Cloud giant DigitalOcean has entered into an agreement to acquire Pakistan’s Cloudways, a leading managed cloud hosting and software as a service (SaaS) provider for SMBs, for $350 million.
The acquisition will simplify workflows for small to medium-sized businesses that are looking for easier ways to build and scale their digital businesses.
Cloudways provides simple onboarding and day-to-day management that is purpose-built for certain SMBs looking to outsource their on-ramp to the internet, helping them offload the complexities of cloud infrastructure so they can spend more time running and scaling their businesses.
The acquisition of Cloudways expands DigitalOcean’s serviceable market within global SMBs and increases options for digital agencies, eCommerce sites, bloggers, freelance developers and builders hosting on WordPress, PHP and Magento. WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) and, according to W3Techs, it powers 43 percent of all websites on the internet.
