Technically, you can make any existing site a template site.  And you can store them on any server - as long as it's not a server where you'll be storing a customer site that is based on that template.

When you define a product, you can choose to associate a template site with it. 

When a user purchases that product, a copy of the template site is copied to the server and the domain changed to match the new users' temporary domain.

A lot of the work you do to setup your SaaS centers around template sites.

Our plans that allow for building a SaaS are Cloud Business & Cloud Agency.

When you subscribe to those plans we will handle the integration for you.

You'll invite us to your accounts or provide us the api access keys we require.

Of course, you can handle that if you wish!

You can decide this.  

If you want us to do it, all you have to do is invite us to your Stripe account.

With both our service and WP Ultimo you need to create template sites that serve as the master image on which all your customer sites are built.

But that's where the similarities end.

Many plugins that you might need are simply not compatible with Multisite (and, by extension, WP Ultimo.)

And WP Ultimo & Multisite can only scale one way - via larger servers.

Single Point of Failure

If a WP Ultimo or Multisite gets damaged, all your customers go down at the same time.

If your server provider where WP Ultimo is installed has an issue, all your customers have an issue.

Compatibility

With WPCD.Cloud, your sites are regular WP sites and compatible with a much wider range of plugins and themes.

More...

There are many more differences but hopefully you get the point.

Bottom line is that WPCD.Cloud is far more flexible, has far more support and is committed to working with you to get you up and running.  

Our monthly subscription pricing makes your success our success - we only succeed when you succeed!

This is an 'it depends' answer of course.

If you're a developer or have access to a developer resource or you're going to create the template sites yourself, you can get started for less than $1000.00

• Cloud Business monthly subscription - $500/mo
• Two cloud servers - $100/mo

But, realistically, if you're not a developer, perhaps add 2K for some advanced items you might need them to assist you with.

It depends on your plan. We support all of the following across all plans:

• Digital Ocean
• Linode
• Vultr
• Hetzner
• Exoscale
• UpCloud
• AWS (EC2 & Lightsail)
• Azure
• Google Cloud

We also support two private cloud providers:

• Proxmox
• OpenStack

Yes, you can place your customer sites on servers located anywhere your Cloud Providers allow you to deploy servers.