Questions and answers
About the server, the two payments, Free and what happens if you switch Nolay off.
You need a VPS, any provider will do. We do not sell or resell servers. How to connect a machine and what it needs is described in the documentation, section “What you need before you start”.
There are two payments. You pay the hosting provider for the server, and your contract for it is with them. You pay us for the panel, and on Free that is zero.
Three conditions: the project runs locally, you know how to start it, and its stack is in the table of tested stacks. If the stack is not there, your own Dockerfile works too.
Run one installation command as root. The panel shows it with your server token already filled in. After that the server appears in the panel and everything else is done there.
1 server, 1 project, 1 domain. No time limit and no card. The server is paid separately to your hosting provider.
If the build or the readiness check (health check) fails, the new version is not applied and the previous one keeps running and accepting requests. The run window shows the log and the reason, and you can deploy the fixed code again.
Containers keep running, and so do monitoring and automatic restart. Deploy and rollback are temporarily unavailable. A break of minutes, hours or days does not affect running projects.
The agent performs only operations from the allowlist and does not run as root. We store the account, the organization, project settings, deploy history, the audit log and metrics. We do not have your code, secret values, images or backups.
The agent gateway at api.nolay.ru. Through it the agent receives panel commands and sends events. The agent opens the connection itself, and secrets pass through the hub only as ciphertext.
You fix errors in your code, the hosting provider fixes server problems, and we fix failures of the panel and the agent. The status page status.nolay.ru shows where a failure is right now.
There are 7 days to renew. After that projects beyond the Free limits are stopped, nothing is deleted. Once paid, they are started again with one action.
Projects managed by Nolay are stopped. The server, volumes, images and data stay with you. From then on you run and maintain them yourself, Nolay has no automatic migration tool.
