DeployOS Helps Solo Entrepreneurs Deploy & Manage Multiple Apps On Any VPS

No. You paste your server's IP address and SSH key once - DeployOS installs Docker, configures the firewall and HTTPS routing, and from then on you deploy from a visual app. There's a Simple mode that hides the infrastructure entirely, and an Advanced mode with every dial when you want it.

Shared hosting rents you a slice of someone else's server and caps what you can run - usually one site, PHP only, hard CPU and RAM limits. A VPS is a full server that's entirely yours, but managing one yourself usually means learning Docker, Nginx and Linux first. DeployOS is that missing piece: it turns a bare $5 VPS into something as easy to run as a hosting panel, except there's no per-site cap - host as many apps, databases and background jobs as the hardware can hold, for one price instead of one bill per site.

If you're already comfortable maintaining playbooks or Nix configs across a fleet of servers, those tools are genuinely great and DeployOS isn't trying to replace them - they're built for infrastructure-as-code at scale. DeployOS is for the much more common case: deploying a handful of apps without writing or maintaining a playbook for each one. It's push-button where Ansible is code-first - less powerful for managing a large fleet, much faster for a side project, a client site, or a small business's handful of apps.

Because they're genuinely good and you should seriously consider one. Coolify is free and open source, and its community is bigger than ours by a lot - more contributors, more Discord, more answers when something breaks at 2am. If free-and-open-source is the deciding factor for you, use it; we mean that without qualification. The difference is architectural, and it comes down to one question: what runs on your server permanently? Those tools answer 'a web dashboard with root-level Docker access, listening on a port.' DeployOS answers 'nothing.' No agent, no daemon, no dashboard, no listening port - the control plane is the desktop app on your own machine, and it connects over SSH on demand. That's why the security tradeoff they ask you to accept is one DeployOS doesn't ask you to accept: there is nothing on your server between deploys for a vulnerability to live in, and nothing reachable from the internet holding your infrastructure credentials. That isn't a claim DeployOS makes about itself being safer than mature open source - it's a smaller amount of machinery, which is easy to reason about and easy to verify. It's also a real tradeoff running the other way: those tools get real inbound webhooks from GitHub because they have an always-on process to receive one. DeployOS polls, so auto-deploy has extra latency and only runs while the app is open. And being smaller is a genuine cost: DeployOS is one founder, not a community. If a large maintainer pool matters to you for critical infrastructure, that's a legitimate reason to pick the free option. See /vs/coolify for the full honest comparison.

It's a real concern, and we'd rather you ask it than assume we handled it. That's exactly why the free plan ships a read-only MCP server, and why every paid plan gates the dangerous tools behind settings that are off by default. Every write action - deploy, restart, scale, teardown, database writes, cron - is its own toggle. Teardown, scaling to zero, restarting a critical-tagged app, and removing a cron job all require a human confirmation dialog before they execute, with a two-minute timeout that defaults to 'no.' Every write call is logged locally - tool, target, arguments, result, duration - filterable and exportable, and never transmitted anywhere. The 15 read-only tools never return secret values. One global switch pauses all AI access instantly, regardless of individual settings. DeployOS also writes a .claudeignore into your repo on every deploy so secret files never enter an AI's context. We think that's the right standard for anything touching production. If you disagree, the safe default is to leave it paused and deploy from the GUI, which is a fully supported way to use the product.

Any VPS provider works: Hetzner (from ~€4/mo), DigitalOcean, Vultr, Contabo, Linode, OVH, AWS, Hostinger - if you can SSH into it, DeployOS can run it. Create the cheapest Ubuntu server they offer, paste its IP into DeployOS, and it handles the rest.

Really. Your license works forever, and includes a year of app updates. After that year the app keeps working exactly as it is - you only renew (at 50% off) if you want to keep receiving new versions. There is no subscription and nothing hosted by us to pay for.

DeployOS is built for exactly that moment: it detects the app isn't answering, hunts for the right port automatically, surfaces the app's own crash logs in the deploy output, and the Doctor pinpoints DNS/proxy/network issues in one click. The last three builds stay cached on your server for instant rollback.

In your operating system's keychain, on your machine. DeployOS has no backend - your credentials are never uploaded anywhere, because there is nowhere to upload them to. The app talks straight to your server over SSH.

In a lot of cases they are. Self-hosted PaaS tools like Coolify are free, open source, and maintained by a community - that is a real, structural advantage over a product maintained by one person, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling you something. What DeployOS offers is a different bet on how much should run on the server itself: the free tools need an always-on dashboard to work, DeployOS needs nothing. Fewer moving parts to patch, no exposed management port, no third-party service holding root-level access to your infrastructure, and your credentials never leave your machine. You also get a licensed product with a 14-day money-back guarantee and someone accountable when it breaks, instead of a project whose maintainers can change direction. Free and community-backed is the better choice if you want the code and the maintainers. DeployOS is the better choice if you want the smallest possible footprint on the server and a clear security boundary between your apps and the thing managing them. Both are legitimate. Read /vs/coolify before deciding - it's written by us and spends most of its length on where the alternatives win.

No. DeployOS scans what's already there and adopts it non-destructively - existing containers keep running and get imported into the dashboard. If another proxy already owns port 443, DeployOS steps back and tells you instead of clobbering it.

macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel, one universal build) and Windows 10/11 (64-bit) - both downloadable today, and one license covers either. Linux is next on the roadmap; join the newsletter below to hear the moment it ships.

Yes - that warning appears because our Windows installer isn't yet signed by a public certificate authority (the macOS build is fully notarized by Apple; the Windows CA certificate is in progress). The installer is built from the same code, served only over HTTPS from this site, and we publish its SHA-256 checksum on the download page so you can verify the file yourself. Click "More info → Run anyway" to proceed.

Every paid plan has a 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. And the Free plan is a real license - one server, real deploys - so you can prove it works on your VPS before paying anything.