What does HostingGuru documentation cover?

The HostingGuru documentation covers everything you need to deploy and operate an application on the platform: connecting GitHub, deploying APIs, workers, landing pages, on-demand scripts, managed Postgres and Redis, workspace members, custom domains, and billing.

How do I get started with HostingGuru?

Sign up, install the HostingGuru GitHub App on your account or organisation, pick a repository, choose a plan, and click Deploy. The first deploy of a standard framework completes in under 3 minutes.

Where can I find HostingGuru's API reference?

The REST API reference is published under /docs/api. Use it to trigger deployments, read logs, manage environment variables, and run on-demand scripts programmatically. All endpoints are authenticated with a workspace-scoped bearer token.

Does HostingGuru support custom build commands?

Yes. Every framework auto-detects a default build command, and you can override it in the dashboard or in a hostingguru.yaml file at the root of your repository. The same applies to the start command and install command.

Docs

Everything you need to ship on HostingGuru.

Hands-on guides for the four service types we support — APIs, landing pages, workers, on-demand scripts — plus managed Postgres, Redis, and how to run a team. No theory, no fluff. Each page is what we'd tell a developer on Discord asking "how do I do X."

Deploy a service

Pick the service type you need

HostingGuru has four service types. The right one depends on whether your code handles HTTP requests, is a static bundle, runs forever in the background, or runs once and exits.

Service · API

Deploy an API

Long-running HTTP service from a GitHub repo. Node, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java, PHP. Auto-detected framework, free SSL, environment variables, custom domain. The default service type for anything that listens on a port.

Service · Static

Deploy a landing page

Static HTML/CSS/JS, or a build output from Hugo, Jekyll, Gatsby, Eleventy, Astro, Next.js export, Nuxt static. Served from disk with cache headers, gzip, and HTTPS. No web server to configure.

Service · Worker

Deploy a worker

Background process that runs forever — queue consumer, scheduled job runner, data pipeline, websocket fan-out. No public URL, no health endpoint required. Auto-restart on crash. Available on Pro and above.

Service · One-shot

Run an on-demand script

Ephemeral container that runs once, captures stdout/stderr, exits. Trigger manually, via API, or on a cron schedule. Migrations, backups, scheduled email sends, billing reconciliations. Available on Pro and above.

Data services

Postgres and Redis, top-level in the dashboard

Provisioned per-workspace, independent from your application services. Use them from HostingGuru, your laptop, or anywhere else.

Workspace · Databases

Managed Postgres databases

PostgreSQL 16 in EU or US. SSL encrypted, automatic backups, instant provisioning. Live metrics: slow queries, table sizes, cache hit ratio. Plans from $19/mo (2 DBs) to $39/mo (8 DBs).

Workspace · Redis

Managed Redis caches

Redis 7 with TLS encryption. Ephemeral by design — perfect for caching, sessions, rate limiting, queue backends. Free Starter plan (1 cache · 5 MB), Pro $10/mo (3 × 100 MB), Scale $25/mo (5 × 512 MB).

Team

Workspaces & people

Every resource on HostingGuru is scoped to a workspace. Invite collaborators, assign roles, transfer ownership.

Workspace · Members

Members & roles

Owner, admin, developer, viewer — what each role can do, how invitations work, how to transfer ownership, and how workspace scoping enforces isolation between teams.

Ready to deploy your first service?

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Quick start

Getting started in 3 steps

HostingGuru is a Platform-as-a-Service that deploys applications from a GitHub repository. The first deploy of a standard project takes 2–4 minutes from clicking Deploy to receiving HTTPS traffic.

Install the HostingGuru GitHub App on the repository you want to deploy.
Choose a service type: HTTP API, worker, on-demand script, or static site.
Click Deploy. HostingGuru detects the framework, runs the build, and serves the result.

What kinds of services can I run on HostingGuru?

Four service types: long-running HTTP APIs, background workers, on-demand scripts, and static sites including landing pages.

What languages and frameworks does HostingGuru support?

Node.js 18–24, Python 3.10–3.13, Ruby 3.2–3.4, Go 1.21+, Rust stable, plus any project shipped as a Dockerfile. See the deploy guides per language.

Where do I manage environment variables and secrets?

Per-service in the dashboard. Values are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and injected into the runtime at process start. See members & roles for who can read or write env vars.