# Falak

> Falak is a self-hosted, open-source platform to deploy, run and observe apps on your own servers: git push deploys, databases, domains, logs and APM. A self-hosted alternative to Vercel, Railway, Heroku and Render, and an open-source (Apache 2.0) replacement for Laravel Forge, Envoyer and Nightwatch.

Key facts:
- Self-hosted: the control plane installs with one command on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 or Debian 12 (amd64/arm64) as a Docker Compose stack with Let’s Encrypt.
- Install: `curl -fsSL https://falak.sh/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --domain falak.example.com --email you@example.com`
- CLI for your own machine (macOS/Linux): `curl -fsSL https://falak.sh/install-cli.sh | sh`, then `falak login --url https://<panel>` with a token from Settings → API tokens.
- Free to use; you pay only for your servers. Source: https://github.com/OthmanHaba/falak
- Deploys Laravel/PHP (FrankenPHP or PHP-FPM, Octane), Next, Nuxt, Node, Bun, Deno, static sites (SPA fallback), Docker images, Dockerfiles and Docker Compose.
- Git push deploys (one-click GitHub App), zero-downtime releases with automatic rollback, multi-server deploys with migrations on the leader.
- Railway-style project canvas: projects, environments, services, variable references `${{ service.KEY }}`.
- 32 one-click templates (n8n, Ollama + Open WebUI, Langflow, Nextcloud, Plausible, Umami, Ghost, WordPress, Forgejo, Paperless-ngx, Matomo, Uptime Kuma and more).
- Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB) with backups to S3/R2/B2; queue workers, Horizon, daemons, scheduler with heartbeats.
- Generated sslip.io domains, custom domains with DNS instructions and live checks, automatic Let’s Encrypt.
- Observability: Loki, Tempo, VictoriaMetrics or Mimir, Grafana; Nightwatch-style APM for Laravel (falak/apm-laravel) and an OpenTelemetry preset for Node/Bun/Deno.
- Servers run falak-agent, a ~10 MB static Go binary using ~17 MB RAM, connected over mTLS (outbound only).
- Not included (yet): pull-request preview environments, autoscaling, a global edge network.

## Docs

- [Falak documentation](https://falak.sh/docs/index.md): Install Falak on your own server, connect machines, deploy apps from Git, Docker or templates, and observe them with logs, metrics, traces and alerts.
- [What is Falak?](https://falak.sh/docs/getting-started/introduction.md): Falak is a self-hosted, open-source platform that deploys, runs and observes your apps on servers you own, replacing Laravel Forge, Envoyer and Nightwatch.
- [Quickstart](https://falak.sh/docs/getting-started/quickstart.md): Install the Falak control plane, connect your first server and deploy an app from GitHub to a generated HTTPS domain in about ten minutes.
- [Requirements](https://falak.sh/docs/getting-started/requirements.md): Operating systems, CPU architectures, memory, disk, ports and DNS records Falak needs for the control plane host and for the servers it manages.
- [Core concepts tour](https://falak.sh/docs/getting-started/concepts-tour.md): A quick tour of Falak's vocabulary — organization, project, environment, service, site, server, agent, build, deployment, release — and how they relate.
- [Try Falak locally](https://falak.sh/docs/getting-started/local-simulation.md): Run the full Falak stack on your laptop in Docker — a control plane, three Ubuntu 24.04 servers, a builder, a git server and the observability stack.
- [For AI agents](https://falak.sh/docs/getting-started/for-ai-agents.md): How an AI coding agent operates Falak — authenticate, discover resources, deploy, wait, read logs and roll back through the REST API or the falak CLI.
- [Connect GitHub (GitHub App)](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/connect-github.md): Connect GitHub to Falak in one click with a private GitHub App — read-only repo access, per-build clone tokens and one push webhook — or an operator app.
- [Connect GitLab, Bitbucket or any git server](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/connect-git-tokens.md): Connect Falak to GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Enterprise or any SSH-reachable git server with access tokens, app passwords or deploy keys, plus webhooks.
- [Environment variables](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/environment-variables.md): Manage a Falak site's environment variables — the raw dotenv editor, versions, references, variables at build time, and pulling or pushing .env files.
