Elementor Cloud Review, Features, and Pricing | Is It really Fast as they Claim?

Why Elementor have to Launch Elementor Cloud?

The main story begins with the WordPress 5.0 release on 6 Dec 2018, which made the Gutenberg block editor the default post editor. Back then page builders had nothing to fear. Then Gutenberg kept gaining features through 2020, and version 9.5 on 2 December 2020 brought full site editing and Global Styles.

With those features, you can build a normal blog and even fairly complex designs in the Gutenberg block editor.

Google's Core Web Vital also did a lot to make Gutenberg popular, and a lot of damage to page builders. Core Web Vitals are performance and page experience metrics that Google announced it would use for rankings.

In plain terms, a slow website now loses rankings directly. Speed had mattered for SEO before, but only indirectly. This time Google said it would go into the algorithm itself, and that is what scared people.

WordPress then started promoting Gutenberg as the fastest and easiest builder, and the claim held up. Many WordPress companies launched Gutenberg addons to give it more features and flexibility.

Website owners started to feel they did not need a heavy page builder anymore, and many bloggers switched to the block editor and started recommending it.

Also, Read5 Reason to use Block Editor instead of Page Builder

That caused panic among page builder companies. Why would anyone choose a page builder that hurts their website? Page builders load heavy CSS and JavaScript, and in many cases that means render blocking, a slow LCP and Layout Shift which is bad for Core Web Vitals.

That is where the Elementor Cloud story begins

Elementor Cloud Quick Introduction

Elementor has finally launched a new type of product/service named Elementor Cloud which is a complete website solution packed in WordPress with Elementor Pro {Installed} on Managed WordPress Hosting of Google Cloud exclusively Optimized for Elementor Environment.

It's like the same bundle that WIX Website Builder offers in which they include their Hosting and Page Builder The difference is that here you get WordPress, so you can install free and paid third party plugins, while on Wix you get whatever Wix gives you.

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Elementor Cloud Features

Elementor Cloud promises better performance for less money. I am still testing its speed, and so far the speed is impressive. I will cover how it performs in depth in upcoming videos on YouTube.

Apart from speed, here is what else comes in the bundle.

1. Fully Hosted By Elementor

With a self hosted WordPress website, you buy hosting separately and manage SSL, backups, security and every other technical issue that can affect loading and uptime yourself. Elementor Cloud takes that off your plate.

Elementor says its hosted environment gives the best performance possible with the Elementor page builder. They are going to use Google Cloud Servers to host Elementor Cloud Bundles and they have also mentioned that they are going to handle all server tweakings, which means they will optimize it as per Elementor and User requirements without giving you any backend access to the server.

2. WordPress Preinstalled

This one follows from the last point. You have no access to the server, so you could not install WordPress yourself anyway. Elementor preinstalls the latest WordPress on its managed cloud servers, which suits technical and non technical people alike.

You can add third party plugins to extend it, but not every plugin is allowed. Here is a list of the officially unsupported plugin in the Elementor Cloud Bundle. These plugins are not allowed to be installed on Elementor Cloud Websites.

3. Elementor Pro Access Included

This is the other core feature of Elementor Cloud. You get Elementor Pro's features, templates and widgets, including the theme builder and the Hello theme, at no extra charge.

4. Custom Domain with FREE SSL

A plan like this would be pointless without custom domains, so of course you can add one. Along with that, you will get FREE SSL for all your websites that you will have on the Elementor cloud platform. But currently, you can have only 1 website per account.

5. Daily Backup

Even professional developers need daily backups, and this plan gives you daily backups with one click restore. Breaking things becomes a lot less stressful.

Elementor Cloud Review

According to the official website, the standard Elementor Cloud plan will have the following features:-

• Google Cloud Server
• 20GB Cloud SSD Storage
• 100GB Bandwidth
• Can easily Handle 100k Monthly visitors
• WordPress and Elementor pre-installed
• All Elementor Pro features included
• Hello Theme activated
• Secured with SSL and CDN by Cloudflare

These server configurations make Elementor cloud worth trying and seem promising in terms of performance.

Elementor Cloud Pricing

Because it bundles high performance cloud hosting, Elementor Pro and support together, it costs a little more than ordinary cloud hosting.

Official Pricing has been announced at $99 Per year for the whole bundle.

*Elementor offers a 30 day, no questions asked, 100% refund guarantee, so trying it costs you nothing

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Who Need Elementor Cloud?

It is not a plan for everyone. Elementor is targeting people who build their sites in Elementor and want them to load fast. That mostly means business websites, which need an elegant look with plenty of on page animation. Every site needs speed, so for them this is the best bundle available.