Ploi Alternative | ServerAvatar

Pricing

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

Free Plan

With ServerAvatar Free plan, You get to manage 1 server and 1 site with essential features.

Starter plan ($12/month)

With Starter plan of ServerAvatar, You can manage 5 servers and unlimited sites with all server and app management features.

Professional plan ($29/month)

Professional plan in ServerAvatar allows you to manage unlimtied servers and sites with team management features.

White-Label Options

ServerAvatar allows you to share individual white-labelled server control panels as well as use Reseller panel to sell hosting packages to end users.

Free Plan

With Ploi free plan, You get to manage 1 server and 1 site along with the essential features.

Basic Plan ($10/month)

With basic plan of Ploi, You can manage 5 servers and unlimited sites with limited server and application management features.

Unlimited plan ($36/month)

Unlimited plan in Ploi allows you to manage unlimited servers and sites with team management features.

White-Label Options

Ploi provides white-label reseller panel that fully works on API. Ploi does not provide individual white-labelled control panels for end users.

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.

Nginx + Docker Stack

ServerAvatar does not provide support and management for Docker yet.

Optimised LAMP (Apache) Stack

Ploi does not provide a tech stack with Apache. It also does not provide a server type with apache stack.

Optimised LEMP (Nginx) Stack

Ploi provides complete tech stack with Nginx, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL, and other required services.

Optimised Openlitespeed stack

Ploi.io does not provide a tech stack or server type with OpenLiteSpeed.

MERN Stack

Ploi does not provide MERN/MEAN stack or similar stack to natively support Node based sites on your servers.

Nginx + Docker Stack

Ploi provides docker support with Nginx as a web server. You can also select database and PHP version.

Server Management

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

Database management

ServerAvatar provides fundamentally secure database management features in easy-to-use control panel.

Remote Database Access

ServerAvatar provides remote database access out-of-the-box with no manual configuration required.

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 allows you to clean selected logs 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

Ploi provides database management with enough features that you can manage databases efficiently.

Remote Database Access

Ploi does not provide remote database access. Hence, You would have to do it manually if needed.

System User Management

Ploi provides system user management for applications but with many limitations compared to ServerAvatar. Ploi still supports isolated environments.

Cronjob management

Ploi.io provides complete cronjob management on the server panel.

Automatic Disk Cleaner

Ploi does provide option to clear logs but it does not provide temporary file cleaning and scheduled executions.

One-Click Server Troubleshooting

Ploi does not provide any similar feature to one-click troubleshoot and find issues on the server.

Ioncube support

Ploi does not provide ioncube support out-of-the-box limiting you from hosting sites that require it.

Service Management

Ploi provides you service management with restart, stop, start and other options on the panel.

Automatic Site Cloning

The automatic site cloning feature in Ploi allows you to quickly clones applications on your servers.

Limited Log Viewer

Ploi.io provides you the log viewer but does not provide search or filter options.

Automatic Backups

Ploi provides automatic backups for your application files as well as databases.

Control Panel Access

Control panel access or similar feature is not provided by Ploi.io.

Custom vhost configuration

Ploi.io provides custom virtual host configuration for Nginx out-of-the-box.

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.

One-click Fix File permissions

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

Create temporary/staging websites

ServerAvatar allows you to quickly deploy staging/temporary sites on ServerAvatar provided temporary domains.

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.

WordPress magic Login

ServerAvatar provides magic login to wp-admin of WordPress sites.

Limited Auto-installers

Ploi.io only provides WordPress, NextCloud, Statamic and Matomo auto-installers only.

Deploy from Git

You can deploy and manage your applications from git. However, It is limited to WordPress only.

Push to Deploy

Ploi 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

In Ploi, You can create a site with temporary domain but you cannot create staging area for existing sites.

File Explorer

Ploi provides File explorer that allows you to manage files on your servers.

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

Ploi does not provide support for Node.js based applications out-of-the-box.

Supervisord/Queue Management

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

Cloudflare Integration

Ploi.io provides Cloudflare integration for easy DNS management.

One-Click Fix file permissions

Facing an irritating file permission error? One-Click fix all file permission issues in Ploi.io too.

Create Temporary/Staging websites

Ploi.io provides temporary domains that you can use to quickly spin up staging/temporary sites.

WP-CLI Support

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

Redis Object Caching

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

WordPress magic Login

Ploi.io does not provide Magic login option for WordPress sites on the control panel.

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.

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

Ploi provides complete firewall management including rules management.

Isolated Environments

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

Manage SSH Credentials

Ploi does not provide SSH credentials management to manage SSH keys for system users.

IP Whitelisting and 2Fa

Ploi provides IP Whitelisting and Two factor authentication to secure your account and data.

Automatic Security Updates

Ploi provides automatic security updates to keep your servers secure form known vullnerabilities.

Fail2Ban Management

Ploi.io does not provide Fail2Ban management to limit login attempts on different entry points of your applications.

Basic Authentication

Ploi provides basic autheitcation out-of-the-box to add one more security layer on some sites.

Server Health Monitoring

Ploi provides complete server health monitoring features for your servers.

MySQL/mariadb query monitoring

Ploi.io does not provide any type of query monitoring for now.

Log Analysis

Ploi.io does not provide log analysis addon or have similar feature.

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.

White-Labelled Reseller Panel

Similar to Ploi, ServerAvatar also provides self-hosted hosting business management panel that works on ServerAvatar API.

Manage Multiple Teams

In Ploi.io, You can manage multiple teams to provide access to colleagues.

Control Access with Permissions

Ploi.io also provide you detailed permission management to control access on your infrastructure.

White-Labelled Control Panels for clients

With Ploi, You cannot share invidiual server control panels with clients on white-label domain, username and password.

White-Labelled Reseller Panel

Ploi provides Ploi-core which is a self-hosted hosting management panel that works on Ploi API and provides white-label hosting solution to end users.

Ploi.io Alternative

Fundamentals

Pricing

Free Plan

Basic Plan ($10/month)

Unlimited plan ($36/month)

Tech Stacks

Optimised LAMP (Apache) Stack

Server Management

Database management

Remote Database Access

Application Management

Application Auto-installers

Security & Monitoring

UFW Firewall Management

Team Management & Sharing

Manage Multiple Teams

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