The official Cloudways website provides a false information about the «Backend Port» Varnish setting in Magento 2 on a Cloudways managed hosting

it is false:

Backend Port is the port of the Apache server.
On Cloudways managed servers, Apache works behind Varnish and uses port 8081.

Other websites spread this false information, e.g.:

Cloudways uses port 8081 for Varnish

The correct «Backend Port» value for the Varnish module in Magento 2 on a Cloudways managed hosting is 8080:
How do I configure Varnish for Magento 2 on a Cloudways managed hosting?