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What is Happy Hosting and how is it different from regular web hosting?

We don’t do traditional “upload your PHP site via FTP” hosting (although you can do that too if you like). Happy Hosting is fully managed Cloudron hosting on secure European virtual servers (Austria, Germany and the Netherlands), built for freelancers, agencies, startups, and teams who care about privacy and control.

With Happy Hosting you get:

  • Over 180 (!) click-to-install apps

  • Automatic SSL and updates

  • Managed updates and maintenance

  • Daily backups

  • Built-in user management & single sign-on (SSO)

  • Scale resources when you need to

  • Host client projects easily

  • Full control over your data

This makes it easier than ever to self-host your favorite software and keep full control over your data, without the hassle of patching and babysitting servers.

Instead of juggling multiple logins, you create one dashboard account. That account works across many apps. Change your password once, and it updates everywhere.

Example: with the same account you can check email, sync files via Nextcloud, log into WordPress, chat on Rocket.Chat, or manage projects in Gitea.

What makes Happyhosting different?

On traditional hosts, you’re mostly limited to PHP apps. With Happy Hosting, you can install not only popular open-source web apps in one click but also run apps built in Python, Node.js, Go, Java, Ruby, and more.

Available runtimes and tools include Apache, Nginx, PHP, Node, Python, Go, Java, Redis, PostgreSQL client, MySQL client, Mongo, Ruby, SQLite, and more.