Last updated November 25, 2024
| SpinupWP | Cloudways | |
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 Country of ownership | Canada 🇨🇦 | Malta 🇲🇹  |
 Launch date | 2018 | 2011 |
Pricing | ||
 Cost | $ $ $ | $ $ $ |
Free Trial |  | |
Free Plan | ||
Unlimited Plan | ||
Control Panel Type | ||
 Installed software that runs on each server | ||
Cloud software / software as a service (SaaS) | | |
Focused primarily on WordPress | | |
Server Software Updates | ||
 Managed / Done for you | | |
Unmanaged / Do it yourself | | |
Software update tracking and alerting | | |
Scheduled server software updates | | |
Scheduled server reboots | | |
Server Software Installed | ||
 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | | |
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | | |
AlmaLinux | ||
Debian | | |
Nginx | | |
Open Lite Speed (OLS) | ||
Apache | | |
Varnish Cache | | |
PHP-FPM | | |
PHP 8.4 | | |
MariaDB | | |
MySQL | | |
Percona | ||
Redis | | |
Memcached | | |
Node.js | ||
Supervisord | | |
Beanstalkd | ||
New Relic | | |
Custom builds of Linux packages | | |
Server Software Settings | ||
 HTTP/3 with QUIC | ||
Different version of PHP per site on the same server | | |
Easy PHP version switching | | |
PHP configuration options | | |
Web server configuration options | | |
Database configuration options | | |
Database and database user manager | | |
Configuration files editor | | |
Staging Sites | ||
 Clone site to the same server | | |
Clone site to another server | | |
Refresh site | | |
Refresh only the files | | |
Refresh only the database | | |
Refresh specific database tables | | |
Testing domains | | |
Monitoring & Alerting | ||
 CPU, memory, network, disk space | | |
Site uptime | | |
Software end-of-life (EOL) | | |
Software updates | | |
Server reboot required | | |
WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates | | |
Scaling | ||
 External MySQL databases | | |
External Redis databases | ||
Load balancers | ||
Snapshot failover | ||
Maintenance Tools | ||
Move site to another server | | |
Clone site to another server | | |
Auto correct file permissions | | |
Enable/disable site | | |
Clear page and object caches | | |
File manager | ||
DNS manager | | |
Cron job manager | | |
Server Providers | ||
 Works with all server providers | | |
ARM CPU servers supported | | |
Integrated Server Providers | ||
 Vultr | | |
 Akamai/Linode | | |
 DigitalOcean | | |
 Hetzner Cloud | | |
 Amazon Lightsail | ||
 Amazon EC2 | | |
 Google Cloud Compute | | |
 UpCloud | ||
Integrated DNS Providers | ||
 Cloudflare DNS | | |
 Amazon Route 53 | | |
 DNS Made Easy | | |
Integrated Email Providers | ||
 Sendgrid | | |
 Mailgun | | |
 Gmail | | |
 Mailjet | ||
 Elastic Email | | |
Backups | ||
 Hourly schedule | | |
Daily schedule | | |
Weekly schedule | | |
Monthly schedule | | |
On-demand backups | | |
Download backups | | |
Listing of backups | | |
Restore from backup file | ||
Restore to original site and server | | |
Restore to any site on any server | ||
Restore to new site | ||
Local backups | | |
Incremental file backups | | |
Integrated Backup Providers | ||
Branded backup storage | | |
 Amazon S3 | | |
 Backblaze B2 | | |
SFTP | ||
 Wasabi | | |
DigitalOcean Spaces | | |
Google Cloud Storage | | |
Akamai/Linode Object Storage | | |
Vultr Object Storage | ||
Hetzner Storage Box | ||
UpCloud Object Storage | ||
 Google Drive | ||
 Dropbox | ||
Rsync | ||
S3 Compatible | ||
WordPress | ||
 WordPress Magic Login | | |
WordPress core, theme, and plugin updates dashboard | | |
WordPress updates with visual regression testing | | |
Full page caching configured for WordPress | | |
Redis object caching configured for WordPress | | |
Object Cache Pro plugin included | | |
Relay included | ||
WordPress installation presets | ||
WP-CLI | | |
WordPress multisite support | | |
WordPress cron properly configured | | |
Branded site migration plugin | | |
Branded caching plugin | | |
Compatibility with WP Rocket plugin | | |
Security | ||
 Security isolation for each site | | |
Automatic security updates for server software | | |
Scheduled security updates for server software | | |
Server firewall configured | | |
Server firewall manager | ||
Web Application Firewall (WAF) | ||
Application vulnerability scanner | | |
Brute force protection | | |
Brute force protection manager | ||
Free SSL certificates with automatic renewals | | |
Custom SSL/TLS certificates | | |
WP Debug log properly handled | | |
For Developers | ||
 Clone a git repository as a site | | |
Deploy code with `git push` | | |
Atomic deployments | ||
Deployment scripts / recipes | | |
Saved deployment scripts / recipes | ||
REST API to control servers and sites | | |
Remotely manage servers and sites from the CLI | | |
Web application installer | | |
Laravel supported | | |
Laravel options in the UI | ||
Roots Bedrock support | | |
Composer support | | |
Server log viewer | | |
Search server log | | |
1-click install of phpMyAdmin | | |
Passwordless login to phpMyAdmin | ||
Branded database manager similar to phpMyAdmin | | |
Domain redirects | | |
Path redirects | | |
Dark mode | | |
For Agencies | ||
 Whitelabelling | ||
Client portal | ||
Client billing | | |
Access Control | ||
 Full root access | | |
Limit user access to specific servers and permissions | | |
SSH/SFTP access to the server | | |
Basic authentication | | |
Customer Support | ||
 Availability | 12/5 | 24/7 |
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Customer forums / community | | |
Live Chat | | |
Phone | | |
 Private Slack channel | |