Servoke

Servoke vs ISPConfig

ISPConfig has run hosting across many servers from one panel for years, with mirroring and clustering. Servoke brings a modern console for root and for every account, per-account CPU and memory limits, an assistant that reads the server and signed updates that install themselves, at one price per server.

Many servers from one control panel
Mirroring and clustering
Open source under the BSD license

Servoke and ISPConfig, area by area

Pricing. Servoke: $4.99 a server a month. $3.99 each from 100 servers. A quote from 500 servers. ISPConfig: Free.
Accounts per licence. Servoke: Unlimited on every server. No fee per account, ever. ISPConfig: Unlimited.
Licence. Servoke: Commercial licence per server, checked on the server from a signed document. ISPConfig: Open source under the BSD license.
Websites, PHP and certificates. Servoke: nginx with PHP-FPM, Apache and OpenLiteSpeed engines, certificates issued and renewed for you. ISPConfig: 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. ISPConfig: Postfix and Dovecot, with spam and virus filtering and DKIM signing.
DNS hosting. Servoke: PowerDNS zones created with each domain. ISPConfig: BIND or PowerDNS, with DNSSEC.
Databases. Servoke: MariaDB and PostgreSQL. ISPConfig: MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL.
Resellers. Servoke: Reseller accounts with their own packages and limits. ISPConfig: Admin, reseller and client levels.
Per-account resource limits. Servoke: CPU, memory and IO limits per account on cgroup v2, with no add-on. ISPConfig: Disk, mail and traffic quotas. 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. ISPConfig: A firewall managed in the panel. A brute force guard is not listed.
AI that reads the server. Servoke: Michael reads the real server and proposes each step for you to approve. Paid with JagAI credits. ISPConfig: 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. ISPConfig: SOAP and REST remote APIs, and an ispc 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. ISPConfig: An update script you run as root, which checks for and installs new releases.
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. ISPConfig: The paid Migration Toolkit, 79 EUR plus VAT a year, imports cPanel accounts in beta.
Core runtime. Servoke: One Rust daemon with the consoles built in. Privileged changes are typed operations, never shell strings. ISPConfig: PHP.

When ISPConfig is the better fit

If you already run a large multi server ISPConfig cluster and it is working, move a single server first and compare.

From ISPConfig to Servoke

Install Servoke on a fresh server: Keep the cluster running while you move.
Move one server's sites at a time: Copy files with SFTP and load databases with the database tools, then check each site before the next.
Point DNS and mail: Move the zones and mailboxes once the sites check out.

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