SpinupWP

Pros

Setting up new servers is incredibly easy.
Attaching remote databases is super easy.
Backing up, migrating, cloning, and pushing Wordpress instances around is easy.
The documentation is great. The customer support is super responsive. The community is also quite helpful. This organization knows that they're doing when it comes to give people the tools to host their own Wordpress sites.

Cons

There have been a couple of hangups with server identity management in the workflow, but that's some really deep stuff that I don't even think I want access to. Customer support is happy to help in the rare instance when it's needed.

Alternatives Considered

Kinsta and DigitalOcean

Reasons for Switching to SpinupWP

SpinupWP doesn't try to nickle and dime you with numbers of visitors and over-inflated storage prices. They leave that to the cloud providers, and there are plenty of providers (*cough* Linode *cough*) where you can get servers for 1/10th of the cost of one of these "managed" Wordpress hosting providers.

Pros

So far the product has worked really well. It's handled basically everything I could think of as a common Wordpress deployment activity without difficulty. That includes provisioning Wordpress on a VPS. Creating a staging environment based off of production. Cloning from staging to production.

Was also surprised to see that it handled deploying and upgrading SSL certs without difficulty.

All round, seems like a mature and well thought out tool.

Cons

The only feature I've seen that I think could be improved upon is the fact that you need to create separate domain entries for the apex domain and the https:// version of it. This wasn't obvious to me and resulted in people trying to access the 'www' version of my site and getting Cloudflare errors.

Not saying that they're implementing it wrong. But it probably couldn't hurt to implement something like a friendly popup reminder in case users have forgotten to add the additional entry. Otherwise, everything is great so far.

Pros

SpinupWP made setting up and managing my own WordPress server super simple. The dashboard is powerful yet intuitive, and the documentation is comprehensive and helpful. SpinupWP has also been on the ball regarding best practices, such as upgrading from obsolete PHP versions, or outdated Linux versions.

Cons

It’s hard to think of any downsides to SpinupWP. It does what it sets out to do very well. If I didn’t have to update Linux packages manually that would be great, but not a major issue. Only once did I have an issue, and it seemed to be because the SpinupWP plugin got disable accidentally on a site. That caused a CPU spike which crashed my server regularly. Makes me wonder why it wasn’t under must-use plugins.

Pros

SpinupWP makes managing my cloud servers FAR easier and faster. It allowed us to utilise cloud servers like EC2, Digital Ocean, and Linode without the insane costs of WP Engine and others.

Cons

It's still relatively new, and development of new features is slow, but the quality is always high, so it's usually worth the wait.

More features for custom WordPress setups would be ideal. I also don't like the pricing model, as it disincentivises multiple smaller servers vs larger, shared hosting setups.

Pros

I really dig that we've finally been able to pick-and-mix the stack we wanted and needed for some of our customers. We have some crazy homemade extensions running for sites (like a mongo-db powered cart for a woocommerce site, so it can run with full page caching). No other managed host would help us out with this.

Managed hosting is great, but I often find myself more knowledgeable then the people working the helpdesks, so this is a perfect setup for us.

Cons

The dashboard isn't great for a large amount of servers and sites (but I read in the recent newsletter that y'all are fixing that).

I'd also love more detailed technical documentation on the installed stack and how to make changes to it; kinsta does this really well.

Alternatives Considered

Forge

Reasons for Choosing SpinupWP

Costs and the fact that I tend to know more in a technical sense then most people working on their helpdesks. Savvii, our other managed wordpress host, also once restored a 6 hour old backup on a running webshop deleting about 600 orders which we then had to insert -by hand- based on the "recently send" options in our SMTP provider.

Switched From

Kinsta

Reasons for Switching to SpinupWP

We chose Spinup because our main focus is still on WordPress.

Pros

The backups solution, wow. The ability to restore 1 website with 1 click, and it takes about 1 minute or so depending on the size of the website to be restored back to early morning is amazing. I also love the ability to set up a new server in 10 minutes with one click, and the ability to install new websites in a few clicks. Absolutely amazing platform and the security and the speed due to the caching methods is unlike anything you will find in the marketplace - they really don't have a competitor as far as apples to apples.

Cons

Hard to find one, but if I have to nitpick.. I can take backups, let's say 30 days. No issue there. I just wish I could also have a weekly schedule run, every 7 days. That way, sites that don't change much, I could just keep non-daily backups. It's really a nitpick item but it would be cool if I could run 2 schedules instead of just the daily.

