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Servestead
Servestead Command Center showing a healthy production VPS, GitOps state, and recent activity
The Command Center keeps health, GitOps, and the next safe action in one view.

Your server homestead, under control.

Provision, harden, deploy, and recover from one local workspace—with every consequential action reviewed before it runs.
Install and launchSee the workflow

Servestead turns a fresh Ubuntu VPS into a hardened, Git-backed host for private application stacks. The browser interface is the recommended way to work: it keeps profile values, repository state, run progress, diagnostics, and guarded cloud actions in context.

  1. 1ConnectUse an existing Ubuntu VPS or create a DigitalOcean profile.
  2. 2ReviewConfirm the profile, repository, and complete setup plan.
  3. 3RunWatch each hardening and platform task complete in context.
  4. 4OperateManage stacks, GitOps state, access, cloud controls, and recovery.

Start With the Outcome You Need

Section titled “Start With the Outcome You Need”
Set up a serverLaunch Servestead Web and walk through the five-step Setup Workbench.
Understand the dashboardRead health, setup, GitOps, and cloud state from the Command Center.
Deploy an applicationAdd a Compose stack, define public routes, review Git changes, and run it.
Recover a failed runUse run history, diagnostics, inline recovery, and retry controls.

Prefer the terminal? The Terminal UI remains available for interactive DigitalOcean catalog selection, and the CLI reference covers repeatable automation.