Enhance alternatives
xCloud vs Enhance: Pricing, Server Control, and Features Compared
Enhance is a control panel you install, host and update on your own server, billed per website. xCloud is a hosted panel for servers you own, billed per server, with managed servers if you want them.
- Free for your first server, then $3 to $5 per server, not per site
- No control panel server to install, patch or keep in sync
- One-click Git deploys, Docker, Laravel, Node.js and 543 one-click apps
- MCP and AI agent skills to run servers from Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT
- 24/7 live chat, and a managed server from $5/month if you ever want one
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- 14-day money-back guarantee
- No migration fee, ever
- 4.8 · 390+ reviews on TrustpilotRated by the people already running WordPress on xCloud
Quick verdict
Choose xCloud if…
- You would rather not run your own control panel server. Enhance installs on your infrastructure and every server must be updated to the same version; xCloud's panel is hosted for you.
- You want to pay per server, not per site. Every paid xCloud server runs unlimited sites, so dense servers get cheaper.
- You ship more than PHP sites: one-click Git deploys with stack detection, Docker and Docker Compose, Laravel queues and Horizon, Node.js and Next.js. Enhance's Git deploy is still under development.
- You want AI agents to manage servers and sites through an MCP endpoint and installable agent skills.
- You want the option of a managed server from $5/month later, without switching panels. Enhance never sells the server.
- You run a WordPress agency and want blueprints, a bulk updates manager, vulnerability scanning, broken-link monitoring and branded client reports built in.
- You want firewall management and SSH lockdown in the panel, not on the command line.
- You want 24/7 live chat. Enhance support is tickets and email, 9am to 9pm GMT.
- You want a free tier and a 14-day refund on your own servers.
14-day money-back guarantee. Cancel any time.
Choose Enhance if…
- Enhance is the stronger pick if you run a traditional shared-hosting business: built-in email and DNS servers, per-site containers with hard CPU, IO and memory limits, roles split across a multi-server cluster, customer impersonation, multi-tier resellers, and WHMCS, Blesta or HostBill provisioning.
- It also costs less when you host only a handful of sites per server.
- This page says where, row by row.
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Per Site or Per Server? Pick the Bill That Fits.
Enhance sells one thing: a licence for a panel you host yourself, billed by the number of websites. xCloud sells three: managed servers, a hosted panel for your own servers, or a white-label reseller program.
1Managed by xCloud
| What managed xCloud offers, that Enhance never does |  xCloud$5/moManaged 1 GB, billed monthly |  EnhanceN/A/moNo managed hosting exists |
|---|---|---|
| Managed plan | ||
| What the price covers | Yes. The panel and the server, one bill. xCloud provisions and manages the infrastructure for you. | No. Not offered. Enhance is software you install on servers you rent or own elsewhere. |
| Hosting type | Cloud servers, provisioned for you. | No hosting of its own, at any tier. |
| Sites per server | Yes. Unlimited, bounded only by the server size you pick. | No. Not applicable. |
| Server resize and full server backup | Yes. Both, from the dashboard. | No. Enhance does not interface with the underlying infrastructure. |
| Migration included | Yes. Free migration, done for you. | Limited. Self-serve import tools for cPanel and Plesk. |
| Money-back guarantee | Yes. Pro-rated refund on managed servers, any day. | No. Not applicable. |
