Your cloud infrastructure.
Fast. Scalable. Reliable.

Stackhero is a PaaS offering cloud managed services, ready for production use in just 2 minutes, such as PostgreSQL, Graylog, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Docker and many more.

Stackhero is a 🇪🇺 European company, GDPR compliant, with servers in 🇪🇺 Europe and 🇺🇸 USA according to your preferences.
growth

Business-oriented

Launch your services in just 2 minutes and be ready to move into production instantly.
Focus on your core business, not on your infrastructure.
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Global solutions

Our catalogue contains dozens of services, and we add new ones each month.
You will no longer have to juggle between different cloud providers and technical solutions.
money

Predictable pricing

Our pricing is straightforward and transparent, with no surprises at the end of the month.
You finally regain full control of your budget.
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Highly scalable

Begin with a modest infrastructure and scale it as your business grows.
Expand according to your needs, when you require it.
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Highly performant

We optimise the hardware and fine-tune the software to deliver a high-performance solution.
You will be impressed by the speed and reliability of your applications.
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Stay free

We utilise open source solutions so you're not confined to proprietary, restrictive ones.
You and your data are free to move when you wish, wherever you wish.
And also...

Hourly billing

Create and delete services whenever you wish. You will be billed hourly and receive a single monthly invoice containing all the details.

Secure backups

Your data is automatically backed up every 24 hours to a secure vault, where it is certified and retained for up to 3 months.

Updates in a click

Updates are provided by Stackhero whenever necessary.
Stay up-to-date and access new features with just a click.
Start services in 2 minutes.
Use them in production instantly.
Our managed services
ChatWoot

ChatWoot

Customer engagement platform offering a robust alternative to Intercom and Zendesk.
Live chat, shared inbox, email, WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Telegram, all accessible from a single interface.
ClickHouse

ClickHouse

The fastest open source database for real-time analytics.
Run SQL queries over billions of rows in milliseconds, with no per-query charges.
Code-Hero

Code-Hero

Ready-to-use development platform, based on a VSCode fork, accessible from anywhere, directly in your browser.
Directus

Directus

Headless CMS to create an API and a back office in a few minutes.
Docker

Docker

Deploy your Docker containers in the simplest and quickest way available on the market.
Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch

Full-text search engine.
Can store petabytes of documents with incredible performance.
GitLab

GitLab

The most feature-rich open-source collaborative development tool.
Includes support for GIT repositories, issue tracking, wikis, CI/CD pipeline tools, and much more.
GitLab Runner

GitLab Runner

Run your GitLab CI/CD pipelines on your own dedicated runner.
Unlimited build minutes and dozens of concurrent jobs in isolated Docker containers.
Grafana

Grafana

Create stunning dashboards and graphics based on your databases.
Connect Grafana with a single click to your InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite, or Elasticsearch.
Graylog

Graylog

Gather your logs in a central location.
Aggregate, analyse, visualise, and trigger alerts in just a few clicks.
InfluxDB

InfluxDB

Store your IoT and systems metrics and harness the full power of an advanced time series database.
Ideal for managing millions of points per second.
Kafka

Kafka

Distributed event-streaming platform for real-time data pipelines and messaging.
Ensures high throughput, fault tolerance, and scalability for data-intensive systems.
Keycloak

Keycloak

Open source identity and access management (IAM) for your applications.
Add login, single sign-on, and fine-grained authorisation with OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML.
Kubernetes Control Plane

Kubernetes Control Plane

Centralised management and coordination component of Kubernetes that monitors the cluster's state, schedules workloads, and manages API interactions.
Kubernetes Node

Kubernetes Node

An individual worker node in a Kubernetes cluster, responsible for running containerised applications.
MariaDB

MariaDB

The SQL database, derived from a fork of MySQL, is managed by the open source community.
Matomo

Matomo

Ethical and powerful web analytics platform.
Mattermost

Mattermost

The largest open source collaboration tool for your teams.
It's an ideal alternative to Slack.
Meilisearch

Meilisearch

Open-source alternative to Algolia for ultra-fast full-text search.
Provides instant, typo-tolerant results through a simple and developer-friendly API.
Memcached

Memcached

High-performance memory caching system that remains simple and reliable, ideal for temporary data storage.
Mercure-Hub

Mercure-Hub

Push data updates from your back-end to your users' browsers in real-time.
MinIO

MinIO

Private object storage, compatible with the Amazon S3 protocol.
Store photos, videos, log files, and backups ranging from a few kilobytes to terabytes.
Mosquitto

