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One-click apps for your VPS

Pick an app when you order and it installs on the server's first boot, from the project's official repository.

Containers2

Docker

Docker Engine and the Compose plugin from Docker's own repository.

Coolify

Your own Heroku-style platform: deploy apps and databases from Git with a web UI.

Web servers and sites5

nginx + Certbot

nginx with Certbot ready to fetch a free Let's Encrypt certificate.

Caddy

The web server with automatic HTTPS, from Caddy's official repository.

LEMP stack

nginx, MariaDB and PHP-FPM, wired together for PHP apps.

WordPress

WordPress on nginx, PHP-FPM and MariaDB, ready for its five-minute install.

Ghost

Ghost 6 for blogs, newsletters and memberships, with Ghost's own Docker setup and HTTPS.

Databases3

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL from the distribution, listening on localhost only.

MariaDB

MariaDB server, localhost only, root by socket login.

Redis

Redis or its fork Valkey, whichever your distribution packages, on localhost.

Developer tools4

Node.js LTS

Node.js from NodeSource's LTS line with npm, plus pm2 to keep your app running.

n8n

Workflow automation you host yourself, in Docker.

OpenClaw

Your own always-on AI assistant, installed for its own user with its gateway kept private.

Forgejo

A self-hosted Git forge with issues and pull requests, on the long-term-support line.

VPN and networking3

WireGuard VPN

A personal VPN: WireGuard configured with one ready-made client profile.

Tailscale

Tailscale installed, ready to join your tailnet with one command.

AdGuard Home

Ad and tracker blocking DNS for your devices, never an open resolver.

Monitoring1

Uptime Kuma

A self-hosted status page and uptime monitor, running in Docker.

Game servers1

Minecraft (Paper)

A Minecraft Java server on Paper, run by systemd, EULA prompt left to you.

Files, docs and passwords3

Vaultwarden

A Bitwarden-compatible password server, private until you claim it over SSH.

Nextcloud

Nextcloud All-in-One: files, calendars and contacts, set up privately through a tunnel.

BookStack

BookStack: a simple wiki for documentation, on nginx, PHP and MariaDB.

Photos and media2

Jellyfin

Your own media server for films, shows and music, with the admin account made for you.

Immich

Immich: photo and video backup like Google Photos, on your own server.

Web analytics2

Plausible Analytics

Plausible Community Edition: cookie-free web analytics on your own server.

Umami

Umami: simple, cookie-free website analytics with PostgreSQL, on your server.

Chat1

Matrix Synapse

Your own Matrix homeserver for encrypted chat, from matrix.org's packages with PostgreSQL.

AI models1

Ollama + Open WebUI

Run open AI models on your own server with Ollama, and chat with them in Open WebUI.

What one-click covers

We install the app and its dependencies, start it at boot, keep databases on localhost, and keep admin pages that the first visitor would claim off the public internet: n8n and Uptime Kuma listen on localhost until you claim them over an SSH tunnel, OpenClaw's gateway stays on localhost behind a token, and the WordPress installer asks for a login only root can read. Coolify's dashboard ports are blocked from outside the server until you open them, so you claim it over an SSH tunnel too.

What stays with you

The app's own setup (an admin account, a domain, HTTPS, the Minecraft EULA, signing in to Tailscale), then its updates and backups. The software is self-managed: we look after the hardware and network, not the app. Progress is in /var/log/vps9-setup.log. How one-click apps work

Three ways to pick an app

Choose it in the order form, or pass its id to the API or the rack4 tool. Reinstalling a server can add a different one. How one-click apps work

  1. In the panel

    The order form lists the apps that run on your distribution and size. Pick one, or none, then pay.

  2. With the rack4 tool

    Add --app with the app's id to rack4 servers create, plus --package for anything extra.

  3. Through the API

    Send "app" in the create request. The API quickstart has the full request.

$ rack4
$ rack4 servers create --plan standard --image ubuntu-24.04 --hostname web-1 --key key_8f2c --app docker --package htop
POST /api/v1/servers
{
  "plan": "standard",
  "image": "ubuntu-24.04",
  "hostname": "web-1",
  "app": "docker"
}

Not on the list?

Name up to 20 packages from your distribution's repositories, and paste a first-boot script of up to 16 KiB that runs once as root after them. Writing a setup script

Any distribution, your call

Apps install on the distributions their projects support. Arch Linux comes clean, for people who like to build it themselves. See all six Linux distributions

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