2Bring your own server
| The panel both products actually sell | xCloudFree/moFree for 1 server, then per server | Enhance$10/moMinimum, then $0.15 per website |
|---|---|---|
| Bring your own server | ||
| What the price covers | Yes. The panel only. Free for your first server (up to 10 sites), then $5/server for 2–5 servers, $4 for 6–10, $3 for 11+. | Yes. The panel only. $0.15 per website per month up to 5,000 sites, $0.10 to 25,000, $0.075 to 100,000, with a $10 monthly minimum (enough for 66 sites). |
| What you are billed on | Yes. Servers. Unlimited sites on every paid server. | Limited. Websites. Servers are free to add; staging, addon domains and soft-deleted sites are not billed. |
| Where the panel runs | Yes. Hosted by xCloud. Nothing to install or maintain. | Limited. On a server you provide (2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB disk, Ubuntu 24.04 minimum). |
| Root access | Yes. Full root on every server you connect. | Yes. Root required and kept. A tie. |
| Supported providers | Yes. Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS, GCP, Linode, Hostinger, Contabo or any Ubuntu host. | Yes. Any cloud or physical server with a public IP. A tie. |
| Sites per server | Yes. Unlimited on paid servers. | Yes. Unlimited, each one billed. |
| Contract | Yes. None. 14-day full refund on new servers. | Yes. No contract. Refund terms not published. |
3White-Label Reseller Program
| Reselling under your own brand | xCloud$25/moStartup tier, 25 servers, billed monthly | EnhanceIncluded. Resellers and sub-resellers built into the licence |
|---|---|---|
| Reseller program | ||
| What it is | Yes. A dedicated white-label hosting brand: set your prices, take payment through your own Stripe account, bill clients under your name. | Yes. Reseller and sub-reseller accounts inside the panel, with custom packages and quotas. |
| Branding | Yes. 100% white-label: your name, logo and domain. | Yes. Logos, colours, fonts, custom panel, phpMyAdmin and staging domains, branded nameservers. A tie. |
| Billing | Yes. Built in, through your own Stripe account. Platform fee of 25% or $3 per sale on the Startup tier, whichever is lower. | Limited. Through a separate billing system: WHMCS, Blesta, HostBill, Upmind, Clientexec, Paymenter or WiseCP. |
| What you can sell | Yes. Managed servers, your own servers, Mailbox plans, and OpenClaw / Hermes AI agent hosting. | Yes. Shared, VPS and dedicated packages on your cluster. |
Pricing
xCloud vs Enhance: Panel Pricing Compared
Both panels run on servers you pay your provider for, so this compares the panel bill only. Enhance charges per website. xCloud charges per server. Which is cheaper depends on how many sites you put on each server.
Panel fees only, billed monthly in USD, excluding your provider's server bill and VAT. Enhance figures use its published tiers: $0.15 per site up to 5,000, then $0.10, with a $10 minimum. Above roughly 20 to 33 sites per server, xCloud's per-server price is lower; below that, Enhance's per-site price is. The "one app per server" row is there on purpose.
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| Scenario | Servers | Sites |  xCloud panel / mo | Enhance licence / mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freelancer | 1 | 10 | $0 | $10 |
| Small agency | 2 | 50 | $5 | $10 |
| One app per server | 10 | 30 | $36 | $10 |
| Small host | 5 | 500 | $20 | $75 |
| Growing host | 15 | 2,000 | $42 | $300 |
| Large host | 50 | 10,000 | $147 | $1,250 |
Who Runs the Panel Itself?
Both products leave you root on your servers. The difference is the control panel: Enhance is software you host, cluster and update yourself; xCloud runs the panel for you and connects to your servers over SSH.
