Compare & Specs — Exesta vs Coolify, Server.camp & Railway

Platform Architecture

Purpose-built for open-source reliability

Dedicated Enterprise NVMe Storage

Every Exesta appliance receives isolated Enterprise NVMe persistent storage volumes hosted on bare-metal servers in Budapest. From 3 GB on Tracepano and 5 GB on Linkstack/YOURLS up to 10 GB on Gitea (€3.99/mo), your repositories and databases perform without noisy-neighbor disk bottlenecks.

Strict container namespace isolation
10 GB Persistent NVMe Storage on Gitea (€3.99/mo)
Enterprise NVMe ZFS/RAID storage arrays
Zero control-plane overhead on your appliance

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NVMe Gen4

~# zfs list

Name	Used	Avail	Mountpoint
nvme-pool/app-gitea	3.42G	6.58G	/var/lib/exesta/volumes/gitea
nvme-pool/app-trace	412M	2.59G	/var/lib/exesta/volumes/tracepano
nvme-pool/app-urls	128M	4.87G	/var/lib/exesta/volumes/yourls

Direct PCIe Gen4 ZFS volume attached · 0 IOPS throttle

100% Unmodified Upstream OCI Images

We never wrap your applications in proprietary schemas. Whether you run Tracepano, Linkstack, YOURLS, or Gitea, your persistent volumes remain standard SQLite/PostgreSQL files and Git directories that you can export anytime.

Official upstream open-source containers
Full database & Git repository ownership
Automated zero-downtime image updates
Instant archive export on demand

docker-compose.yml

OCI Standard

services:
  gitea:
    image: gitea/gitea:latest
    volumes:
      - /srv/data:/data  # Standard SQLite/PG

Raw Storage Archive

archive-gitea-latest.tar.gz (1.4 GB)

Pick your appliance

Choose Tracepano (€1.49), Linkstack (€1.99), YOURLS (€1.99), or Gitea 10GB NVMe (€3.99).

Bind your custom domain

Point a CNAME record to Exesta. Our Caddy edge proxy provisions TLS 1.3 certificates automatically.

Enable SafeGuard (+€0.99)

Optionally toggle daily encrypted offsite snapshots with 7-day rolling retention.

Focus on your work

We handle bare-metal hardware health, NVMe RAID storage, and container image updates 24/7.

Cloud & PaaS Benchmark

Exesta vs Coolify, Server.camp & Railway

See how Exesta's managed open-source appliances in Budapest compare against self-hosted Coolify VPS setups, Server.camp micro-containers, and developer PaaS providers like Railway.

Capability / Specification	Exesta	Coolify (VPS)	Server.camp	Railway / PaaS
Zero Host OS & Docker Maintenance No kernel patching, SSH hardening, or daemon updates required	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Zero Control-Plane Overhead 100% of your plan storage & compute belongs to your appliance	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Starts from €1.49 – €1.99 / month (20% off yearly) Predictable flat-rate micro-appliance pricing	Yes	No	Yes	No
10 GB Persistent NVMe Gitea for €3.99/mo Dedicated Git repository storage without expensive enterprise tiers	Yes	No	No	No
Budapest BIX (10Gbps+) Central EU Hub Sub-8ms latency across Central & Eastern Europe	Yes	No	No	No
Automated Caddy TLS 1.3 & Custom Domains Zero-config HTTPS & HTTP/3 provisioning	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Turnkey +€0.99/mo Offsite Backups (SafeGuard) Daily encrypted snapshots with 7-day retention & 1-click restore	Yes	No	Yes	No
100% EU Sovereign & GDPR Compliant No US CLOUD Act exposure	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Deploy your open-source stack in under 15 seconds.

Predictable euro pricing from €1.49/mo (with 20% off yearly) on sovereign Hungarian bare-metal.

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Purpose-built for open-source reliability

Dedicated Enterprise NVMe Storage

10Gbps+ Central European Peering

Automated Encrypted Offsite Backups