- [Variable references](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/variable-references.md): Connect services with ${{ service.KEY }} references in Falak — syntax, name matching, variables databases expose, resolution at deploy time and errors.
- [Build modes](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/build-modes.md): Choose between Falak's native builder (release tarballs) and Docker builds (images in Falak's registry), what each needs, and how to enable Docker builds.
- [Push-to-deploy and deploy hooks](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/push-to-deploy.md): Deploy automatically on every git push, or trigger deployments from CI and chat with Falak deploy hook URLs, including branch, commit and custom variables.
- [Deploy scripts](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/deploy-scripts.md): Customize a Falak deployment with a bash deploy script — the FALAK_FETCH, FALAK_ACTIVATE and FALAK_RESTART_PROCS macros, sections and leader-only steps.
- [Deployment strategies](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/deployment-strategies.md): Pick how Falak ships a release — zero downtime, in place, rolling, canary, blue/green or compose — and tune batch size, health checks and releases kept.
- [Rollbacks](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/rollbacks.md): Roll a Falak site back to an earlier release from the UI, CLI or API, how automatic rollback after failed health checks works, and what gets restored.
- [Multiple servers and load balancers](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/multi-server.md): Run a Falak site on several servers, choose the leader, add a Caddy load balancer with round robin, least connections, failover or sticky sessions.
- [Domains](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/domains.md): Give a Falak site a generated sslip.io domain, a test domain or your own custom domain — with the DNS records to add, a live DNS check and www redirects.
- [Cloudflare](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/cloudflare.md): Connect Cloudflare to Falak for automatic DNS records, names under your zone, Cloudflare Tunnel with no open ports and real visitor IPs, on Free.
- [TLS certificates](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/tls-certificates.md): Choose how Falak secures each domain — automatic Let's Encrypt, DNS-01 wildcards via Cloudflare, custom certificates, an internal CA or plain HTTP.
- [Docker Compose apps from a git repository](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/compose-apps.md): Deploy a Docker Compose app from your repository — compose files, overrides and profiles, a choice per service, variables and Falak's adjustments.
- [Functions](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/functions.md): Write functions in TypeScript, Python or Go in Falak's editor and deploy in seconds, with versions, schedules, access control, scale to zero and a CLI.
- [Routing rules](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/routing-rules.md): Configure redirects, response headers, HTTP basic auth, IP allow and deny lists, request body limits and compression for a Falak site at the Caddy edge.
- [Processes, workers and cron](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/processes.md): Run queue workers, Horizon, daemons and scheduled jobs beside a Falak site — how the agent supervises them, restarts on deploy, heartbeats and crash loops.
- [Teams, roles and permissions](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/teams-and-roles.md): Invite members to a Falak organization, assign owner, admin, developer or viewer roles, and use teams, permissions, two-factor auth and the audit log.
- [Web terminal](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/terminal.md): Open a shell on any Falak-managed server from the browser through the agent — no SSH port or key needed — with shared sessions, recordings and timeouts.
- [Recipes](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/recipes.md): Save shell scripts as Falak recipes and run them on one or many servers at once, with built-in recipes for caches, packages, disk, memory and ports.
- [Manage projects and environments](https://falak.sh/docs/guides/projects-and-environments.md): Create a Falak project, add a staging environment by duplicating production, assign servers and databases per environment, and delete what you don't need.
- [Architecture](https://falak.sh/docs/concepts/architecture.md): How Falak's control plane, agents, builder, edge and observability stack fit together, which ports they use, and how data flows between them.
- [Projects, environments and services](https://falak.sh/docs/concepts/projects-environments-services.md): How Falak groups services into projects and environments, what the canvas shows, how groups and references work, and how to duplicate an environment.
- [Servers and agents](https://falak.sh/docs/concepts/servers-and-agents.md): What a Falak server is, how the falak-agent enrolls and stays connected, what it manages on the machine, and the lifecycle states a server goes through.
- [Sites and runtimes](https://falak.sh/docs/concepts/sites-and-runtimes.md): What a Falak site is, the framework presets and runtimes it can use, how each runtime is served on the server, and the directory layout of a site.
- [Builds](https://falak.sh/docs/concepts/builds.md): How Falak builds code once per deployment on a builder — stack detection, native tarball builds, Docker image builds, build-time variables and caching.
