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 — data synced first, then a brief, confirmed cutover. No VPS yet? Start on Layover — a temporary strackt-managed server — while you set yours 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
Your server stays in a known state.
Most tools let a server wander — a hand-edit here, an undocumented package there — and try to catch it afterwards. strackt doesn't let it happen in the first place. Your server is defined in one place, and that definition is the only thing that can change it. Every update either lands completely or rolls back on its own, so the server is always in a state you can name.
~ / 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 — back to a known state
services.php-fpm.phpVersion = "8.3";
- worker_processes 1;
+ worker_processes auto;
gzip on;
✓ hand-edit reverted — known state restored
✓ no downtime — switched in one step
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 all described in one place. strackt applies that description in a single step, then keeps the server matching it.
- Operating system and system packages
- Web server, PHP-FPM, database, Valkey
- Firewall rules and system users
- Security patches and OS updates
Changes
Weekly
Rollback
Seconds
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 |
| Known state | Your problem | N/A | Guaranteed |
| 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.
The whole server is described in one place, and strackt builds it from that description. An update lands completely or rolls back on its own — and the same description always rebuilds the same server.
Short-lived credentials. SSH certificates and application secrets managed centrally, never stored on disk.
Encrypted mesh overlay, originally built at Slack. strackt reaches your servers over a private network — so there are no public management ports to attack.
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.
Go deeper
See how it actually works
The overview above is the what. If you want the how — how strackt reaches a server you own, keeps it in a state you can trust, and keeps it updated without you — these go one level down.
The connection model
How strackt connects to your server
How strackt reaches a server you own, what it can and can't touch, what it stores and never stores, and what happens when something breaks.
Read itThe known-state model
How strackt keeps your server in a known state
Why a strackt server stays predictable — defined in one place, reversible by design, and almost impossible to break for good.
Read itThe update model
What managed updates actually means
What a stock server updates on its own, what it silently leaves to you, and how strackt applies, tests, and reverts updates automatically.
Read itYour code runs.
You keep building.
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