Databases with backups
PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis and Valkey on your servers. Scheduled backups to S3, R2 or B2, one-click restore.
DATABASE_URL=${{ postgres.DATABASE_URL }}Newv0.8.0 · Falak
Railway-grade deploys.Your own servers.
Open source and self-hosted. Git push apps, databases and domains to any Linux box, with logs and APM built in.
curl -fsSL https://falak.sh/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --domain falak.example.com --email you@example.comDeploy what you already build with
- Laravel
- PHP
- FPFrankenPHP
- Symfony
- Node.js
- Bun
- Deno
- Next.js
- Nuxt
- Astro
- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Redis
- WireGuard
- Let’s Encrypt
- OpenTelemetry
- Grafana
- Ubuntu
- Debian
The real panel
One canvas for your whole stack
Pick a repository. Falak builds it once and ships it to every server.Add Postgres and Redis. Apps reach them over the private network.Add your domain. Falak checks DNS and issues the certificate.Requests, latency, slow routes and logs, from the first request.Join servers into a WireGuard network with one click.
Project canvas
Think in projects, not servers
Each project is a canvas of services and databases, per environment. Open one and its panel slides in; you never lose your place.
- Production and staging, duplicated in one click
- References like
${{ storefront_db.DATABASE_URL }}resolve at deploy time - Groups, volumes and compose stacks; ⌘K everywhere
Git push deploys
Push to main. Live everywhere.
Falak builds once, migrates on the leader, then switches every server to the new release at the same moment.
- Zero-downtime releases with automatic rollback
- Laravel (FrankenPHP or PHP-FPM), Node, Bun, Deno, static, Docker and Compose
- Deploy hooks and the
falakCLI for CI
Observability
Logs, traces and APM from day one
Every server ships logs, metrics and traces to your own Grafana stack. One package adds request, query and job insights to Laravel and Node.
- Loki, Tempo and VictoriaMetrics, with dashboards per organization
- Issues grouped from exceptions; heartbeats catch missed cron runs
- Alerts to email, Slack, Discord, Telegram or a webhook
Templates
18 apps, one click each
n8n, Plausible, Umami, Ghost, WordPress, MinIO and more, with generated secrets and pinned images.
- Images pinned by digest for exact rollbacks
- Privileged containers and Docker socket mounts blocked by default
- Save any compose site as your own template
Domains
HTTPS on the first deploy
Every service gets a working sslip.io address with a real certificate. Add your own domain and Falak shows the records to create.
- Live DNS check, with Cloudflare proxying detected
- Let’s Encrypt certificates, renewed automatically
- Redirects, basic auth and load balancers in one place
Servers
A 10 MB agent, not a pile of scripts
falak-agent is one Go binary that dials out over mTLS. It provisions, deploys, supervises, runs cron and ships telemetry.
- Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS Lightsail, or any Ubuntu box
- Workers, Horizon, daemons and the scheduler, supervised
- Agent upgrades from the panel, in batches, checksum-verified
And the rest of the platform
Everything a production app needs
The parts you would otherwise glue together from five tools.
Workers and scheduler
Queues, Horizon, daemons and cron, supervised by the agent.
Laravel Octane
FrankenPHP, Swoole or RoadRunner, with requests held during restarts.
Firewall and hardening
nftables rules and SSH hardening, applied by the agent.
CLI, API and web terminal
A REST API with scoped tokens, the falak CLI, and a browser terminal to any server.
falak deploy shop --wait && falak logs shop --followAlerts where you are
Failed deploys, backups and crash loops, to Slack, Discord, Telegram, email or a webhook.
Load balancers and private networks
Balance across app servers and link them over WireGuard.
falak-ctl for day two
Status, doctor, backups, and updates that roll back on failure.
falak-ctl update # backup → pull → migrate → health-check, or roll backHow it works
From bare server to live app in three steps
- 01
Install Falak
Point two DNS records at a fresh host and run the installer. It checks the host, starts the stack and prints your password.
curl -fsSL …/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- \ --domain falak.example.com --email you@example.com - 02
Connect servers
Create servers on your cloud from the panel, or paste a one-liner on any Ubuntu box. The agent enrolls over mTLS.
curl -fsSL https://falak.example.com/install/<token> | sh - 03
Deploy
Create a service from a repo, an image or a template. Push to your branch, or deploy from your terminal or CI.
git push origin main # or, from your laptop: curl -fsSL …/install-cli.sh | sh falak deploy shop --wait
Architecture
One host for Falak. Any number of servers.