| Control plane and cluster | xCloud | Enhance |
|---|---|---|
| Control plane and cluster | ||
| Panel hosting | Yes. Hosted by xCloud. Sign up and connect a server. | Limited. You install it on your own server with one command, and keep that server running. |
| Panel updates | Yes. Shipped by xCloud to the hosted panel. | Limited. Applied with apt upgrade on every server; some releases require all servers on the same version. Updates are not forced. |
| Minimum to start | Yes. A free account and one Ubuntu server. | Limited. A 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB disk server on Ubuntu 24.04 for the panel itself. |
| Supported Ubuntu versions | Yes. 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 LTS. | Limited. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Other distributions are on the roadmap. |
| Many servers, one dashboard | Yes. Every server and site in one dashboard, with global search. | Yes. Single unified panel for all servers, customers and sites. A tie. |
| Roles split across servers (app, database, email, DNS, backup) | Not published. | Yes. Any role on any server, 1 to 10,000 servers per cluster. |
| Automatic site placement | Not published. | Yes. By load, site count or random, with server groups. |
| Move a site to another server | Yes. Clone to another server, or full server-to-server migration. | Yes. Move whole sites or single services with no reconfiguration. |
| Disaster recovery | Limited. Recreate sites from local or remote backups; one-click server rebuild keeps IP and billing. | Yes. Restore every site from a lost server onto another server in the cluster, from the last backup. |
| Per-site isolation | Limited. Separate system user per site. | Yes. Every site runs in its own lightweight Linux container. |
| Hard per-site resource limits | Limited. Per-site PHP-FPM worker tuning. | Yes. CPU, IO, IOPS, memory, nproc, swap and inode limits per site. |
| Vertical scaling | Yes. Resize managed servers from the dashboard. | No. Enhance does not interface with the underlying servers. |
| Browser SSH terminal | Yes. Server and site terminal in the dashboard. | Not published. |
The Stack Underneath: Web Servers, Databases and Apps
Enhance covers more classic web servers and databases. xCloud covers more of what modern projects deploy: Git, Docker, Laravel and a large app library. Neither publishes a benchmark, and this page will not invent one.
| Stack and deploys | xCloud | Enhance |
|---|---|---|
| Web servers, databases and apps | ||
| NGINX and OpenLiteSpeed | Yes. Both. | Yes. Both. |
| Apache and LiteSpeed Enterprise | No. Not offered. | Yes. Both, switchable per server without reconfiguration. |
| Multiple PHP versions per server | Yes. Per site. | Yes. Per site, PHP 5.6 to 8.5, with 5.2 to 5.5 optional. |
| PHP extension manager | Yes. Install and remove extensions from the dashboard. | Yes. Customers enable extensions per site. A tie. |
| MySQL and MariaDB | Yes. With one-click auto-tuning and OPcache control. | Yes. With my.cnf settings per server. |
| PostgreSQL hosting | Not published. | Yes. Optional PostgreSQL role, added May 2026. |
| Redis object cache | Yes. | Yes. Private Redis per site. A tie. |
| HTTP/3 and Brotli | Yes. One click, per site. | Not published. |
| Node.js hosting | Yes. From Git, with Next.js SSR or CSR. | Yes. Multiple Node.js apps per site. A tie. |
| Laravel tooling | Yes. Queues, scheduler, Horizon and Supervisor. | No. A Laravel installer is on the roadmap. |
| Docker and Docker Compose | Yes. Alongside WordPress and PHP on the same NGINX server. | No. Not offered. |
| Deploy from Git | Yes. One-click deploy: detects the stack, writes the deploy script and ships it. | No. Git deploy is under development, with no release date. |
| One-click apps | Yes. 543 open-source apps. | Limited. WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla and OpenClaw. |
| Cloudflare Enterprise CDN | Add-on. $5 per domain, fully managed. | Not published. Cloudflare DNS sync only. |
Email and DNS: Where Enhance Leads
If you sell email and DNS hosting to your customers, Enhance runs both as built-in server roles. xCloud takes a different route: a managed Mailbox add-on, a mail delivery service, and Cloudflare for DNS.
| Email and DNS | xCloud | Enhance |
|---|---|---|
| Mail and name servers | ||
| Built-in mail server | No. Mailbox add-on instead. | Yes. Postfix, Dovecot and rspamd as an email role, on any number of servers. |
| Business mailboxes | Add-on. From $1 per 8 GB mailbox; one free mailbox per domain on xCloud managed and provider servers. | Yes. Mailboxes, aliases, forwarders, catch-all and autoresponders, included. |
| Webmail | Not published. | Yes. Roundcube, with single sign-on. |
| Transactional email | Yes. Mail Delivery, free for 100 emails a month, then from $3. | Yes. Built-in MTA or your own smart host. |
| DNS hosting | No. DNS through the Cloudflare integration. | Yes. PowerDNS role with unlimited DNS servers and zone sync. |
| Cloudflare integration | Yes. DNS, SSL, WAF rules and edge cache. | Yes. DNS sync and proxy status. A tie on the basics. |
| DNSSEC and custom nameservers | Not published. | Yes. Both. |
Firewalls, Backups and What You Can Restore
Both cover the baseline: free SSL, 2FA, brute-force protection and incremental backups. xCloud puts more security tooling in the panel; Enhance gives more ways to restore.
