Production-ready, self-hosted infrastructure on a single VPS. Deploy first, understand later.
A paid collection of production-ready infrastructure stacks, reference repositories, and deployment guides.
Deployable today. Understandable tomorrow.
One-time purchase · Reuse across every product you ship
Control Your Stack helps bootstrapping startups reduce ongoing costs and avoid early vendor lock-in by self-hosting proven open-source tools instead of defaulting to cloud services.
Rather than asking teams to learn and assemble everything from scratch, Control Your Stack provides ready-to-use, battle-tested setups that work out of the box.
The goal is to make choosing the self-hosted option as easy — or easier — than signing up for a hosted service, without giving up ownership or flexibility later.
Access to battle-tested repos at git.controlyourstack.com with Docker, Caddy, SSL, databases, and deployment scripts. Everything integrated and tested together.
Walk through deployment first, then understand the architectural decisions. Every choice explained so you don't have to reinvent them.
One-time purchase. Use it across every product you build. No per-seat pricing, no metered surprises.
Cloud services are easy to start with, but they often come with ongoing costs and early lock-in that are hard to unwind later.
A $20-40/month VPS can run your entire production stack. No per-user charges. No per-gigabyte pricing. No surprise bills as you grow.
Self-hosting isn't always cheaper in every case, but it gives you predictable costs and keeps your options open.
Standard tools and clear documentation mean you can migrate to managed services later if you want — or stay self-hosted as you scale.
Control your data and infrastructure from day one. No waiting until you're big enough to negotiate better terms.
Avoid platform-specific features that make migration expensive. Keep your architecture portable.
The guide covers the entire stack, from edge routing and SSL certificates through databases, authentication, payments, email, media storage, backups, and deployment.
Each section explains what problem it solves, why this choice exists, what breaks if you ignore it, and when it stops being the right answer.
Infrastructure becomes a solved problem instead of an ongoing distraction.
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