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xCloud vs SpinupWP: Pricing, Deployment, and Features Compared
Compare xCloud and SpinupWP on pricing, server control, backups, caching, deployment, and support to pick the right WordPress hosting platform.
89 features compared · 55 where the two differ · Last updated: 23/08/2026
Quick verdict
Choose xCloud if…
- You want the option of a managed server from the same vendor, not just a panel for one you rent.
- You are moving existing sites — xCloud's bulk site, server and cPanel migration is included, where SpinupWP's migration service starts at $300 per site.
- You want live chat support rather than email-only ticketing.
- You need agency tooling in the box: team accounts and roles, white-labelling, blueprints, full server clone.
- You want WordPress-specific hardening and extras — 7G/8G firewall, AI bot blocker, vulnerability scanner, staging with push/pull.
Choose SpinupWP if…
- You want a long-established, deliberately narrow product that does one thing — panel-managed VPS WordPress — very well.
- You need granular backup retention: Advanced keeps up to 4 daily, 4 weekly and 4 monthly snapshots per site.
- You are a developer who values SpinupWP's deployment and Git workflow reputation and its WP-CLI-first approach.
- You run many servers: additional servers are volume-discounted down to $1/month each above 60 servers.
At a glance
xCloud vs SpinupWP at a glance
The decision criteria first. The full feature-by-feature matrix is below.
| Criteria | xCloud | SpinupWP |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Free tier for connecting your own server, or a managed plan that bundles the server | Panel subscription only — per-account plan plus volume-priced additional servers |
| Starting price | $0 to connect your own server; managed plans from $5/month (1 GB) | $12/month Essentials, $19/month Advanced — both cover 1 server, server rental extra |
| Infrastructure included? | Included on managed plans; separate (paid to your provider) on the free self-managed tier | No — SpinupWP is a control panel only; you rent and pay for the VPS yourself |
| Supported cloud providers | Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS, GCP, Linode, or any Ubuntu server via SSH | Integrated with Vultr, Akamai/Linode, DigitalOcean and Hetzner; also EC2, Lightsail, Google Cloud Compute and any provider |
| Server locations | Every region your chosen provider offers — you pick the datacentre | Every region your chosen provider offers — SpinupWP hosts nothing itself |
| Number of sites/servers | Unlimited sites per server; servers billed individually | Unlimited sites; 1 server per plan, extra servers from $10 down to $1/month each by volume |
| Traffic/bandwidth limits | Bandwidth is your provider's; managed plans start at 1 TB | None imposed by the panel — bandwidth is whatever your VPS provider allows |
| WordPress management | Core, theme and plugin updates, blueprints, magic login, WP-CLI, multisite | Core/theme/plugin update dashboard, Magic Login, WP-CLI, multisite, WordPress cron configured |
| Staging and cloning | 1-click staging with push/pull, clone site to same or another server, full server clone | Unlimited staging sites, clone to same or another server, refresh site — no push/pull per the matrix below |
| Backups and restore | Full and incremental site backups, downloadable, remote S3 storage, full server backups | Essentials: 1 daily snapshot per site. Advanced: up to 4 daily, 4 weekly, 4 monthly. On-demand, download and restore |
| CDN and caching | Full-page cache built in; bring any CDN | Full page caching built in; no first-party CDN — bring your own |
| Redis/object caching | Yes — Redis object cache configured for WordPress | Yes — Redis object caching on both plans |
| Security and malware protection | 7G/8G firewall, Fail2Ban, AI bot blocker, vulnerability scanner, free auto-renewing SSL | Per-site isolation, automatic security updates, Fail2ban/LLA brute-force protection, Nginx hardening, free SSL. Note: the matrix below, captured earlier, records no Fail2Ban integration — SpinupWP's pricing page now lists it |
| Migration assistance | Built-in bulk site and server migration, plus cPanel migration, at no extra cost | Migration service starts at $300 per site |
| Support channels | Live chat and ticketing, plus documentation | Email only — Standard Email Support on Essentials, Priority Email Support on Advanced; no live chat |
| Agency/team features | Team accounts and role management included | 1 user included; Essentials is single-user, Advanced adds users at $2/month each |
| White-label/reseller features | White-labelling included | No white-label option published |
| Refund/cancellation terms | 14-day money-back guarantee; cancel any time | Free trial offered; the matrix below records a 30-day money-back guarantee |
| Main limitations | Self-managed route means you hold a provider account and pay it separately | Never includes the server, migration is a paid service, support is email-only, and site monitoring costs $1/month per site on Advanced |
Feature comparison
Every Feature, Side by Side
89 features side by side, including everything xCloud has shipped since the original comparison. 55 of them differ between xCloud and SpinupWP — use the filter to see only those.
