BaseCloud Boost vs SpinupWP

BaseCloud Boost is a professional-grade WordPress performance plugin that dramatically speeds up your website through intelligent full-page caching, asset optimization, and smart cache management. Core Features Page Cache Full-page HTML caching that bypasses WordPress and PHP entirely for maximum throughput GZIP and Brotli compression variants stored alongside each cached page Smart cache invalidation on post updates, comment submissions, and taxonomy changes Configurable cache lifetime (default: 7 days) Separate mobile device cache for responsive-aware caching Cache exclusion by URL pattern or cookie name Asset Optimization HTML, CSS, and JavaScript minification CSS and JS file combining to reduce HTTP requests JavaScript deferral for faster first paint Critical CSS extraction and inline injection Remove query strings from static asset URLs for better CDN hit rates Async-load non-critical Google Fonts with font-display=swap Media Optimization Reliable native lazy loading for images, iframes, and videos — defers off-screen media without ever hiding it, so images always appear On-the-fly image compression — generates high-quality WebP copies of your images on upload, plus a one-click Bulk Compress tool for your existing media library Quality-preserving compression — originals are never altered; WebP copies are created alongside them at a tunable visually-lossless quality WebP and AVIF serving — automatically serves the next-gen format when available Video facade for YouTube and Vimeo — replaces iframes with click-to-play thumbnails preload=”none” applied to video tags for faster page loads Cache Preloader Automatic sitemap-based URL discovery Background batch processing to keep the cache warm Real-time progress tracking in the admin dashboard CDN Integration Generic CDN hostname rewriting for any CDN provider Cloudflare API cache purging — automatically clears Cloudflare edge cache on purge BunnyCDN API cache purging — mirrors local purge events to your Pull Zone Database Optimization Post revision cleanup Auto-draft and trashed post/comment removal Expired transient removal Orphaned postmeta cleanup Table optimization (OPTIMIZE TABLE) Security Headers X-Content-Type-Options, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy Permissions-Policy (FLoC/Topics API opt-out) Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) for HTTPS sites Developer-Friendly Full hook API: filter cache behaviour, modify HTML before write, extend CDN purge logic WP-CLI commands for cache management PSR-4 autoloaded class architecture External Services BaseCloud Boost connects to the following external services only when you explicitly configure them in the plugin settings. No data is sent to any third-party service by default. Cloudflare Cache Purge API (Optional) If you enable Cloudflare CDN integration and provide a Zone ID and API Token, the plugin calls the Cloudflare API to purge cached content whenever your local cache is cleared. Service: Cloudflare, Inc. What it is used for: Purging edge-cached pages so visitors see fresh content after a cache clear. When data is sent: Only when you trigger a cache purge (manually, on post save, or via plugin action). Data sent: List of URLs to purge and your Cloudflare Zone ID (via your API token). API endpoint: https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/{zone_id}/purge_cache Terms of Service: https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ BunnyCDN Cache Purge API (Optional) If you enable BunnyCDN integration and provide an API Key and Pull Zone ID, the plugin calls the BunnyCDN API to purge cached content whenever your local cache is cleared. Service: BunnyWay d.o.o. (BunnyCDN) What it is used for: Purging Pull Zone edge cache so visitors receive fresh content. When data is sent: Only when you trigger a cache purge. Data sent: URLs to purge and your API key. API endpoints: https://api.bunny.net/purge and https://api.bunny.net/pullzone/{id}/purgeCache Terms of Service: https://bunny.net/tos/ Privacy Policy: https://bunny.net/privacy/ Performance Metrics Webhook (Optional) If you configure a webhook URL in the plugin settings, BaseCloud Boost will POST a JSON payload containing anonymous performance metrics to that URL on a daily cron schedule. Service: Custom endpoint configured by you. What it is used for: Sending performance data to an external monitoring or reporting system. When data is sent: Once per day via a scheduled cron event, and when you manually send a test from the admin panel. Data sent: Cache hit rate, cache size, bytes saved (HTML/CSS/JS), last purge time, plugin version, site URL, and site name. No user data or passwords are included. Endpoint: Your custom URL — you are responsible for its security and privacy compliance. Google PageSpeed Insights API (Optional) If you enter a PageSpeed Insights API key in the Lighthouse settings, the plugin calls Google’s PageSpeed Insights API to run automated Lighthouse audits for your site. Service: Google LLC (PageSpeed Insights) What it is used for: Running automated Lighthouse performance audits (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, SEO scores). When data is sent: When you manually trigger an audit from the Lighthouse settings page, or on the scheduled Lighthouse cron (if enabled). Data sent: Your site URL and your API key. API endpoint: https://www.googleapis.com/pagespeedonline/v5/runPagespeed Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Vimeo oEmbed API (Conditional) If a page contains a Vimeo video facade, the plugin’s frontend JavaScript fetches the video thumbnail from the Vimeo public oEmbed API. This happens in the visitor’s browser, not on the server. Service: Vimeo, Inc. What it is used for: Retrieving the video thumbnail image to display in the click-to-play facade. When data is sent: When a page containing a Vimeo video facade is viewed by a visitor. Data sent: The Vimeo video ID (no user data or authentication is required). API endpoint: https://vimeo.com/api/v2/video/{id}.json Terms of Service: https://vimeo.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy Google Tag Manager / Google Fonts Preconnect Hints (Conditional) When the Resource Hints module is enabled, the plugin outputs and hints for common third-party origins (Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Google Fonts, jsDelivr/cdnjs). These are passive hints that tell the browser to pre-establish connections — no data is sent by the plugin itself. Service: Various (Google LLC, Cloudflare, Inc.) What it is used for: Reducing connection latency for third-party resources already loaded by your theme or other plugins. When data is sent: The browser (not the plugin) initiates the connection. No plugin data is transmitted. Terms of Service / Privacy: Governed by the respective third-party services. All remote requests originating from the plugin server-side use WordPress’s built-in wp_remote_post() / wp_remote_get() functions and respect your server’s SSL configuration.

