Servoke

Servoke vs cPanel & WHM

cPanel set the standard for hosting panels and is trusted across the hosting industry. Servoke keeps that completeness and changes the business model: one price per server with unlimited accounts, a single Rust daemon instead of a Perl stack, and a one click take over that leaves every site, mailbox and zone where it is.

AI and MCP built into hosting workflows
Scales from one site to thousands of servers
Trusted across the hosting industry

Servoke and cPanel & WHM, area by area

Pricing. Servoke: $4.99 a server a month. $3.99 each from 100 servers. A quote from 500 servers. cPanel & WHM: Solo $29.99, Admin $35.99, Pro $53.99 and Premier $69.99 a month with monthly billing.
Accounts per licence. Servoke: Unlimited on every server. No fee per account, ever. cPanel & WHM: 1, 5, 30 or 100 accounts by tier, then $0.49 for each account over 100 on Premier.
Licence. Servoke: Commercial licence per server, checked on the server from a signed document. cPanel & WHM: Commercial licence per server, where Solo, Admin and Pro are for cloud and VPS servers and dedicated servers need Premier.
Websites, PHP and certificates. Servoke: nginx with PHP-FPM, Apache and OpenLiteSpeed engines, certificates issued and renewed for you. cPanel & WHM: Apache through EasyApache with optional NGINX, and free AutoSSL certificates from Let's Encrypt.
Email hosting. Servoke: Postfix, Dovecot and Rspamd, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC written for you, and webmail. cPanel & WHM: Exim and Dovecot, with webmail.
DNS hosting. Servoke: PowerDNS zones created with each domain. cPanel & WHM: Built in, with DNS clustering across servers.
Databases. Servoke: MariaDB and PostgreSQL. cPanel & WHM: MySQL or MariaDB, and PostgreSQL.
Resellers. Servoke: Reseller accounts with their own packages and limits. cPanel & WHM: Reseller accounts with permission controls in WHM.
Per-account resource limits. Servoke: CPU, memory and IO limits per account on cgroup v2, with no add-on. cPanel & WHM: CPU and memory limits per account need an add-on such as CloudLinux OS, listed from $16.80 a month.
Firewall and brute force guard. Servoke: Firewall, brute force guard, web application firewall and a security advisor. Every change in the audit log. cPanel & WHM: cPHulk brute force protection and ModSecurity, with paid add-ons such as Imunify360.
AI that reads the server. Servoke: Michael reads the real server and proposes each step for you to approve. Paid with JagAI credits. cPanel & WHM: An AI Assistant for account questions arrived in version 138, in early access and switched on by the hosting provider.
API, CLI and MCP. Servoke: Every console action is an /api/v1 call in OpenAPI. The CLI mirrors it, and an MCP server is built in. cPanel & WHM: WHM API 1 and UAPI, plus MCP access for AI agents since version 138.
Updates. Servoke: Checks hourly, verifies the signature, saves its state and puts the last build back if a new one is unhealthy. cPanel & WHM: Automatic updates by release tier, with security updates checked every hour.
Moving from cPanel. Servoke: Installs beside cPanel and imports its accounts. Take over stops cPanel and WHM in one click while every site, mailbox and zone keeps running, and Bring cPanel back is one click. cPanel & WHM: Not scored
Core runtime. Servoke: One Rust daemon with the consoles built in. Privileged changes are typed operations, never shell strings. cPanel & WHM: A Perl based backend that ships its own Perl.

When cPanel & WHM is the better fit

If your business depends on a cPanel only integration that has no Servoke equivalent yet, keep cPanel on those servers. Servoke can sit beside it until you are ready.

From cPanel & WHM to Servoke

Install Servoke beside cPanel: One line as root. Servoke reads the server and leaves cPanel's files and services alone.
Take over in one click: cPanel and WHM stop and stay stopped. Apache, nginx, Exim, Dovecot, DNS and the databases keep serving, and Servoke renews the certificates AutoSSL issued.
Bring cPanel back whenever you like: One click restores cPanel from the saved record. If a check fails after the stop, Servoke does it on its own.

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