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 xCloud | SpinupWP | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting type | Cloud servers | Cloud servers |
| Lowest plan | Starts at $0 | Starts with $12 |
| Web Server- NGINX & OLS | Yes | Yes |
| Integrate Your Own Provider -(Vultr, DigitalOcean, GCP, Hetzner, AWS, Linode or any Ubuntu) | Yes | Yes |
| Root Access to Server | Yes | Yes |
| Vertical Scaling | Yes | No |
| Unlimited Websites Creation | Yes | Yes |
| External Database | Yes | Yes |
| WordPress Multisite (Sub-domain/Sub-folder) | Yes | Yes |
| Site Disable | Yes | No |
| Blueprints | Yes | Yes |
| Custom NGINX | Yes | No |
| Full page & Redis cache | Yes | Yes |
| Transactional email service | Yes | No |
| Easy integration with Mailgun, SendGrid, ElasticEmail, or any SMTP provider | Yes | No |
| Fully WordPress focused | Yes | Yes |
| WordPress theme, plugin, & core update | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic security updates | Yes | Yes |
| 7G & 8G Firewall | Yes | No |
| Fail2Ban Integration | Yes | No |
| Firewall Management | Yes | Yes |
| AI Bot Blocker | Yes | No |
| Vulnerability Scanner | Yes | No |
| Accounts & roles management for team | Yes | No |
| Automatic FREE Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates | Yes | Yes |
| Custom SSL/TLS certificates | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced Cron job | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple PHP versions in the same server | Yes | Yes |
| Compatibility & easy management for PHP 8.3 | Yes | Yes |
| WP-CLI | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk site & server migration | Yes | No |
| cPanel Site Migration | Yes | Yes |
| Full Site Backup | Yes | Yes |
| Incremental Site Backup | Yes | No |
| Site Backup download option for remote backups | Yes | Yes |
| Full Server Backup Management | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Site Backup on any of your own s3 storage | Yes | Yes |
| File Manager | Yes | No |
| Reset File & Folder Permissions | Yes | No |
| Server & Site monitoring | Yes | Yes |
| Slack Integration | Yes | No |
| WhatsApp Integration | Yes | No |
| Server and Site Log | Yes | Yes |
| Add Existing Database | Yes | Yes |
| Clone site to same & another server | Yes | Yes |
| 1-click Demo Site | Yes | No |
| IP Whitelist/Blacklist | Yes | Yes |
| Full Server Clone | Yes | No |
| Restore site from backup | Yes | Yes |
| Multilingual Dashboard | Yes | No |
| Search Engine Visibility | Yes | No |
| Staging with Pull Push | Yes | No |
| 1-click magic login | Yes | Yes |
| Magic Login Disable | Yes | No |
| Clone & deploy from GIT | Yes | Yes |
| White Label | Yes | No |
| Live chat support | Yes | No |
| Moneyback guarantee | 14 days | 30 Days |
| AI and agent control | ||
| MCP server — drive servers and sites from Claude, Cursor or any AI agent | Yes | No |
| Installable AI agent skills (servers, sites, WordPress, SSL, account) | Yes | No |
| AI bot blocker — block AI crawlers and scrapers at the server | Yes | — |
| Public REST API with scoped tokens | Yes | Yes |
| Security and WordPress integrity | ||
| Virtual patching for known vulnerabilities (Site Security PRO) | Add-on, $2/site | — |
| WordPress integrity monitor — verifies core files against checksums | Yes | — |
| Custom security headers (HSTS, CSP) from the panel | Yes | — |
| HTTP basic auth and per-site IP allow/deny | Yes | — |
| SSH lockdown — restrict SSH to trusted IPs, custom port | Yes | — |
| Performance and caching | ||
| Edge full-page cache on a global PoP network | Yes | — |
| Cloudflare Enterprise (330+ PoPs, Enterprise WAF) | Add-on, $5/domain | No |
| HTTP/3 (QUIC) and Brotli compression, one click | Yes | — |
| Per-site PHP-FPM worker tuning and PHP extension manager | Yes | — |
| Auto-healing — restarts MySQL, NGINX, Redis or PHP if it stops | Yes | — |
| MySQL/MariaDB auto-tuning and OPcache control | Yes | — |
| Monitoring and observability | ||
| Broken link monitoring with one-click 301 redirect | Yes | No |
| Site Insights — PHP, MySQL and traffic analytics per site | Yes | — |
| Scheduled PageSpeed / Core Web Vitals monitoring with history | Yes | — |
| Telegram alerts for site, server and team events | Yes | — |
| Native macOS menu-bar app (xCloud Pulse) | Yes | No |
| Developer and deployment | ||
| Browser SSH terminal and command runner | Yes | — |
| One-click deploy from Git with stack auto-detection | Yes | — |
| Docker and Docker Compose application hosting | Yes | No |
| Node.js, Laravel and Next.js hosting with queue workers | Yes | No |
| One-click app library | 285 apps | No |
| Supervisor process management and site snapshots | Yes | — |
| Backups, migration and agency tooling | ||
| Off-site backups to your own S3, R2, Backblaze, Wasabi, Google Drive or pCloud | Yes | Yes |
| Full server clone and server-to-server migration | Yes | — |
| Branded client maintenance reports (PDF) | Yes | — |
| White-label reseller programme with Stripe billing and your own plans | Yes | — |
| Business mailboxes on your own domain | Add-on, $1/mo | No |
Already on SpinupWP?