Pros

Let's me have full control of my server while helping me maintain it and keep it secure. If you run your own server, there is a lot of configuration and setup that I personally am not comfortable doing on a production server that hosts client projects. On the other hand many of the premium hosting services out there are too restrictive for some of the things I need to be able to do.

Cons

If there has to be a con, I think it would be the availability of customer service. Although, I have not had to use the customer service much if at all, I remember when I signed up they were not available 24hrs. This is not an issue for me and I actually prefer that they keep things this way if they can as a way to keep costs down and their service inexpensive.

Alternatives Considered

Kinsta and Cloudways

Reasons for Choosing SpinupWP

Need more power and flexibility. I was paying a premium price at Siteground for a shared hosting set up that I was regularly hitting the limits on. I also, was going to be adding more client projects and wanted a way to maintain them all in the same space.

Switched From

SiteGround

Reasons for Switching to SpinupWP

SpinupWP allowed me to have more control over my server and have the same resources at a much lower price point.

Pros

This is exceptionally cost effective. Mix in the constant new features and updates, and the quality of the team in responding to issues is incredible. I've ended up writing about how I was able to work with them, and another SaaS to solve a problem that brought CPU usage down. The ability to link multiple providers is also fantastic. AWS, DO to name a few.

Cons

I know being critical helps a company to grow, but I am having trouble finding something to be overly critical about. I think the only real bugbear I have is that when it shows updates are needed for a site, even after I update the theme, plugin, WP itself, it doesn't update the number next to the site. It's not the end of the world, and it doesn't impact anything but me second guessing if I updated it or not!

Alternatives Considered

Pantheon

Reasons for Choosing SpinupWP

Siteground was making so many changes and the price just went up. And while they can do neat things, they could not offer me the type of solution I really wanted.

Switched From

SiteGround

Reasons for Switching to SpinupWP

Affordable and did what I wanted it to do.

Pros

I love how easy it is to add and manage sites. Also, SpinupWP's ability to keep my server up-to-date on security patches, integrated backup to B2, and ability to easily deploy on push to my repository makes it super streamlined for me to keep my business running smoothly.

Cons

One feature that I'd like is the ability to just pull a subdirectory on deploy from git, not the entire repo.

Alternatives Considered

Forge

Reasons for Switching to SpinupWP

Better WordPress support, less expensive, built-in security updates.

Pros

I love that I can choose my own powerful servers on Digital Ocean. And I love all the options that SpinupWP takes care of for me - caching, domain name changing, IP addresses, SFTP, etc.. It's a super powerful and fast platform.

Cons

The only drawback is sometimes I have to SSH into my server to accomplish certain tasks. However, they do offer very good documentation for everything I need to do.

Pros

I've been using SpinUpWP practically since they launched because their platform solved my issues of spinning up AWS EC2 instances. It used to be a relatively time-consuming process, but with SpinUp, it really makes it as simple as a few clicks after setting up the instance. It's great to be able to manage a lot of aspects of web server management in a clean, streamlined UI that I used to have to do manually through the CLI—you can add new sites, set up SFTP users, install SSL certs, set up backups, and update plugins (though I don't update through their interface—I prefer to be a bit more hands-on to make sure things update smoothly and to keep up-to-date with changelogs). It really makes it so smooth to manage your servers. Also, the fact that server logs are integrated is a HUGE benefit—no need to SSH into your environment when you can see and manage it all in one place.

Cons

The only thing that would be nice to have is a way to manually refresh the status of my sites' updates. You can manually refresh the server status after rebooting and installing updates, but I'd love to be able to manually refresh the status of plugin updates (I love seeing the line of green checks!) I would also love to see some more server monitoring stats in the UI (i.e. the stats you see when you first SSH into the server; we already see how much storage is used, but would be great to see memory usage, system load, etc.)

Pros

SpinupWP makes it far simpler to manage and setup sites on my own server/VPS. Their stock config is also super performant, and the SSH configuration is super easy to manage via the dashboard. Issuing SSL certs is built into the site setup process and is also dead simple.

Cons

If I have to pick on anything, it's the standard support, but they are very up front about what to expect. If you need more from support, they have an upgraded plan for that. But if, like me, you just need the basics and can handle managing your own WP site(s), the standard support is just peachy.
So ultimately, if you go with the Personal plan, just don't be expecting someone to hold your hand through every little problem you might have with WordPress. The server setup itself is rock solid, so you're unlikely to have issues there anyway--it's always the plugins and theme you add on top of WordPress that are bound to give you fits.

