Servoke

Servoke vs Froxlor

Froxlor keeps hosting simple and light, with resellers, an API and a command line tool. Servoke stays light on the server too, one Rust daemon, while adding a firewall and brute force guard, per-account CPU and memory limits, a built in MCP server, Michael, and updates that verify and roll back on their own.

Lightweight server management
Free and open source
An API and a command line tool for automation

Servoke and Froxlor, area by area

Pricing. Servoke: $4.99 a server a month. $3.99 each from 100 servers. A quote from 500 servers. Froxlor: Free.
Accounts per licence. Servoke: Unlimited on every server. No fee per account, ever. Froxlor: Unlimited.
Licence. Servoke: Commercial licence per server, checked on the server from a signed document. Froxlor: Open source under the GPL 2.0.
Websites, PHP and certificates. Servoke: nginx with PHP-FPM, Apache and OpenLiteSpeed engines, certificates issued and renewed for you. Froxlor: Apache or nginx with PHP-FPM, and Let's Encrypt certificates.
Email hosting. Servoke: Postfix, Dovecot and Rspamd, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC written for you, and webmail. Froxlor: Postfix and Dovecot, with Rspamd spam filtering for each mailbox.
DNS hosting. Servoke: PowerDNS zones created with each domain. Froxlor: BIND or PowerDNS, with an optional DNS editor for customers.
Databases. Servoke: MariaDB and PostgreSQL. Froxlor: MySQL or MariaDB, with several database servers per panel.
Resellers. Servoke: Reseller accounts with their own packages and limits. Froxlor: Reseller admins with their own customer and resource limits.
Per-account resource limits. Servoke: CPU, memory and IO limits per account on cgroup v2, with no add-on. Froxlor: Web space and mail quotas per customer. Traffic is shown but not enforced, and CPU and memory limits are not listed.
Firewall and brute force guard. Servoke: Firewall, brute force guard, web application firewall and a security advisor. Every change in the audit log. Froxlor: No firewall or brute force guard among its managed services. Panel sign in supports two factor.
AI that reads the server. Servoke: Michael reads the real server and proposes each step for you to approve. Paid with JagAI credits. Froxlor: No AI features listed.
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. Froxlor: An API and a command line tool.
Updates. Servoke: Checks hourly, verifies the signature, saves its state and puts the last build back if a new one is unhealthy. Froxlor: Updates you start from the panel or the command line. The web updater is off by default.
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. Froxlor: No cPanel importer. Domains can be bulk added from a CSV file.
Core runtime. Servoke: One Rust daemon with the consoles built in. Privileged changes are typed operations, never shell strings. Froxlor: PHP.

When Froxlor is the better fit

If your needs are small and stable and Froxlor already runs them, there is no rush to move.

From Froxlor 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 databases with the database tools.
Point DNS and mail: Move the zones and mailboxes once the sites check out.

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