Cloud that respects developers — human and AI.
Full Linux containers, managed services, a dedicated
private network — from remote / agent environments
to highly-available prod, nothing changes but scale.

Is Zerops for you? What is your tech stack?

Curated examples, starter kits, and production-ready open source. Each recipe covers the full lifecycle from local dev through staging to production, with guides on seeding, migrations, backups, and scaling.

Your favorite language / framework not covered by our recipes? Deploy the Showcase recipe, or join Zerops Discord and we'll help you out.

"Hello World" Examples Bun Python

Zerops showcase

Production-ready image processing pipeline showcasing distributed architecture on Zerops — a Bun + React frontend with real-time WebSocket updates and live architecture visualization, a Python worker for async image processing via NATS, backed by PostgreSQL, Valkey, and S3-compatible object storage.

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app:3000

Bun

1 Shared Core

0.5 GB RAM

1 GB Disc

worker

Python

1 Shared Core

0.5 GB RAM

1 GB Disc

db:5432, :6432

PostgreSQL

1 Shared Core

0.25 GB RAM

1 GB Disc

redis:6379, :6380

Valkey

1 Shared Core

0.125 GB RAM

1 GB Disc

queue:4222, :8222

NATS

1 Shared Core

0.25 GB RAM

1 GB Disc

storage

Object storage

External 5GB Disc

7 Shared Cores

2.625GB RAM

7GB Disk (SSD)

5GB Object storage

$12.83 per month

Vertical and horizontal autoscaling with granular steps. Lowest price per resource amongst popular PaaS platforms. Up to $65 free credit, no CC needed. No feature tiers, no fees for seats, minute-based pricing.

ProjectPrivate VXLAN network

Dedicated
infrastructure
core with routing
and balancing

Project ctrl & L3/L7 balancer + firewall + stats + logger

Dedicated infrastructure core

Project ctrl & L3 balancer + firewall

Stats

Logger

Dedicated routing and balancing

L7 HTTP balancer

Your services
with system containers

db:5432

worker

app:3000

redis:6379

queue:4222

Container resources

Shared CPUper 1 core

$0.60

1 – 8 core

Dedicated CPUper 1 core

$6.00

1 – 8 core

RAMper 1 GB

$3.00

0.125 – 48 GB

Diskper 1 GB

$0.10

1 – 250 GB

Up to 50 containers for runtime services. HA / non-HA modes for managed services.

Standard tools. Full access. No magic. SSH, YAML, cron, apt-get, hostname:port — everything works the way you already know. Managed and scalable, but never abstracted beyond recognition.

Container efficiency.
VM-level access.

Other platforms give you a process.
Zerops gives you a machine.

Application containers run a process in a minimal filesystem — fast and efficient, but no SSH, no runtime package management, and multiple processes means fighting the single-process model. Full VMs give you everything but add kernel overhead, slow startup, and operational burden. System containers share the host kernel — container-fast startup, container-level density — but run a full Linux userspace. The access of a dedicated server. The efficiency of containers.

App Containers

Fast startup

High density

Install packages

Multiple processes

SSH access

Zerops

System ContainersPowered by Incus

Fast startup

High density

Install packages

Multiple processes

SSH access

zerops.yaml

Install any system package

prepareCommands:

- sudo apt-get i -y ffmpeg

Run multiple processes

startCommands:

- name: api

command: npm start

- name: worker

command: npm run worker

Schedule recurring tasks

crontab:

- command: rm -rf /tmp/*

timing: 0 0 * * *

Full VMs

Fast startup

High density

Install packages

Multiple processes

SSH access

Same services. Same networking.
Same pipeline. Different scale.

Your dev environment is lying to you.

SQLite locally, Postgres in production. No cache in dev, Redis in prod. Docker Compose approximations that don't fail the way real services do. Code works here, breaks there — not because the logic is wrong, but because the infrastructure is different. AI coding agents make this worse: they write against whatever they can access. Give an agent SQLite, it produces queries that break on Postgres.

Each Zerops project is a complete environment — managed services, private networking, deploy pipeline, observability. Dev, staging, production, and preview environments run identical infrastructure. Resources are the only variable.

Databases, caches, queues, storage —
managed means managed.

Zerops handles backups, failover, and recovery.
Not just installation.

PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Valkey, KeyDB, Elasticsearch, Meilisearch, Typesense, Qdrant, ClickHouse, Kafka, NATS, S3-compatible object storage, and shared POSIX storage. All on the project's private network, all reachable by hostname. Zerops runs on its own bare-metal infrastructure — no cloud provider margin underneath.

Zerops management

Health monitoring

Failover

Backup

Scaling

Databases

PostgreSQL

MariaDB

ClickHouse

Elasticsearch

Meilisearch

Typesense

Queue

Kafka

NATS

Cache

Valkey

KeyDB

Vector

Qdrant

Storage

S3-compatible objectShared POSIX

zerops.yml

One YAML. Zero-downtime deploys.
10-version rollback.

