You have an app. You want it running.
That's where it starts. The question is: who manages the infrastructure underneath? Here's a story about houses, caretakers, and sleeping well at night.
Every app needs a place to live — a computer that runs it, day and night. In the tech world, that computer is called a server.
When you want your app running, you have three options. Each one involves a trade-off between experience, ownership, and cost. strackt exists because we think you shouldn't have to choose.
The three options
Rent, DIY, or get a caretaker.
Rent an apartment
You move into a big building someone else owns. The landlord handles maintenance, repairs, security — everything. Very convenient.
But it's their building, their rules. They decide the price. They can change the terms. You can't drill into the walls. And if you want to leave, you can't take the apartment with you.
In tech: This is a managed platform like Laravel Cloud or Vercel. Great experience, but their infrastructure, their pricing, their rules.
Buy a house, do it all yourself
You buy your own house. Full control. Your walls, your paint, your rules. Freedom feels great.
But then the roof leaks. The locks need changing. The garden's overgrown. The boiler breaks at 2am. You spend so much time maintaining the house that you never actually enjoy living in it.
Buy a house, hire a caretaker
You buy your own house — full ownership, full control. But you also hire a caretaker who lives nearby and takes care of everything.
Leaky roof? Fixed before you notice. Locks outdated? Upgraded overnight. Garden overgrown? Not on their watch. You enjoy your house. They handle the work.
That's strackt. Your servers, fully managed. Your house, our problem.
So what does strackt actually do?
Everything the caretaker does — but for your applications.
Changes the locks
Security updates are applied automatically. When a vulnerability is discovered, strackt patches it — often before you even hear about it.
Keeps everything up to date
Software gets outdated fast. strackt keeps your server's operating system, packages, and configuration current — without you thinking about it.
Keeps the house in order
Servers slowly get messy over time — settings change, files pile up, things break quietly. strackt continuously enforces the correct configuration. No mess. No drift.
Keeps the blueprints
Every configuration is saved as a blueprint. If something goes wrong, strackt can roll back to a previous state in seconds — or rebuild the server from scratch in minutes.
Puts your app online
When you're ready to show the world, strackt takes your code and puts it on your server. Update your app? Just push the new version. strackt handles the rest.
Watches around the clock
A server needs attention 24/7, not just during business hours. strackt watches continuously and acts automatically when something needs fixing.
How it works
Four steps. Then we take over.
You don't need to understand servers to use strackt. Here's what happens.
Connect your repo
Show us your application
Point strackt at your code. It automatically figures out what your app needs — the right software, the right settings, everything. Like a caretaker walking through the house and knowing exactly what to stock.
Your app goes live
Add your server or start on Layover
Have your own server? Add it and we'll move your app over. Don't have one yet? Your app starts on Layover while you get set up. Like the caretaker setting up a temporary space while your house is being prepared.
Go live
Your app is online
One click and your app is live on the internet. Update your app? Just push the new version. strackt puts it online without any downtime — your visitors never notice a thing.
Sleep well
We handle everything from here
This is where other tools stop. strackt keeps going — security updates, software updates, keeping everything in order. Automatically, continuously. If something goes wrong, we undo it in seconds.
Why this matters
Four things we promise.
Convenience
You don't lift a finger.
Server maintenance is complicated, tedious, and never-ending. strackt does all of it automatically. You focus on building your product, running your business, or — honestly — just living your life.
Freedom
Your house, your rules.
Your server. Your choice of hosting company. Your data. Nobody locks you in. If you ever want to leave, everything is yours — no awkward breakup, no data hostage situation. You own it all.
Cost
Flat-rate. Predictable. No surprises.
Managed platforms charge usage-based pricing that grows when you succeed. With strackt, you pay your hosting company directly — usually a fraction of the cost. Then you pay strackt a flat per-application fee. No tiers, no brackets. No surprises. No bandwidth overages.
Confidence
We keep the blueprints.
Every change strackt makes is saved as a checkpoint. Something went wrong? Roll back in seconds. Server completely broken? strackt rebuilds it from the blueprint in minutes. Same setup, clean slate. It's like having an undo button for your entire server.
Still confused?
The 30-second version.
- "What does strackt do?"
You write the code; we do everything else. We take your app live when you push it, and we take care of the computer it runs on — all the boring, complicated stuff that keeps it running, safe, and up to date.
- "Why not just use one of those big cloud companies?"
You can. But they own the servers. With strackt, you own yours. It's cheaper, you have full control, and you're never locked in.
- "What if something goes wrong?"
Every change is saved. Roll back in seconds. Or rebuild the whole thing from scratch in minutes. It's like a save game for your server.
- "Who is this for?"
Developers who write the application and would rather ship features than patch the server under it. SaaS founders who want the workflow of a managed platform — push to deploy, preview environments, rollback — without handing over their infrastructure or their bill. Agencies running client codebases across providers. Side-project builders who want the thing they built running properly without it becoming a second job. The common thread is a repository you push commits to: if you're looking to self-host software someone else wrote, strackt isn't built for that.
- Can I run Nextcloud or other self-hosted apps on strackt?
No — and Coolify is the right tool for that job. strackt deploys applications you build from source: you push a commit, we build it, run your migrations, and release it. Packaged software works the other way round. The maintainer publishes a finished release archive, and a plain git clone of it often won't even run, because the compiled assets only exist inside the release. Firefly III is a good example of that, and it's a Laravel app.
Doing it properly means deploying artifacts rather than building source, and tracking upstream releases rather than your commits — a different pipeline, priced per server rather than per application. It's a different product, not a feature we're missing, so we'd rather point you at one that does it well than cost you an afternoon.
WordPress is the one exception in our catalogue, and it isn't a precedent. It's there for people who run WordPress as a business — agencies with client sites, publishers with their own themes and plugins — where the site is something you deploy and get paid for rather than a service you added to a home server.
- What if strackt goes away?
Your server is yours, so it keeps running. strackt manages your VPS — it doesn't host it — so if strackt the company ever disappeared, nothing gets switched off and nothing gets deleted. You keep SSH access, your configuration is yours to export, and you can carry on running the server yourself or move it to another provider. It's the same answer as if you stopped paying: your infrastructure never depended on us being here. We're a solo-founded project and upfront about that, which is exactly why we built strackt so that losing us is an inconvenience, not an outage.
Your servers. Your applications. Our problem.
You built your app because you wanted to build something. Not because you wanted to spend your weekends managing servers. That's what we're here for.
Early access is opening. Your first app is on us.
Every app needs a place to live — a computer that runs it, day and night. In the tech world, that computer is called a server.
When you want your app running, you have three options. Each one involves a trade-off between experience, ownership, and cost. strackt exists because we think you shouldn't have to choose.
P.S. — You might be wondering about the name. strackt is a play on structured stacks — the tower of technologies that make your app run. We take your stack and give it structure. It also sounds like strak — a Dutch word meaning "tight, taut, pulled straight." Disciplined. No slack. We liked that.