Mosquitto

MQTT server, ideal for communication between IoT devices.
Manages user authentication and encrypts communication (TLS), perfect for industrial-grade applications.
MySQL

MySQL

The most popular SQL database, ready to use with the phpMyAdmin web interface.
Nextcloud

Nextcloud

Collaborative suite for your files, contacts, calendars, and much more.
Access your data from all your devices and share it with your teams.
NocoDB

NocoDB

Open-source alternative to Airtable for creating no-code applications and managing data.
Offers a spreadsheet-like interface on top of new or existing SQL databases.
Node-RED

Node-RED

Node-RED is the ideal companion for IoT projects.
Create incredible algorithms and dashboards with its flow-based web interface.
Node.js

Node.js

Deploy your Node.js applications to production in seconds with a simple git push.
OpenSearch

OpenSearch

Open source fork of Elasticsearch. Full-text search engine.
Can store petabytes of documents with incredible performance.
PHP

PHP

Deploy your PHP applications to production in seconds with a simple git push.
Postfix

Postfix

SMTP server for sending unlimited transactional emails.
Including SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configurations for optimal deliverability.
PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL

Probably the world's most advanced SQL database!
Equipped with numerous plugins such as PostGIS, enabling spatial and geographic queries.
Prometheus

Prometheus

Retrieve metrics and trigger alerts from Linux and Windows servers, routers, WiFi access points, and much more.
Python

Python

Deploy your Python applications to production in seconds with a simple git push.
RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ

The most widely deployed message broker.
Including AMQP, MQTT, and STOMP protocols.
Redis®*

Redis®*

In-memory data system with exceptional performance.
Typically used as a database, cache system, and message broker.
RethinkDB

RethinkDB

The NoSQL database optimised for the real-time web.
Scalable, distributed, and robust.
Ruby

Ruby

Deploy your Ruby applications to production in seconds with a simple git push.
TimescaleDB

TimescaleDB

Time-series database built on PostgreSQL.
Optimised for managing large volumes of time-stamped data with high ingestion rates and efficient queries.
Valkey

Valkey

In-memory data system with exceptional performance (open source fork of Redis®*).
Typically used as a database, cache system, and message broker.
Wazuh

Wazuh

A unified security platform combining XDR and SIEM.
Detect threats, monitor file integrity, and demonstrate compliance from a single dashboard.

FAQ

Managing your service

Is it possible to connect to the instance using SSH?

No, and that is exactly the value Stackhero offers. There is no server for you to manage: Stackhero takes care of the operating system, security patches, service configuration, TLS certificates, firewall, monitoring, and daily atomic backups.
Everything you would normally do via SSH is available as a supervised action in your dashboard, with a single click: change the configuration, upgrade to a new version, resize the instance, open or close a port, or restore a backup.
You retain full access to the service itself, its admin console, its APIs, and your data. Nothing belonging to your application is out of your reach.
This also reduces your attack surface: there is no SSH key to rotate, leak, or be brute-forced.
If the dashboard does not provide an option you need, please let us know. Extending the configuration page is how the platform evolves.

Do I need a sysadmin or a DevOps team to use this service?

No. That is precisely the purpose of Stackhero: you benefit from a production-ready service without needing to hire anyone to operate it. No provisioning, no operating system to update, no backup scripts to write or test, no monitoring stack to set up, no on-call rota to manage.
Your team can focus on what makes your product unique, and all the infrastructure work that used to take weeks simply disappears.

Is it possible to restrict access based on IPs using a firewall?

Absolutely! Your instance has its own firewall where you can decide which IPs have access to which port in two clicks.

Support, guarantees, and billing

Is support included, and what happens if my service experiences downtime at night?

Premium support is included with every plan at no additional cost. There are no support tiers to purchase and no priority support fees. Support is available via email and online chat during office hours, from 9am to 6pm Central European Time. Typically, you will receive a first response within the hour.

Outside these hours, your services continue to be monitored. Stackhero provides 24/7 monitoring. If downtime is detected, automated remediation is triggered immediately, and an on-call engineer is alerted if the issue is not resolved. You do not need to be the first to notice an incident. You also do not need to manage your own on-call rota.

What is included in the price?

Everything is included. The price displayed on the pricing page is the total amount you pay: the service itself, the dedicated and isolated infrastructure it runs on, unlimited and unmetered network traffic, daily atomic backups and their storage, free and unlimited backup restorations, updates and version upgrades, TLS certificates, your custom domain, the firewall, monitoring, and premium support.
There are no setup fees, no per-user or per-seat charges, no support add-ons, no traffic costs, and no fees for restoring a backup.