Moving Is Two Supported Routes, Not A Rebuild
You do not have to rebuild the site to change host. Both routes below are documented, and both bring the files and the database across together.
xCloud's built-in migration
Connect the site you are running on SpinupWP and let xCloud pull it across. It is the path most people take, and it handles the files and the database together.
Read the migration guideMigrate Guru, if you prefer a plugin
A free WordPress plugin, fully compatible with xCloud. Useful when you would rather drive the move from inside the site you already control.
Read the plugin guide
Before you start: if a token migration fails, our guide's first checks are to disable 2FA and Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode on the source site. A migration that stalls is almost always a security setting rather than the data.
xCloud vs SpinupWP: Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers to what people ask before moving between xCloud and SpinupWP.
What is the difference between xCloud and SpinupWP?
The difference is scope, not model — both are control panels that manage WordPress on a VPS you own. SpinupWP does only that, charging $12/month (Essentials) or $19/month (Advanced) for the panel while you rent the server separately. xCloud offers the same self-managed route on a free tier and additionally sells managed servers from $5/month, so you can buy the server and the panel together or keep them apart.
Is xCloud cheaper than SpinupWP?
For most setups, yes. Connecting your own server to xCloud costs $0, against SpinupWP's $12/month minimum for the same self-managed arrangement — and in both cases you pay your VPS provider separately. xCloud's managed plans start at $5/month with the server included. SpinupWP becomes competitive at scale, where additional servers fall from $10/month to as little as $1/month each above 60 servers.
Which is better for WordPress?
Both are WordPress-only products, so this comes down to tooling. SpinupWP covers the essentials well: Magic Login, an update dashboard, page and Redis caching, WP-CLI and multisite. xCloud ships those plus WordPress-specific extras the matrix below shows SpinupWP lacking — 7G/8G firewall, AI bot blocker, vulnerability scanner, incremental site backups, staging with push/pull and a transactional email integration.
Which platform is better for agencies?
xCloud, on features. It includes team accounts with role management, white-labelling, blueprints, full server clone and bulk site and server migration at no extra cost. SpinupWP includes one user, restricts extra users to the Advanced plan at $2/month each, and publishes no white-label option — but its volume server pricing gets very cheap for an agency running dozens of servers.
Can I use my own VPS with xCloud or SpinupWP?
Yes, with both — this is the model they share. SpinupWP integrates with Vultr, Akamai/Linode, DigitalOcean and Hetzner, and supports Amazon EC2 and Lightsail, Google Cloud Compute and any other provider. xCloud connects Vultr, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS, GCP, Linode or any Ubuntu server over SSH. In both cases you keep root access and pay the provider directly.
Can I migrate from SpinupWP to xCloud?
Yes, and it is included. xCloud ships bulk site and server migration plus a cPanel migration path at no extra cost, so sites move across without a rebuild — a notable contrast with SpinupWP, whose migration service starts at $300 per site. The usual approach is to migrate, test on the new server while DNS still points at the old one, then cut over.
Does either platform include backups?
Both do, with different strengths. SpinupWP schedules 1 daily snapshot per site on Essentials and up to 4 daily, 4 weekly and 4 monthly per site on Advanced, with on-demand snapshots, downloads and restore to integrated storage such as Backblaze B2, Wasabi, S3 or DigitalOcean Spaces. xCloud provides full and incremental site backups, full server backup management, remote backups to your own S3 storage, and restore.
Do xCloud and SpinupWP support Redis or object caching?
Both do. Each configures Redis object caching alongside full page caching for WordPress on every plan, so caching itself is not a differentiator. What differs is how much of the server you can tune around it: xCloud exposes custom NGINX configuration, which the matrix below records SpinupWP as not offering.
Which gives more server control?