| Security and backups | xCloud | Enhance |
|---|---|---|
| Protection and recovery | ||
| Firewall management | Yes. Managed from the panel. | Limited. ufw configured with safe defaults; changes via command line. A firewall UI is on the roadmap. |
| WAF rules | Yes. 7G and 8G rule sets, plus Cloudflare WAF rules from the panel. | Yes. ModSecurity with the OWASP Core Rule Set, per server and site. |
| Brute-force protection | Yes. Fail2Ban. | Yes. Rate limits and allow/block lists. A tie. |
| SSH lockdown | Yes. Restrict SSH to trusted IPs. | Not published. |
| Admin access by IP | Not published. | Yes. Lock the panel admin to trusted IPs. |
| Password-protect a site | Yes. HTTP basic auth per site. | No. On the roadmap. |
| Vulnerability scanning | Yes. Built in for WordPress. | Not published. Third-party tools (BitNinja, cPFence) integrate. |
| Virtual patching | Add-on. $2/site (Site Security PRO, by Patchstack). | Not published. |
| WordPress core integrity check | Yes. Checksums verified. | Not published. |
| AI bot blocker | Yes. With allow and custom block lists. | Not published. |
| Incremental backups | Yes. | Yes. De-duplicated snapshots. A tie. |
| Off-site backup targets | Yes. S3-compatible, R2, Backblaze, Wasabi, Google Drive, pCloud, SFTP. | Limited. Enhance backup servers or S3-compatible storage. |
| Single-file restore | Not published. | Yes. Files, databases or mailboxes, self-service. |
| Restore a hard-deleted site | Not published. | Yes. One click, from the backup role. |
| Downloadable backups | Yes. | Yes. A tie. |
| Docker app backups | Yes. | No. Not applicable. |
WordPress, Agency and AI Agent Tooling
Both ship a WordPress toolkit with staging, cloning and single sign-on. xCloud adds agency tooling and AI agent control; Enhance adds hosting-business tools like impersonation and billing modules.
| WordPress, agency and AI tooling | xCloud | Enhance |
|---|---|---|
| Day-to-day WordPress work | ||
| One-click WordPress | Yes. | Yes. A tie. |
| Staging with push to live | Yes. Pull and push. | Yes. Push live in one click. A tie. |
| Clone a site | Yes. Same or another server. | Yes. A tie. |
| WordPress SSO / magic login | Yes. Can be disabled per site. | Yes. A tie. |
| Bulk updates across all sites | Yes. Updates manager for plugins, themes and core across every site. | Limited. Per-site auto-update schedules. |
| Blueprints and site snapshots | Yes. Reusable site setups and snapshots. | Limited. Preinstalled plugins and themes per package. |
| WordPress Multisite | Yes. Sub-domain and sub-folder. | Not published. |
| Site monitoring | Yes. Site Insights, PageSpeed history and broken-link scans. | No. Per-site usage graphs are on the roadmap. |
| Branded client reports | Yes. PDF maintenance reports. | Not published. |
| Team roles | Yes. | Yes. A tie. |
| Customer impersonation | Not published. | Yes. See exactly what a customer sees. |
| Billing system modules | Limited. Built-in Stripe billing instead. | Yes. WHMCS, Blesta, HostBill, Upmind and more. |
| Public REST API | Yes. Scoped tokens. | Yes. Every UI feature is in the API. A tie. |
| MCP server (AI agent control) | Yes. Drive servers and sites from Claude, Cursor or any MCP-capable agent. | No. No MCP endpoint published. |
| AI agent skills | Yes. Installable skills for any MCP-compatible agent. | No. Not offered. |
| Managed AI agent hosting | Yes. OpenClaw, Hermes Agent and DeepSeek Harness. | Limited. OpenClaw one-click installer on your own cluster. |
Moving Off Enhance Without a Rebuild
There is no one-click Enhance importer on either side, and this page won't pretend otherwise. WordPress sites move with a migration plugin or a backup, and xCloud's team does it free.
