Budget Self-Hosted Stack
I run five side projects on one DigitalOcean Droplet for $24 a month. This stack handles 80k monthly visitors combined and has taught me more about infrastructure than years of managed platforms ever did.
Public stack
Internal dashboards and operational tools go faster when the admin UI comes almost for free. This stack is for teams that need custom workflows without building a backoffice platform from scratch.
Workflow stack
Admin backbone
Schema-driven content and admin tooling arrive fast, which removes months of boring internal CRUD work.
Open tool profileOperational data
Keeps operational data in a mature relational model that can be queried outside the app when needed.
Open tool profilePortable runtime
Local environments and deployments stay reproducible across engineers and background services.
Open tool profileHosted runtime
Web apps and worker processes are easy to run without managing Kubernetes for internal tools.
Open tool profileIssue visibility
Internal tools still break, and fast error visibility matters when operations depend on them.
Open tool profilePersonal $0: Desktop, Engine, Hub (100 pulls/hr logged in), 1 private repo, 1 Scout-enabled repo; Pro ~$9/mo yearly (~$11 monthly) with unlimited Hub pulls; Team ~$15/mo yearly (~$16 mo); Business ~$24/user/mo with SSO and registry policies (docker.com/pricing).
Unified PaaS: web services, static sites, background workers, cron, managed Postgres and Redis-compatible Key Value—workspace plans plus per-second compute for services and databases.
Error monitoring, performance tracing, logs, session replay, profiling, and uptime products for developers—SDKs across major languages and frameworks with issue workflow at the center.
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