Sovereign PaaS hosting: Deploy without the lock-in
Heroku's in sustaining mode. Your bill climbs with every team member. Ship gives you Heroku-like simplicity on German servers, under EU jurisdiction. No vendor lock-in. No per-user taxes. Just git push and deploy.
Why Opsily for sovereign PaaS
Ship on Opsily isn't a proprietary platform trapped inside a vendor's cloud. It's managed hosting of a self-hosted runtime. You get simplicity without surrender.
Sovereignty without the DevOps
German servers. EU jurisdiction. No US data exposure. GDPR is not a box to tick—it's the default. We handle security patches, SSL renewals, monitoring. You push code.
Flat fees that stay flat
One price per month. No per-user add-ons. No per-addon costs. Your team scales from 2 people to 20 without a bill surprise. Host multiple apps, scale infrastructure as needed.
Zero DevOps overhead
No Kubernetes to learn. No platform team to hire. Encrypted isolation between apps, automatic backups, 24/7 monitoring. SSL renews itself. Patches ship automatically.
Built for teams who need reliability
Heroku customer quote: EUR 800/year replaces HubSpot + Make.com + password manager on Ship.
No per-seat SaaS taxes. One platform. Flat fee. Sovereignty included.
Sovereignty means control, not just location.
A sovereign PaaS isn't just servers in Germany: it's a platform run by a company not subject to US law. Heroku runs on AWS. Google Cloud Sovereign runs on Google's infrastructure. Ship runs on Opsily's German infrastructure, operated by Europeans, under EU jurisdiction.
Why does that matter? The US CLOUD Act lets US law enforcement claim data stored by US companies, even abroad. FISA Section 702 lets intelligence agencies access data with minimal oversight. If your customer data is on a US company's servers, or managed by a US company, even from German hardware, it falls under US law.
Sovereign PaaS means your data and your app are protected by local law. Your company owner can't be compelled to hand them over to a foreign government.
The lock-in problem
Heroku felt like a no-brainer: git push, done. But every app you deployed locked you in. Port your app off Heroku and you'd rewrite deployment scripts, rebuild environment logic, migrate databases. After 5+ years on Heroku, the lock-in cost was higher than the platform fee.
Now Heroku's in sustaining mode. They stopped hiring. No new features. AWS-only infrastructure. Customers are fleeing because they feel the product uncertainty.
Ship avoids that trap: it's managed hosting of a self-hosted app. You own the code. You own the deploy logic. Move to another server? One config change. Your apps don't live in Heroku's walled garden.
GDPR without the audit friction
EU SMBs and compliance teams hit a wall: traditional PaaS pricing models (per-seat, per-user) bloat your Data Processing Agreement. Shared infrastructure makes audit compliance expensive. Data residency controls require workarounds.
Ship's flat-fee, no-per-user-tax model simplifies DPA compliance. Encrypted, isolated apps by default. German hosting under EU law. Your DPO signs off in weeks, not months.
Deploy on Ship in 4 steps
From GitHub to production, EU-hosted, in minutes.
Choose Your App
Select an app to get started.
Connect your GitHub repo
Click 'Add App' in Ship, authorize GitHub, pick your repo. Ship clones it and sets up the runtime.
Ship deploys automatically
Push to your default branch. Ship detects the commit, builds your app, runs tests, deploys to German servers. Average time: 3 minutes.
We manage the rest
SSL renews itself. Security patches roll out. Monitoring runs 24/7. You get a dashboard with app logs, error tracking, and deployment history.
Scale when you need to
Upgrade your server size. Add a database. Add team members. Pricing stays predictable. No surprise per-user charges.
Why teams leave Heroku for Ship
Heroku status as of February 2026 (sustaining engineering mode, no new features).
Trust and compliance built in
Ship meets the standards compliance teams demand, without the audit friction.
GDPR Compliant
German hosting, EU jurisdiction, no US data exposure. Encrypted isolation by default.
EU Jurisdiction
Opsily operates under German law. Your data isn't claimed by CLOUD Act or FISA Section 702.
99.9% Uptime SLA
German datacenters, redundant infrastructure, 24/7 monitoring. Service credits for downtime.
Encrypted & Isolated
Each app runs in its own container. End-to-end encryption in transit and at rest.
24/7 Monitoring
Our team watches uptime, error rates, and resource usage around the clock.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about sovereign PaaS hosting, migration, compliance, and Ship on Opsily.
Sovereign PaaS is a Platform-as-a-Service run by a company in a specific jurisdiction, protected by that country's laws rather than by foreign extraterritorial laws like the US CLOUD Act or FISA. Ship on Opsily runs on German servers under EU jurisdiction. That means your data and your app are protected by German and EU law, not by US law. The key difference from just renting servers in Germany: the company operating the platform must be subject to local law. If Opsily were owned by a US company, you wouldn't have that protection, even on German hardware.
Ready to leave vendor lock-in behind?
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