How it works
Connect your repository. Deploy your application. We manage everything underneath — deployment, security, updates, maintenance. Continuously, on your own servers.
The problem
You have to choose between experience and ownership.
Managed platforms like Laravel Cloud and Vercel give you a great developer experience — but on their infrastructure, at usage-based prices you can't predict.
Server panels like Forge and Ploi give you ownership — but leave maintenance, security, and recovery to you. You're back in the terminal.
The strackt answer
Platform experience. Your infrastructure.
strackt manages your applications on your own servers. Connect your repo, deploy your app, and we handle everything after that — continuously, automatically, at a flat rate.
You get the developer experience of a managed platform with the economics and ownership of your own VPS. No compromise.
The process
Connect. Deploy. Forget about it.
Getting started takes minutes. Staying managed takes zero effort — that's our job.
Connect your repo
Point at your Git repository
strackt scans your codebase and detects your stack automatically — framework, runtime version, database, cache, queue workers, scheduler. You confirm, we configure.
Your app goes live
Add your VPS or start on Layover
Have a VPS? Add it as a resource and we'll move your application over with a live migration. Don't have one yet? Start on Layover while you get set up.
Push and deploy
Push code, we deploy
Push your code and strackt deploys — with environment injection, dependency installation, migrations, and service restarts. Zero-downtime. Automatic.
We handle the rest
Continuously, automatically
Security patches applied automatically. Configuration continuously enforced. We tell you when something needs attention. If something goes wrong, roll back in seconds.
The core insight
Configuration drift is structurally impossible.
Most tools detect drift after the fact. strackt's infrastructure layer makes drift structurally impossible — your server is defined as code, and that code is the only way state can change. Every update is atomic: it either applies completely or rolls back automatically.
~ / production-server
$ apt install php8.2 -y
... installing php8.2
$ nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/app.conf
# quick fix for the 502, won't document this
$ service nginx restart
nginx: restarted
# 6 months later...
deploy.sh: unexpected nginx config, aborting
strackt — enforcing declared state
services.php-fpm.phpVersion = "8.3";
- worker_processes 1;
+ worker_processes auto;
gzip on;
✓ divergence corrected — state restored
✓ no downtime — atomic switch
Architecture
Two layers. Each doing one thing perfectly.
Infrastructure and application deployment have fundamentally different change frequencies, risk profiles, and rollback needs. strackt treats them as separate concerns.
Layer 1
Infrastructure: The foundation that never moves
OS, packages, networking, services, and security are declared as code. strackt applies this declaration atomically and enforces it continuously.
- Operating system and system packages
- Web server, PHP-FPM, database, Redis
- Firewall rules and system users
- Security patches and OS updates
Changes
Weekly
Rollback
Atomic
Failure
Auto-revert
Layer 2
Application: Fast deploys on verified ground
Application code deploys over SSH onto an infrastructure layer that's already guaranteed correct. Deploys are fast, targeted, and reversible.
- Git pull, composer install, npm build
- Database migrations
- Environment configuration (.env)
- Queue workers and scheduler
Changes
Daily
Rollback
Git-based
Failure
Isolated
Comparison
The best of both worlds.
Platforms give you the experience. Server panels give you the ownership. strackt gives you both.
| Server panelsForge, Ploi | PlatformsLaravel Cloud, Vercel | strackt | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Your VPS | Their cloud | Your VPS |
| After deployment | You maintain | They maintain | We maintain |
| Pricing | Flat-rate | Usage-based | Flat-rate, per-app |
| Security patches | Manual | Managed | Automatic, safe |
| Config drift | Your problem | N/A | Structurally impossible |
| Rollback | Backup restore | Platform-dependent | Seconds, not hours |
| Exit strategy | Server keeps running | Migrate everything | Server keeps running |
Under the hood
Built on a stack you can trust.
For developers who want to know what's powering the engine. Every choice is here because it's the right one for the job.
Declarative, reproducible, atomic. Every server state is defined as code. The same config always produces the same result.
Short-lived credentials. SSH certificates and application secrets managed centrally, never stored on disk.
Encrypted mesh overlay built at Slack. The control plane reaches your servers over a private network — no public management ports.
The UI, API, and job queue that orchestrates everything. Built on the same stack our customers use.
Self-hosted WebSocket server powering live operation logs and deployment progress. No third-party services.
Your code runs.
You keep building.
Early access opens mid-2026. Be the first to experience managed applications on your own servers.
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