Deploying FastAPI with Postgres on Aloof
From an empty directory to a FastAPI service with managed Postgres, migrations before traffic, and a background worker, using aloof launch and aloof.toml.
Read →Next.js and Rails on Aloof: two stacks, one workflow
What aloof launch generates for a Next.js app and a Rails app, where the two differ (build output, assets, migrations), and the settings worth changing.
Read →The economics of scale-to-zero
When sleeping instances save real money, when they don't, and how to reason about cold starts, with the arithmetic shown.
Read →MCP: let your AI agent deploy (safely)
How Aloof's remote MCP server works, what an agent can and can't do, and how to keep a human in the loop for destructive actions.
Read →Private networking with .internal
Every Aloof account gets a private network where apps reach each other as
Zero-downtime deploys and instant rollbacks
The exact sequence Aloof follows on every deploy, what happens when something fails at each step, and how rollback avoids a rebuild.
Read →Managed Postgres backups, off-site and encrypted
How Aloof backs up managed Postgres and volumes: local dumps, client-side AES-256-GCM, a separate location, GFS retention and a weekly test restore.
Read →Aloof vs Fly.io, Render and Railway: how they compare
Where Aloof is cheaper or simpler, and where Fly.io, Render or Railway are clearly the better choice today.
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