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I have a few hand-written node apps with a small express API. Can I deploy those on elest.io without having to worry about the underlying OS and its security and network setup? That would be very interesting for me. Kind of like a simple and cheap webhoster with php: Upload your files, forget about the rest. Is it that what you offer?

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hi, fellow Elest.io user here. Yes, that is a perfect use case, aside from a regular OSS deployment. The CI/CD feature is exactly what you’re describing - it’s basically a private netlify/vercel, but can run express on a server (vs. serverless only/no express)

I myself run a Next.js app on it, it’s amazing how much faster it is than Vercel… even on the cheapest VM (1 CPU / 2 Gb RAM) I now get instant page loads vs. long long seconds of waiting with Vercel.

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