Compare our Site Builder with our Competitors

The best way for us to show you if our system is right for you is to list some of the other options you have. More than likely we are the only company that will list our competitor's site builder demos on our own website and when you try their demos you will see why they don't want you to compare.

We pride ourselves on having the most user friendly sitebuilder available. Yes it is simple in comparison, but how complicated does it need to be to type some text and save a page. Check out some of these other demos and you will see how different all of the options are.

The pageBuzz Site Builder Demo - Our sites builder demo with the shopping cart, program manager and page editor all bundled into one easy to use online interface.

Sitefinity - A commercial solution used by many windows based hosts.

Site Studio - A very popular site builder specifically designed to make managing web pages easy and user friendly. You can judge for yourself if they met that challenge.

Plesk - One of the commercial control panels that allows advanced website administration.

cPanel - The most popular website management system. I don't really get it but maybe you will. You can modify apache handlers, install perl modules, change php settings and set up mySQL databases, all features our site builder does not have. The question is, do you know what they are and do you need them? Many people do, but the average user wont. cPannel is used by large hosts like hostgator and bluehost and many others.

Hostway - Hostway is a much larger company than we are and has a much more impressive site builder. Impressive does not always mean good. Take it for a test drive and see if it is right for you.

Homestead - I could not find an open demo on homestead buy enough information on their demo page. You can signup for a free trial and try it out if you want to spend the time filling in the forms.

Yahoo - The yahoo sitebuilder is said to be the most downloaded web publishing system online. The key word being downloaded as yahoos sitebuilder requires you to download and install the software on your computer. This limits you to only being able to work on the website from one computer unless you copy all the files to another computer. If you do, when you make changes the 2 versions wont match. Its a potential mess but it does offer many advanced features.

We have tried to list the software companies rather than the actual website hosts because their sites are more reliable and less likely to close up. We have listed some of the bigger companies like yahoo, homestead and hostway because we are pretty certain they will still be open next week. There are thousands of companies offering these products and a quick google search will get you to many of them. In our case, there is only one place you can use our software, here at pagebuzz.com.

This list is in no way intended to discourage you from using or provide any reason why you would or would not use one product over another. In many ways our competitors have much more comprehensive programs and features. But the average user does not understand FTP or installing programs and managing directories full of pages, if they did, they would not need an online site builder.

If you have little or no experience then complicated and comprehensive site builders that require you to understand dns records and virtual host files just wont work for you.

If you need ftp access, the ability to install php scripts and comprehensive tools to redirect 404 and 505 errors then companies using the cPannel or Plesk systems are a great solution for you. But if you only need a website and you want someone else to worry about server configuration, uptime, installing modules and regular website backups then pageBuzz is the best option for you.

Clearly pageBuzz is focused on a different client than the other megahosts. We are filling a void for the average user that does not want to learn html and web design or server administration. We do not market our services to webmasters or web developers as our simplified system does not meet their needs. But our business model of running enterprise class servers, closed access and simplified user interfaces makes our system superior is performance, security and reliability. Those are features that any business owner can understand.