Deploy apps, databases and functions on servers you own — from a single VPS to a whole cluster, with SSL, backups and autoscaling built in. Your data never leaves your servers, and your apps keep running even if HivePaaS stops.
Experience the dashboard, manage Swarm services, and test deployments on our public live demo clusters — no installation required.
Deployments, previews, logs and terminals are the start. These are the parts teams usually have to bolt on themselves — in HivePaaS they come built in.
Write a handler, not a server. HivePaaS builds it on its runtime and calls it once per request — over HTTPS, inside the project, or on a schedule.
PostgreSQL, Redis, WordPress, n8n, Grafana, Ollama and hundreds more. A template knows its image, storage, health check and the apps it needs.
Volumes and databases backed up on a schedule with Kopia: encrypted, deduplicated and compressed, so a daily backup of a large volume stays small.
Replicas follow the load — requests, CPU or both — between the limits you set. Requests, errors and latency are measured by eBPF on the node, with no SDK in your code.
Point a domain at your server and HivePaaS routes it through Traefik, with Let's Encrypt certificates issued and renewed on their own.
Let Claude, Codex, Gemini, Cursor or Copilot find out why an app is down, read its logs, or install an app — within what its API key may do.
Built from the ground up to give developers the agility of high-end PaaS without sacrificing infrastructure control.
HivePaaS deploys every app as a standard native Docker Swarm service. If you ever uninstall or stop HivePaaS, every container, proxy route, and database continues running without a single dropped packet.
Zero telemetry, zero external tracking. Your source code, encryption keys, and customer databases remain strictly inside your own virtual private servers.
Written in Go. HivePaaS's whole control plane — API, agent, database, Redis and Traefik — runs in about 300 MB, leaving the rest of your server to your apps. A typical Kubernetes control plane, built for far larger clusters, starts at around a gigabyte.
Every Pull Request automatically provisions an isolated staging container with its own temporary subdomain. Preview features with clients and teammates before merging to production.
Scale your application across multiple worker nodes anywhere in the world. Add a new worker VPS with a single join token — no networking PhD required.
docker swarm join --token SWMTKN-1-49... 192.168.1.10:2377Kubernetes and managed cloud platforms are excellent at what they are built for. Here is how HivePaaS compares — including where each of them is the better choice.
| Platform Capability | HivePaaSSelf-Hosted Swarm | Kubernetes (K8s)Enterprise Cluster | Cloud PaaSHeroku / Render |
|---|---|---|---|
Target Cluster Scale The cluster size each is designed for | 1 – 50 Nodes (SMB Sweet Spot) | 🏆 1,000+ Nodes (Hyperscale) | Set by your plan |
Operating Effort Expertise needed to operate it | ✓ No specialist needed | A platform team is typical | ✓ Fully managed for you |
Idle Memory Overhead RAM consumed by control plane at 0 load | ✓ ~300 MB RAM | ~1 GB+ (control plane, typical) | Managed by the provider |
Entry Infrastructure Cost Minimum monthly server budget | ✓ Any VPS, from ~$5 / mo | Varies by distribution / cloud | Usage-based plans |
Ecosystem & Extensibility What you can run and plug in | ✓ Any Docker image + 300+ templates | 🏆 Massive (CNCF & CRDs) | ✓ Curated add-on marketplace |
Cluster Node Autoscaling Adding servers as the load grows | Join a node with one command | ✓ Native Cluster Autoscaler | ✓ Handled by the provider |
Data Sovereignty Customer databases strictly on your own servers | ✓ Full Privacy & Control | ✓ Full Privacy & Control | In the provider's cloud |
Portability What your apps run on underneath | ✓ Plain Swarm services | ✓ Standard K8s resources | Runs on the provider's platform |
Ephemeral App Previews Automated preview URLs for every Git PR | ✓ Built in | Through CI or add-on tools | ✓ Built in |
Open Source Freedom Source code access & self-hosting rights | ✓ 100% Open Source | ✓ Open Source | Commercial service |
Self-hosting has a great open-source community, and HivePaaS is glad to be part of it. These projects are excellent too — try them, and pick the one that fits the way you work.
Eliminate DevOps friction whether you are building your first SaaS or scaling a dozen production client services.
Run your entire backend, databases, and microservices on high-performance $10 - $40 VPS servers. Save up to 80% on cloud bills without hiring a full-time DevOps engineer.
Ship fast, test ideas with instant preview links, and host 20+ side projects on a single $5/month VPS. Manage databases, cron jobs, and domains from one central dashboard.
Manage isolated client environments with zero hassle. Spin up ephemeral preview environments for client reviews, and deliver clean Docker Swarm setups without proprietary lock-in.
No complicated infrastructure-as-code or lengthy manual configuration.
SSH into a clean Linux server — Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora, Alpine and more — and run the installer. HivePaaS auto-initializes Docker Swarm, Traefik proxy, and SSL.
curl -fsSL https://get.hivepaas.com | sudo bashLink your GitHub/GitLab repository or pick 1-click templates for PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, Node.js, Go, or Python.
Your apps go live with automated SSL certificates. Test pull requests with instant ephemeral previews, and scale nodes with 1-click.
Kubernetes is the right tool for very large clusters and teams that run a platform of their own. Most apps run on one to a few dozen servers, and there Docker Swarm does the job with much less to learn and to run: it is built into Docker, it takes little memory, and a single server is already a working cluster. HivePaaS adds what Swarm lacks on its own — builds, domains, certificates, backups, metrics and a dashboard.
They keep running. Each app is a plain Docker Swarm service, and Traefik keeps routing their domains from Swarm itself. While HivePaaS is down you only lose the dashboard and the work it drives, such as deployments, backups and scheduled jobs; they resume when it starts again.
Yes. HivePaaS installs on one Linux server, which becomes the manager of a swarm, and more servers can join it later as workers. 4 CPUs, 8 GB of memory and a 40 GB disk are recommended; it runs on less, with less room left for your apps.
Debian, Ubuntu and their derivatives; Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Oracle Linux and Amazon Linux; SLES and openSUSE; Arch and Manjaro; and Alpine. The installer sets up Docker itself when it is missing.
Yes, you can install it and use it for free today. Paid plans with wider limits, and an edition for larger organizations, are on the way — they will be announced on this page.
On your servers, and nowhere else. HivePaaS sends no telemetry. Backups go where you send them: a bucket on S3-compatible storage of your choice, or a volume on one of your nodes, encrypted with the repository’s password.
Yes. Sign in to one of the live demo servers above with the read-only demo account, and look around a real cluster: apps, functions, metrics, logs and the app store.
Open source, self-hosted, and free to start. Deploy on any server with zero vendor lock-in — your containers will always belong to you.