- [Deployments and releases](https://falak.sh/docs/concepts/deployments-and-releases.md): The Falak deployment pipeline — phases, statuses, triggers, strategies, health checks, automatic rollback and releases — and how it coordinates servers.
- [Deploy Laravel](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/laravel.md): Deploy a Laravel app with Falak on FrankenPHP or PHP-FPM — migrations on the leader, queues, the scheduler, Horizon and zero-downtime releases.
- [Laravel Octane](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/laravel-octane.md): Run Laravel on Octane with Falak — FrankenPHP worker mode, Swoole or RoadRunner — with automatic port allocation and Caddy holding requests on deploy.
- [Symfony, Statamic, WordPress and PHP](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/php.md): Deploy Symfony, Statamic, WordPress and plain PHP apps with Falak, including each preset's shared paths, deploy script and first-deploy steps.
- [Deploy Node.js, Next.js and Nuxt](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/node.md): Deploy Node.js, Next.js and Nuxt apps with Falak — build once on the builder, then run a supervised start script on an allocated port behind Caddy.
- [Deploy Bun](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/bun.md): Deploy Bun apps (Hono, Bun.serve, TypeScript) with Falak — built on the builder, supervised on each server behind Caddy, Bun installed on first use.
- [Deploy Deno](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/deno.md): Deploy Deno 2 apps with Falak — deno.json detection, dependency install on the builder, a supervised deno task start, and Deno installed on demand.
- [Deploy static sites](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/static-sites.md): Deploy Astro, Vite, React, Vue and plain HTML sites with Falak — built on the builder, served by Caddy with HTTPS, SPA fallback and custom 404 pages.
- [Deploy a Docker image or Dockerfile](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/docker-image.md): Run a prebuilt Docker image or build your repository's Dockerfile with Falak, with blue/green container swaps, health checks and automatic HTTPS in front.
- [Deploy with Docker Compose](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/docker-compose.md): Deploy a Docker Compose stack with Falak from your repo or pasted inline — HTTPS for public services, named volumes, leader-only commands and rollbacks.
- [Monorepos and custom build commands](https://falak.sh/docs/deploy/monorepos.md): Deploy an app from a monorepo subfolder with a root directory, and override install and build commands with FALAK_INSTALL_COMMAND and FALAK_BUILD_COMMAND.
- [Connect your own server](https://falak.sh/docs/servers/connect-custom-server.md): Connect any Ubuntu server to Falak with a one-line install command — what it does, expected output, provisioning, expired tokens and enrollment fixes.
- [Cloud providers](https://falak.sh/docs/servers/cloud-providers.md): Let Falak create servers on Hetzner Cloud, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Akamai/Linode or AWS Lightsail — add a credential, create a server, and what deletion does.
- [Server types](https://falak.sh/docs/servers/server-types.md): The seven Falak server types — app, web, db, cache, worker, load balancer and builder — what each installs and hosts, and layouts from one server to many.
- [Machine check](https://falak.sh/docs/servers/machine-check.md): Before provisioning, Falak checks the software already on a server and installs, reuses, completes or stops with a fix.
- [Provisioning](https://falak.sh/docs/servers/provisioning.md): What Falak puts on a server — packages, the falak user, PHP, FrankenPHP or Caddy, Node.js, databases, swap, unattended upgrades, SSH hardening, firewall.
- [Firewall and private networks](https://falak.sh/docs/servers/firewall-and-networking.md): Manage a server's nftables firewall in Falak — default rules, allow and deny rules by port and source — and link servers over WireGuard private networks.
- [SSH keys and SSH access](https://falak.sh/docs/servers/ssh-keys.md): Add organization SSH keys that Falak syncs to the falak user on your servers, attach keys to individual servers, and connect with falak ssh.
- [The falak-agent](https://falak.sh/docs/servers/agent.md): Reference for falak-agent on your servers — subcommands, flags, environment variables, files, the systemd unit, logs, heartbeats and removal.
- [Agent upgrades](https://falak.sh/docs/servers/agent-upgrades.md): Upgrade falak-agent after a Falak update — per server or all at once from the UI, API or artisan — with the atomic swap, batching and manual rollback.
