Servebolt review (2026): is it worth $99 a month?
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Weak · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for managed hosting for high-traffic PHP sites
Servebolt is managed hosting for PHP platforms with a CDN and backups every four hours. Plans start at $99 a month and are capped by dynamic requests and live sites.
Who Servebolt is for
- Fits if you run a busy PHP or WordPress site and want it managed
- Works for agencies that want developer tooling
Who Servebolt is not for
- Pricey if you run a small site, as the entry plan is $99 a month
- Watch out: plans cap dynamic requests, from 500,000 on Pro to 3,000,000 on Scale
- Skip it if you want clear billing, as the page does not say whether prices are monthly or annual
- Tight if you want the cheaper Cloudflare plans, which are a separate product
Why Servebolt gets a 1.6
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- DValue for moneyPro starts at $99 a month, well above the $35 start of the dearest tenth of web hosting.
- DFree plan and trialA free trial is offered on the paid plans, but the page does not say how long it lasts.
- CFeaturesManaged PHP hosting, free migration, developer tooling, backups every four hours and a CDN. Caps on dynamic requests and sites limit the plans.
- CEase of useManaged hosting, so little server work, but sites still need setup and there is no store rating.
- CPlatforms and integrationsWeb dashboard with one integration listed.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Servebolt's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Servebolt's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 5 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 23.
It stands best on ease of use (C, above 40 of 122) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $99 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 102 of the 107 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 58 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 123 web hosts we grade, cut by the letter each got. Servebolt’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 122, level with 12
- DFree plan and trialAbove 63 of 122, level with 10
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 122, level with 85
- CEase of useAbove 40 of 122, level with 82
- CPlatforms and integrationsAbove 1 of 122, level with 55
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 111 web hosts. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Servebolt, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Servebolt you would be making servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 94 of the 122 other web hosts grade higher. It costs $1,188 a year.
What you could not
- Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you.
- Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule.
- It plugs into other products, Cloudflare among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. Servebolt’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Servebolt?
Servebolt is a Norwegian-run managed hosting platform for WordPress, WooCommerce, Drupal, Laravel, Magento 2 and other PHP platforms. Plans are priced by storage, dynamic requests and the number of live sites, with unmetered data transfer, free site migration and a free CDN on every plan.
Worth knowing
- The entry plan starts at $99 a month, well above typical shared hosting.
- Plans are capped by dynamic requests, from 500,000 on Pro to 3,000,000 on Scale, and by live sites.
- The pricing page shows only 'from' prices and a plan builder with NOK, USD and EUR; it does not state whether the prices are billed monthly or annually.
- Servebolt Cloudflare plans at $0, $30 and $279 a month are a separate product beside the hosting plans.
Key features
- Managed hosting for PHP platforms
- WordPress, WooCommerce, Drupal, Laravel, Magento 2, PrestaShop, Craft CMS and TYPO3 are listed as supported platforms.
- Free migration
- The migration team moves a site at no cost, with an audit, a staging clone and a checked go-live.
- Developer tooling
- Every plan lists SSH, sFTP, WP-CLI, Drush, NPM, automated Git deployments and dev, stage and prod environments.
- Backups every four hours
- Backups run every 4 hours and are kept for 30 days on all three listed plans.
- Included CDN
- Servebolt CDN is free on every plan, with 5, 10 or 20 CDN hostnames depending on the tier.
- Cloudflare hosting plans
- Separate Servebolt Cloudflare plans run from $0 to $279 a month and add onboarding and firewall management.
Servebolt pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Servebolt is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $99 per month and up (Pro).
- Starts at
- $99 per month and up (Pro)
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- Free trial offered on the Pro, Business and Scale plans; the page gives no length
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Pro | $99per month and up | 10 GB storage, 500,000 dynamic requests, a 256 MB PHP memory limit and 5 live sites, with 10 guaranteed dynamic requests per second. |
| Business | $349per month and up | 40 GB storage, 1,000,000 dynamic requests, a 512 MB PHP memory limit and 25 live sites, with 20 guaranteed requests per second. |
| Scale | $699per month and up | 100 GB storage, 3,000,000 dynamic requests, a 768 MB PHP memory limit and 50 live sites, with 30 guaranteed requests per second. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom storage, requests and bandwidth, Cloudflare Business or Enterprise, custom security and a dedicated customer success manager, quoted on request. |
Read from servebolt.com on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Servebolt before you buy.
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Common questions
Does Servebolt have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Servebolt is listed for Web.
Does Servebolt have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Servebolt is listed for Web.
Is Servebolt open source?
Servebolt is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does Servebolt have an API?
Yes. Servebolt offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.