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xCloud vs Servebolt: A Premium Managed Host, or a Server You Control
Compare xCloud and Servebolt on price, sites per plan, request limits, Redis, server control and non-WordPress apps, with Servebolt figures sourced and dated.
59 features compared · 30 where the two differ · Last updated Last updated: 14/11/2026
Quick verdict
Choose xCloud if…
- You run many sites. Sites are unlimited on any paid xCloud server; Servebolt's Pro plan lists 5 live sites, and its plan calculator goes up to 50.
- You want a lower starting price: xCloud's managed servers start at $5.00 a month, and Servebolt's plans start from €99 a month.
- You want Redis object caching included, not a paid add-on per website.
- You want full root access and a choice of NGINX or OpenLiteSpeed.
- You want to bring your own VPS from DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr or anywhere else.
- You run Node.js apps or Docker Compose apps on the same server as WordPress.
Choose Servebolt if…
- You want a published uptime SLA: Servebolt states 99.9% on every plan, and xCloud publishes no SLA figure.
- You want backups taken every 4 hours and kept for 30 days without setting anything up.
- You want a dedicated account team and guided onboarding from your host.
- You want to try the platform first: Servebolt offers a 3-day trial on all plans.
- You want your host to run the server for you, with no server decisions on your side.
At a glance
xCloud vs Servebolt at a glance
The decision criteria first. The full feature-by-feature matrix is below.
| Criteria | xCloud | Servebolt |
|---|---|---|
| What each product is | WordPress and PHP hosting plus server management, on managed servers or your own VPS | Premium managed hosting for WordPress, WooCommerce and other PHP platforms |
| Pricing model | Per server, by size. Sites and visitors are not counted | Per plan, by live sites, storage and dynamic requests, which usually means requests that are not served from cache |
| Starting price | $5.00/month managed, or $0 to xCloud on your own server, plus your VPS provider's bill | From €99/month (Pro) |
| Sites included | Unlimited on any paid server; 10 on the free tier | Listed plans: 5 live sites on Pro, 25 on Business, 50 on Scale. Its Build your own plan calculator on the platform page has a Live Sites slider from 5 to 50 |
| Usage limits | Set by the server's size; requests are not counted | Dynamic request limit per plan (500,000 on Pro); bandwidth unmetered. Servebolt says it charges no unexpected overage fees; it does not say what happens over the limit |
| Caching and CDN | Full-page and Redis caching included; Cloudflare Enterprise add-on at $5/domain | Full-page caching and a free CDN; Redis from €99/month per website; Accelerated Domains from €249/month |
| Server control | Full root, SSH and a browser terminal; NGINX or OpenLiteSpeed | SSH access on Servebolt's own Apache stack; root access not stated |
| Where it runs | DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS, GCP, Hetzner, Linode, any Ubuntu server, or an xCloud managed server | Servebolt's own cloud in Oslo, New York, Dallas, London, Amsterdam and Singapore |
| What else you can run | Laravel, Node.js, custom PHP, static sites, Docker Compose apps and a one-click app library | Lists WordPress, WooCommerce, Drupal, Laravel, Magento 2, PrestaShop, Craft CMS and TYPO3, and names Next.js |
| Backups | Scheduled full and incremental backups, to the server or your own S3-compatible storage, on paid plans | Every 4 hours, kept for 30 days, on Pro, Business and Scale. Pricing table says every 4 hours; regions page describes daily disaster recovery backups |
| Uptime | No published SLA figure | 99.9% uptime SLA on every plan |
| Trial and refunds | Free tier for 1 server and 10 sites. Pro-rated on managed servers, less a payment processing fee of up to 10%; full refund within 14 days on your own servers | 3-day trial for new customers; 14-day money-back guarantee on direct purchase plans |
| AI tools | MCP server and AI agent skills for Claude, Cursor and other AI tools | Servebolt MCP, for managing the account from AI clients |
| Main limitations | No published uptime SLA, no dedicated account team, and you control a server rather than handing it over | Priced per site count from €99/month, a dynamic request limit per plan, Redis as a paid add-on, and only its own cloud described |
Feature comparison
Every Feature, Side by Side
59 features side by side, starting with what each plan costs and what it includes. xCloud and Servebolt publish different answers on 30 of them, in both directions. A dash in the Servebolt column means we did not find it stated on the Servebolt pages we read, not that Servebolt lacks it. Use the filter to hide rows where both answers are the same.
