Servoke

Servoke vs Plesk

Plesk is a polished panel with WP Toolkit for WordPress and over 100 extensions, priced by edition and domain count. Servoke is for Linux hosting where every account, reseller and resource limit is included for one price per server, with Michael, an assistant that reads your actual server and proposes each step for you to approve.

WP Toolkit for WordPress sites
Over 100 extensions
Site and server security

Servoke and Plesk, area by area

Pricing. Servoke: $4.99 a server a month. $3.99 each from 100 servers. A quote from 500 servers. Plesk: Web Admin $16.99, Web Pro $29.99 and Web Host $62.99 a month on a VPS with monthly billing before VAT, and Web Host is $69.99 on a dedicated server.
Accounts per licence. Servoke: Unlimited on every server. No fee per account, ever. Plesk: Web Admin covers 10 domains without customer accounts, Web Pro 30 domains and Web Host unlimited domains.
Licence. Servoke: Commercial licence per server, checked on the server from a signed document. Plesk: Commercial licence per server, by edition and domain count, for VPS or dedicated servers.
Websites, PHP and certificates. Servoke: nginx with PHP-FPM, Apache and OpenLiteSpeed engines, certificates issued and renewed for you. Plesk: Apache and nginx, with free Let's Encrypt certificates.
Email hosting. Servoke: Postfix, Dovecot and Rspamd, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC written for you, and webmail. Plesk: Postfix and Dovecot, with Roundcube webmail.
DNS hosting. Servoke: PowerDNS zones created with each domain. Plesk: BIND, built in.
Databases. Servoke: MariaDB and PostgreSQL. Plesk: MySQL or MariaDB, with PostgreSQL on Web Pro and Web Host.
Resellers. Servoke: Reseller accounts with their own packages and limits. Plesk: Reseller accounts on the Web Host edition only.
Per-account resource limits. Servoke: CPU, memory and IO limits per account on cgroup v2, with no add-on. Plesk: CPU, RAM and disk IO limits per subscription with Cgroups Manager, on Web Pro and Web Host.
Firewall and brute force guard. Servoke: Firewall, brute force guard, web application firewall and a security advisor. Every change in the audit log. Plesk: Fail2Ban and the ModSecurity web application firewall.
AI that reads the server. Servoke: Michael reads the real server and proposes each step for you to approve. Paid with JagAI credits. Plesk: An AI Support Assistant answers the administrator's questions from Plesk's documentation, and MCP access arrived in 18.0.80.
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. Plesk: A REST API on OpenAPI 3.0, an XML API and a command line.
Updates. Servoke: Checks hourly, verifies the signature, saves its state and puts the last build back if a new one is unhealthy. Plesk: Checks daily and installs Plesk updates automatically by default, while third party and system package updates are opt in.
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. Plesk: Plesk Migrator moves accounts from cPanel 11.5 and later.
Core runtime. Servoke: One Rust daemon with the consoles built in. Privileged changes are typed operations, never shell strings. Plesk: The panel runs on its own nginx based web server and keeps its state in the psa database.

When Plesk is the better fit

If you host on Windows Server, Plesk covers that and Servoke does not.

From Plesk to Servoke

Install Servoke on a server of its own, or beside Plesk: Servoke installs beside an existing panel and leaves its work alone.
Bring accounts across: The Plesk importer is written and in testing with real backups. Until it is proven, move site files and databases with SFTP and the database tools.
Move DNS and mail last: When the sites check out, point the zones at Servoke and move mailboxes.

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