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Likelihood to Recommend
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia is well-suited for any Drupal web platform. I think it best plays in the enterprise space, either for B2B or nonprofit/higher ed/government. Acquia is a great solution for smaller web platforms, as well, but the price is typically prohibitive in these scenarios.
Business Development Strategist
Elevated ThirdMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
TemplateToaster
TemplateToaster has the best features which include: BOOTSTRAP 3 support, W3C compliance, all devices and all browsers compatibility, clean and concise code generation, and extensive designing options. A big pack of sample templates comes free with software installation, and all the designing options have been provided as per the latest web design trends. Templates made in TemplateToaster make clients say, “wow, it’s amazing”. TemplateToaster is a designing tool as well as a development tool. In short words, it provides a GUI for designing templates, after the accomplishment of designing, the template can be exported into a fully-fledged web template, which is ready to use as a website design.
Digital & Social Media Manager
ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Security
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.3
TemplateToaster
9.1
Role-based user permissions
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.3
TemplateToaster
9.1
Platform & Infrastructure
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
API
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Internationalization / multi-language
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Web Content Creation
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.5
TemplateToaster
9.1
WYSIWYG editor
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
10.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Code quality / cleanliness
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Admin section
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Page templates
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Library of website themes
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Mobile optimization / responsive design
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Publishing workflow
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Form generator
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
6.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Web Content Management
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.4
TemplateToaster
9.1
Content taxonomy
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
SEO support
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Bulk management
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Availability / breadth of extensions
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
9.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Community / comment management
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
8.0
TemplateToaster
9.1
Pros
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- The Acquia Cloud Hosting (enterprise) provides a three-server solution. You have a Development, Staging (or UAT), and Production servers with a clear path of deployment straight up the chain. You may use Acquia's own Cloud Hooks, or their web admin UI interface to deploy to any or all of the servers.
- Git is one of the foundation services built-in to the management of the website codebase. Allowing a developer, or well-trained end user (university employee) to easily deploy a tag or branch to any one of the servers, makes it very easy for us to offload the server / account management to the school, while we focus on improving their site.
- Not only does Acquia Cloud provide a multi-datacenter failover disaster recovery solution, but they also maintain a multi-region failover as well, which allows for a fully redundant enviroment to be maintained in two geographic regions. No fear of losing any database changes or form submissions from students.
- Lastly, the onboarding process is constantly being improved, and as I have been a third-party vendor involved in many of our hosting negotiations, I have seen it firsthand. Each enterprise client is assigned a small team of engineers, technical leads, and a pseudo-project-manager to explain the process in layman's terms to the client (university / college for my example), but they also perform a number of code reviews and best-practice analysis of a site prior to launch.
Senior Drupal Developer/Consultant
EllucianHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
TemplateToaster
- Advanced designing features and using these advanced features very easily e.g. Bootstrap 3 support that makes flawless responsive templates.
- Encapsulated all the major designing trends with respect to particular CMS.
- Optimized code is produced for every theme/template as such the coding standards are perfectly followed by this software.
- All WordPress themes made with this software pass the Theme Check test.
- Because of W3C compliance it ensures consistency of websites over the web.
- HTML5 and CSS3 also ensure better look of designs on small screens.
- Apart from making web templates, one can make full fledged websites too. TemplateToaster allows making static websites with YouTube video inclusion. It has inbuilt FTP, so that user can easily move its website to the server.
- An amazing and exclusive feature it provides is the option to draw custom widget/module/ block area.
Digital & Social Media Manager
ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Cons
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- Responses from tickets aren't always from the same person, and can vary in effectiveness of solving your problem
- While documentation is robust, it can be difficult to find exactly what you need
- Provided forums are not monitored frequently, and are not as useful as they could be
Web Developer ITS3
NYS Office of Information Technology ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees
TemplateToaster
- It is not available for MAC operating system.
Digital & Social Media Manager
ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
Acquia Digital Experience Platform 10.0
Based on 8 answers
As a Drupal Web Developer, I have not encountered or been exposed to any other hosting solution that could surpass the benefits of having a site hosted on Acquia Cloud. Although, for any side-project or low-cost freelance gigs, I cannot expect that I'll always have the option of recommending Acquia Cloud, and that's okay. While I am at work and trying to help our team gain more exposure to my companies' extensive list of clients, when we have the fortune of adding another Drupal-based client to our roster, getting those clients on Acquia Cloud makes every other aspect of building or modifying their school website that much easier
Senior Drupal Developer/Consultant
EllucianHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees
TemplateToaster
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Alternatives Considered
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
If you're project requires a multisite architecture with scalable site deployment, and your budget allows, I would recommend Acquia. Acquia pricing sits more on an Enterprise level, so it is overwhelming if you're hosting a smaller site. Pantheon is much more suited for smaller, one-off, independent sites, and they provide similar tooling, availability, and free SSL with every site. If you need to control every aspect of your server environment and you have a server admin on staff, then Rackspace can provide you with an open hosting environment for you to configure yourself.
Senior Drupal Developer
FFWInternet, 11-50 employees
TemplateToaster
- Advanced features, lesser price and ease of use. For designing perspective, it has many options in accordance with latest web designing trends.
- Most prominent is- custom positions can be made for widgets or plugins to be included
- Slideshow can be included.
- Images browsed from the system can be transformed using its image editor.
- Texture-effects-shadow can be applied wherever required.
- margin-padding settings can be done easily.
- And many more options are provided by this software on its interface.
Digital & Social Media Manager
ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Return on Investment
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
- Our website isn't a revenue generator, so we don't have specific ROI calculations.
- The new website is helping us move off of a legacy on-prem server environment. The reduction of cost in maintaining those will be beneficial.
- We have had to invest in some training for our developers to learn Drupal.
Sr. Director, Marketing Digital Experience & Design
EBSCOInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
TemplateToaster
- TemplateToaster returns full value of money.
- It helps in finishing my projects ahead of time, hence I can finish more projects in less time. In other words, it helps in increasing my efficiency, which brings monetary benefits to me.
Digital & Social Media Manager
ITInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
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Pricing Details
Acquia Digital Experience Platform
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Acquia Digital Experience Platform Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—TemplateToaster
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
No
TemplateToaster Editions & Modules
Edition
Standard Edition | $491 |
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Professional Edition | $149 |
- Annually