Who runs the migration
xCloud- Yes. Free migration, done by the xCloud team
- Yes. Self-serve with the xCloud migration plugin or Migrate Guru
- Yes. Upload a site over SFTP to create it
Enhance- Yes. Enhance imports from cPanel and Plesk
- Limited. No importer for xCloud or other panels yet (Cloudways and RunCloud importers are on its roadmap)
What it costs
xCloud- Yes. Nothing. No migration fee
- Yes. No per-site charge
Enhance- Yes. Import tools are included in the licence
What moves
xCloud- Yes. Files and database together
- Limited. Email and DNS stay where they are; move mailboxes to Mailbox or keep your mail host
Enhance- Yes. Enhance website backups are downloadable, so files and databases come with you
Before you start
xCloud- Limited. Disable 2FA on the source site first
- Limited. Disable Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode first
- Yes. Migrate, test while DNS still points at Enhance, then cut over
Enhance- Limited. Plan email and DNS separately if Enhance hosts them
Support, Refunds and the Fine Print
What happens when something breaks, and what happens to the bill.
Getting hold of someone
xCloud- Yes. 24/7 live chat and tickets, on every plan including the free tier
Enhance- Yes. Tickets and email, 9am to 9pm GMT, at no extra charge
- Limited. No live chat published
- Yes. Community forum
Refunds and contracts
xCloud- Yes. Full refund within 14 days on your own servers and reseller plans
- Yes. Pro-rated refunds on managed servers
- Yes. No contract
Enhance- Yes. No minimum contract; stop any time
- Limited. Refund terms not published
What costs extra
xCloud- Yes. Team roles, white-label and staging included
- Limited. Add-ons: Mailbox from $1, Mail Delivery from $3, Site Security PRO $2/site, Cloudflare Enterprise $5/domain
Enhance- Yes. Backups, staging, WordPress toolkit and unlimited servers included
- Limited. A separate billing system to sell to customers
- Limited. Prices exclude VAT
Release pace
xCloud- Yes. Public changelog, v2.9.0 released 8 October 2026
Enhance- Yes. Public release notes and roadmap; releases up to twice a month
The full table
Every xCloud and Enhance Feature, Side by Side
Every published feature, side by side. 61 of 98 differ.
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| xCloud | Enhance | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform and pricing | ||
| Product type | Hosted panel + managed servers | Self-hosted panel |
| Lowest plan | Free (1 server, 10 sites) | $10/month minimum |
| Billed per | Server | Website |
| Panel hosted for you | Yes | No |
| Managed servers sold by the vendor | Yes | No |
| Integrate your own provider (any Ubuntu server) | Yes | Yes |
| Root access to server | Yes | Yes |
| Unlimited websites | Yes | Yes |
| Supported Ubuntu | 22.04, 24.04, 26.04 | 24.04 |
| Free tier | Yes | No |
| Money-back guarantee | 14 days | — |
| Long-term contract required | No | No |
| Servers and clustering | ||
| Many servers in one dashboard | Yes | Yes |
| Split roles across servers | — | Yes |
| Automatic site placement rules | — | Yes |
| Move sites between servers | Yes | Yes |
| Disaster recovery to another server | Partial | Yes |
| One-click server rebuild | Yes | — |
| Vertical scaling from the panel | Yes | No |
| Server monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Browser SSH terminal and command runner | Yes | — |
| Per-site containers | — | Yes |
| Hard per-site resource limits | Partial | Yes |
| Web stack | ||
| NGINX | Yes | Yes |
| OpenLiteSpeed | Yes | Yes |
| Apache | No | Yes |
| LiteSpeed Enterprise | No | Yes |
| Multiple PHP versions per server | Yes | Yes |
| PHP extension manager | Yes | Yes |
| Per-site PHP-FPM tuning | Yes | Yes |
| MySQL and MariaDB | Yes | Yes |
| MySQL/MariaDB auto-tuning | Yes | No |
| PostgreSQL hosting | — | Yes |
| Redis object cache | Yes | Yes |
