Blog · Updated 9 October 2026

A CLDY Alternative For Singapore WordPress Sites

Who This Is For

You host a WordPress site with CLDY, the first year is nearly up, and you have noticed what the second year costs. This is a straight comparison of the two, with every CLDY figure taken from cldy.com and their own billing system, observed in October 2026.

What CLDY Is Genuinely Good At

CLDY is cheap, local and unusually honest about its pricing. Their about page says the team founded and scaled the Vodien group up to its 2017 acquisition by Dreamscape Networks, so this is people who have run Singapore hosting at scale starting again, and it shows in the detail. The comparison page publishes a full feature grid rather than a marketing summary: a Singapore data centre in an ISO 27001 certified facility, cPanel, unmetered bandwidth, unlimited mailboxes, CageFS account isolation, Imunify360, daily automatic backups kept as 14 copies plus a daily off-site copy, and restores of individual files, databases or mailboxes from cPanel.

Two things there are genuinely better than ours. CLDY publishes a 99.9 per cent uptime SLA and a 60-minute guaranteed response, and we publish neither. And CLDY will do your migration: a free transfer of the first website, same-day, completed inside 24 hours according to their own page. We will not move a site for you at all.

Where It Actually Hurts

Three things, all checkable in October 2026.

The second year costs more than twice the first. CLDY’s billing system states it plainly, which deserves credit, but the numbers are still the numbers. WP Mini is S$35.88 for the first year, S$2.99 a month, and then S$86.26 a year, S$7.19 a month, to renew. WP Pro is S$71.86 then S$172.66. WP Max is S$155.89 then S$359.86. Each of those is roughly a 140 per cent rise at the first renewal, and the plans bill annually, so the day you sign is the day you commit to the year.

The two pages that quote a shared hosting price do not agree. On the Singapore web hosting page, CLOUDWEB20 is listed from S$7.20 a month. On the comparison page, the same plan is listed from S$10.00 a month. Both are their pages, both were live on the same day. Ask which applies to the term you are buying.

Staging is not published. The WordPress plans list auto-updates, a WordPress manager, 2FA and acceleration, and the comparison grid runs to more than fifty rows, but a staging environment does not appear in either. For a plan whose whole promise is managed WordPress convenience, the ability to try a plugin update somewhere safe is the thing you miss first.

CLDY And Oxyforge Compared

CLDY figures from cldy.com and manage.cldy.com, observed October 2026, taking the WP Mini WordPress plan as the entry plan. Where a cell says “not published”, that means we could not find it stated on their site and would rather leave a gap than guess.

Underneath, each site here gets its own container, its own Unix user and its own MySQL database, with nginx page caching, a Redis object cache, PHP 8.3 or 8.4 chosen per site, MySQL 8.4, and Cloudflare in front for CDN and DDoS protection. Nightly malware scanning runs on every site. SFTP, WP-CLI, a database manager and free SSL on every domain are included on all three plans, every new site comes up on a temporary address straight away, and any environment can be password protected while you work on it. The detail is on the pricing page and the managed WordPress hosting in Singapore overview.

What Moving Costs You

An afternoon of your own time, because the migration is yours to run. We do not have a migration team and would rather tell you that than advertise one we cannot staff. CLDY will do it for you. We will not.

The day looks like this. Create the site, and it comes up at once on its own temporary address. Copy the CLDY site onto that address with a migration plugin, or by hand over SFTP and WP-CLI if the site is large. Then check it properly: forms, logins, checkout, the pages that matter commercially. CLDY keeps serving your visitors the whole time, so there is no window where the site is down. When you are satisfied, point the domain’s www record here and close the old plan. The full walkthrough is in moving your site.

Two things to plan for before you start. Your mailboxes do not travel with the website, because we host no mail at all, so move them to Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or a mail host and leave the MX records pointed there. And a bare root domain cannot be pointed here, so you connect the www name and set URL forwarding at your registrar from the bare name to it. Most registrars have that switch, but check yours has it first.

Who Should Stay Put

If CLDY’s renewal rate is still comfortably inside your budget, if unlimited mailboxes in the same account as the website is a feature you use every day, if you are running five small sites on one shared plan, or if a contractual uptime figure and a 60-minute response are things you want in writing, stay with CLDY. They publish both and we publish neither. We are a narrow product: managed WordPress, Singapore only, no mail, no cPanel, no phone line, and the move is your own job. That suits a business with one or a few WordPress sites that genuinely earn, and it is overpriced for a brochure site that nobody touches. For small business sets out which of those you probably are.

What To Do Next

1. Ask CLDY two things in writing: whether a staging environment is included on your WordPress plan, since neither page publishes one, and which CLOUDWEB20 figure, S$7.20 or S$10.00, applies to your term.
2. Check the renewal line in your CLDY billing account against the first-year price, so the annual figure you are comparing is the real one.
3. Create a site on Oxyforge and copy the CLDY site onto its temporary address by following moving your site. The migration is your own job, not ours.
4. Test forms, logins and checkout on the temporary address while CLDY keeps serving your visitors.
5. Point the www record here, forward the bare domain at your registrar, and close the old plan once the site has settled. Pick a plan on the pricing page before you start.