Introduction

Ployz gives you what Railway or Heroku give you, Git push deploys, preview environments, databases and https addresses, on Linux servers you own. Think of your servers as your own small cloud: you tell Ployz what to run from the dashboard, and your servers run it.

flowchart LR
  you(["You"]) --> dashboard["Dashboard at ployz.dev"]
  dashboard -- deploys --> s1 & s2
  subgraph servers["Your servers"]
    s1["Server 1<br>web, worker"] <--> s2["Server 2<br>web, postgres"]
  end
  visitors(["Your visitors"]) -- https --> s1 & s2

What you get

Pick a GitHub repository and Ployz builds your app, deploys it, and deploys again on every push. You don't need a Dockerfile: Ployz detects Node, Python, Ruby, PHP, Go, Rust, Java, Elixir and more, and it builds your Dockerfile if you have one. It also runs any Docker image, and adds PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis or MongoDB next to your app in one step.

Every pull request can get its own copy of your app at its own address. Every server serves https itself, so there's no load balancer to rent, and a service can run as up to 50 replicas across your servers.

Who it's for

You have an app and want a platform's push to deploy, previews and dashboard, without paying a platform for the servers. Or you already run a server by hand and miss having a platform.

Ployz is built for one person today, with no team roles or permissions yet. It doesn't back up your data yet, and if a server goes down, what ran only there stops until it's back. Read the Production checklist before you move real users.

What you need

• A Linux server you can run commands on as root. Any provider, a VM or bare metal, amd64 or arm64. Ubuntu LTS is best: there, your volumes get size limits. Other Linux distributions with systemd work without them. Ployz installs Docker if the server doesn't have it. See Add a server.
• A GitHub account. You sign in with GitHub, and Ployz deploys your GitHub repositories.

What it costs

Ployz is free on your own servers, with as many servers and projects as you like. Custom domains need Pro, at $9 a month. Your hosting provider bills you for the servers. See Organizations and billing.

What you own

Your apps and their data live on your servers. Deploys go through ployz.dev, but your apps keep running if it's down or goes away. Their generated ployz.app addresses, and custom domains that CNAME to them, rely on Ployz's DNS; custom domains with A records pointing at your servers don't.

The CLI and the software Ployz installs on your servers are Apache-2.0. The dashboard is AGPL-3.0, and you can run it yourself. The code is at github.com/getployz/ployz.

Next: deploy your first app.