ALTERNATIVES
Alternative To ServerPilot
Are you looking for a Serverpilot alternative?
Ploi is the best solution to cover all your difficult server management tasks. Ploi helps you manage your servers securely without any difficult configuration.
Take a look at the features in the table below that we offer right out of the box to help you get started easily.
Already on ServerPilot? Ploi can take that server over. Same machine, same IP, and your apps move onto Ploi's own stack. See how the import works
| Feature | ploi.io | ServerPilot |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible Load Balancing | ||
| Automatic Database Backups | ||
| Automatic File Backups | ||
| DNS Management | ||
| Server Insights | ||
| Cronjob Management | ||
| Site Monitoring | ||
| Flexible Subscriptions | ||
| Unmodified Original Linux Repositories | ||
| File Explorer | ||
| Extensive Team Management | ||
| Beautiful Crafted Status Pages | ||
| Staging to Production Management | ||
| Rollback deployments | ||
| Mobile App | ||
| Based in Europe 🇪🇺 | ||
| Testing domains | ||
| Multiple PHP Versions Per Site | ||
| Docker Server Support | ||
| Scheduled Deployments | ||
| Website Isolation | ||
| Tenants | ||
| Marketplace | ||
| Notifications | Slack, Discord, E-mail, Telegram, Pushover, Microsoft Teams, Rocket.Chat, Google Chat, Custom URL, Native mobile push notifications | |
| Supported Server Types | Web server, Database server, Redis server, Valkey server, Worker server, Load balancer server, Storage server, MeiliSearch server, Elasticsearch Server, Plain server, Email server | Web server |
| Support | E-mail, Ticket System, Discord |
Bring your ServerPilot server to Ploi
You keep the server. Ploi connects over SSH, installs its own stack next to ServerPilot's and moves your apps onto it. The machine and the IP stay the same, so there is no DNS switch. Your apps go offline only for the short moment Ploi switches serving over to its own nginx, about a minute.
- 1 In Ploi, open Servers, click Create server and pick Import server.
- 2 Choose ServerPilot, fill in the IP and run the command we show you as root on the server. It only adds Ploi's SSH key.
- 3 Ploi scans the server and lists the apps and databases it found. You tick the sites you want to bring over.
- 4 Start the import. Ploi installs its stack, moves each app to its own layout and switches serving to Ploi's nginx. On a small server this takes a few minutes.
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- Each app moves from ServerPilot's /srv/users layout to Ploi's /home layout, keeps its PHP version, and its ServerPilot user becomes a Ploi system user.
- Ploi installs its own nginx and PHP-FPM and serves each app through them, and installs certbot so you can issue a Ploi certificate per site.
- Databases and database users are registered. MySQL only stores password hashes, so you set a new password from Ploi when you need one.
- The cron jobs your users scheduled are taken over and shown in the panel, with their app paths rewritten to the new location.
- ServerPilot serves apps through nginx in front of Apache with .htaccess support. Ploi is nginx only, so apps that rely on custom .htaccess rules may need those translated afterwards.
- The optional last step stops ServerPilot's agent. Its packages stay installed so the move can be reversed, and it is off by default.