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Servoke vs Control Web Panel

Control Web Panel is a free panel with a broad feature list, from cgroup limits to a cPanel migration tool, and an inexpensive CWPpro edition. Servoke is built from scratch in Rust with typed privileged operations, signed updates that check themselves every hour, an OpenAPI described API and a built in MCP server, and it can take over a cPanel server without moving a single site.

Free core panel with an optional CWPpro
CWP Secure Kernel for server security
Light on system resources

Servoke and Control Web Panel, area by area

Pricing. Servoke: $4.99 a server a month. $3.99 each from 100 servers. A quote from 500 servers. Control Web Panel: The core panel is free, and CWPpro costs $1.49 a month or $11.99 a year, or $12.99 a month with support.
Accounts per licence. Servoke: Unlimited on every server. No fee per account, ever. Control Web Panel: Not scored
Licence. Servoke: Commercial licence per server, checked on the server from a signed document. Control Web Panel: Free core panel, with CWPpro as an optional paid licence.
Websites, PHP and certificates. Servoke: nginx with PHP-FPM, Apache and OpenLiteSpeed engines, certificates issued and renewed for you. Control Web Panel: Apache, nginx, Varnish or LiteSpeed Enterprise.
Email hosting. Servoke: Postfix, Dovecot and Rspamd, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC written for you, and webmail. Control Web Panel: A mail server with antispam, antivirus and Roundcube webmail.
DNS hosting. Servoke: PowerDNS zones created with each domain. Control Web Panel: A built in DNS manager for zones and records.
Databases. Servoke: MariaDB and PostgreSQL. Control Web Panel: MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
Resellers. Servoke: Reseller accounts with their own packages and limits. Control Web Panel: Reseller accounts with their own packages.
Per-account resource limits. Servoke: CPU, memory and IO limits per account on cgroup v2, with no add-on. Control Web Panel: CPU, memory and disk IO limits per user with cgroups.
Firewall and brute force guard. Servoke: Firewall, brute force guard, web application firewall and a security advisor. Every change in the audit log. Control Web Panel: CSF firewall, ModSecurity, failed login blocking and malware scans.
AI that reads the server. Servoke: Michael reads the real server and proposes each step for you to approve. Paid with JagAI credits. Control Web Panel: Its monitoring tools include an AI bot that watches server health.
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. Control Web Panel: An API for accounts, packages, domains, databases and AutoSSL.
Updates. Servoke: Checks hourly, verifies the signature, saves its state and puts the last build back if a new one is unhealthy. Control Web Panel: CWPpro adds more frequent updates and fast automatic security fixes.
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. Control Web Panel: A migration tool copies accounts and packages from a cPanel server over the WHM API.
Core runtime. Servoke: One Rust daemon with the consoles built in. Privileged changes are typed operations, never shell strings. Control Web Panel: Not scored

When Control Web Panel is the better fit

If you only need a free panel on one older server you do not plan to rebuild, CWP may be enough for now.

From Control Web Panel to Servoke

Install Servoke on a fresh server: Keep the old server running while you move.
Move sites and databases: Copy files with SFTP and load MariaDB or PostgreSQL databases with the database tools. MongoDB needs a home of its own.
Point DNS and mail: Move the zones and mailboxes once the sites check out.

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