Deploy Crate
Deploy Crate connects to your cloud accounts, provisions hardened servers, and handles deployments, logs, and monitoring. Same simplicity as Render, fraction of the cost.
Visit projectI've always run my own applications on virtual private servers.
But, you soon realize that quite a bit goes into managing and maintaining a server. Add in monitoring and automated deployments onto that and you've a pretty long TODO to get through.
Do you need that? likely no. Is it great to have when your sites start to get real traction? definitely.
Now, there already exist a few open-source options in this space like Coolify and Dokploy. But they both either did too much or did things in a way I didn't want.
Deploy Crate is my response to that. A platform that takes inspiration from Heroku and focuses purely on keeping servers healthy, secure and stable while giving you an easy way to automate and monitor deployments and applications.