This plugin ensures that the SpinupWP page cache is cleared when your site’s content changes. Not using SpinupWP yet? Sign up here. SpinupWP is a modern server control panel that’s here to help you implement best practices for every server you spin up. Designed for WordPress. This companion plugin should be installed on sites created using SpinupWP to allow the page cache to be cleared when your site’s content changes. Not using SpinupWP yet? Sign up here. Any Provider We support DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, and any other provider. If your server has an IP address, you can connect SpinupWP. It does need to be a fresh install of Ubuntu though. Latest & Greatest Software SpinupWP will install the latest stable versions of Nginx, PHP, MySQL/MariaDB, and Redis from the standard apt-get repos. No who-knows-what-they-did custom builds of packages. Disconnect from SpinupWP in the future and you can still keep your packages up-to-date with apt-get upgrade. Automatic Security Updates SpinupWP will configure your server to install security updates as soon as they are available to reduce the likelihood of a software vulnerability putting your server at risk. Free SSL/TLS Certificates Serving your site over HTTPS is essential these days, not only for security, but to take advantage of the performance improvements of HTTP/2 as well. When you add a site to SpinupWP, a free Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS certificate will be acquired, installed, and configured for your site. And SpinupWP will handle certificate renewals as well, so you hardly need to think about certificates. Cache All the Things One of the keys to a great performing WordPress site is caching. All sites are set up with Redis object caching to greatly reduce database requests. And with the check of a box you can enable full-page caching to serve pages lightning fast without even hitting PHP. Git Push-to-Deploy Developers! Developers! Developers! Add a git repository to your SpinupWP site and simply push to master to deploy your code. GitHub, Bitbucket, or a custom git repo will work. You can also configure a build script to run some tasks on the server after deployment is complete. Error Logs WordPress doesn’t enable error logging by default. Probably because the log is saved to a publicly accessible directory and can quickly balloon to take up a lot of hard drive space. SpinupWP enables error logs by default but stores them in a safe place and makes sure they’re rotated regularly like other server logs. Security Security Security Each server provisioned by SpinupWP is security-hardened from the word go. SSH login is disabled for the root user (you login with your user and use sudo instead). The firewall only allows connections to Nginx and SSH and failed attempts are monitored and blocked when the reach a threshold. Nginx is configured to defend against XSS, clickjacking, MIME sniffing, and other attacks. Software security updates are installed automatically. Scheduled Posts Published on Schedule For every site you add via SpinupWP, a server-side cron job will be configured to make sure that your WordPress site’s cron is executed every minute, as it should be. WP-CLI Preloaded If you love WP-CLI (we do! ❤) you’ll be very pleased to find it available on the command line the first time you login to your server. Security Isolation for Sites For each site that you add to your server via SpinupWP, a new system user is created for that site. All site files are owned by the site user and a PHP-FPM pool is configured to run as that user as well. Each site only has access to its files and so if only one site has a security vulnerability and gets infected with malware for example, only the files for that one site can be infected. SFTP Access for Your Clients If you’re hosting a site for someone else, you can easily give them SFTP/SSH access to just that site. And because of the security isolation between sites, they will only have access to files for that site. Professional Guidance & Best Practices SpinupWP will actively point you in the right direction and offer suggestions for maintaining your server. And because it provides detailed feedback about the operations it runs on your server, you can learn what is happening with your server. New release of Ubuntu just came out, should I upgrade? We’ll add a notice to the app about that, why we don’t recommend upgrading your existing servers, and how you can spin up a new server with the new release of Ubuntu and migrate your sites to that server instead. Should I install Varnish to improve page caching performance? We’ve benchmarked Varnish and Nginx FastCGI Cache performed better. Varnish would add complexity too, so one less moving part is another reason. Much of the time SpinupWP will suggest things that you may not have even thought of. Email deliverability for example. SpinupWP will strongly encourage you to configure an email sending plugin for the best email deliverability. SpinupWP’s guidance is especially helpful for those new to managing a server, but can also help those who’ve been at it a while, providing transparency to our decisions. Scheduled Backups of Site Files & Database All server providers (DigitalOcean, Linode, etc) offer automated backups of your entire server for a fee. These services are great and we highly recommend having backups of your whole server. But what happens if some media or data was deleted by accident from your WordPress site? You’re not going to restore your entire server just to get that data back. That’s where site backups come in. Site backups are full backups of your site files (media, themes, and plugins) and database. They allow you to easily restore a single site or just some files or data from a single site. With SpinupWP’s site backups, you choose your preferred provider to stash your backups whether that’s Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, or Google Cloud Storage. You plug in your account details and SpinupWP will send your site backups there in an easy-to-see format. Teamwork Makes the Dream Work Create a new team account, invite a member of your team, and allow them to spin up their own servers. Or just only allow them to add sites, the permissions you give them is up to you. Features Page cache purging Persistent object caching Ensures debug.log files aren’t saved in a publicly-accessible location