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 xCloud | Servebolt | |
|---|---|---|
| Plans and what they include | ||
| Entry price | $5.00/mo managed · $0 to xCloud for up to 10 sites on your own server, plus your VPS provider's bill | From €99/mo |
| Sites on the entry plan | Unlimited | 5 live sites |
| Storage on the entry plan | 25 GB SSD | 10 GB |
| Dynamic request limit per plan | No | 500,000 on Pro |
| Bandwidth metered | 1 TB on the entry server | Unmetered |
| Free tier | 1 server, 10 sites | No |
| Free trial | Free tier instead | 3 days |
| Money-back guarantee | Pro-rated on managed servers, less a payment processing fee of up to 10%; full refund within 14 days on your own servers | 14 days on direct purchase plans |
| All plan prices published | Yes | Up to Scale; Enterprise is custom |
| Caching, CDN and uptime | ||
| Full-page caching | Yes | Yes |
| Redis object cache | Included | Add-on, from €99/mo per website (Business and up) |
| Published uptime SLA | — | 99.9% |
| Backup frequency | Your schedule, on paid plans | Every 4 hours |
| Backup retention | On the server or your own storage, on paid plans | 30 days |
| Control over the server | ||
| SSH access | Yes | Yes |
| Full root access | Yes | — |
| Bring your own server or cloud account | DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS, GCP, Hetzner, Linode or any Ubuntu host | Own cloud only, as published |
| Web server | NGINX or OpenLiteSpeed, your choice | Apache |
| Data-center choice | Your provider's regions | Oslo, New York, Dallas, London, Amsterdam, Singapore |
| What you can run | ||
| WordPress | Yes | Yes |
| WooCommerce | Yes | Yes |
| Drupal, Magento 2, PrestaShop, Craft CMS, TYPO3 | Drupal CMS and PrestaShop as one-click apps; custom PHP apps supported, the others not listed | Listed as platforms |
| WordPress and team features | ||
| Staging environments | Paid plans | Yes |
| WP-CLI | Yes | Yes |
| Free migrations | On request, if your site qualifies | Yes |
| Multisite | Yes | Yes |
| Dedicated account team | — | Yes |
| 24/7 support | Yes | 24/7 monitoring; live chat |
| AI and agent control | ||
| MCP server — drive servers and sites from Claude, Cursor or any AI agent | Yes | Yes |
| Installable AI agent skills (servers, sites, WordPress, SSL, account) | Yes | — |
| AI bot blocker — block AI crawlers and scrapers at the server | Yes | — |
| Public REST API with scoped tokens | Yes | Servebolt API; scoped tokens not stated |
| Security and WordPress integrity | ||
| Virtual patching for known vulnerabilities (Site Security PRO) | Add-on, $2/site | PatchStack, listed as a plan upgrade; price not stated |
| WordPress integrity monitor — verifies core files against checksums | Yes | — |
| Custom security headers (HSTS, CSP) from the panel | Yes | — |
| HTTP basic auth and per-site IP allow/deny | Yes | IP Blocking, listed as a plan upgrade; basic auth not stated |
| SSH lockdown — restrict SSH to trusted IPs, custom port | Yes | — |
| Performance and caching | ||
| Edge full-page cache on a global PoP network | Yes | Yes |
| Cloudflare Enterprise (330+ PoPs, Enterprise WAF) | Add-on, $5/domain | Cloudflare Business or Enterprise on its custom Enterprise plan; not listed as an add-on on Pro, Business or Scale; Accelerated Domains from €249/mo |
| HTTP/3 (QUIC) and Brotli compression, one click | Yes | HTTP/3 through Cloudflare integration; Brotli not stated |
| Per-site PHP tuning and PHP extension manager | Yes | PHP version and settings; per-site tuning not stated |
| Auto-healing — restarts MySQL, NGINX, Redis or PHP if it stops | Yes | — |
| MySQL/MariaDB auto-tuning and OPcache control | Yes | — |
| Monitoring and observability | ||
| Broken link monitoring with one-click 301 redirect | Yes | — |
