Cloud & Self-Hosted Infrastructure
Mocky runs your infrastructure on open source you own, on your own server, for a fraction of the SaaS bill.
Cloud & Self-Hosted Infrastructure
Mocky runs your infrastructure on open source you own, on your own server, for a fraction of the SaaS bill.
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Software bills grow with headcount. Per-seat pricing, storage tiers, and the feature you need sitting one plan above the one you are on. For a surprising amount of what a business runs on, there is a mature open source equivalent that runs on a server you control for a flat monthly cost.
We work both sides of that line. Public cloud where it genuinely is the right answer, and self-hosted open source where it saves real money and gives you control of your own data. Either way we deploy it, secure it, back it up, monitor it and keep it patched, so open source never turns into a thing you have to babysit.
What is included
- Coolify for deployments, so pushing to Git ships to your own server
- Mailcow for real mailboxes on your domain, with no per-user pricing
- Automation, file storage, monitoring and password management, all self-hosted
- Migrations onto self-hosted infrastructure, or back to public cloud, with tested cutovers
- Backups, TLS, updates, monitoring and access control run as a managed service
- Hosted on your server or one we provision, and the root access stays yours
What you get
01
Pick The Right Stack
We compare what you pay per seat today against what the open source equivalent costs to run and maintain, then recommend it only where both the maths and the risk work out.
02
Deploy & Secure
Containers, TLS, DNS, firewalls, off-site backups and access control, configured properly the first time rather than patched together later.
03
Keep It Running
Updates, uptime monitoring, alerting and restore drills, so self-hosted never quietly becomes unmaintained.
Tools we deploy and run
Coolify
Self-hosted deployment platform. Git push to deploy apps, databases and services on your own server, with the developer experience of a managed host.
Mailcow
A complete mail server. Mailboxes, aliases, webmail, spam filtering and DKIM on your own domain, without a per-user fee.
Docker
Containers underneath all of it, so every service is isolated, reproducible, and moves between servers without surprises.
PostgreSQL
The database we default to, with scheduled backups and a restore procedure we have actually tested.
n8n
Workflow automation that connects your tools and replaces per-task pricing on hosted automation platforms.
Uptime Kuma
Uptime monitoring and a public status page, so you hear about downtime before your customers report it.
Nextcloud
File storage, sharing and calendars on your own infrastructure, in place of per-seat cloud drives.
Vaultwarden
Team password management, compatible with Bitwarden clients, hosted on your own server.
When self-hosting saves money, and when it does not
Self-hosting is not automatically cheaper. It swaps a per-seat bill for a server plus somebody to look after it. These are the three tests we apply before recommending it to anyone.
Does the arithmetic actually work?
A flat server cost beats per-seat pricing at a certain team size, and sits above it below that size. The crossover point is different for every tool, so we price your specific case rather than quoting a general rule.
- Usually wins: mail for a whole team, file storage, automation runs, password management, staging environments
- Usually does not: a single user on an entry plan, anything needing a compliance certification you would have to build yourself, categories with no mature open source equivalent
Who is on call when it breaks?
This is the part that gets underestimated. Self-hosting moves responsibility for updates, certificate renewals and backups from a vendor to you, and a backup nobody has ever restored is not a backup.
Either somebody on your side owns that, or you put it on a maintenance plan. Both work. Assuming it looks after itself does not, and that is how self-hosted setups end up abandoned and out of date.
What happens if you want out?
Open source on your own server means leaving is a file copy rather than a negotiation, which is most of the point. Ask for the backup and restore procedure before anything gets migrated, not afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
Is self-hosting really cheaper than paying for SaaS?
For a team, often yes, because a server costs the same whether five people or fifty use it. For one or two users on an entry-level plan, usually not. We work out your actual numbers, including the cost of us maintaining it, and tell you plainly if staying on SaaS is the better deal.
What happens when the server goes down?
Uptime monitoring alerts us rather than you finding out from a customer. Services run in containers so a single failure can be restarted in isolation, off-site backups are taken on a schedule, and we rehearse restores so recovery is a known procedure instead of an experiment.
Does it have to be our server, or can you host it?
Either. We can deploy onto a server you already own, provision a new one in your name so the account and the billing stay with you, or run it on our infrastructure. The first two are what we usually recommend, because the ownership is the point.
Do we own the data and the setup?
Yes. Root access, the deployment configuration and the documentation are all yours, and everything runs on open source with no licence tied to us. Another team can take it over, and nothing we install locks you in.
Can you migrate our existing email across?
Usually, yes. Mail is the most delicate migration there is, so we copy mailboxes across first, verify SPF, DKIM and DMARC on the new server, then cut the MX records over once mail is flowing correctly in parallel. Nothing is switched off until the replacement is proven.