Honest breakdown
Why Not Just Deploy Your App Yourself?
You can. It is totally doable. If your app came from Lovable, Bolt, Base44, v0, Replit, or Cursor, here is what it actually takes, in hours, not in theory. These are real times from real deployments, not best-case estimates. Every step here is something that can and will go wrong the first time you do it. Then decide if your time is worth more than $49.
What deploying your app actually takes
1Set up a VPS (Ubuntu, SSH, users)
30 min
2Install Node, Python, or your runtime
20 min
3Configure Nginx reverse proxy
45 min
4Set up SSL (Certbot, DNS)
30 min
5Wire environment variables securely
20 min
6Set up database (Postgres, Mongo)
45 min
7Configure auto-deploy (GitHub actions or Dokploy)
60 min
8Set up backups and monitoring
45 min
9Debug the 3 things that break during deploy
120 min
10Smoke test every flow
30 min
11Write a runbook so you can fix it later
30 min
Total DIY time8 hours 15 min
DIY makes sense if
- You have 6-8 hours to spare this weekend
- You want to learn server management for the long term
- It is a hobby project and there is no rush
- You have already done this before and have a workflow
Hiring us makes sense if
- Your time is worth more than $49 per hour
- You want it live today, not after a weekend of debugging
- You would rather build your product than fight Nginx
- Your app uses complex environment or database config that takes trial and error
Get your weekend back.
We deploy in 24h. Fixed price. You get your code, your server, and a runbook. Go build something instead.