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Discover the key differences between ServerAvatar and xCloud.host for cloud hosting.
We'll dive into a detailed comparison to help you choose the best solution for your needs.

Fundamentals

Fundamentally, ServerAvatar and Gridpane are control panels or server management panels. Let's learn the differences in detail.

Generic Control Panel

ServerAvatar is a generic control panel for your servers that allows you to deploy any PHP, WordPress, Laravel and Node.js sites on your servers.

WordPress specific Control Panel

With xCloud, You can host some custom PHP applications but it is hard-code built for WordPress only.

Pricing

The pricing and plans of xCloud.host 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.

Fixed Pricing

All the ServerAvatar plans have fixed resources and pricing. You can start managing unlimited servers for $29/month with ServerAvatar.

Free Plan

xCloud.host allows you to manage 1 server and upto 10 sites in free plan.

Server Based Pricing

With xCloud, You start with paying $5/month/server until you are managing 5 servers. After that, price per server drops by $1/month and so on.

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 xCloud.host.

Optimised LEMP (Nginx) Stack

xCloud.host provides optimised Nginx stack to host your WordPress sites.

Optimised Openlitespeed stack

xCloud.host provides optimised OpenLiteSpeed to host WordPress sites.

MERN Stack

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

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

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

Remote Database Access

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

Sudo User Management

FlyWP does not provide comprehensive system user management on the servers.

Cronjob management

xCloud.host provides complete cronjob management on the server panel.

Automatic Disk Cleaner

xCloud.host does not have automatic disk cleaner or any similar feature in their toolset.

One-Click Server Troubleshooting

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

Ioncube support

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

Service Management

Service management in xCloud.host is limited to 5 services only and is limited on monitoring compared with ServerAvatar.

Automatic Server Cloning

xCloud.host does not allow you to clone or migrate individual sites. However, You can migrate whole server.

Limited Log Viewer

xCloud.host provides you the log viewer but does not provide search or filter options.

Automatic Backups

xCloud.host provides a complete automatic and instant backup solution for your WordPress sites.

Control Panel Access

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

Custom vhost configuration

xCloud.host provides custom virtual host configuration for Nginx.

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

xCloud only provides WordPress auto-installers. It provides adminer auto-installation for database management.

Deploy from Git

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

Push to Deploy

xCloud.host 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 xCloud.host, You can create staging sites. However, You cannot create staging area for existing site for further modification and one-click push to production.

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

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

Supervisord/Queue Management

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

Cloudflare Integration

FlyWP provides Cloudflare integration for easy DNS management.

One-Click Fix file permissions

xCloud.host does not provide any similar feature to quickly fix all file permissions for applications.

Create Temporary/Staging websites

xCloud.host provides temporary domains that you can use to quickly spin up staging/temporary sites.

WP-CLI Support

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

Redis Object Caching

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

WordPress magic Login

xCloud.host also provides one-click login to WordPress admin dashboards with magic login.

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

xCloud.host provides complete firewall management including rules management.

Isolated Environments

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

Manage SSH Credentials

xCloud does provide SSH credentials management to manage SSH keys for system users.

IP Whitelisting and 2Fa

xCloud provides two factor authentication however it does not provide IP whitelisting for your account.

Automatic Security Updates

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

Fail2Ban Management

xCloud.host provides fail2ban management. You can use it to ban IP addresses for your sites.

Basic Authentication

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

Server Health Monitoring

xCloud provides complete server health monitoring features for your servers.

MySQL/mariadb query monitoring

xCloud.host does not provide any type of query monitoring for now.

Log Analysis

xCloud.host 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.

Manage Multiple Teams

In xCloud.host, You can manage multiple teams to provide access to colleagues.

Control Access with Permissions

xCloud.host also provide you detailed permission management to control access on your infrastructure.

White-Labelled Control Panels for clients

xCloud.host provides white-labelled control panels but it only provides it on managed servers.

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