A Linux box you ssh into.

What you get

• The OS is an Ubuntu-derived distro that tracks upstream Ubuntu security updates.
• It is a real KVM-isolated virtual machine, not a shared-kernel container or a gVisor sandbox, with its own kernel and its own disk.
• You have sudo and apt, so you install what you need: a production API, a web application, a database, a staging site, or an experiment.
• Every machine publishes one or more names, like payments-api.deployport.app, and includes an HTTPS certificate that even works with your own web domain.
• It answers ssh on a name of its own, from any client with no Deployport binary installed, and a stopped machine starts when you connect to it.
• Snapshots and restore, a firewall you can read, and the macOS and Windows apps when you would rather click.

Three lines

machine payments-api (mach_kxpkzlq4qf) requested
Launching. The cloud is creating the instance
Booting
Connecting. Waiting for initial connection
Online

SSH:   ssh payments-api.deployport.sh
HTTPS: https://payments-api.deployport.app/

Welcome to Deployport UCE Linux AI 24.04

deployport@payments-api:~$ sudo apt-get install -y postgresql
deployport@payments-api:~$ sudo systemctl enable --now postgresql

The name is the address. Rename the machine and a new name is minted while the old one keeps resolving, so a line somebody saved stays good.

The cost

A machine is billed by the minute while it runs, and its storage while it is stopped. Sizes start at $0.05 a machine-hour. See Pricing.