The panel runs on one Docker Compose host. Agents dial out, so your servers need no inbound SSH.
Lightweight by design
Small enough to forget it’s there
Your servers’ resources go to your apps. Measured on the production images.
- falak-agent binary
- ~10 MB
- One static Go binary per server.
- agent memory
- ~17 MB
- Replaces exporters, log shippers and supervisord.
- panel response
- 2.7–23 ms
- Median TTFB, 50 agents connected, 2 CPUs.
- idle core stack
- 0.6–0.8 GB
- The whole control plane at rest.
Compare
Where Falak fits
Managed platforms trade control for convenience. Falak gives you the convenience on your own servers. Checked against public docs, as of September 2026.
| Feature | Falak | Railway | Vercel | Forge | Coolify |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps run on servers you own | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Control panel you host yourself | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Long-running workers and queues | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Git push-to-deploy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nothing to host or patch yourself | No | Yes | Yes | Partly | Partly |
Open source · self-hosted
Own the platform, not just the servers
Read it, run it, fork it. Your apps, data and telemetry stay on machines you control, and your only bill is your server provider’s.
- Your data stays yoursSecrets encrypted at rest; agents trust only your own CA.
- No usage meterNo per-seat, per-build or per-request charges.
- Built to be readA modular Laravel monolith and a Go agent, with tested boundaries.
What is Falak?
Falak is a self-hosted, open-source (Apache 2.0) platform for deploying and running apps on servers you own. It combines server management, multi-server zero-downtime deploys, a Railway-style project canvas and built-in observability in one control panel that you install yourself.
Is Falak free?
Yes. Falak costs nothing to use. You pay your server provider for the machines Falak runs on and the servers it manages, nothing per seat, per deploy or per request.
Is Falak a self-hosted alternative to Vercel, Railway or Heroku?
Yes. You get git push deploys, zero-downtime releases with rollback, databases, custom domains with automatic HTTPS, logs and APM, on your own servers. Managed platforms still do some things Falak does not, such as global edge networks, pull-request previews and autoscaling; the comparison pages go through the details.
What do I need to install Falak?
A Linux host with Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 or Debian 12 (amd64 or arm64), 2 GB RAM minimum (4 GB recommended, 8 GB with the observability stack), ports 80 and 443 reachable, and DNS records for the panel and its agents host. The installer checks all of this before it starts.
Which servers can Falak manage?
Fresh Ubuntu servers from any provider, or created for you on Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode or AWS Lightsail. Each server runs falak-agent, a small Go binary that connects to your Falak host over mTLS, and is provisioned for its role: app, web, database, cache, worker, load balancer or builder.
What can I deploy?
Laravel, Symfony, Statamic, WordPress and plain PHP (FrankenPHP or PHP-FPM), Next, Nuxt and Node apps, Bun and Deno, static sites with SPA fallback, Docker images and Dockerfiles, Docker Compose stacks, and 18 one-click templates such as n8n, Plausible, Umami, Ghost and MinIO.
Where does my data live?
On machines you control. The control plane and its Postgres database run on your Falak host, your apps and databases on your servers, and logs, metrics and traces go from the agents to your own Loki, Tempo and VictoriaMetrics or Mimir.
Is Falak ready for production?
Falak is young (pre-1.0). Its end-to-end suite drives the whole product against Ubuntu 24.04 servers in a simulation (provisioning, deploys, rollbacks, Octane, observability), and it has been run on real AWS servers. Some parts, such as provider APIs, S3 backups and alert delivery, are covered by unit and feature tests only so far. Updates take a backup first and roll back automatically if they fail.
Your servers are waiting.
One command installs Falak on a fresh Ubuntu or Debian host.
curl -fsSL https://falak.sh/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --domain falak.example.com --email you@example.com