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The pricing and plans of Gridpane and ServerAvatar are almost the same. So, Let's learn feature differences in plans.

Free Plan

ServerAvatar provides a free plan that you can use for 1 server and 1 site, forever.

Starter Plan ($12/month)

Starter plan in ServerAvatar provides 5 server slots, backups and basic monitoring for your servers.

Professional Plan ($29/month)

Professional plan in ServerAvatar allows unlimited servers and multiple team management options.

Additional Plans

Master ($49/month) and Business ($69/month) plans in ServerAvatar has comprehensive log monitoring and white-label capabilities.

Free Plan

Gridpane provides a free Core plan that allows you to manage upto 25 applications.

PeakFreq (Managed Hosting)

Gridpane also provides managed hosting solution with PeakFreq, however, it can get expensive very quickly.

Bespoke Hosting ($2000/month)

For Business and Enterprise users, Gridpane provides fully managed hosting starting from $2000/month.

Tech Stacks

Different tech stacks allow you to host different types of applications on your servers. Let's see the tech stack options we have in both the control panels.

Optimised LAMP (Apache) Stack

A tech stack built with Apache, PHP and MySQL/MariaDB along with Redis, Git, and other required services.

Optimised LEMP (Nginx) Stack

A tech stack built with Nginx, PHP and MySQL/MariaDB along with Redis, Git, and other required services.

Optimised OpenLitespeed Stack

OpenLiteSpeed stack in ServerAvatar is specifically good to host super fast WordPress sites.

MERN Stack

A tech stack built for Node.js, MongoDB, Express.js and React. You can host Node.js based apps on this tech stack.

Optimised LAMP (Apache) Stack

LAMP Stack, or a tech stack with Apache is not available in Gridpane.

Optimised LEMP (Nginx) Stack

Gridpane provides optimised Nginx stack to host your WordPress sites.

Optimised Openlitespeed stack

Gridpane provides optimised OpenLiteSpeed to host WordPress sites.

MERN Stack

Gridpane does not support MERN stack. Meaning, You cannot install Node.js or Javascript based sites on Gridpane.

Server Management

In this section, we will compare the core server management features in both the panels.

Database management

ServerAvatar provides comprehensive Database and user management with fundamentally secure setup and secured remote access out-of-the-box.

System User Management

ServerAvatar provides complete system user management. You can control access to SSH/SFTP as well as provide isolated environments for each site.

Cronjob management

ServerAvatar provides cronjob management with all the required features.

Automatic Disk Cleaning

One-Click or Automatic disk cleaning in ServerAvatar allows you to clean selected log files and temporary files to free up space for sites.

One-Click Server Troubleshooting

ServerAvatar control panel provides one unique feature that helps you find issues in any part of the server very quickly.

Ioncube Support

ServerAvatar provides one-click Ioncube installation to help you deploy sites that require Ioncube support.

Service Management

You can easily monitor (CPU and RAM) used by various services and also restart, stop or reload any service.

Automatic Site Cloning

The automatic site migration feature allows you to migrate your sites between servers with a few clicks.

Advanced Log Viewer

ServerAvatar provides an in-built log viewer that allows you to search and filter through logs to help you debug quickly.

Automatic Backups

ServerAvatar provides automatic backups for whole applications, databases or files.

Control Panel Access

Provide control panel access to user with URL, username and password. ServerAvatar account is not required to access the server.

Custom Vhost Configuration

In ServerAvatar, You can add additional configuration to your virtual host files using the file manager.

Database Management

Gridpane provides fully capable database management but in comparison with ServerAvatar, it has limitations like remote access, and controlled database access.

System User Management

Gridpane provides complete system user management. You can control access to SSH/SFTP as well as provide isolated environments for each site.

Cronjob management

Gridpane does not provide easy-to-use interface to manage cronjobs on your servers.

Automatic Disk Cleaner

Gridpane does not provide automatic disk cleaner to clean up temporary and log files from your servers in one-click.

One-Click Server Troubleshooting

Gridpane does not have one-click server troubleshooting or similar feature in their feature list.

Ioncube support

Gridpane does not support Ioncube natively. It means you cannot directly install the code that requires Ioncube to function.

Service Management

Gridpane does not provide out-of-the-box service management for your servers.

Automatic Site Cloning

Gridpane provides easy-to-use and powerful site cloning features.

Limited Log Viewer

Gridpane does not have a powerful log viewer on the control panel. However, You can check logs with SSH.

Automatic Backups

Gridpane offers a complete automatic backup and restore solution for your WordPress applications.

Control Panel Access

Control panel access or similar feature is not provided by Gridpane.

Custom vhost configuration

Gridpane does not allow you to add custom config to your virtual host file.

Application Management

Application management is equally important to manage and maintain your applications after deployment. Let's see different application management features provided by both the control panels.

Application Auto-installers

ServerAvatar provides 12+ Auto-installers for various popular applications built in PHP and Node.js.

Deploy From Git

You can deploy your custom PHP/Node.js applications from Github, Gitlab as well as BitBucket.

Push to Deploy

ServerAvatar provides push-to-deploy functionality along with deployment logs.

Automatic SSL Certificates

The SSL certificates for your sites can be installed with one-click and renewed automatically, for free!

Automatic Staging Area

ServerAvatar provides an automatic staging area for your applications to test or integrate new features.

File manager

You can quickly access your application files from the web based file manager. Edit, create, extract, anything is possible.

Per Site PHP Version and Settings

You can manage PHP versions and various PHP.ini settings from the control panel for your apps, individually.

Node.js Support

Install and configure your server to host Node.js based applications with one-click.

Supervisord/Queue Management

ServerAvatar allows you to create and manage processes with Supervisor, very efficient and easy for Laravel.