- [Create databases and users](https://falak.sh/docs/databases/create-databases.md): Create PostgreSQL, MySQL and MariaDB databases and users on Falak-managed servers, grant privileges, and connect apps with variable references.
- [Remote database access](https://falak.sh/docs/databases/remote-access.md): Let app servers and your own tools reach a Falak database server — how the engine is exposed, firewall rules, private networks, SSH tunnels and the port.
- [Database backups](https://falak.sh/docs/databases/backups.md): Back up Falak-managed databases to S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2, DigitalOcean Spaces or MinIO — schedules, retention, on-demand backups and restores.
- [Redis and Valkey](https://falak.sh/docs/databases/redis-and-valkey.md): Create Redis and Valkey instances with Falak, connect from sites, containers and other servers over private networks, and tune memory and persistence.
- [Observability overview](https://falak.sh/docs/observability/overview.md): How Falak collects logs, access logs, metrics, traces and exceptions from your servers and apps, how to enable the stack, and where each signal appears.
- [Logs](https://falak.sh/docs/observability/logs.md): Read, filter and stream app logs in Falak — which files are collected, multi-line stack traces, the Logs tab, falak logs, the logs API and Grafana.
- [Network logs](https://falak.sh/docs/observability/network-logs.md): See every HTTP request Caddy served for a Falak site — per deployment, with status, method, path and client — in the Network Logs tab and the API.
- [Metrics](https://falak.sh/docs/observability/metrics.md): Host, site and container metrics in Falak — what the agent collects, PromQL metric names, where to view them, VictoriaMetrics or Mimir, and intervals.
- [APM for Laravel](https://falak.sh/docs/observability/apm-laravel.md): Instrument Laravel with falak/apm-laravel — requests, queries with N+1 hints, jobs, mail, cache, scheduled tasks, exceptions and logs — plus sampling.
- [APM for Node, Bun and Deno](https://falak.sh/docs/observability/apm-node.md): Instrument Node.js, Next.js, Nuxt, Bun and Deno apps with @falak/apm-node — auto-instrumentation, request wrappers, exceptions, config and redaction.
- [Insights](https://falak.sh/docs/observability/insights.md): Falak Insights groups exceptions into issues, flags slow routes, jobs and queries with thresholds, and detects scheduled tasks that did not run.
- [Alerts and channels](https://falak.sh/docs/observability/alerts.md): Route Falak alerts — failed deployments, offline agents, crash loops, backups, certificates — to e-mail, Slack, Discord, Telegram or signed webhooks.
- [Grafana](https://falak.sh/docs/observability/grafana.md): Use the Grafana that ships with Falak — login, provisioned datasources, per-organization folders, the six Falak dashboards and deployment annotations.
- [Deploy a template](https://falak.sh/docs/templates/deploy-a-template.md): Deploy an app from Falak's template catalog — pick a template, fill in inputs with generated secrets, choose domains and servers, get a Compose service.
- [Template catalog](https://falak.sh/docs/templates/catalog.md): All 32 apps in Falak's template catalog — n8n, Ollama, Nextcloud, Plausible, Ghost, WordPress, Forgejo and more — with images, inputs and minimum RAM.
- [Custom templates](https://falak.sh/docs/templates/custom-templates.md): Write your own Falak templates — the template.yaml format, inputs, generators, placeholders and validation — and import from YAML, a URL or a Compose site.
- [Install and log in](https://falak.sh/docs/cli/install-and-login.md): Install the falak CLI on macOS or Linux with one command, create an API token, log in to your control plane, and manage stored credentials.
- [CLI commands](https://falak.sh/docs/cli/commands.md): Reference for every falak CLI command — login, servers, sites, deploy, rollback, releases, env, logs, ssh and more — with flags, output and exit codes.
- [Deploy from CI](https://falak.sh/docs/cli/ci.md): Deploy to Falak from GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or any pipeline with the falak CLI and a scoped token, and fail the job when the deployment fails.
- [API overview](https://falak.sh/docs/api/overview.md): Falak's REST API — base URL, bearer token auth, abilities, response envelope, pagination, errors and rate limits — plus the list of every endpoint.
