Hosting for early-stage startups
Production hosting for teams that don't have an operations engineer yet. One monthly price covers your application, background jobs, database and backups, and the engineers who run the platform answer your questions directly.
Common problems
- Nobody on the team owns the servers, so backups, upgrades and security patches happen irregularly or not at all.
- Usage-based bills are hard to forecast, and a spike in traffic shows up as a spike in cost.
- Hiring a DevOps engineer is expensive at this stage and most of their time would go unused.
- Free tiers and small shared instances work in development but slow down under real traffic.
How 9live helps
- Dedicated compute
- Launch includes 8 dedicated vCPU and 16 GB of memory, which is enough for most applications through their first few thousand active users.
- Managed database
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB or Redis, patched and backed up daily by us, with point-in-time recovery for PostgreSQL.
- Fixed monthly cost
- Bandwidth, backups and TLS are included. The invoice is the same every month unless you change plans.
- Direct support
- Questions go to the engineers who operate the platform, by email or WhatsApp.
- Room to grow
- Moving to Grow or Scale is a restart, not a migration. Custom plans cover larger servers and additional regions.
Suggested plan
Launch covers a web application, a background worker and one database. Most teams move to Grow when they want a staging environment.
8 vCPU · 16 GB · 160 GB NVMe · 1 managed database
Questions
Do you offer startup credits?
Not as a general programme. If you're part of an accelerator, ask us; we're setting up arrangements with a small number of them.
What if we outgrow the Scale plan?
Custom plans go up to whole dedicated servers, several servers behind a load balancer, and additional regions. You stay on the same platform.
Talk to an engineer about your setup
Tell us what you run today and where it runs. We reply within one business day with a recommended plan and an estimate for the migration.