Pros

I enjoy the option to get under the hood and do whatever it is I need to on any of my servers. I can get as in the weeds (or not) that I like. And I feel "safe" doing it with SpinupWP support in my corner.

Cons

Some early growing pains, and the way you have to do site migrations for an entire server. I've already raised this feature request with the team, and I think they're working on a way to deploy a new server and move every site from an old to the new. This is important because SpinupWP recommends a fresh install when using a new version of Ubuntu.

Pros

It works, with very few issues.
Simplicity of implementation and design.
Cost effectiveness.
Direct support is knowledgeable and helpful.

Cons

Though I have rarely needed support, it can take a day to respond. Maybe it's my time zone.

Pros

I've always been a shared hosting developer, even though I used Virtual Private Servers. SpinupWP took a bit of getting used to coming from that background, but once I spun up my first server and transferred my first site, I understood the value. SpinupWP makes it extremely easy to add, maintain, and update sites. It's beautifully designed, simple to use, quick, and bug-free.

Cons

I have had no complaints with SpinupWP. The only issues I've had were with myself - I needed to read some of their documentation to understand what it did under the hood.

Pros

SpinupWP allows us to provide a consistent, high quality, server platform for our sites. It standardizes our process with industry best practices. Applying OS patches and sending reminders to reboot servers is extremely handy. Being able to see a dashboard of all of our sites (100+) across multiple servers and the status of all of them is extremely helpful.

Even tasks like upgrading PHP versions (7.4 -> 8.0 -> 8.1) is really streamlined in this platform and has helped us ensure that our sites are up to date whenever possible.

Cons

A very small complaint is the pagination of the sites interface becomes cumbersome for some of our large instances that have many many micro sites runnning on them (i.e. 50+). It would be ideal to be able to override the pagination.

Pros

Its simplicity but yet complex configuration. an interface that I can get to grips with quickly and easily for the needs that I might require. Spinning up a new server a breeze, creating a new site simple and effective. does the job..

Cons

sometimes support can be a bit pinnickity when they could help but choose not to because its not part of their service.

Help a fella out chaps once in a while, it might be reciprocated one day!

Pros

I like a lot they value proposition, and how they create a new service away from standard shared servers / vps hosting companies.

Cons

Overall, after several months using it, I ended up paying more for each site compared to other Managed WordPress companies like Kinsta o Nexcess, and I have to do more server maintenance from my end that I would like to.

Alternatives Considered

Cloudways

Reasons for Choosing SpinupWP

I wanted to try something simpler an cost-effective.

Switched From

Kinsta

Reasons for Switching to SpinupWP

Innovative and potentially more cost effective

Pros

SpinupWP is simple to setup and configure allowing you to quicky set a site up and running. It's interface allows for the quick management of each server or site and has a growing range of capabilities.

Cons

The platform is not a feature rich as some other competitors however they have shown to be actively taking input from users within the community to address any shortcoming and priorities new features.

Alternatives Considered

Plesk

Reasons for Switching to SpinupWP

Easy of use, Cost and Server Provider Support

Pros

As an engineer that does some minor WordPress hosting, it's extremely easy to set up new sites and get working right away without worrying about configuring everything. I can spin up a new low-cost server quickly and know that it's secure, fast, and kept up to date.

Cons

Early on there were fewer features, but they have continued to add killer features over time and I've been impressed with it since the beginning.

Pros

The ability to quickly spin up servers that are pre-configured for WordPress sites is great. Not only are they optimized for maximum website speed, but they are also optimized in terms of security. I can completely set up a server in 15 minutes and be ready to go. Amazing.

After using the service for my company, I actually signed up to use the service for my personal stuff as well. It just makes things so much easier to manage.

Cons

There are a few settings/features missing by default which aren't configurable in the control panel, but they can be adjusted manually which I end up doing myself. Not a huge deal, but it would be nice to be able to adjust PHP-FPM pool settings in the control panel as well as have Cloudflare real IP stuff set up by default in Nginx. That and I have had an issue with backups when storage space is low.

Pros

The portal is detailed, yet understandable. Excellent UI. I can see the condition of any site very quickly, and in some cases, push a button to rectify the issue.

Backups are much easier. and can be automatic or manual, which saves space for sites that don't change much.

