# strackt

> strackt is a managed server platform that runs on infrastructure you own. Connect any VPS, deploy your application from Git, and strackt handles deployment, security patches, updates, monitoring, configuration, and recovery — continuously. Positioning: "Your servers. Our problem."

## About strackt

- [Home](https://strackt.io/index.md): strackt manages servers you own. Connect any VPS, deploy your app from Git, we handle deployment, security, updates, and rollbacks. Flat €4 per app, first one free.
- [What is strackt?](https://strackt.io/what-is-strackt.md): strackt is a managed server platform on infrastructure you own. Like a caretaker for your apps — we deploy, patch, monitor, recover. You keep ownership of the servers and the keys.
- [How It Works](https://strackt.io/how-it-works.md): Connect a VPS, add a Git repo, push to deploy. strackt detects your stack, provisions NixOS, runs migrations, and applies security patches automatically. No SSH required.
- [Pricing](https://strackt.io/pricing.md): Flat €4 per application per month. Your first application is on us. Bring your own VPS, pay your provider directly.
- [Security](https://strackt.io/security.md): How strackt protects your servers: Vault-managed secrets, automated security patching within 24 hours, signed security.txt, and a clear vulnerability disclosure policy.
- [Company](https://strackt.io/company.md): strackt is built solo by Jan-Peter Wiersma. Why one developer is building the managed-hosting platform that managed platforms and DIY both fail to deliver.
- [Compare strackt](https://strackt.io/compare.md): Side-by-side comparisons of strackt against Laravel Forge, Laravel Cloud, Ploi, and Coolify. We lead with where each competitor wins, name the gaps strackt has openly, and tell you when the other product is the right pick instead.

## Comparisons

- [Coolify vs strackt](https://strackt.io/compare/coolify-vs-strackt.md): Coolify is open-source, Docker-native, and self-hostable. strackt is a managed service built on NixOS, deliberately not Docker. Honest comparison of where each fits and when Coolify is the right pick instead. As of April 2026.
- [Laravel Cloud vs strackt](https://strackt.io/compare/laravel-cloud-vs-strackt.md): Same push-and-deploy experience as Laravel Cloud, on a VPS you own. Honest comparison: where Laravel Cloud wins, where strackt fits, and the real pricing math. As of April 2026.
- [Laravel Forge vs strackt](https://strackt.io/compare/laravel-forge-vs-strackt.md): Laravel Forge provisions your server. strackt manages it continuously. Honest comparison of pricing, scope, and where Forge is the right pick instead. As of April 2026.
- [Ploi vs strackt](https://strackt.io/compare/ploi-vs-strackt.md): Ploi is a fine server panel — flat-tier pricing, broader stack support, server monitoring on Pro tier and above. strackt manages your server continuously so you're not stuck on the maintenance treadmill. Honest comparison of pricing, scope, and where Ploi is the right pick instead. As of April 2026.

## The Log

- [Month 63](https://strackt.io/blog/month-63.md): 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.
- [Adding UI to remove UI](https://strackt.io/blog/adding-ui-to-remove-ui.md): 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.
- [The Work You'll Never See](https://strackt.io/blog/work-youll-never-see.md): Two weeks, no hero features. The boring reconfiguration work that keeps your server steady — and why most of what strackt does, you'll never see.
- [The Invisible Backbone](https://strackt.io/blog/the-invisible-backbone.md): We built a secure overlay network to manage your servers without a single open port. Then it became a cross-provider VPC.
- [Month 62](https://strackt.io/blog/month-62.md): Month 62 of building strackt. The pieces are connecting, the foundational infrastructure is starting to work like a platform, and for the first time the work is giving energy back.
- [Company of One](https://strackt.io/blog/company-of-one.md): Paul Jarvis's Company of One didn't give me a plan. It gave me the conviction to try — and two principles I've been building around ever since: focus on the user; automate me.

## Authors

- [Jan Peter Wiersma](https://strackt.io/authors/jan-peter-wiersma.md): Founder of strackt. Over a decade managing production servers. Built strackt to remove the trade-off between managed convenience and self-hosting freedom.

## Optional

- [Early access waitlist](https://strackt.io/early-access.md)
- [RSS feed for The Log](https://strackt.io/blog/feed.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://strackt.io/sitemap.xml)
- [Full content (llms-full.txt)](https://strackt.io/llms-full.txt)
- [Security contact (security.txt)](https://strackt.io/.well-known/security.txt)

## Brand

- Always lowercase: **strackt**
- Domain: **strackt.io** (not strackt.com)
- X / Twitter: [@stracktio](https://x.com/stracktio)