StackPilot App is a desktop app that provisions VPS servers and ships your code over SSH, straight from your machine to your box. No middleman cloud holds your keys, and the one payment is yours to keep.
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Open StackPilot 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, Pro, or Power) covering every server and site you can throw at it. The version you buy is yours, indefinitely: lifetime feature updates within your major version, plus two years of security patches.
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 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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AdonisJSReal deploys, start to finish, on the frameworks you already ship. Each one goes from a fresh server to a live site in minutes.
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Stop 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 feature updates within your major version, plus two years of security patches. If our business fails, your installer keeps working. No DRM, no call-home.
Real results and verifiable product facts. We only publish numbers we can stand behind.
"The deployment flow is actually better than what we had before."
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I'm a Laravel developer with over twelve years of client work behind me, and I have always hated paying more than I have to. For years that meant watching monthly bills stack up for deployment tools, on top of the servers I was already renting. Paying every month, forever, just to push code to a box that was already mine never sat right with me.
StackPilot App started as a simple idea: buy the tool once, run it on your own laptop, and keep your servers and your keys to yourself. No subscription, no cloud in the middle. If it saves you that monthly bill the way it saved me, it has done its job.
Six questions that come up every week, answered straight, no marketing dressing.
One-time payment. Lifetime feature updates within your major version, plus two years of security patches. Your laptop is the control plane, and the only place your keys ever live.