Hosted Ship: Flat Pricing, No Bill Surprises
Most developers underestimate the true cost of running their own servers. Or they get blindsided by consumption bills that triple overnight. Ship offers a third way: flat-rate hosting with no surprises.
The DIY trap is real
Running your own app on a VPS costs €6 to €40 per month. That part is true. But the bill only counts server time.
Who monitors alerts at 3am when memory maxes out?
Who applies security patches every Tuesday?
Who rebuilds the database when backups corrupt?
Add it up. A hobby project on Hetzner (€40/month server) plus 5 hours per month of your time (at €50/hour) costs €290 per month in actual cost. Most founders don't count their time. They should.
The consumption billing shock
Vercel, Railway, and Render promise "pay for what you use." Until traffic spikes. A product launch, a viral post, a bot hitting your API. Your bill goes from €20 to €200 in 24 hours. You cannot forecast it.
Small teams cannot run on uncertainty. You need to know your hosting cost when you write a budget.
The Honest Cost: DIY vs. Managed
What does hosting actually cost when you count server, backups, SSL, and your time?
Developer time priced at €50/hr (realistic for startup founders). Figures as of Sept 2026.
That is the real cost of ops: your time.
Most DIY hosting breaks even or costs more than managed alternatives once you factor in patches, backups, and incident response. Ship removes that burden.
Why Ship
Hosted Ship removes the operational overhead. Flat pricing makes it predictable. Your team can focus on building, not maintaining servers.
Hosted Ship with Predictable Flat-Rate Pricing
No consumption billing surprises. No overage shocks. €20–40 per month, flat. Budget it like you budget office rent. Traffic spikes, seasonal traffic, viral moments: your bill stays the same.
Zero DevOps work
No patching servers, no rebuilding databases, no rotating keys. Opsily handles monitoring, alerts, backups, SSL renewal, and security updates. Your role: push code. Opsily's role: keep it running.
GDPR by default, EU data residency
Data centers in Frankfurt, Germany. No US transfer, no legal friction for European customers. Compliance happens automatically. Matters for B2B SaaS, regulated industries, and data-sensitive users.
Built for teams who need reliability
Deploy Your App in 3 Minutes
Ship is built for developers who value their time.
Link your GitHub, GitLab, or Gitea repo. Ship auto-detects Node.js, Python, Docker. No Dockerfile required.
Git push triggers a build. Your app runs live in 3 minutes. Environment variables, secrets, databases: all managed via the dashboard.
Let's Encrypt certificates auto-renew. Backups run nightly. Logs and metrics stream live. No configuration needed.
Link your GitHub, GitLab, or Gitea repo. Ship auto-detects Node.js, Python, Docker. No Dockerfile required.
Git push triggers a build. Your app runs live in 3 minutes. Environment variables, secrets, databases: all managed via the dashboard.
Let's Encrypt certificates auto-renew. Backups run nightly. Logs and metrics stream live. No configuration needed.
Connect your Git repository
Link your GitHub, GitLab, or Gitea repo. Ship auto-detects Node.js, Python, Docker. No Dockerfile required.
Push to deploy
Git push triggers a build. Your app runs live in 3 minutes. Environment variables, secrets, databases: all managed via the dashboard.
Get automatic backups, SSL, monitoring
Let's Encrypt certificates auto-renew. Backups run nightly. Logs and metrics stream live. No configuration needed.
Scale or stay small
One app or 20 apps on your instance. Add workers, scheduled jobs, databases. Opsily scales the infrastructure—you don't manage it.
Ship vs. Other Hosting Platforms
How does Ship stack up against alternatives that developers actually consider?
Ship Pricing. Simple. Flat.
Choose one plan. Pay one price per month. No surprises, no overage fees. All plans include GDPR-compliant German hosting, 24/7 support, and automatic backups.
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Built for Teams That Value Their Data
Ship gives you the compliance and reliability your users expect, without the vendor lock-in.
GDPR Compliant
Data stays in Frankfurt, Germany. No US transfer. Automatic compliance for B2B SaaS and regulated industries.
EU Data Residency
Hosted in Frankfurt, Germany. Your data never leaves Europe. Built-in privacy by design.
99.9% Uptime SLA
30-minute incident response from a staffed team. Not a chatbot. Real people monitoring, real support.
Daily Encrypted Backups
Automatic nightly backups with 30-day retention. Restore any point in time. No manual management required.
Questions About Ship Hosting
Railway charges per second of compute and storage; Render charges per service ($7+/month each). Both scale unpredictably. Ship is €20–40 per month, flat. Your bill never changes. If you deploy 1 app or 10, if traffic is low or high, your cost is fixed. For teams that cannot forecast traffic (startups, side projects, seasonal apps), flat pricing removes a major source of surprise.
Ship Your App Today
No credit card required to start. Deploy your first app in 3 minutes. Questions? Our team is staffed 24/7.