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Notes from the server room.
How Aria works, how to ship on a server you own, and what we learn building a cloud that’s yours alone.
Slab by slab: how Aria builds your server
A picture tour of what happens when you start with Aria: the three layers of your server, two-factor sign-in, and the choice between the Mac app and the web.
Deploy Next.js on your own server with Postgres and HTTPS
How to deploy a full-stack Next.js app with Postgres, Redis and background workers on your own dedicated server for one flat monthly price.
Deploy with Claude Code: letting an AI agent ship safely
How to let Claude Code or Cursor deploy your app without handing over the keys: safe actions run, risky ones need approval, destructive ones need your say.
Per-seat cloud pricing gets expensive: the flat-price alternative
Why per-seat and usage-based hosting bills climb with your team and traffic, and how one flat monthly price per server works instead. Draft from £8.
A cheap Heroku, Render and Railway alternative on your own server
Why paying per dyno or per service adds up fast, and how running all your apps, workers and Postgres on one dedicated server keeps the bill flat.
MCP deployment with human approval: how Aria keeps AI agents safe
How Aria's MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor and coding agents inspect logs and deploy apps using three enforced safety levels: SAFE, CONTROLLED and DESTRUCTIVE.
Move from Supabase Cloud to your own server: a guided path
Leaving Supabase Cloud? See what moves with pg_dump, what doesn't (Storage, Auth secrets, Edge Functions), and how Aria guides the move to your own server.
How to self-host Supabase (and when not to do it by hand)
A plain guide to self-hosting Supabase: what you need, what to check after docker compose up, and a simpler route if you would rather not run it yourself.
A Vercel alternative where you own the server
Looking for a Vercel alternative? See how one dedicated server compares on price, databases and effort, and when Vercel is still the better pick.
Put your next app on a server that’s yours.
One flat monthly price per server. No charges per seat, per app or per request.