Servoke

Servoke vs CyberPanel

CyberPanel pairs OpenLiteSpeed with a free panel and a WordPress Manager, and includes mail, DNS, resellers and cgroup limits. Servoke adds nginx and Apache engines beside OpenLiteSpeed, PostgreSQL, typed privileged operations, signed updates that put the last build back on their own, and Michael, the assistant that reads the server.

OpenLiteSpeed at the core
WordPress Manager for installs, staging and updates
Free and open source core

Servoke and CyberPanel, area by area

Pricing. Servoke: $4.99 a server a month. $3.99 each from 100 servers. A quote from 500 servers. CyberPanel: The core is free. All six premium add-ons are $59 a year or $169 for life (list prices), and LiteSpeed Enterprise needs its own licence.
Accounts per licence. Servoke: Unlimited on every server. No fee per account, ever. CyberPanel: Unlimited websites in the free edition.
Licence. Servoke: Commercial licence per server, checked on the server from a signed document. CyberPanel: Open source under GPLv3.
Websites, PHP and certificates. Servoke: nginx with PHP-FPM, Apache and OpenLiteSpeed engines, certificates issued and renewed for you. CyberPanel: OpenLiteSpeed, or LiteSpeed Enterprise with a licence key, with automatic SSL.
Email hosting. Servoke: Postfix, Dovecot and Rspamd, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC written for you, and webmail. CyberPanel: Postfix and Dovecot, with webmail.
DNS hosting. Servoke: PowerDNS zones created with each domain. CyberPanel: PowerDNS.
Databases. Servoke: MariaDB and PostgreSQL. CyberPanel: MariaDB with phpMyAdmin, with an option for a remote MySQL server.
Resellers. Servoke: Reseller accounts with their own packages and limits. CyberPanel: Reseller accounts that create their own users, within a website limit set by the admin.
Per-account resource limits. Servoke: CPU, memory and IO limits per account on cgroup v2, with no add-on. CyberPanel: CPU, memory, IO, inode and process limits per package on cgroups v2.
Firewall and brute force guard. Servoke: Firewall, brute force guard, web application firewall and a security advisor. Every change in the audit log. CyberPanel: FirewallD and CSF firewall integration, with ImunifyAV or Imunify360 as options.
AI that reads the server. Servoke: Michael reads the real server and proposes each step for you to approve. Paid with JagAI credits. CyberPanel: An AI security scanner for WordPress site files, priced per file after any free scans.
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. CyberPanel: An API the admin can switch on for each user.
Updates. Servoke: Checks hourly, verifies the signature, saves its state and puts the last build back if a new one is unhealthy. CyberPanel: Upgrades run from a vendor script as root, and Version Management can switch back to an older version.
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. CyberPanel: A command line importer restores a folder of cPanel backup files.
Core runtime. Servoke: One Rust daemon with the consoles built in. Privileged changes are typed operations, never shell strings. CyberPanel: Python on Django.

When CyberPanel is the better fit

If you want LiteSpeed Enterprise features above all else, CyberPanel is built around that stack.

From CyberPanel to Servoke

Install Servoke on a fresh server: Keep the old server running while you move.
Move sites and databases: Copy site files with SFTP and load the MariaDB databases with the database tools.
Point DNS and mail: Move the zones and mailboxes once the sites check out.

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