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Hatchbox

Rails hosting on servers you own

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Hatchbox is a deployment platform that manages servers you own. It installs and configures Ruby, Caddy, PostgreSQL, Redis, and other services, and handles deploys, environment variables, cron jobs, and SSL. You pay a flat $15/month per server, plus the cost of the server from your cloud provider. It supports Rails, Hanami, Bridgetown, Hugo, Jekyll, Middleman, Astro, and other frameworks.

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