A CapRover alternative with backups built in
Keep your servers and your Dockerfiles. Hand over the control plane, and back up every database on a schedule.
What you get moving from CapRover
CapRover is a free, open-source PaaS on Docker Swarm that you install and run yourself. Serversinc is a hosted control plane for servers you own.
Nothing to host
Serversinc runs the dashboard, API and scheduler. No captain to update or restore.
Databases and volumes
Scheduled backups to S3, R2, B2 or Spaces, with retention, locks and restores.
Rollback on a failed check
Traffic stays on the old container until the new one passes its health check.
Users, schemas and grants
Provision Postgres, MySQL or MariaDB and manage access without a shell.
Alerts that reach you
Disk insights sent to email, Slack or a signed webhook.
Accounts, not one password
Up to ten members, each with 2FA, sessions and an activity log.
The bill, side by side
CapRover is free under the Apache 2.0 licence. There's no hosted version, so you run the control plane on your own server.
- Software
- CapRover $0 Serversinc £5/mo for three servers, £2 per server after
- Control plane
- CapRover Runs on your main server; you update and back it up Serversinc Hosted by Serversinc
- Database backups
- CapRover Bring your own tooling Serversinc Included
- Alerts
- CapRover Bring your own tooling Serversinc Included
Prices checked on 2026-09-27, in each vendor's own currency.
From CapRover to Serversinc
Run both side by side. Cut over when the new deploy is green.
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Provision or import a server
Start on a fresh DigitalOcean or Hetzner server, or import another server you own.
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02
Recreate each app
Point a GitHub application at the repo with your Dockerfile, or an image application at your image. Copy env vars in bulk.
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03
Move the databases
Provision the same engine, import a dump, then schedule backups to your bucket.
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04
Switch the domain
Set the domain, deploy, confirm the health check passes, then move DNS.
Switching from CapRover
Bring your first server
£5 a month covers your first three servers. Every server after that adds £2.