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You have a GitHub repository and code that works locally. Klystrr gives you a free server to deploy to immediately — SSH, install, build, PM2, Nginx, SSL. When you're ready, plug in your own VPS. No DevOps hire required.
The problem
In the early stages, every hour spent on infrastructure is an hour not spent on the product. But you still need to deploy — and deployment to a VPS involves enough moving parts that it becomes a project in itself.
You either spend two days figuring out SSH keys, PM2 configurations, Nginx server blocks, and Let's Encrypt certificates — or you hand it to your backend developer, who spends two days doing the same thing instead of building features.
Managed hosting platforms solve the deployment problem — but lock you into their infrastructure, their pricing, and their limits. At low scale, that works. When your costs start to matter, it becomes a constraint that is hard to escape.
Klystrr gives you a third path. Start with a free server — deploy in minutes, no setup required. When you're ready, connect your own VPS. Same workflow, same dashboard, zero migration. You start with the ease of a managed platform and move toward owning your infrastructure when it matters.
The solution
Klystrr starts you with a free server — no VPS required, no upfront setup. When you're ready to own your stack, connect your own VPS from Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, OVH, or any other provider. The deployment pipeline works the same way in both cases, over SSH.
Your backend, your API, your admin dashboard, your landing page — each is a Klystrr project, deployed from a GitHub or GitLab branch, managed by PM2, routed through Nginx, and served over HTTPS.
You are not locked into Klystrr's infrastructure long-term. Start free, then own your server when you're ready — with no workflow change and no dashboard migration. You pay for a VPS and use Klystrr to make deploying to it faster and more reliable.
Key features
Your application runs on your own server. You control the server, the OS, the firewall, the environment. If you stop using Klystrr tomorrow, your application keeps running. Klystrr is a deployment tool, not a hosting dependency.
Connect a VPS, link a repository, set three commands — install, build, start — and deploy. The first deployment takes a few minutes to configure. Every subsequent deployment is one click.
Backend APIs, admin dashboards, marketing landing pages, job runners, webhook handlers — deploy each as a separate Klystrr project on the same or different servers. Separate processes, separate SSL, one dashboard.
Your infrastructure cost is your VPS bill — fixed and predictable. A €5/month Hetzner VPS can run several small services. You are not paying per-deployment or per-seat beyond your Klystrr subscription.
Every deployment is logged. Every failure has an output. For an early-stage team without a dedicated DevOps engineer, this visibility is the difference between a one-minute fix and a thirty-minute debugging session.
Start with one project. Deploy your API. When you're ready to add the frontend, add it as a second project. When you add a job runner, add it as a third. Klystrr scales horizontally with your architecture.
How it works
Sign up for Klystrr and get a free starter server immediately — no VPS needed. When you're ready to bring your own, add it from any provider and install Node.js, PM2, Nginx, and Certbot.
Add the server's IP address and your SSH private key. Klystrr verifies the connection.
Your NestJS API is one project. Your React dashboard is another. Your Next.js marketing site is a third. Each links to its own repository and branch.
Each project has its own install, build, and start commands. A Node.js API might run npm install, npm run build, and node dist/main.js. A static frontend might run npm install, npm run build, and serve via Nginx directly.
Add secrets, database URLs, and configuration flags in the Klystrr dashboard. No .env files to manage on the server.
Click Deploy. Klystrr runs the sequence, starts the process, configures Nginx, issues SSL. Your service is live at project.klystrr.app — or your own domain if you configure DNS.
Push code, click Deploy, watch the log. When a deployment fails, read the log, fix the issue, and redeploy. No SSH required for normal operations.
Real scenarios
You and your co-founder have been building for three months. The code works locally. Saturday morning: create a Klystrr account, link your GitHub repository, and deploy to your free starter server. API and frontend, both live over HTTPS — no VPS required. Saturday afternoon, you launch.
Early on, a separate staging environment feels like a luxury. With Klystrr, it is just another project — same server, same configuration, different branch. staging.yourapp.com gets auto-deployed from main, yourapp.com gets deployed manually when you decide to push to production.
You need a live, shareable URL of a specific feature branch. Create a Klystrr project pointing to that branch, deploy it, and share demo-branch.klystrr.app. No DNS setup, no server configuration — just a URL that works over HTTPS.
You are building alone. You cannot afford the time to become an Nginx expert. Klystrr handles the reverse proxy and SSL configuration so you can focus on the product. If something breaks, the deployment log tells you what broke.
Your architecture has a REST API, a worker service, and a simple admin panel. Instead of three separate managed hosting plans, you run all three on a single VPS and manage them as three Klystrr projects. Total infrastructure cost: the VPS bill.
Stop treating deployment as a project that blocks the real project. Set it up once, deploy on every push, and spend your time on what actually moves the startup forward.
Start for free — connect your first server in minutesNo platform lock-in. No per-request pricing. Your server, your code, your control.
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