| Site Insights — PHP, MySQL and traffic analytics per site | Yes | — |
| Scheduled PageSpeed / Core Web Vitals monitoring with history | Yes | — |
| Telegram alerts for site, server and team events | Yes | — |
| Native macOS menu-bar app (xCloud Pulse) | Yes | — |
| Developer and deployment | ||
| Browser SSH terminal and command runner | Yes | SSH; no browser terminal stated |
| One-click deploy from Git with stack auto-detection | Yes | Git deploys |
| Docker and Docker Compose application hosting | Yes | — |
| Node.js, Laravel and Next.js hosting with background tasks | Yes | Laravel and Next.js named; NPM listed; Node.js hosting not stated |
| One-click app library | 1046 apps | — |
| Supervisor process management and site snapshots | Yes | — |
| Backups, migration and agency tooling | ||
| Off-site backups to your own S3, R2, Backblaze, Wasabi, Google Drive or pCloud | Yes | — |
| Full server clone and server-to-server migration | Yes | — |
| Branded client maintenance reports (PDF) | Yes | — |
| White-label reseller programme with Stripe billing and your own plans | Yes | — |
| Business mailboxes on your own domain | Add-on, $1/mo | — |
Pricing
xCloud vs Servebolt: What You Actually Pay
What each plan includes, what the add-ons cost, and how much of the server you control. Servebolt figures are from its own pricing and platform pages, in euros as printed.
Servebolt charges per plan, based on live sites, storage and dynamic requests. Its pricing page does not define dynamic requests; the term usually means requests not served from cache. Redis and Accelerated Domains cost extra. xCloud charges per server, by size. Sites are unlimited and Redis is included. Servebolt figures are the 'From' prices on servebolt.com/pricing/ and, for add-ons, servebolt.com/servebolt-platform/, as of November 2026, in euros as printed; xCloud figures are the managed server prices on /pricing/, in US dollars. Nothing here converts one currency into the other. Servebolt also offers a Build your own plan calculator on its platform page, so these are its listed starting plans. On xCloud, the server you need depends on your sites' traffic and storage, not their number, so the 25- and 50-site rows show the cheapest xCloud server with at least the storage of that Servebolt plan. We have not tested those servers with that many sites. ⚠️ List prices only. Servebolt publishes benchmarks that rank it first; xCloud publishes none against them, so nothing here claims either is faster.
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| What you need | xCloud | Servebolt |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 5 sites | From $5.00/mo, unlimited sites per server (or $0 to xCloud for up to 10 sites on your own server, plus your VPS provider's bill) | Pro, from €99/mo — 10 GB, 500,000 dynamic requests |
| Up to 25 sites | $12.00/mo, a 2 GB server with 55 GB of storage. Sized to at least match Servebolt's storage on that plan, not tested with 25 sites | Business, from €349/mo — 40 GB, 1,000,000 dynamic requests |
| Up to 50 sites | $30.00/mo, a 4 GB server with 128 GB of storage. Sized to at least match Servebolt's storage on that plan, not tested with 50 sites | Scale, from €699/mo — 100 GB, 3,000,000 dynamic requests |
| Redis object cache | Included | From €99/mo per website, Business and up |
| Cloudflare Enterprise | $5/domain add-on | Cloudflare Business or Enterprise on its custom Enterprise plan; not listed as an add-on on Pro, Business or Scale; Accelerated Domains from €249/mo |
| Trial and refund | Free tier; pro-rated on managed servers, less a payment processing fee of up to 10%; full refund within 14 days on your own servers | 3-day trial; 14-day money-back guarantee on direct purchase plans |
Already on Servebolt?