Push code. Zerops builds, deploys, and swaps containers
without dropping requests.

zerops.yaml defines build, deploy, and runtime. Push via GitHub, GitLab, zcli push, or GUI. Zerops spins up a temporary build container (up to 5 CPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB disk), runs your commands, deploys artifacts, and swaps containers with zero downtime. Build resources are included in your project core.

Trigger deploy

Push code via GitHub, GitLab, or zcli push

Create build environment

Build container created from build.base

Prepare build imageoptionalcached

build.prepareCommands modify the base image

Build & collect artifacts

build.buildCommands are executed, artifacts from build.deployFiles are saved

Prepare runtime imageoptionalcached

Container from run.base customized via run.prepareCommands

Deploy & verify

New containers go live. Once deploy.readinessCheck passes, old containers swap out — zero downtime

Private by default.
Independent once running.

Every project gets its own network, balancer, and firewall.
Once deployed, it runs without us.

Each project gets a separate VXLAN network with dedicated L3 and L7 load balancers, firewall, and internal DNS. Services find each other by hostname — db:5432, cache:6379, api:3000. Standard hostname resolution, no proprietary SDKs, no service mesh. Connection strings don't change between environments. After deployment, your project operates independently from the Zerops control plane — a control plane issue does not affect running production.

https://my-app.com

ProjectPrivate VXLAN network

Dedicated
infrastructure
core with routing
and balancing

Project ctrl & L3/L7 balancer + firewall + stats + logger

Dedicated infrastructure core

Project ctrl & L3 balancer + firewall

Stats

Logger

Dedicated routing and balancing

L7 HTTP balancer

Your services
with system containers

app:3000

worker

redis:6379

load balancers

db:5432

queue:4222

Object storage External

storage

When something breaks,
you connect and look.

The platform does not stand between you
and your infrastructure.

ProjectPrivate VXLAN network

Your services
with system containers

forwarder:9090

app:3000

worker

db:5432

redis:6379

queue:4222

Dedicated infrastructure core

Stats

Logger

Project ctrl & L3 balancer + firewall

Zerops app

Self-hosted
on Zerops

Metrics stack

prometheus:9090

grafana:3000

ELK stack

logstash:5044

elastic:9200

kibana:5601

Third party

BetterStack

Papertrail

any syslog

Every project includes its own logger and statistics services. Logs are collected via syslog-ng — not files you tail, but a structured pipeline you control. Forward to self-hosted ELK running on Zerops, to Better Stack, to any syslog-compatible target. When something goes wrong, you have the access you'd have on your own machine: VPN into the project network, SSH into the container, inspect process state, trace the problem.

Zerops is a spin-off of vshosting.eu, building on top of 20 years of experience with managed hosting. Development started in 2020 with official launch in 2024. Using bare metal and built every layer from ground up to create the ideal mix of flexibility, developer experience, and scalability.

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August 1, 202515 min read

Quarterly Zerops update — wildcard domains, CDN, external access to DBs, RAM granularity and more

Tackling some long standing issues, flexibility and stability improvements and first steps towards making Zerops global

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April 2, 20255 min read

In 2024 we re-launched and shipped hard, what's in store for 2025?

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January 28, 202513 min read

Cloud that respects developers — human and AI. Full Linux containers, managed services, a dedicated private network — from remote / agent environments to highly-available prod, nothing changes but scale.

Curated examples, starter kits, and production-ready open source. Each recipe covers the full lifecycle from local dev through staging to production, with guides on seeding, migrations, backups, and scaling.

Vertical and horizontal autoscaling with granular steps. Lowest price per resource amongst popular PaaS platforms. Up to $65 free credit, no CC needed. No feature tiers, no fees for seats, minute-based pricing.

Standard tools. Full access. No magic. SSH, YAML, cron, apt-get, hostname:port — everything works the way you already know. Managed and scalable, but never abstracted beyond recognition.

Container efficiency. VM-level access.

Same services. Same networking. Same pipeline. Different scale.

Databases, caches, queues, storage — managed means managed.

One YAML. Zero-downtime deploys. 10-version rollback.

Private by default. Independent once running.

When something breaks, you connect and look.

Zerops is a spin-off of vshosting.eu, building on top of 20 years of experience with managed hosting. Development started in 2020 with official launch in 2024. Using bare metal and built every layer from ground up to create the ideal mix of flexibility, developer experience, and scalability.

What are we up to

The perfect cloud platform for development and production of RAG / AI apps

Quarterly Zerops update — wildcard domains, CDN, external access to DBs, RAM granularity and more

In 2024 we re-launched and shipped hard, what's in store for 2025?

Cloud that respects developers — human and AI.
Full Linux containers, managed services, a dedicated
private network — from remote / agent environments
to highly-available prod, nothing changes but scale.

Container efficiency.
VM-level access.

Same services. Same networking.
Same pipeline. Different scale.

Databases, caches, queues, storage —
managed means managed.

One YAML. Zero-downtime deploys.
10-version rollback.

Private by default.
Independent once running.

When something breaks,
you connect and look.