GridPane Alternative

Why Choose SpinupWP as a GridPane Alternative?

SpinupWP offers a different spin on a cloud server control panel. Other cloud server control panels allow you to reboot the server, add sites, and other things you expect. SpinupWP offers typical control panel features but is also different in some key areas…

* This page is accurate as of October 13, 2023.

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WordPress plugin developers on staff and handling support

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Full page caching configured for WordPress

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Redis object caching configured for WordPress

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Security measures configured for WordPress

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Cron job installed and configured for each site added

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wp-debug.log turned on and relocated to a folder not publicly accessible

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WP-CLI

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Install WordPress multisite

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Server software security updates installed automatically

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Free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with automatic renewals

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Custom SSL/TLS certificates

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In-app WordPress best practice guidance

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Deploy code with `git push`

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Standard Linux packages installed

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Root access permissions to the server

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Connect your own cloud server (DigitalOcean, Akamai/Linode, etc) account

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Scheduled backups of site files & database

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Connect your own cloud storage (Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, etc) account

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Team accounts and roles

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Clone site to the same server

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Clone site to another server

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Server log viewer

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REST API to control servers and sites

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External databases

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Manage servers and sites from the CLI

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Sites running different versions of PHP on the same server

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Dark mode

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Site uptime monitoring

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Ok_Writing2937

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SpinupWP's control panel and UX is close to on par with WP Engine. And the support is good. GridPane is more expensive, and more geared towards people who want to be in the hosting business. GridPane has more features but a poorer UX.

I moved four big clients to SpinupWP. One has 3+ million hits a month and 120 GB of images. I cut the hosting cost from $2k/mo to $600/mo and tripled the server size. I've had 100% uptime.

What Else Makes SpinupWP the Best GridPane Alternative?

SpinupWP has several notable strengths that GridPane lacks setting us apart even further apart from the competition.

A Clean, Streamlined UI

SpinupWP’s UI is much easier to use than GridPane’s. Customers have switched to SpinupWP from GridPane with the main reason being that GridPane’s UI is too clunky and hard to navigate. Their popup modal (similar to the SpinupWP server dashboard) also lacks the ability to view important information about the sites that you have on the server. SpinupWP’s UI and UX is constantly being refined and improved, much more often than GridPane.

Todos, Your Personal Server Coach

Todos is a system that identifies maintenance tasks that you ought to perform with your server, prioritizes them, and when something urgent needs to be fixed, alerts you right away. GridPane doesn’t have a feature like this built-in so you’ll have to SSH into your server regularly to check if it needs a reboot and set a reminder to check your software regularly and remove outdated versions of Ubuntu, PHP, etc that could present security vulnerabilities. Good luck! 😬

Timely Support for New Versions of Ubuntu, PHP, etc.

GridPane didn’t support Ubuntu 22.04 until June 2023, more than a year after Ubuntu 22.04 was released and a full ten months after SpinupWP. Imagine the latest version of Ubuntu has been out for almost a year and you’re spinning up a new server on Gridpane and can’t use it 😱. Each LTS release of Ubuntu gets security updates for 5 years, so if you’re spinning up 20.04 LTS in May 2023, it means you’ll have less than 2 years before you’ll need to replace that server!

A Solid Core of Quality Features

Our approach with SpinupWP has always been to create and maintain a solid core of features and build outward from that without compromise and without making things overly complex and cumbersome to use. As a result, we’ve been slower to add features. GridPane definitely has more features. Want OpenLiteSpeed instead of Nginx? They have that. Want Percona or MariaDB instead of MySQL? They have that too. But is the extra complexity worth it? We don’t think so.

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Laser Focused On WordPress

There are other cloud server control panels out there, but none focus on WordPress like SpinupWP.

WordPress Multisite

Multisite Support Out of the Box

SpinupWP is designed for WordPress and this includes support for multisite. Enabling a multisite network is as straightforward as toggling a switch during the new site creation wizard and selecting either a subdomain or subdirectory configuration. No fiddling with your `wp-config.php` file, installing the network, and worrying if the Nginx server is configured correctly.

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Configuring a multisite setup in SpinupWP

Theme & Plugin Updates

A Unified Dashboard for All Your WordPress Sites

SpinupWP keeps tabs on updates required by each of your WordPress sites. A glance at the SpinupWP dashboard and you can quickly see which of your sites need some attention. Run WordPress core, plugin, and theme updates without even leaving the SpinupWP dashboard.

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Convenience

WordPress Magic Login

Login to the WordPress Admin with one click in your SpinupWP dashboard. WordPress Magic Login allows you to configure the WP Admin link to automatically log you in as a specific user. And you can use the Quick Login to login as another user as a one-off, without changing your WP Admin Link Settings.

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Performance

Cache All the Things

Caching is one of the keys to a high-performing WordPress site. All sites are set up with Redis object caching to greatly reduce database requests and with the check of a box, you can also enable full-page caching to skip PHP processing entirely and serve pages lightning fast, just like a static site. Full-page caching rules for WordPress core and popular plugins like WooCommerce are preconfigured.

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Configuring page cache settings in SpinupWP

Automation

Scheduled Posts, Published on Schedule

For every site you add via SpinupWP, a server-side cron job will be configured to make sure that your WordPress site’s cron is executed every minute, as it should be. Not only will scheduled posts get published when they should, but other background tasks will work, like WooCommerce subscriptions and webhooks.

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