Moving Is Two Supported Routes, Not A Rebuild
You do not have to rebuild the site to change host. Both routes below are documented, and both bring the files and the database across together.
xCloud's built-in migration
Connect the site you are running on Servebolt and let xCloud pull it across. It is the path most people take, and it handles the files and the database together.
Read the migration guideMigrate Guru, if you prefer a plugin
A free WordPress plugin, fully compatible with xCloud. Useful when you would rather drive the move from inside the site you already control.
Read the plugin guide
Before you start: if a token migration fails, our guide's first checks are to disable 2FA and Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode on the source site. A migration that stalls is almost always a security setting rather than the data.
xCloud vs Servebolt: Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers to what people ask before choosing between xCloud and Servebolt, including the ones with an uncomfortable answer.
Is xCloud cheaper than Servebolt?
xCloud's list price starts lower: $5.00 a month for its smallest managed server, against from €99 a month for Servebolt's Pro plan, as of November 2026. The two prices buy different things. xCloud's server has 1 GB of memory and 1 vCPU with unlimited sites, and the self-managed tier costs $0 to xCloud for one server and ten sites, plus your VPS provider's bill. Servebolt's Pro plan covers 5 live sites, 10 GB of storage and 500,000 dynamic requests, which usually means requests that are not served from cache. Servebolt's price includes things xCloud does not, such as a 99.9% uptime SLA and a dedicated account team.
What is the difference between xCloud and Servebolt?
Servebolt is a premium managed host: you buy a plan sized by live sites and dynamic requests, and your sites run on Servebolt's own cloud and Apache stack. xCloud gives you a server, managed by xCloud or brought from your own VPS provider, that runs unlimited WordPress sites plus Laravel, Node.js, custom PHP and Docker Compose apps, with full root access.
Is Servebolt faster than xCloud?
This page does not claim either way. Servebolt publishes benchmarks that rank it first for WooCommerce and WordPress, and you can read them on its compare-hosting page. xCloud has published no benchmark against Servebolt. The fair test is your own store, with your own plugins and traffic, on both.
Does Servebolt include Redis?
No. Servebolt lists Redis as a paid add-on from €99 a month per website, on Business and above. On xCloud, full-page caching and Redis object caching are included on every server, including the free tier.
How many sites can I host on each?
On xCloud, as many as your server can handle; sites are not counted on paid servers, and the free tier allows ten. Servebolt counts live sites: 5 on Pro, 25 on Business and 50 on Scale, with custom limits on Enterprise. Its Build your own plan calculator on the platform page also has a Live Sites slider from 5 to 50, as of November 2026.
Can I use my own server with Servebolt?
Servebolt's pages describe only its own cloud, whose hardware it owns and runs, in Oslo, New York, Dallas, London, Amsterdam and Singapore. They do not mention connecting a server of your own. With xCloud you can use a managed xCloud server or connect your own from DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS, Google Cloud, Hetzner, Linode or any Ubuntu host.
Which is better for WooCommerce stores?
Both host WooCommerce on managed plans. Servebolt suits a store that wants a hands-on host, an uptime SLA and backups every 4 hours. xCloud suits stores that want a lower starting price, Redis included, staging with push and pull on paid plans, and room for more stores on the same server.
Does xCloud have a free plan?
Yes. The self-managed tier is free on your first server with up to ten sites. You bring a VPS from DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Vultr or another provider and pay only that provider. Staging and backups need a paid plan. Servebolt lists no free plan; it offers a 3-day trial instead.
Can I migrate from Servebolt to xCloud?
Yes. You can move each site with the xCloud Migration plugin, as long as you can install plugins on it. Test it on a demo domain before you switch DNS. If you'd rather not do it yourself, you can request a free migration from the xCloud team, who check whether your site qualifies.
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