Cloudflare Integration

Cloudflare integration allows you to manage the SSL levels, forced SSL, and many other settings directly from ServerAvatar.

Temporary Domains/Sites

In ServerAvatar, You can quickly spin up a new site without needing your own domain for testing purposes.

One-click Fix File permissions

Facing an irritating file permission error? One-Click fix all file permission issues in ServerAvatar.

Create blueprint websites

Similar to Gridpane, You can create blueprint websites in ServerAvatar too.

WP-CLI Support

ServerAvatar provides support for wp-cli. You can manage your WordPress sites using wp-cli.

Redis Object Caching

ServerAvatar automatically installs and configures Redis on your server, ready to be used for caching.

Limited Auto-installers

Gridpane only supports WordPress. Hence, it only provides Automatic WordPress and PHPMyAdmin installation only.

Deploy from Git

Gridpane provides full and hybird Git deployments for your WordPress based projects in Developer plus plan.

Push to Deploy

Gridpane does not provide the push to deploy functionality out of the box.

Automatic SSL Certificates

The SSL certificates for your sites can be installed with one-click and renewed automatically, for free!

Automatic Staging Area

Gridpane provides automatic staging areas for your WordPress sites to test new plugins and features.

File Manager

Gridpane does not provide file manager. You cannot directly manage files from Gridpane dashboard.

Per Site PHP Version and Settings

You can manage PHP versions and various PHP.ini settings from the control panel for your apps, individually.

Node.js Support

Being a WordPress specific hosting solution, It does not provide support for Node.js.

Supervisord/Queue Management

Gridpane does not provide Supervisor or any similar feature to create and manage php workers on your server.

Cloudflare Integration

Gridpane provides Cloudflare integration for easy DNS management.

Temporary Domains/sites

Gridpane does not provide temporary domains that you can use to create sites temporarily.

One-Click Fix file permissions

Gridpane does not provide one-click fix file permissions feature or similar feature.

Create Blueprint websites

While it is a feature in Gridpane, Similar boilerplate apps can be deployed using ServerAvatar too.

WP-CLI Support

Gridpane provides support for wp-cli. You can manage your WordPress sites using wp-cli.

Redis Object Caching

Gridpane also provides Redis caching out-of-the-box for WordPress sites.

Security & Monitoring

Monitoring and Security is must for any cloud hosting setup. Both the control panels provide different level of features in this section. Let's see them in detail.

UFW Firewall Management

ServerAvatar's easy to use firewall management allows you to manage ufw status as well as firewall rules.

6G/7G Firewall (Coming Soon)

ServerAvatar does not provide 6G/7G firewall right now. However, It is in the roadmap and coming soon.

Isolated Environments

Each application deployed on ServerAvatar has isolated environment to avoid speading infections on server.

Manage SSH Credentials

Manage SSH access as well as credentials for your system users and control access on your infrastructure.

IP WhiteListing and 2FA

Allow log in to your account from white-listed IP addresses only. Further secure your account with 2FA.

Automatic Security Updates

ServerAvatar performs regular security updates on all your servers. You can also set the frequency.

Fail2Ban Management

ServerAvatar provides Fail2Ban management to secure login forms on your applications.

Basic Authentication

Basic authentication allows you to temporarily/permanently enable additional authentication layer on your app.

Server Health Monitoring

Server Health Monitoring in ServerAvatar includes CPU, RAM and Disk usage along with 5 min and 15 min load average.

MySQL/mariadb query monitoring

ServerAvatar allows you to monitor the number of queries executed every 5 minutes on your database server.

Log analysis (access logs)

Explore Request, Error, Bot Traffic, User agent and bandwidth usage information with Insighthub in ServerAvatar.

UFW Firewall Management

Gridpane does not provide custom firewall management where you can manage interactions on each port.

6G/7G Firewall

Gridpane provides 6G and 7G Web application firewall out-of-the-box to add additional security layer.

Isolated Environments

Each application deployed on ServerAvatar has isolated environment to avoid speading infections on server.

Manage SSH Credentials

Gridpane does not provide SSH management out of the box. You can use direct SSH and perform things on CLI.

IP Whitelisting and 2Fa

Gridpane provides 2FA but it does not provide IP whitelisting feature.

Automatic Security Updates

Gridpane does not have a feature but automatic security updates should be part considering security suite.

Fail2Ban Management

Gridpane also provides Fail2ban in order to secure your application entry points.

Basic Authentication

Gridpane does not allow you to manage basic authentication from the panel.

Server Health Monitoring

Server Health Monitoring in Gridpane includes CPU, RAM and Disk usage only.

MySQL/mariadb query monitoring

Laravel Forge does not provide similar feature.

Log Analysis

Laravel Forge allows integration with Papertrail that allows you to explore your logs.

Team Management & Sharing

Team management features allow you to share access to your infrastructure with your team or clients. Let's see how both the control panels differ in this case.

Manage Multiple Teams

In ServerAvatar, You can create multiple organisations to manage multiple teams.

Roles and Permissions

ServerAvatar provides detailed permission management to ensure controlled access to the servers.

White-Labelled Control Panels for Clients

In addition, ServerAvatar also allows you to white-label the server control panels and share them with clients.

Manage Multiple Teams

IN Gridpane, You can manage multiple teams to provide access to colleagues.

Control Access with Permissions

Gridpane offers limited roles and does not provide permission management. Roles are very specific and rigid.

White-Labelled Control Panels for clients

Gridpane does not offer you any white-label option as of now.

Fundamentals

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Free Plan

Free Plan

Tech Stacks

Optimised LAMP (Apache) Stack

Server Management

Database management

Application Management

Application Auto-installers

Security & Monitoring

UFW Firewall Management

Team Management & Sharing

Manage Multiple Teams

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