StackPilot App is a desktop app that provisions VPS servers and ships your code over SSH - direct from your machine to your box. No middleman cloud holding your keys. One payment. Yours forever.
Open StackPilot App on macOS, point it at any Ubuntu or Debian VPS, and it provisions and deploys over a normal SSH connection. No Forge-style proxy server. No "we lost SSH access" status pages.
netstat · no outbound to our infraA lifetime licence - Solo, Team, or Studio - covering every server and site you can throw at it. The version you buy is yours to use, indefinitely. Two years of security updates included.
SSH keys, root passwords, .env values, database creds - they live in your OS keychain and on your disk. We don't have a database that could be breached because we don't have a database for any of that.
Forge and Ploi route every command through their own infrastructure. StackPilot App doesn't - there's no infrastructure to route through. The path is short, auditable, and yours.
Same SSH key you already trust. The desktop app scripts the boring parts - git pull, build, symlink flip, health check - and streams each step into the app window as it happens. No CLI to learn.
current symlink, restarts services, then probes for 200 OK.▸ Deploying app.acme.io ✓ git pull commit a1f3e2b ✓ composer install 38 packages, no audit warnings ✓ npm run build 1.2 mb gzip ✓ php artisan migrate 0 new ✓ symlink flip live in 1.4s ✓ health check 200 OK · 142ms ↳ release-2026-05-22-1138 promoted Done in 4.2s - previous release archived on the server
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AdonisJSStop writing the same deployment scripts over and over. Standardise the boring parts; keep the interesting decisions human.
Installs the full LEMP stack (or your custom mix) on a fresh VPS in one pass - Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, Redis, certbot.
Atomic symlink flips with health checks. If the new release fails its health probe, the symlink never flips - the old release stays live, untouched.
Your SSH keys stay on your laptop, encrypted in the OS keychain. We have no backend that could touch your servers.
Every provisioning step is a shell script you can read, copy, and run by hand. No magic boxes - just opinions, version-pinned.
DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS Lightsail, Vultr, GitLab-hosted, your own metal. If it speaks SSH and runs Ubuntu/Debian, you're in.
A perpetual licence with lifetime updates on your major version. If our business fails, your installer keeps working - no DRM, no call-home.
One real partner beats a wall of vanity logos. If we add another, it's because we actually trust them with our customers.
Six questions that come up every week - answered straight, no marketing dressing.
One-time payment. Lifetime updates on your major version. Your laptop is the control plane - and the only place your keys ever live.