- [Identity API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/identity.md): GET /api/v1/me and GET /api/v1/organizations — check the current user, organization, role and token abilities.
- [Servers API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/servers.md): List, show, create and delete Falak servers through the REST API, get the install command for custom servers, and upgrade a server's agent.
- [Sites API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/sites.md): List, show and create Falak sites via the REST API — every create field, domains and Docker Compose options — and read or replace env and Laravel toggles.
- [Deployments API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/deployments.md): Trigger, list, inspect, stream, cancel and roll back Falak deployments through the REST API, with the deployment, step, output and release resources.
- [Deploy hooks API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/deploy-hooks.md): Reference for Falak deploy hook URLs — GET or POST /api/deploy/{token}, reserved falak_deploy_* parameters, FALAK_VAR_ variables, responses and limits.
- [Domains and DNS API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/domains-and-dns.md): Ask the Falak API which domain choices a new service can use, and check whether a domain's DNS points at the right servers and which certificate is served.
- [Projects API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/projects.md): List, create, rename and delete Falak projects and environments through the REST API, and duplicate an environment's sites into a new environment.
- [Source control API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/source-control.md): List and create Falak git connections for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and custom git servers through the REST API.
- [Logs API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/logs.md): Read a Falak site's application logs and edge access logs through the REST API, with time ranges, levels, kinds, filters and cursor pagination.
- [Templates API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/templates.md): Deploy a catalog or custom template into a project environment through the REST API — inputs, domains, servers, position — and read the response.
- [Internal builder API](https://falak.sh/docs/api/builder-internal.md): The internal API falak-builder uses — builder tokens, job long-polling, NDJSON build events, heartbeats and artifact URLs — for operators' own builders.
- [Install Falak (production)](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/install.md): Install the Falak control plane on Ubuntu or Debian with one command — every installer flag and variable, the files it creates, and internal TLS testing.
- [DNS for the control plane](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/dns.md): The panel, agents, registry and Grafana DNS records Falak's control plane needs, why they must not be proxied, and how falak-ctl doctor checks them.
- [Configuration](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/configuration.md): Configure a Falak installation — .env versus custom.env, sign-up, mail, domains, runtime mirrors, Docker address ranges, artifact storage and falak-ctl up.
- [falak-ctl reference](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/falak-ctl.md): Every falak-ctl command for operating a Falak installation — status, logs, doctor, update, prune-images, registry, backup, restore, domain, admin and more.
- [Upgrade Falak](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/upgrade.md): Upgrade the Falak control plane with falak-ctl update — backup, image pull, migrations, health checks, rollback and old image cleanup.
- [Back up and restore Falak](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/backup-restore.md): Back up the Falak control plane with falak-ctl — database, Fleet CA, storage and .env — schedule, encrypt, copy to S3, restore, or move to a new host.
- [Change the panel domain](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/change-domain.md): Move the Falak control plane to a new domain with falak-ctl domain set, keep enrolled agents working via the old agents host, and redirect the old panel.
- [Performance tuning](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/performance.md): Tune the Falak control plane — FrankenPHP worker mode, panel and agent-api PHP thread pools, Horizon and memory — with measured numbers and sizing rules.
- [Security hardening](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/security.md): How Falak protects secrets, agents and servers, plus a production hardening checklist — registration, two-factor auth, tokens, backups and firewalls.
- [Builders](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/builders.md): Run and manage Falak builders — the control plane host builder, builder servers and external falak-builder workers — with tokens, timeouts and fixes.
- [Uninstall Falak](https://falak.sh/docs/operations/uninstall.md): Remove the Falak control plane from its host, with or without its data, and remove the agent from managed servers.
- [Environment variables](https://falak.sh/docs/reference/environment-variables.md): Every Falak control plane setting with its default — installer, edge, domains, agents, builds, deployments, databases, telemetry, alerting and more.
- [Ports and file paths](https://falak.sh/docs/reference/ports-and-paths.md): Every network port and file path Falak uses on the control plane host and on managed servers — for firewalls, audits and debugging.
- [Deploy script and release variables](https://falak.sh/docs/reference/deploy-script-variables.md): Reference of every FALAK_ variable for deploy scripts, release .env files, supervised processes and Compose projects, plus the deploy script macros.
