Hosting
Deckyard is MIT-licensed and made to be self-hosted. Your organisation can run it on its own infrastructure. If you would like to try it with colleagues and need someone to arrange the hosting, we offer a pilot: a managed instance for three months, in exchange for your feedback.
Both routes use the same software. The choice is about who runs the server and takes care of maintenance.
Run it yourself
The Compose setup includes the PostgreSQL database Deckyard requires. It builds the application from a repository checkout, using the supplied Caddyfile and your .env configuration. The Node 22+ route needs a PostgreSQL database of your own, database migrations and an application start step.
Managed hosting
The pilot offer is a dedicated instance on your own domain. We intend to use European infrastructure; the provider, location and operational arrangements need to be agreed before a pilot starts. There are no managed customer instances running yet.
On your own domain
You choose and control the hostname. Caddy obtains and renews a domain-validated TLS certificate for that hostname. The application starts with the Deckyard name; your application name, theme and brand assets need to be configured to make it your own.
The pilot gives you a way to try Deckyard with colleagues. These are the hosting choices to work through together.
The offer is a separate application and database. Moving an instance later takes a PostgreSQL dump and restore, plus the upload directory. The export in the app covers one user’s presentations.
European hosting is the intention. Choose the provider and location, and review the processing agreements your organisation needs, before starting.
Decide who applies updates, makes backups and tests restores, and how monitoring is arranged. Certificate renewal is automated by Caddy; the application does not schedule backups.
Discuss what help your organisation needs and what can be arranged for the pilot. Support and availability need their own agreement.
Where the money goes
There is no venture capital behind Deckyard. The intention is to fund development through managed hosting while keeping the software freely available to run yourself.
There is no hosting revenue yet. Pilots are a way to learn what organisations need in practice; that feedback can help decide what to build next.
The pilot offer is a managed instance for three months, in exchange for your feedback. Email Jaap about what you would like to try with your organisation and how you want to arrange hosting.