Ready-made apps
Thirteen open-source apps in the App Store, among them Ghost, Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, n8n, Uptime Kuma and Syncthing. Pick one and it installs itself, with a database if it needs one.
→Public beta, hosted in Germany
Your own corner of the internet.
Your apps at
blitz.cloud puts apps online under an address that belongs to you. Pick a name, choose a ready-made app or any public Docker image, and watch it come online. No servers to rent and nothing to pay to get started.
Free and open to everyone - no waiting list, no credit card. blitz.cloud is in public beta.
blitz.cloud is a hosting platform built and run by BlitzWorks, a software company in Regensburg, Germany. It has nothing to do with Blitz.js, blitz.dev or StackBlitz.
Ready-made apps in the store, and the databases behind them
GhostVaultwardenJellyfinn8nUptime KumaSyncthingNextcloudPostgreSQLMariaDBRedisDocker Hub
0 EURto start, no card
15apps on the free plan
7nightly backups kept
1data centre, in Germany
What you can host today
Three ways to put something online.
How it works
Three steps, and none of them involve a terminal.
- 1
Pick your address
Claim a name like lena.blitz.cloud. It is yours, it is free, and everything you host lives under it.
- 2
Choose what to host
An app from the store, an image from Docker Hub, or a GitHub project we build for you. Give it a short name like photos and that becomes photos.lena.blitz.cloud.
- 3
Watch it come online
The page shows each step as it happens, then a working link to share and a plain answer to whether everything is fine.
Included on the free plan
The fiddly parts are already done.
Addresses and HTTPS
One address for you and as many addresses underneath it as you have apps. Certificates are issued and renewed automatically.
Managed databases
PostgreSQL 17, MariaDB 11.4 or Redis (served by Valkey 8), set up and connected to your app. Reachable from your apps and nowhere else.
Nightly database backups
Every database is copied off our machines every night and kept for seven nights. Going back to a night is one button for PostgreSQL and MariaDB.
Settings and files that stay
Change the settings an app reads when it starts, stored encrypted. Folders an app writes to survive restarts.
Logs and honest status
Live logs, restart, pause and resume. When an app is unhappy the page says why in a sentence and shows the last lines it printed.
A sandbox for every app
Each app runs isolated with gVisor, without root and behind default-deny network rules, so neighbours cannot reach your things.
Where your things live
On our own machines, in Germany.
blitz.cloud runs on servers BlitzWorks rents and operates itself in Hetzner's data centre in Falkenstein, Germany. Your apps and their data stay in the EU, and neither BlitzWorks nor Hetzner has a US parent company.
There are no third-party trackers on this site. Visits are counted by our own statistics tool, without cookies unless you allow one.
Data location and GDPR →50.48° N, 12.37° EFalkenstein, Germany
- Operator
- BlitzWorks UG, Regensburg
- Servers
- Hetzner, Falkenstein
- Database backups
- Separate Hetzner storage
- US parent company
- None
Coming next
Not live yet, and we would rather say so.
These are being built in this order. The list of what works today is kept current on the What's live page.
- NextConnect your GitHub account, for private projects and a new version online on every push
- LaterConnect a domain you already own
- LaterAutomatic updates for apps, with rollback
- LaterPrivate apps, reachable only from your own devices
- LaterConnect an AI assistant such as Claude to manage your apps
- LaterThe Pro plan
Plans
Free to start, and free to stay.
During the beta everyone is on the free plan. It is meant to be lived in, not outgrown in a weekend.
Free
Available now0 EUR forever
For a personal set of apps you use every day.
- Up to 15 apps under your address
- 2 GB of memory shared across your apps
- 10 GB of storage
- One managed database
- Nightly database backups, kept 7 nights
- Automatic HTTPS on every address
Pro
5 EUR per month, planned
Not on sale yet. What it will include:
- Up to 50 apps
- 4 GB of memory shared across your apps
- 50 GB of storage
- Five databases
- Database backups kept 30 nights
Is blitz.cloud really free?
Yes. The free plan costs nothing, needs no credit card and has no time limit. Apps do not go to sleep when nobody visits them.
Can I deploy my own Docker image?
Yes, if it is a public image on Docker Hub built for amd64. Images that run as a non-root user and listen on a port such as 8080 work best, because every app runs without root.
Can I deploy from GitHub with git push?
Partly. Paste a link to any public GitHub project and we build it and put it online, with its Dockerfile or without one. Redeploying automatically on every push needs your GitHub account connected, which is not switched on yet; until then there is a button on the app's page that fetches the newest code.
Where is my data stored?
In Hetzner's data centre in Falkenstein, Germany. Database backups go to separate Hetzner storage in the EU. blitz.cloud is operated by BlitzWorks UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Regensburg.
Which databases are available?
PostgreSQL 17, MariaDB 11.4 and Redis, served by Valkey 8. MongoDB is not offered, because its licence (SSPL) is written to prevent exactly this kind of hosted offering.
Can I use my own domain?
Not yet. Every app gets an address under your name, like photos.lena.blitz.cloud, with HTTPS. Connecting your own domain is planned, with one domain included on the free plan.