
What you would be selling
A $125 flat, uncapped-across-referrals payout per customer via Awin, for a single hosting product.
Cloudways is one brand with 1 product, bought by different people. What one converted customer is worth cannot be worked out for any of them: that needs a rate, a plan price and a commission window, and this program does not publish all three.
Not published
The commission has no stated end, so it has no total.
cloud compute
Cloud Hosting
Managed hosting on DigitalOcean, AWS, Linode, Vultr
Bought by Web developers and agencies
Growth
Everything Cloudways publishes about how the commission is earned and paid. A term shown as not researched is one Cloudways does not publish, not one that does not apply.
How it pays
Route inDirect signup: create a free Cloudways account, then complete the Affiliate profile form from the account dashboard. Cloudways is also listed as a merchant on the Awin network (merchant ID 89935).
DurationSlab model pays a one-time flat bounty per sale; Hybrid model ($30 + 7%) pays the 7% share as a recurring lifetime commission for as long as the referred customer stays subscribed.
Attribution window90-day cookie
Payment delayInitial commission stays pending until the referred customer upgrades to a paid plan and pays two full invoices.
Payment scheduleMonthly, transferred during the last week of each month once the threshold is met.
Minimum payout$250 approved commission for PayPal; $100 for transfer to a Cloudways hosting account credit; $1,000+ for wire transfer.
Payout formPayPal, wire transfer, or credit applied directly to a Cloudways hosting account.
Must you be a customerNo — anyone can create a Cloudways account and register as an affiliate without being a paying hosting customer.
ClawbackNot explicitly published beyond the pending period; commission is only paid out once the referral pays two full invoices, which functions as an informal clawback for early cancellations.
Where it paysPayPal, wire transfer, or Cloudways hosting account credit.
ApprovalAffiliate application review is typically completed within 24 hours on business days (next business day if submitted on a weekend/holiday).
Restrictions
·Commission held pending until referral pays two full invoices
·90-day cookie window (confirmed)
·$250 PayPal / $100 account-credit minimum payout thresholds
·Single product, limited catalog breadth
Customer pricing
What the customer pays. The per-customer payout figures on Cloudways's offer page are worked out from these prices.
Starter$10/month
Growth$149/month
EnterpriseCustom
Verified
Read from Cloudways's own published material on . Figures change without notice — quote this date alongside any figure.
Sources
Cloudways Affiliate ↗
Attribution window, payout terms and approval time researched on August 26, 2026.
Comparison notes rewritten on August 26, 2026.
Mechanics rows (route in, duration, attribution window, payment delay/schedule, minimum payout, payout form, must-be-customer, clawback, where it pays, approval) filled and enroll/network corrected from Awin-only to direct-with-Awin-listing on September 27, 2026, sourced from cloudways.com/en/web-hosting-affiliate-program.php and the Cloudways Help Center. Self-referral policy remains null: not published on any official Cloudways page found.
Read, and not published
Cloudways’s own material was read on these and says nothing. That is the answer: a program that does not state a term is not bound by one.
Self-referral
Not asked yet
Nobody has looked for these, so nothing is claimed about them either way — not that Cloudways publishes them, and not that it does not.
Customer incentive
Citing this page
Ancaster, “Cloudways affiliate terms”. Verified 22 August 2026. https://ancaster.io/offers/cloudways
How this was verified
Verified
Read from Cloudways's own published material on . Figures change without notice — quote this date alongside any figure.
Who buys this
Tagged at product level, not brand level. Cloudways's products sell to agencies, developers.
Who else does this
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The re-verification note
We read Cloudways's terms on 2026-08-22. Programs change a rate, a cookie window or a payment threshold without announcing it — we re-read them and send one note a week saying what moved.
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