| Full-page cache | Yes | Yes |
| HTTP/3 and Brotli, one click | Yes | — |
| Custom NGINX / vhost config | Yes | Yes |
| Node.js hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Laravel queues, scheduler and Horizon | Yes | No |
| Docker and Docker Compose | Yes | No |
| One-click deploy from Git | Yes | No |
| One-click app library | 543 apps | 4 apps |
| Security | ||
| Free Let's Encrypt SSL | Yes | Yes |
| Custom SSL/TLS certificates | Yes | Yes |
| Firewall management in the panel | Yes | No |
| 7G and 8G firewall | Yes | No |
| ModSecurity with OWASP rules | No | Yes |
| Fail2Ban / brute-force protection | Yes | Yes |
| SSH lockdown by IP | Yes | — |
| Panel admin lockdown by IP | — | Yes |
| Per-site IP allow/deny | Yes | Yes |
| Password-protect a site (HTTP auth) | Yes | No |
| Custom security headers from the panel | Yes | — |
| WordPress vulnerability scanner | Yes | — |
| Virtual patching (Site Security PRO) | Add-on, $2/site | — |
| WordPress core integrity monitor | Yes | — |
| AI bot blocker | Yes | — |
| Two-factor authentication | Yes | Yes |
| Backups | ||
| Incremental site backups | Yes | Yes |
| Full server backup | Yes (managed) | — |
| S3-compatible off-site backups | Yes | Yes |
| Google Drive, pCloud and SFTP backup targets | Yes | — |
| Downloadable backups | Yes | Yes |
| Single-file restore | — | Yes |
| Restore hard-deleted sites | — | Yes |
| Docker app backups | Yes | No |
| Email and DNS | ||
| Built-in mail server role | No | Yes |
| Business mailboxes | Add-on, from $1/mo | Included |
| Roundcube webmail | — | Yes |
| Transactional email service | Yes | Yes |
| Built-in DNS server | No | Yes |
| Cloudflare integration | Yes | Yes |
| DNSSEC | — | Yes |
| Cloudflare Enterprise CDN | Add-on, $5/domain | — |
| Edge full-page cache on a global PoP network | Yes | — |
| WordPress and agency | ||
| One-click WordPress | Yes | Yes |
| Staging with push to live | Yes | Yes |
| Clone site to same or another server | Yes | Yes |
| WordPress SSO / magic login | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk updates manager across all sites | Yes | Partial |
| Blueprints and site snapshots | Yes | Partial |
| WordPress Multisite | Yes | — |
| Site Insights, PageSpeed and broken-link monitoring | Yes | No |
| Branded client reports (PDF) | Yes | — |
| Team accounts and roles | Yes | Yes |
| Customer impersonation | — | Yes |
| White-label panel | Yes | Yes |
| Reseller program | Yes | Yes |
| Billing system modules (WHMCS, Blesta, HostBill) | No | Yes |
| cPanel import | Yes | Yes |
| Plesk import | — | Yes |
| AI, API and alerts | ||
| Public REST API | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Installable AI agent skills | Yes | No |
| Managed AI agent hosting | Yes | Partial |
| Slack alerts | Yes | Yes |
| WhatsApp and Telegram alerts | Yes | — |
| Support | ||
| 24/7 live chat | Yes | No |
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- Free for your first server, then per server, not per site
- No control panel server to host or update
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xCloud vs Enhance: Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers to what people ask before choosing between xCloud and Enhance.
What is the difference between xCloud and Enhance?
Enhance is a control panel you host yourself and pay for per website; xCloud is a hosted panel you pay for per server, with managed servers on top.
Enhance installs on your own Ubuntu 24.04 server and can grow into a multi-server cluster with app, database, email, DNS and backup roles. It is built for web hosting companies replacing cPanel or Plesk. xCloud runs the panel for you and connects to servers you own on any provider, or provisions managed servers itself. It leans toward WordPress agencies and developers, with Git deploys, Docker, Laravel, Node.js and AI agent tooling.
