Show HN: DeployCrate, Render-style deployments on infrastructure you own

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Server Management for Teams That Own Their Infrastructure - DeployCrate Onboarding a small group of alpha users Now onboarding a small group of alpha users<br>PaaS Simplicity Without the Bill<br>Deploy Crate connects to your cloud accounts, provisions hardened servers, and handles deployments, logs, and monitoring. Same simplicity as Render, fraction of the cost.<br>Get (free) Alpha Access Watch Demo

deploy-crate / deploy<br>passed<br>Merge pull request #42 | master

Push to master12s

Build & Test1m 34s

Deploy to production47s

Health checkLive 8s

See Deploy Crate manage your servers in real time<br>Watch how DeployCrate provisions hardened servers, deploys apps with zero-downtime strategies, and collects telemetry. All without you touching a terminal.

Everything your servers need, built in<br>Provisioning, deployments, monitoring, maintenance, and secrets. One platform handles all of it.

Server provisioning<br>Connect your cloud account, pick a size. DeployCrate provisions and hardens the server automatically.

Automated deployments<br>Blue-green, canary, rolling. Deploy across servers and environments from a single dashboard.

Telemetry<br>Server metrics, application logs, and reverse proxy stats. Everything in one place, no external tools.

Health checks and alerts<br>Continuous uptime monitoring. Get notified the moment something goes wrong.

Server maintenance<br>Security patches and OS updates applied automatically. Your servers stay current without you lifting a finger.

Secrets management<br>Environment variables and application secrets managed per app, per environment. No .env files on servers.

Built for teams who chose VPS for cost but need platform-level simplicity<br>You picked Hetzner or DigitalOcean to save money. DeployCrate makes sure that decision doesn't cost you 20 hours a month in DevOps work.

Teams outgrowing Render and Railway bills<br>Stop paying 3-10x the underlying server cost. Same workflow, $5/mo servers.

Technical founders who want predictable costs<br>Flat-rate server management. No usage-based surprises when traffic spikes.

Stack-agnostic engineering teams<br>Go, Rust, Node, Python, Elixir. Any language, any framework, any container.

Agencies managing client infrastructure<br>One platform for all client servers. Standardized deploys, predictable margins.

Teams who don't want to run Kubernetes<br>Blue-green, canary, and rolling deploys without operating a cluster.

Companies that want infrastructure ownership<br>Your servers, your SSH access, your data. We just make it all work.

Your infrastructure outlives our platform<br>Each server runs the Crate Operator, a source-available agent that handles deploys, logs, metrics, and WireGuard networking. No proprietary runtime. No hidden orchestration layer. If we shut down tomorrow, your servers keep running.

Direct SSH access, always<br>Your servers remain accessible directly. Networking, workloads, and configuration stay under your control.

Source-available management API<br>I don't want to lock you in. The Crate Operator running on your servers is source available. Inspect it, fork it, leave whenever you want.

Docker or binary, your choice<br>Deploy as containers or raw binaries. No proprietary runtime, no forced packaging format.

From repo to running in three steps.<br>No Ansible playbooks. No 200-line bash scripts. Just connect, configure, and deploy.

Connect your servers

Link your Hetzner, DigitalOcean, or any VPS provider. We provision, secure, and monitor them automatically.<br>Cloud Provider<br>Hetzner<br>Connected<br>DigitalOcean<br>Add

Configure your apps

Point to your repo, pick a deployment strategy, and set your environment variables. That is it.<br>Repository<br>github.com/acme/api

Strategy<br>Blue-Green

Environment<br>DATABASE_URL=••••••••

Ship with confidence

Trigger a deploy. Your code deploys automatically with health checks, rollback support, and real-time logs.<br>✓ Building image... 12s<br>✓ Pushing to registry 8s<br>✓ Deploying to prod-1 15s<br>✓ Health check passed 3s<br>Deploy complete v2.4.1

Flat-rate server management. No usage-based surprises.<br>We're giving full Business-tier access to 10 teams willing to actively test the platform and provide feedback.

Hobby<br>Perfect for side projects and small apps.

$5 per month<br>1 server with 24-hour telemetry retention<br>Unlimited applications<br>Immediate & Zero downtime deployments<br>Basic uptime monitoring<br>Server maintenance & auto-updates<br>1 team, 1 seat<br>Canary deploys<br>Application telemetry<br>Rolling deployments across servers

Available during beta

Pro<br>Recommended<br>Everything small teams need to ship with confidence.

$19 per month<br>Everything in Hobby<br>3 servers included, $5 per extra<br>Canary deployments<br>Rolling deployments across servers<br>14-day telemetry & OTel retention<br>1 team, 5 seats<br>Private networking<br>Scheduled backups

Available during beta

Business<br>Scale across teams, regions, and workloads.

$39 per month<br>Everything in Pro<br>6 servers included, $2.5 per extra<br>30-day telemetry & OTel retention<br>3 teams, 10 seats<br>Private networking between servers<br>Scheduled...

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