ZYZ.dev is a fully-managed deployment platform on your own private server. Push to deploy, automatic HTTPS, one-click databases — the deploy experience of Netlify or Heroku, minus the meter, the seat tax, and the surprise invoice.
Founding customers lock launch pricing for life · 30-day money-back guarantee
→ Connected repo github.com/you/your-app → Detected framework: React + Vite → Building… done in 74s → Certificate issued for your-app.yourdomain.com ✓ Live at https://your-app.yourdomain.com
On rented platforms, your bill grows with your traffic, your team, and your ambition — not with your revenue. And you rarely see it coming.
A static site on Netlify once ran up a $104,500 bill during a traffic spike. A Vercel project woke to a $23,000 invoice after a DDoS — traffic you didn't send, billed to you. "My $20 plan became $1,100." The meter never sleeps, and there's often no spend cap by default.
Every teammate is another $20/mo on Vercel. Every app, worker, cron and add-on is another line item on Heroku. You end up paying for the right to add the next thing — before it earns you a cent.
Managed hosts like Cloudways and GridPane mark up the same box you're already renting. Stack a dozen client sites and the markup alone can top $400/mo — margin that should be yours, handed to a middleman.
Same push-to-deploy. One flat price. Your server.
The convenience of a managed cloud, the economics of your own server. Here's how the bill actually shakes out.
| ZYZ.dev | Vercel | Netlify | Heroku | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billing model | Flat monthly — one price | Per-seat + metered usage | Flat tier + credit-metered usage | Per-dyno + per-add-on |
| 8 apps + 2 DBs + 3 teammates | $59 flat | ≈$60+ in seats, plus usage | ≈$20–60 + credit burn | ≈$66–90 |
| Per-seat fees | None — unlimited | $20 / seat / mo | None on Pro | None |
| Per-app / per-service fees | None — unlimited apps & DBs | Metered by usage | Metered by usage | Yes — every dyno & add-on stacks |
| Surprise-bill risk | None — the bill is the price | High — bills bot/DDoS traffic, no default cap | High — a static site once hit $104K | Medium — predictable, but costs stack |
| Who owns the server | You — dedicated to you alone | Them — shared multi-tenant | Them — shared multi-tenant | Them — shared multi-tenant |
| Your data if you leave | Yours — standard Docker/Postgres, export anytime | Migrate off their platform | Migrate off their platform | Migrate off their platform |
List prices, steady traffic, mid-2026. Vercel and Netlify aren't built to host eight always-on backends with databases, so their real cost for this shape typically runs higher than shown. Surprise-bill figures are documented public incidents. Where they genuinely win — global edge latency, serverless burst, multi-region DDoS absorption — we don't pretend to match; our ground is predictable cost and ownership for steady small-to-mid workloads.
We provision your private platform automatically — your own dashboard live at your-name.zyz.dev in about five minutes. No Docker, no SSL, no Linux to touch.
Point it at a Git repository and hit deploy, or launch n8n, WordPress, Postgres and 200+ others in a click — which means you ship in an afternoon, not over a weekend of setup.
Add apps, databases, custom domains and teammates. One flat price covers all of it, so the 9th app and the 3rd database cost you exactly nothing.
Connect GitHub and every push builds and ships itself — Next.js, React, Python, PHP, Go, Rust, or anything with a Dockerfile — which means you ship a fix in the time it takes to git push.
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and more in seconds, with scheduled backups to S3-compatible storage — which means your data stays safe without you writing a single cron job.
WordPress, n8n, Ghost, Supabase and a full catalog, launched like an app store — which means you stand up a client's CMS or your own automation stack the same afternoon.
Point a domain at your server and certificates issue and renew themselves — which means every app and every preview is encrypted without you ever touching certbot.
Dedicated infrastructure provisioned for you alone — no noisy neighbours, no lock-in on your data — which means you can hand a client a real ownership guarantee and mean it.
Add worker servers with a click and deploy across them from one dashboard — which means a breakout client or a heavy pipeline scales up without a re-platforming project.
and climbing. Per app, per seat, per gigabyte, per surprise. Add another app or teammate and the number moves again — usually up, sometimes without warning.
and frozen. The 9th app, the 3rd database, the 4th teammate: $0. The bill is the price. That's it.
I kept watching hosting bills grow faster than the products they were paying for. A handful of small apps, a couple of databases, a few teammates — and suddenly the platform cost more than everything it hosted, on a meter I couldn't see and a bill I couldn't predict.
So I built the thing I wanted: the push-to-deploy experience of Vercel or Heroku, running on a private server that belongs to you, for one flat price. It's built on a proven open-source deployment engine trusted by tens of thousands of self-hosters, so the foundation is already battle-tested — I've made it fully managed, so you never have to touch Docker, SSL or Linux.
I'm onboarding every founding customer personally. Join now and you lock your launch price for life, get my direct help getting set up, and skip the queue when plans open. And if it turns out not to be for you, there's a 30-day money-back guarantee — so there's no risk in finding out.
— Ernesto, founder
Every plan is a complete private platform with all features included — plans differ only in server power. Join the founding cohort to lock these prices for life.
Extra worker servers from $25/mo · Annual billing: 2 months free · 30-day money-back guarantee
Those platforms run your apps on their shared infrastructure and bill per app, per seat, or per usage — which is how a handful of small projects quietly becomes a $200+ monthly bill. ZYZ.dev gives you the same push-to-deploy experience on a private server provisioned just for you, at one flat price no matter how many apps, databases, or teammates you add.
No. We provision the server, install the platform, keep it updated, and handle certificates and networking for you. You get a clean dashboard: connect a repo, click deploy. If you've been stalled on Docker, SSL or Linux to self-host n8n or Supabase, this is the part we remove.
Almost anything: Node/Next.js, React, Python, PHP/Laravel, Go, Rust, Ruby, static sites, anything with a Dockerfile — plus one-click databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and more) and a catalog of 200+ self-hosted apps like WordPress, n8n, Ghost and Supabase.
Upgrade to a bigger plan, or attach additional worker servers from $25/mo and spread your apps across them — all from the same dashboard. A breakout client or a heavy pipeline scales up without a migration.
Yes. Point any domain or subdomain at your server, enter it in the app's settings, and HTTPS certificates are issued and renewed automatically.
Honest answer: a single server is a single failure domain, and we don't pretend otherwise. What we do give you is managed monitoring, automated backups to S3-compatible storage, and fast recovery — plus the ability to isolate a premium client on their own box, so you control the blast radius. If you need always-on redundancy, add worker servers. We won't sell you enterprise HA we don't provide.
Yes. Your apps and data live on standard, portable technology — Docker containers and Postgres/MySQL databases — that you can export whenever you want. There's no proprietary format holding you hostage. Cancel anytime, and the 30-day money-back guarantee means your first month is risk-free.
It's your server — your apps, databases and files live on infrastructure provisioned for you, never blended into a multi-tenant cloud. Export it in standard formats anytime; there's no lock-in on the way out.
Lock launch pricing for life, get onboarded by the founder directly, and be first in when plans open.
No credit card. Just your email — we'll reach out when your platform is ready to provision.