The velixir blog.
Release notes, deployment deep-dives, and the operational decisions behind running a deploy platform.
Access logs for your web app, live as they happen
See every request your web app serves: when, from where, which page, how fast and what it returned. Live in the dashboard, CLI and API, at no extra cost.
Persistent storage for web apps, with snapshots
Your app's files used to vanish on every deploy. Now you can give it a volume: a disk that stays, €0.15 per GB a month, with nightly snapshots.
Free web app hosting, and how we can afford it
One web app in any language, hosted free with no card and no time limit. Here's how it works, the catch, and what the Free plan isn't for.
Invite a friend, earn for a year
Every velixir account now has a referral link. Your friend's first top-up is matched, up to €10. Once they've been with us three months, you get €20, then 10% of every payment they make for a year, as credit or straight to your bank.
Give an AI agent a shell, not your laptop
Three new templates give an AI agent its own machine on velixir: OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, and Steel Browser, a real Chrome for your agents to drive. Each is locked by default, starts fresh on every restart, and runs on your own model key.
We moved our analytics onto our own template
velixir.net's analytics used to run on a paid service. Now they run on the Umami template anyone can deploy on velixir in one click: no cookies, every page view in our own Postgres, on EU servers, for a flat €8.44 a month. Here is why, what it took, and what you give up.
Ask your logs what went wrong
There is now an Explain this button on your app's Logs tab. It reads the recent output, tells you in plain English why the app is not running, and links to the setting that fixes it. Here is what it knows, what it sends, and where it gives up.
Your AI built the app. Now it needs a home.
Anyone can build a real web app with an AI now. The part nobody warns them about is hosting. So we built velixir AI: your agent deploys the app it just built, no account, and you claim it once you love it.
The frustration was never .NET
velixir started as a .NET-only platform. It runs any language now, and this is the honest reason why: the things that frustrated me about hosting were never .NET problems.
Deploying your first .NET app to velixir
From an ASP.NET Core app on your laptop to live in your chosen region in ninety seconds, with no Dockerfile and no YAML. A walkthrough of velixir's apps, managed Postgres, and managed Valkey, written by the founder.