Envirobly – Efficient App Hosting
This is my, fully bootstrapped, take on an application hosting platform. I designed it primarily for myself, to meet the following goals: * Utilize the best parts of the cloud, leave expensive value added services behind. * Host anywhere in the world, close to your users. * Batteries included: backups, logging, monitoring, auto-scaling, containerization, databases. * Simple and user friendly. The journey was tough. It took me round about 3 years to get everything just right. This goes against the conventional wisdom of getting something simple out quick. With a hosting platform however, in…
Envirobly – Efficient App Hosting launched on October 6, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
We’re rebuilding from the ground up as an open-source platform focused on bare-metal and VPS deployments—with real-time replication and instant migration across infrastructure. Read about the story so far and follow the progress on GitHub and Xfrom envirobly.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
This is my, fully bootstrapped, take on an application hosting platform. I designed it primarily for myself, to meet the following goals: * Utilize the best parts of the cloud, leave expensive value added services behind. * Host anywhere in the world, close to your users. * Batteries included: backups, logging…
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