Run the hosting. Watch every server.
kstack is the hosting panel for servers you own: websites, mail, DNS and databases for your customers. Standby monitors every server, pages the right person, and keeps your security and compliance evidence current. Both run on your own machines, priced per node.
Two products, priced per node
- ✓ The hosting panel your customers log into
- ✓ Websites, mail, DNS, databases and backups
- ✓ Unlimited customers and sites
- ✓ Ten nodes minimum
- ✓ Billing stops when a node is removed
- ✓ Monitoring, on-call and a status page
- ✓ Security and compliance for every server
- ✓ Every module included
- ✓ Twenty-five nodes minimum
- ✓ A removed host stops counting
Prices exclude VAT.
Run hosting on servers you own
Websites, mail, DNS, databases and backups for your customers, on hardware you already have.
- One panel for your customers. Sites, mailboxes, DNS, databases and backups, with unlimited customers and sites.
- Add a server in one paste. Give it a job and kstack sets it up.
- It stays the way you set it. If someone changes a setting by hand, it is put back and you are told.
- Sites keep running. Your customers’ sites stay up even if the panel cannot be reached.
See every server, page the right person, prove it was handled
One agent on Linux and Windows. Standby watches what your servers do, wakes the person on call when something stops, and keeps the evidence your customers and auditors ask for.
- Monitoring. Metrics and logs from every server, with dashboards you lay out yourself, and health checks for the web, database and mail services each one runs.
- Checks from outside. Web, port and ping checks from separate regions, so you hear about an outage before your customers do.
- On-call that reaches a person. Escalation chains by severity, with voice and text paging. A rack going dark pages one person once, not two hundred times.
- Security. Vulnerabilities matched to what each server actually has installed, patching with a canary first, and a web application firewall run from one place.
- Compliance and a Trust Center. Controls scored from what your servers are doing, and a public page that shows customers where you stand.
- A status page that stays up. In your own brand, on a server of its own, so it keeps working when the systems it reports on do not.
Better together, fine on their own
kstack alerts arrive in Standby as incidents, and kstack shows the health Standby reports for each server.
kstack has no billing of its own. Connect the billing system you use through its API.
Standby watches any server, whoever set it up, not only the ones kstack runs.
How you start
Pick kstack, Standby or both, and how many nodes each covers.
Your licence key is in your account once the order is paid.
Your install command is in your account too, with your licence key already in it.
Updates that never break a running install
Updates come only to licensed installs, and each one is checked before it goes in.
- Bound to your install. A licence is issued for your install and the hostnames it may run on, with rotation, revocation and an audit trail.
- Checked before it goes in. Anything that fails the check is refused, and the install stays on the version that works.
- Expiry is not a kill switch. The software keeps running and your customers keep being served. You stop receiving updates, and the admin says so plainly.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need both?
No. Each is licensed on its own and works on its own: kstack with any billing system, Standby with any servers. Run both and they work together.
What counts as a node?
For kstack, a server or virtual machine that runs the kstack agent and has a job. For Standby, any machine running the Standby agent, laptops included. Checks against a website, port or certificate without an agent never count.
Is it self-hosted?
Yes. Your servers and your customers' data stay on your machines. The only things that talk to us are the licence check and the update check.
What happens if a licence lapses?
Nothing already running is switched off. kstack keeps your servers and sites running but cannot add servers or update. Standby keeps paging, monitoring and the status page running but cannot add hosts, update or fetch vulnerability data.
Can I see it working before I buy?
Yes. Tell us what you run today and we will walk you through it on a call.
What about Zephyr?
Zephyr, our website, shop, billing and support platform, is coming soon. Register your interest on its page and we will email you when it launches.
Start with kstack and Standby
Priced per node, with every feature included. Prices exclude VAT.
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