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SITESHIFT VS DOCKER

SiteShift vs Docker, DDEV and Lando: binaries or containers?

DDEV and Lando are excellent, free, and win on reproducibility: a config file in the repo gives every developer the same stack. SiteShift trades that for no daemon, fast starts and built-in push and pull. Which matters more depends on who's on the team.

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Checked September 2026 · DDEV and Lando details from their own docs

SiteShift vs DDEV / Lando

SiteShift DDEV / Lando
Price €9/mo Free
Runtime Static binaries Docker containers
Config in the repo — ✓ (.ddev / .lando.yml)
Deploys to Any SSH host, built in Anything, scripted by you
Pull a live site Built in Scripted, or a host add-on
Memory at idle None Docker Desktop's
Other stacks (Laravel, Node) WordPress only ✓
WHICH ONE

Pick by what you're actually doing

Choose DDEV / Lando when
  • A team needs an identical stack from one config file
  • You run other stacks too — Laravel, Node, Python — in the same tool
  • You've already scripted deployment and want to keep it
Choose SiteShift when
  • You're a freelancer or small agency doing WordPress, and Docker was a means, not a goal
  • You want push and pull to the client's host without writing the scripts
  • Docker Desktop is the thing on your machine you'd most like to close

Questions

Yes. SiteShift keeps everything under ~/.siteshift and doesn't touch Docker. Move a site over by pulling it from its host, not by copying the DDEV folder.

Each machine downloads the same checksum-verified PHP and MySQL builds, and a site's PHP version is a per-site setting. What it doesn't do yet is a config file in the repo that provisions the site — that's the gap DDEV fills.

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