- [Permissions reference](https://falak.sh/docs/reference/permissions.md): Every Falak permission name with what it grants and which roles hold it — the same names used as API token abilities.
- [Limits and known gaps](https://falak.sh/docs/reference/limits.md): Everything Falak does not support yet or has not verified end to end, in one place — deployments, Compose, Octane, databases, providers and source control.
- [Glossary](https://falak.sh/docs/reference/glossary.md): Definitions of Falak terms — agent, artifact, build, builder, canvas, control plane, deployment, environment, Fleet CA, leader, release, site and more.
- [Troubleshooting](https://falak.sh/docs/reference/troubleshooting.md): Fixes for Falak problems by symptom — installation, connecting servers, builds, deployments, domains and TLS, processes, observability and the panel.
- [FAQ](https://falak.sh/docs/reference/faq.md): Short answers to common Falak questions — hosting, supported stacks, servers, builds, data ownership, migrating from Forge and control plane outages.

## Product

- [Features](https://falak.sh/features/): Everything Falak does on your own servers: a project canvas, git push deploys, zero-downtime releases, databases, domains, logs, traces and APM.
- [Templates](https://falak.sh/templates/): Deploy n8n, Plausible, Umami, Ghost, WordPress, MinIO, Metabase, Uptime Kuma and more to your own servers with Falak templates.
- [Pricing](https://falak.sh/pricing/): Falak costs nothing to use. You pay only for the servers you run it on. See what a typical setup needs and what it costs to host yourself.
- [Changelog](https://falak.sh/changelog/): Release notes for Falak, from v0.1.0 to the latest: new features, fixes and upgrade notes.

## Comparisons

- [Falak vs Railway](https://falak.sh/vs/railway/): Falak brings a Railway-style canvas, git deploys and databases to servers you own. Compare features, pricing model and trade-offs.
- [Falak vs Vercel](https://falak.sh/vs/vercel/): Compare Falak and Vercel: git deploys on your own servers, full backends, queues and databases, versus a managed frontend cloud with an edge network.
- [Falak vs Laravel Forge](https://falak.sh/vs/laravel-forge/): Falak covers Forge-style server management, multi-server zero-downtime deploys and Nightwatch-style APM in one self-hosted, open-source platform.
- [Falak vs Coolify](https://falak.sh/vs/coolify/): Falak and Coolify both run on your own servers. Compare native PHP and Node runtimes, observability, templates and how each manages servers.
- [Falak vs Heroku](https://falak.sh/vs/heroku/): Move from Heroku dynos to your own servers: Falak brings git deploys, workers, databases and logs to machines you control, at flat server prices.
- [Falak vs Render](https://falak.sh/vs/render/): Compare Falak and Render: web services, workers, cron and databases on your own servers with Falak, or fully managed with Render.
- [Vercel alternatives, managed and self-hosted](https://falak.sh/alternatives/vercel-alternatives/): The best Vercel alternatives for 2026, managed and self-hosted: Falak, Netlify, Cloudflare, Render, Railway, Coolify and more, with honest trade-offs.
- [Railway alternatives, including a self-hosted canvas](https://falak.sh/alternatives/railway-alternatives/): Looking for a Railway alternative? Compare Falak (a self-hosted Railway-style canvas), Render, Fly.io, Heroku, Coolify and Dokku.
- [Heroku alternatives that keep git push](https://falak.sh/alternatives/heroku-alternatives/): The main Heroku alternatives: Falak and Dokku on your own servers, or Render, Railway, Fly.io and DigitalOcean App Platform as managed platforms.
- [Self-hosted PaaS, compared honestly](https://falak.sh/alternatives/self-hosted-paas/): Compare self-hosted PaaS options: Falak, Coolify, Dokku, CapRover, Dokploy and Kamal. Features, trade-offs and which fits your stack.

## Optional

- [Full documentation in one file](https://falak.sh/llms-full.txt): every docs page as Markdown.
- [About Falak](https://falak.sh/about/): Why Falak exists, how it is built (a Laravel modular monolith and a Go agent) and how to follow along or contribute on GitHub.
- [Blog](https://falak.sh/blog/): Launch notes, engineering write-ups and guides from the people building Falak, the self-hosted PaaS.