Cons

There is a learning experience for any new service, and I delayed my transition to Spinup because I was too busy. That said, then I did make a commitment to migrate, it was not a problem.

Pros

It takes a lot of the had work out of launching and hosting websites without taking away the control.

Cons

Initially it was having to set up transactional emails. This was a bit of a learning curve for me but once it was sorted, it was easy as. Now days it's probably the lack of a quick staging environment but I believe that's in the pipeline.

Pros

I have been using SpinupWP since it came out in 2019, and for all the time it worked without any issues and delivered what it promised. I use it to run a server with a couple of WordPress installations, thus creating a steady flow of extra income plus allowing me to easily setup new stating / development installations. There really is not much else to say, it just works!

Cons

No big cons, but the features are limited and focused, which can absolutely also be seen as a pro. And setting up a new site takes a little bit longer than ideal, but less than 5 minutes, so not a big deal.

Pros

Page caching, or better put total Website caching, that truly speeds up page loading and subsequently increases max load

Cons

I'd like to see more logs containing detailed results of actions you can perform, like moving a site to a different domain. I think this can speed up the necessary checks you need to perform after the move.

Pros

Strong documentation, dashboard and tools for those who want high levels of control but to also feel supported by knowledgeable support staff when things might get tricky (if you're not an expert, know enough and want to learn more).

Cons

When we tried the cloning tool it wasn't always successful.

Alternatives Considered

Forge

Pros

It brought WordPress development into this century by allowing a CI/CD-type setup. It is also a pretty simple and straightforward interface with fairly good documentation.

Cons

It nags you about having recommended plugins (Limit Login Attempts Reloaded), even though we deliberately use an alternative. It would be nice to have notifications integrated with Slack. It would be great if it could somehow support atomic deployments (currently, if my build fails for some reason, then I have to log into the server and troubleshoot it, leaving me with a broken site).

Pros

I trust that how the SpinupWP app sets up servers is the right and most efficient way to do this for WordPress sites - the team has years of knowledge of the intricacies of WordPress. The app itself is very easy to use and covers most common administrative tasks. Issues with servers are minimal, and often, the support team will be able to advise on how to solve these.

Cons

I still have to delve into server configuration for some tasks, such as setting up WebP image delivery or adjusting cache rules. This is pretty tedious, especially with a growing number of servers. Would be nice if better defaults were in place for these, or at least there was some way to manage this in SpinupWP.

Alternatives Considered

Kinsta and Cloudways

Reasons for Switching to SpinupWP

Lower price than managed hosting and the high quality of the product itself.

Pros

The cost is a fraction of hosting websites elsewhere with comparable performance benchmarks.

Cons

It's hard to complain about such a bargain, but if I could get the ability to pair with Domain registrars to more seamlessly handle DNS. But that's not a fair complaint. It's a feature request.

Pros

Everything just works as expected, and the features are thoughtfully crafted. Meaningful and fast interface. Nice support that listens and takes criticism to heart.

And it gets better and better every few months with updates.

Cons

That I need to scroll down 1000 lines in the logs to get to the latest entries.

Pros

Interface is intuitive and easy to use. I really like the way they handle server updates & notifications. They add new features at a solid pace. The pricing is good. Their docs are good. I've had to contact support maybe 1-2 times in 3+ years, and they were quick to respond and helpful.

Cons

I literally have zero issues with them, they're great.

Pros

What do I like and what was the main reason for me to pick SpinupWP is that I was sick and tired of managing my server and it was a security nightmare. Now for most of the things care SpinapWP platform, I have more time to manage my business.

Cons

I would like to see more beginner-friendly tutorials and especially more videos.

Pros

Love the elegance of the system, and that all the functional tasks you need to cover for WordPress have been thought of from SSL to file permissions, basic auth to private key restriction. So much less fuss and obstruction than a regular control panel - and you still manage your server directly when you need it

Cons

Hard to say - minor UI issues like annoying paginated results or slightly tucked-away settings

Pros

It doesn't overtake your server, you still have complete management over it.

It makes setting up sites for production, staging & testing a breeze, as you can easily duplicate sites and copy them between different servers if needed.

Love the automation with git and push to deploy, makes the workflow really simple.

Love the automated backups which makes it super simple to have your site backed up to an alternative hosting provider and restored in no time at all.

Cons

It is missing a dashboard of sorts that shows you how your servers & sites are performing, but not a huge deal as most hosting providers provide this anyway.