They are close, which is unusual in this comparison. Both give root access, bring-your-own-provider, multiple PHP versions on one server, external databases and WP-CLI. xCloud goes further with custom NGINX configuration, vertical scaling, a file manager, permission resets and full server clone — all recorded as absent for SpinupWP in the feature matrix below.
Which is easier for beginners?
xCloud, mainly because you can skip the hardest step. Its managed plans provision the server for you from $5/month, so there is no cloud provider account to set up, while live chat support is there when something goes wrong. SpinupWP always requires you to rent and connect a VPS yourself and answers by email only, which suits developers more than first-time server owners.
Hear what people are saying about us
See why agencies, developers, startups, and growing businesses choose xCloud to power their projects.
xCloud works really well, I am surprised by its performance being this the release version, I have tried many paid platforms such as runcloud, cloudpages or serveravatar, as well as free platforms such as CyberPanel, CloudPanel or Hestia Control Panel and direct competitors such as SpinupWP and FlyWP. Of all those that I have tried, the platform that works best for WordPress is SpinupWP and I believe that xCloud can reach and surpass that development, its roadmap is promising. Congratulations to the xCloud team, I hope they become the leading platform in the segment, it has all the potential to achieve it!
Brian GeovannyI'm moving my servers to xCloud, a cloud control panel by M Asif Rahman and the WPDeveloper team. Their roadmap looks interesting and no, there are no team mates nor API limits with xCloud! #xCloud #wordpress #hosting
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Ed EllinghamxCloud is like having an expert server team on call — without the big agency costs. It's given me back my time and given my clients peace of mind. Highly recommended for freelancers and small teams who want reliable performance and security.
Dumitru ButucelxCloud isn't just a solution. It's like one of that friend who got your back when you screw things up pretty bad.
Waqar AhmedTrust me when I say, once people explore the potential of xCloud they gonna switch from other panels, just keep delivering the best tech, lots of love for the team 😍😍
Rahul SinghI've been with runcloud for the last 3 years. However, after trying xcloud for the last month, I'm switching over. They are on a roll with their setup.
Kevin PinedaSo far my experience has been smooth like silk. I didn't imagine that configuring and managing a VPS would be so easy. As of today, I have deployed 8 sites. The support is good, and they treat users with respect, even if they ask stupid questions (myself included). For the future, I hope for greater flexibility in scheduled backups and more comprehensive and consistent documentation. I'm sure that within a few months, xCloud will become the leader in its segment. This community is amazing, and the Staff here is super helpful.
Massimo VillaI've recently taken all of my Vultr-hosted sites and gotten rid of cPanel for them to substitute it with xCloud. I have to say, I'm really impressed with xCloud so far! The interface is definitely the standout feature for me.
Tony LewisHow Kevin Heinrichs Cut Hosting Costs by 84% While Running WooCommerce & Node.js Sites Efficiently
Kevin HeinrichsCame from cloudways then to runcloud then to xcloud. Looks like I'm staying here.
Gerson ElI came from Cloudways and won't go back. Highly impressed with xCloud. Glad I gave them a chance.
Jared McDowellI like xCloud better than RunCloud, but one thing I'll point out is that some years ago RunCloud was hungry for business, the support was outstanding, and the community was active and helped each other. Maybe it was sold, there was a change in management, or they stopped being hungry, but the quality of the RunCloud offering declined and it hasn't been moving forward quickly. My point is that currently the xCloud team has the edge and it is theirs to keep or lose
David McCanI had 150 sites on cloudways and am in the process of moving them to xcloud. Much faster and better priced.
Dan SpinozaDear xCloud Team, I have been using xCloud for some time now and am genuinely impressed with its capabilities and the flexibility it offers by allowing users to bring their own VPS for management. It's a fantastic service, and my experience so far has been very positive. Successful migrated 5 sites on a single server. Xcloud migration tool worked great. There were few hiccups with security plugin like MalCare but disabling the plugin prior to migration worked just fine.
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Gary MoodyxCloud gave me what no other hosting platform could: the flexibility of a VPS with the convenience of managed WordPress. As a solo founder running an entire business on one server, that combination is an important unfair advantage.
Jorge de los Reyes MartínezHow Newman Web Solutions Ensured Perfect Uptime and Seamless Scaling For 120+ WordPress Sites with xCloud
Lori NewmanI too have moved over to xCloud. It's pretty sweet. One click n8n and uptime Kuma apps
John ApertureCame from runcloud. Tried xcloud and never came back.
Karl FanegaI use Server Avatar and xCloud and I'll sooner use xCloud than Server Avatar personally.
Jay PaganoI went from Cloudways to xCloud. No intention on switching in the foreseeable future.
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