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Acronis v/s CodeGuard Comparison
CodeGuard |
Acronis Cyber Backup |
| Recommended backup option for shared hosting products that run on cPanel and Plesk. | Recommended backup product for VPS and Dedicated servers |
| Can be purchased independently. | Cannot be purchased independently. You need to have at least 1 VPS or dedicated server order. |
| The way we have integrated the product, its setup is manual | No manual setup is required. As soon as the product is purchased, we will automatically set up the product. For a few error cases, some manual intervention would be required |
| You manage their backup settings from within the CodeGuard panel | You manage their backup settings from within the Acronis panel (same as CodeGuard) |
| Mapping between the Shared Hosting order and the CodeGuard account is achieved through FTP credentials and the DB password | Mapping between the VPS/Dedi server and the Acronis account is achieved by the installation of an Acronis client file (agent) on the server |
| CodeGuard can back up websites. | Acronis backs up the entire server contents. |
| CodeGuard is priced according to the plan purchased. CodeGuard has many plans with different numbers of websites and different backup disk space | Acronis Cyber Backup does not have any plans. It is simply sold on a per GB per month basis. Any number of servers can be backed up to the same Acronis account |
| You cannot directly upgrade the CodeGuard plans after purchase. | You can easily add more space to the Acronis account whenever you wish. |
| You cannot restore the backup of one website to another website using CodeGuard | You can restore backups of one server to another server using Acronis |
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