How does billing work?

At the start of each month, our system calculates how many hours your services were running and generates a detailed invoice.
You receive a single monthly invoice covering all your services, presented clearly and easy to understand. Your accounts department will appreciate that!
There is no commitment: you can stop billing for a service with a single click, and you are only charged for the hours it was active.

Data and backups

Where is the data hosted?

Stackhero is a French company operating under European and French laws.
Servers are located, depending on your choice, either in the European Union (France) or in the USA.
Backups are stored in the European Union.

How long are my backups retained, and is there a charge to restore one?

Your data is backed up automatically at least once per day for every service and every plan. Additional backups are also taken automatically during sensitive operations such as updates or upgrades.
Retention: one backup per day is kept for 7 days, one per week for 1 month, and one per month for 3 months.
Each backup is stored in a vault located at least 200 km from the datacentre hosting your service, so a physical incident cannot affect both sites at once.
You can restore backups at any time, as often as needed, with a single click. There are no restoration fees or limits on the number of restores.

What is the atomic backup system?

The issue with traditional backup systems is that files are saved at different time intervals.
Let's say you have 2 files, a.txt and b.txt. Your backup starts at 9am and finishes at 10am.
The file a.txt will contain data from 9am and b.txt will contain data from 10am.
This is typical in backup systems and presents a significant problem leading to consistency issues.

This is why we developed an in-house backup system that captures an atomic image of your instance at a precise moment.
Atomic in the sense that we can guarantee all files from the backup are taken exactly at the same time.
If your backup starts at 9am, all files will have data from 9am. You have a perfectly consistent and reliable backup.

Are the backups encrypted?

Backups are initially sent to a dedicated server, which verifies and validates the data. Once these checks are approved, the backups are encrypted and archived.
Encryption employs ECDH and Curve25519 as part of the OpenPGP protocol, with a unique key generated for each backup.

Infrastructure and performance

What is the software infrastructure?

Your service consists of several subservices, each running in containers within an environment dedicated exclusively to you.
This environment is private and isolated from other customers, ensuring a high level of security and optimal performance.
Everything is hosted on a bare-metal server running Stackhero DC OS, our own Linux distribution, with disks physically connected to your instance to provide maximum IOPS.

This isolation is achieved through a dedicated virtual machine for each customer, rather than shared containers on a multi-tenant host.

What about disk performance?

We use disks that are physically connected to your instances.
We do not use network disks, unlike traditional cloud solutions, which are slow and costly.
This way, we ensure optimal performance and exceptional IOPS.

Which cloud providers are used by Stackhero?

We developed our own cloud software solution, making us entirely independent from cloud providers. We deploy this innovative solution directly on bare-metal servers, offering you exceptional performance and stability.

Stackhero

How long has Stackhero been operating, and who is behind it?

Stackhero is a French company established in 2009. The platform itself was launched in 2018, following two years of development, and has been running production workloads ever since.
The company is profitable and independent, with no external investors and no planned exit. This stability is important when choosing a provider to host a service that is not easily moved. Stackhero is designed to be here in ten years' time.

Is Stackhero a sovereign cloud provider?

As soon as you choose the European region for your service, yes, and in the fullest sense: Stackhero is a European company, subject to European law, with software infrastructure designed and managed in-house, in datacentres located in Europe.
It is not simply a management layer on top of a hyperscaler. No part of your service depends on a non-European provider.

Is Stackhero intended for small businesses or large enterprises?

Both benefit from the same platform. A startup can launch its first service in production within two minutes on the smallest plan, then scale up to dozens of vCPUs as the product grows, without changing provider or migrating anything.
Larger organisations have access to the features they need (included for all companies on all plans): ISO 27001 certification, a GDPR-compliant Data Processing Agreement, a contractual 99.9% SLA, dedicated and isolated infrastructure, and a single monthly invoice that is straightforward for accounts to process.
In all cases, you simply need to adjust the size of the instance.

What certifications does Stackhero hold?

The primary mission of Stackhero is to provide a platform that is easy to use, extremely reliable, and highly secure.
A key element in achieving this mission is the annual attainment of the ISO 27001 certification, a globally recognised quality and security label.
This certification, awarded following a rigorous audit conducted by an independent external body, attests to compliance with the strictest international standards in information security.