A note from the founder
Apr 2026
100+
servers · four years
Same fight every time.
Convenience or freedom. Never both.
The story
I got tired of choosing between convenience and freedom. Over four years, I managed more than 100 production servers. Every one of them presented the same choice: use a managed platform and give up control, or keep your own servers and accept the maintenance burden.
Managed platforms are convenient, but they own your infrastructure. Self-hosting gives you freedom, but provisioning tools only handle the setup — everything after that is on you. Security patches, updates, configuration drift. It piles up.
I built strackt to eliminate that choice. Your servers, managed like a platform. Full freedom, zero maintenance burden.
The mission
Convenience or freedom. Managed platforms or self-hosting. Every developer faces this tension. Managed platforms handle everything but lock you in — their infrastructure, their pricing, their rules. Self-hosting gives you control but leaves you alone with the maintenance.
Your VPS, your provider, your data — with continuous maintenance handled automatically. Security patches, configuration enforcement, instant rollback. The convenience of a managed platform without surrendering ownership.
That's the mission. Make "your servers, our problem" the default way developers run infrastructure.
i
Freedom
Any VPS provider. Any region. SSH access. Configuration as code. Leave anytime with your full setup.
ii
Convenience
Push code, it's live. Security patches applied. Configuration enforced. Continuously, not just at setup.
iii
Confidence
Every change creates a checkpoint. Roll back in seconds. Rebuild from scratch in minutes.
Built in public
strackt is a solo founder project. Early access opens mid-2026 — invite-based, small cohort, hands-on onboarding. One person committing to a long arc.
The Log is where this gets written down. Wins, mistakes, what I'm stuck on this week. If you want to know what kind of operator I am, that's where to look. See you on the inside.
Latest from The Log
09 May 2026
Month 63
Month 63 of building strackt. April was a refactor month — 169 issues, 400 commits, an architectural correction 18 months in the making. The kind of progress that doesn't feel like progress until you look back at it.
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05 May 2026
Adding UI to remove UI
We're adding UI now so we can take it away later. Most server platforms grow knobs forever; most clouds hide everything. We're picking neither.
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Want to be part of this?
Mid-2026 invite-based early access. Small cohort. Hands-on onboarding.