Is xCloud cheaper than Enhance?
It depends on how many sites you run per server: xCloud is cheaper on busy servers, Enhance on sparse ones.
Enhance charges $0.15 per website per month with a $10 minimum. xCloud is free for one server with up to 10 sites, then $3 to $5 per server with unlimited sites. At 500 sites on 5 servers, the panel bill is about $20 on xCloud against $75 on Enhance. At 30 sites spread over 10 servers, it is about $36 on xCloud against $10 on Enhance. Both exclude your server provider's bill.
How does Enhance's pricing work?
Per hosted website, billed monthly in arrears, with tiers that get cheaper as you grow.
$0.15 per site up to 5,000 sites, $0.10 from 5,001 to 25,000, and $0.075 from 25,001 to 100,000, with a $10 monthly minimum. Servers, addon domains, staging sites and soft-deleted sites are not billed. Prices exclude VAT, and there is no long-term contract.
Do I have to host the control panel myself with Enhance?
Yes. Enhance is not SaaS; xCloud is.
Enhance installs on infrastructure you provide, with a minimum of 2 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB disk and Ubuntu 24.04, and you apply updates with apt across your servers. With xCloud there is no panel server: you sign up and connect a server.
Which is better for a web hosting company?
Enhance, if you sell traditional shared hosting with email and DNS; xCloud, if you sell managed WordPress or app hosting under your brand.
Enhance's built-in mail and DNS roles, per-site containers, hard resource limits, multi-tier resellers and WHMCS-style billing modules are designed for classic shared hosting. xCloud's reseller program lets you sell managed servers, your own servers, Mailbox plans and AI agent hosting under your own brand, billed through your own Stripe account.
Which is better for WordPress agencies?
xCloud, for agency tooling and the per-server price.
xCloud includes blueprints and snapshots, an updates manager across every site, vulnerability scanning, broken-link and PageSpeed monitoring, and branded client reports. Enhance has a solid WordPress toolkit with staging, cloning, SSO and auto-updates, but not that agency layer.
Does Enhance support Git deployment or Docker?
Not today. Git deploy is under development on Enhance's roadmap, and Docker is not offered.
xCloud has one-click Git deploys that detect the stack and write the deploy script, plus Docker and Docker Compose hosting alongside WordPress and PHP sites on the same server.
Can AI agents manage servers on xCloud or Enhance?
On xCloud, yes. Enhance publishes no MCP endpoint.
xCloud provides an MCP server and installable agent skills, so Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or any MCP-compatible agent can manage servers and sites. Enhance has a full REST API, which developers can script against.
Which platform has better backups?
Enhance restores more granularly; xCloud backs up to more places.
Both offer incremental backups and downloadable backups. Enhance adds single-file restores, self-service restores for customers and restores of hard-deleted sites. xCloud adds off-site targets such as Google Drive, pCloud, Wasabi and SFTP, full server backups on managed servers, and backups for Docker apps.
Does Enhance host email and DNS?
Yes, as built-in server roles. xCloud uses add-ons and Cloudflare instead.
Enhance runs Postfix, Dovecot, rspamd and Roundcube for email and PowerDNS for DNS. xCloud offers Mailbox from $1 per mailbox (with a free mailbox per domain on managed and provider servers), Mail Delivery for transactional email, and DNS through its Cloudflare integration.
Can I migrate from Enhance to xCloud?
Yes, without a rebuild. xCloud migrates WordPress sites for free.
Enhance website backups are downloadable, and WordPress sites move with the xCloud migration plugin or Migrate Guru. The usual approach: migrate, test on xCloud while DNS still points at Enhance, then cut over. Plan email and DNS separately if Enhance hosts them.
How does support compare?
xCloud offers 24/7 live chat; Enhance offers tickets and email from 9am to 9pm GMT.
Neither charges extra for support. Enhance also runs a community forum.