Pros

Once I spun up my droplet on DigitalOcean (SpinupWP provided a comprehensive checklist on how to do this), I could immediately add a new domain. They gave a step-by-step to point my DNS to my droplet. Since then, I have added five new domains to my Droplet. I also upgraded my Droplet to handle the new load.

Cons

While not something that will change, I have had a client running on Apache and another on Lightspeed with WordPress installs, and I fonud it difficult in SpinupWP as their architecture only supports NGINX.

Pros

The documentation provided everything I needed, and I haven't had any issues since switching.

Cons

Can't think of anything. I would say it'd be nice if there is an internal backup option.

Pros

It has a modern and intuitive interface, allowing us to automatically spin up new AWS EC2 instances for WordPress hosting and subsequently create and manage individual WordPress instances much faster than the usual manual process.

Cons

Initially, they did not support Graviton EC2 instances, which caused some setbacks for us. That said, they now fully support this.

Pros

Compared to many hosting solutions I tried (shared hosting, managed hosting, tinkering with a bare metal server), spinup is the best of all worlds combined. It gives me the ease of use of a straightforward hosting panel but without the premium of managed hosting.

Cons

for some really advanced stuff you have to tinker in the server configuration yourself. But I find myself doing that less and less since more features are getting an user interface like the new GUI for redirects.

Alternatives Considered

Kinsta and Pantheon

Pros

Like all Delicious Brains (and ex-Delicious Brains!) products, SpinupWP is perfectly simple and brilliantly though-through. It gives you control over everything you need, takes care of everything else, and has fantastic documentation.

Cons

Hard to think of a negative, but I guess it would be the pricing structure that means you pay per server. Seems a bit counter-intuitive but I understand why.

Pros

We needed to setup an AWS EC2 instance for a WordPress deployment. Using SpinupWP was quick and easy. It saved us hours of configuring Ubuntu, Nginx and caching. What we ended up with was a solid WP installation that excels at speed tests and keeps getting updates and daily backups all handled by SpinupWP.

Cons

Having used SpinupWP for over a year we have yet not ran into any issues.

Pros

Ease of setup and maintenance makes setting up sites quick.

Cons

Plugin status doesn't update right away so it's hard to see what plugins need updating.

Pros

No more intrusion into WP sites ! no more xxx links on pages, no more reputation blocking, no more fear when it comes to update WP or plugins ;-)

Cons

site-by-site PHP/FPM configuration is a little tweaky (files at different places) and I miss SFTP backup availability...

Pros

– Easy to use
– Nice interface
– Good basic functionality (setting up wordpress, move wordpress between servers, external backup)

Cons

– at the moment only daily backup is possible. But they are working on an update to change that
– in the personal plan the monitoring feature is not available
– would be nice to see more server stats (cpu usage, ram usage etc per server)

Pros

It has everything I need to manage my WP servers and websites, removing complicated stuff, having opinionated configs that work really well for 99% of websites.

Cons

Sometimes a bit slow to update the server with a new config.

Pros

Clean interface, flexibility in setting up new sites (with or without WordPress), easy deployment.

Cons

In ability to support alternate setups (e.g. an Apache stack)

Pros

This makes WP management as simple as using the Settings app on your phone. Honestly the cleanest interface I’ve seen and best support I’ve ever had for a wp hosting software

Cons

Don’t even have a negative thing to say.

Pros

I use SpinupWP to manage websites for clients. In the past, we would go with someone like WP Engine or Flywheel, but in those situations you're tied to their infrastructure. With SpinupWP, I usually deploy solely to AWS and have never had any issues.

Cons

Maybe some more integrations with various SaaS providers could be cool.

Alternatives Considered

Kinsta and cPanel & WHM

Reasons for Switching to SpinupWP

It offers more control and has more of a focus on WordPress developers than general and potentially non-technical WordPress

Pros

It is super easy to use, and you are up-and-running in no time. Adding a new server, database or WP instance is easy as 1-2-3. Also, the integrated certificate management works like a breeze.

Cons

The fact that I found it a little expensive adding a 2nd server. But the tool expanded recently and now there is a lot more value because of the server monitoring and to-do lists.

Pros

It's so easy to setup. SpinupWP looks after all of the server administration which I don't have time to learn.

Cons

There's nothing that I don't like about SpinupWP. I love it!

Pros

I like the simplicity it provides to create WordPress servers.

Cons

I think it's good enough. No cons so far.