not sure which one. serverpilor or runcloud

Posted on March 31, 2018

Hi all not sure if this is the right place to ask this but would like to learn about your experiences and pros and cons about runcloud or serverpilot. Not sure whichone to choose. Runcloud has a lot of features but not sure if they work how they should All feedback would be really helpful thanks a lot!

This textbox defaults to using Markdown to format your answer.

You can type !ref in this text area to quickly search our full set of tutorials, documentation & marketplace offerings and insert the link!

These answers are provided by our Community. If you find them useful, show some love by clicking the heart. If you run into issues leave a comment, or add your own answer to help others.

Subha Pal

March 31, 2018

Let me explain few things,

I used both serverpilot.io and runcloud.io for 7 month almost.

These two provide most similar service.

Onething is great for runcloud is you have two option to choose configuration.

Nginx + Apache (Nginx as a Reverse Proxy)
Nginx+ PhP-fpm

If you need to access .htaccess file there 1 will be great. But if you don’t need .htaccess you can choose 2 nd option. Even 2nd option is better than first. Almost everything needed in .htaccess file can be configured in nginx.conf. You need some time to learn and used to.

But for serverpilot you don’t have 2nd option. They only based on Nginx+Apache configuration.

Somehow I liked serverpilot more than runcloud, because of its simplicity. I installed serverpilot agent and runcloud agent on two different droplet, Most of the case runcloud consume more memory than serverpilot. Actually runcloud install more things than serverpilot on droplet.

what kind of things you want to run on droplet, be mention. If I know about this I will assist you.

Michael Pal

November 20, 2018

Hey guys, I wanted to give you a 3rd option :)

We are working on a similar product, with a different take, it’s called ZoomAdmin (zoomadmin.com)

We’re still in development, planning to launch in QA1 of 2019. We have screenshots and some youtube demo videos if you’re interested.

We’re looking for a few beta users, please ping me if you might be interested.

Thanks, Michael Paltayan ZoomAdmin founder

cyberyak

June 9, 2018

Check following article with performance test. Runcloud way faster than Serverpilot. Also Serverpilot just introduced new plans, where they will charge for every landing on your server 0,5 usd per month, so I decided to look for alternatives and move out of serverpilot, the only question is how to migrate w/o issues. Have been a user of serverpilot for several years.

https://www.sitepoint.com/lets-compare-runcloud-vs-forge-vs-serverpilot/

New plans (no more free tier): https://serverpilot.io/blog/2018/06/08/pricing-changes.html

I’ve never used Runcloud before, looking at it now.