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gportal is the provider of the official servers.
GTXGaming was the one recommended to me when I asked in one of the Discord channels I am a member of.
There are others available besides those 2. You can try googling for other providers.
It is a mod and is designed as a server manager among other things.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=880454836&searchtext=pippi
Pippi is an in-game management tool. It offers admins more control over their server than the vanilla version does. It also offers functions that players can be allowed access to like buying kits, warps, /sethome, etc. If nothing else, you can subscribe to it and check it out in a private game. There’s a Discord channel should you decide to use the mod.
There is a different Discord channel for CE admins as well. You’ll find alot of experienced people there that may be able to help you out. If you’re interested in it, say the word.
The config process is manual. Having used ASM, I can tell you there's nothing like that for CE and probably won't be. ASM is a community project developed and maintained by players, not the ARK devs. I wouldn't expect anything like that to be officially released for ARK or CE. It's a project unto itself and the fact it exists for ARK is only because of it's sheer popularity and the generosity of ASM's devs who put the time into it, IMO.
With CE, you use a couple batch files, one for SteamCMD to install/update the server and one per server instance to launch each server. The configuration is largely done in-game via the admin menu (what Pippi expands upon), but the initial config and basic networking stuff is done in the server's ini files manuallly. It's designed so that you don't necessarily need to run the client and connect to the server to set it up though. Typically, the host could give other trusted people the admin password and they can admin it remotely using the in-game menu once it's running on the server hardware and visible to the internet.
Whereas Server management is more focused on backups, auto backups, maintenance, Mod organization tools, controls and installation, INI game settings not included in admin controls, installation of Apps, maps and things of that nature. PIPPI is an awesome "Admin Tool". but the BIGGEST Feature for "Server Management Tools" like ASM. is the ability to exclude Blueprints or add them in, gives you total control over what content is on the server, allows you to install and uninstall mods seamlessly and sort them out just by draging them to the corrects order on the list. also makes it easy to find mods besides the workshop and redit forums.
Overall it is a Must have. you can even use it to keep remote servers up to date and fix problems far quiker and instantanously vs the Crappy Tpanel that most host services provide, those pannels are slow installing, take twice as long to accomplish simple tasks like doing backups.