HatchBox
Cost-effective hosting for Rails, Ruby, and Node.js apps on your own infrastructure
About HatchBox
HatchBox simplifies deploying Rails, Ruby, and Node.js applications to your own servers while keeping costs low. With features like unlimited apps per server, zero-downtime deployments, and real human support, it's a reliable alternative to traditional PaaS platforms. Trusted by thousands of developers for fast, stable, and budget-friendly hosting.
Pricing
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Standard
$10 per month
Perfect for small & medium sized businesses.
- Unlimited Apps
- Unlimited Team Members
- Zero downtime deployments
- Hosted Hatchbox domains
- Custom domains & SSL
- Real, human support
- 14 day free trial
FAQ
Hatchbox charges a flat $10 per month for each server managed, regardless of the server size. External services like databases or load balancers do not incur additional costs.
Hatchbox avoids per-application pricing and instead charges a flat fee per server, allowing you to deploy unlimited applications on each server. This approach significantly reduces costs compared to platforms like Heroku.
Hatchbox provides real, human support with deep expertise in Linux, hosting, and software development. Support staff can assist with debugging configuration issues and offer thorough answers to your questions.
Since applications run on your own servers, they have minimal reliance on Hatchbox day-to-day. Even if Hatchbox experiences an outage, your running applications would not be affected, ensuring high reliability.
Yes, Hatchbox is designed to deploy applications to your own servers on platforms like Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS, etc. You retain full SSH access and control over your infrastructure.
Hatchbox supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and other databases. You can run them locally for free or connect managed databases using environment variables.
Yes, Hatchbox provides SSL via Caddy with automatic redirects to SSL, even for static sites. You can also issue SSL certificates for custom domains with On-Demand TLS.
Hatchbox was founded in 2016 and has since deployed over 24,000 applications more than 2 million times, demonstrating its reliability and longevity.
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