How it will be licensed
Four tiers, licensed per server. Free is a real tier, not a trial — it will not expire, and a node will run on it indefinitely.
Prices are published, and the beta is closed. The panel is in a closed beta by invitation; there is no public checkout yet. The figures below are the ones the licence server issues keys against — not a plan, not a projection.
The tiers themselves are already built and enforced in the software.
| Feature | free | starter | growth | pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | free | €9 + VAT/mo €90 + VAT/year | €19 + VAT/mo €190 + VAT/year | €29 + VAT/mo €290 + VAT/year |
| Hosting accounts | 5 | 25 | 100 | unlimited |
| Resellers | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Staging sites | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Admin-hosted services | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Git deploy | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PostgreSQL | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom branding | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your own sign-in screen | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Backups, restore, escrow, certificates, export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Prices exclude VAT. Businesses with an EU VAT number pay no VAT (reverse charge); everyone else pays their country’s VAT on top, shown at checkout before you pay. Prices are in euros; checkout can show your own currency, converted from the euro price.
Read from the licence server’s own price list at build time, so this page and the portal cannot quote different numbers. Yearly is ten months for twelve. Checkout is not open: during the closed beta a licence is issued by invitation.
How the tiers work
Everything is per node, not per account, per domain or per gigabyte. One licence key covers one machine and everything on it.
A key says what it includes, in words you can read — which is also the first thing support will ask for.
Support comes with the paid tiers. A ticket is opened from inside the panel, and any access we need is something you grant inside that ticket. Free has no support from us.
Nothing is ever removed by a plan change. Drop from pro to free and you keep every account you have, every staging site, every git deployment and every Postgres database. What changes is that you cannot create more. A node above its account ceiling keeps serving all of them and refuses the next one.
A lapse is not an outage. When a subscription ends the node falls back to free, and it never stops a website, a mailbox or a database — the licence check does not reach any of them. What a lapsed or suspended node does lose is new releases, until its licence is current again.
What every tier includes, permanently
Backups and restore, recovery, TLS certificates, and a complete account export. On the free tier, with no subscription, forever.
That is guaranteed in the software itself, not only in this page. A free node that cannot back up, cannot recover and cannot leave is a trap; the export is the part that makes the rest believable. If you want to go, you can, and you do not need our help or our permission to do it.
Panel updates
Every current licence is offered every release, free included — a key is all a node needs to be told about one, and free is a key.
A node whose paid subscription has lapsed or been suspended is not offered new releases until the licence is current again. Its websites, mail and databases keep running throughout; what waits is the next version of the panel.
WordPress protection is not tied to a plan: vulnerability detection, virtual patching and security updates are on every tier, because a site’s safety is not a business feature.
You need a key, and free is one
A node does nothing until it has a licence. There is no trial period and no window: install the panel, get a key, paste it in.
That sounds stricter than it is, because the free tier is a licence too. You ask for one, it is issued immediately, and once a server uses it, it does not expire. (A free key that is never put on a server is retired after 90 days; you can ask for another.) If you are evaluating the panel, evaluate on free for as long as you like — that is exactly why there is no separate trial to sign up for, and why nothing is going to switch off on you a fortnight after you started.
A node without a key keeps serving whatever is already on it. What it cannot do is change anything through the panel, which on a fresh installation means everything. Websites, mail, databases and backups are never touched by the licence check — that is as true here as it is for a lapse.
This replaced a fourteen-day full unlock. It was removed because a fortnight of the whole product teaches you to depend on features you are about to lose, while a free tier that lasts forever shows you what you actually have.