Features
Everything between git push and a live site
Chapong handles builds, previews, domains, certificates and rollbacks for static sites and Node apps, on a shared pool or on a server that is yours alone.
Git deploys & previews
Every push is a deploy
Connect a GitHub or Gitea repository. Pushes to the production branch go live; every other push and every pull request gets its own preview URL.
- Framework detection for Vite, React, Vue, Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, Create React App, plain Node and static sites
- Preview URL plus a commit status posted back to the pull request
- Server apps are health-checked before traffic switches to the new version
- Cancel a running build when a newer push supersedes it
- Or skip git:
avoca deployuploads a folder from your machine or CI
$ git push origin feature/pricing
→ install npm ci
→ build npm run build
→ preview ready, status posted to PR #42Domains & HTTPS
Your domain, with certificates handled
Add a domain in the dashboard, create the DNS record it shows, and HTTPS is issued automatically once DNS resolves.
- CNAME setup for subdomains; ALIAS/ANAME or the shown record for apex domains
- Add both apex and www and pick the primary: the other redirects to it
- Every site also gets a default address, so it works before DNS is ready
- 1. Add
www.example.comunder your site → Domains- 2. Point
- CNAME to the target shown in the dashboard
- 3. Done
- Certificate issued, HTTPS on
Env vars & secrets
Configuration per environment
Set variables once and scope them to where they belong. Secrets stay masked in the dashboard and in build logs.
production,previewandsharedscopes- Mark a value as secret to mask it
- Changes apply on the next deploy
- A linked Da8a backend keeps its own URL and key variables current for you
- production
- Production deploys only
- preview
- Preview and pull-request deploys
- shared
- Both
Rollbacks & deploy hooks
Undo in a click, rebuild on a POST
Each deploy is kept as an immutable build, so rolling back is an instant switch of the live pointer, with no rebuild. The response cache is purged on every deploy and rollback.
- Roll back from the dashboard or with
avoca rollback <id> - Deploy hooks: a secret URL your CMS or scheduler can POST to
- Rotate a hook by deleting and recreating it
$ avoca deployments
$ avoca rollback 8f2c41a09b
$ curl -X POST https://sites.<host>/hooks/deploy/<site>/<secret>Protection
Keep previews private
Put a password on any deploy so only the people you share it with can see work in progress.
- Useful for client reviews and staging
- Works on preview URLs as well as production
- Turn it off when you’re ready to launch
- Client preview
- Share the preview URL and a password
- Staging
- Protect a whole site until launch day
Analytics & Web Vitals
See how real visitors experience your site
Each site has traffic analytics and Core Web Vitals in the dashboard, so you can see how real visits perform.
- Traffic analytics per site
- Core Web Vitals from real visits
- Shown in the site’s dashboard next to its deployments
- Traffic
- How many people visit, and which pages
- Web Vitals
- Loading, interactivity and layout stability as visitors experienced them
Da8a backend
A Supabase-compatible backend, one click away
From your site’s Storage tab, create a Da8a backend: Postgres, auth, file storage and edge functions, with the same APIs as Supabase. Chapong links it to your site and keeps the URL, public key and auth redirect URLs in sync, including for preview deploys.
- Use the standard
supabase-jsclient - Migrations, SQL, functions and secrets through the
avocaCLI - On an own-server plan the backend can run on the same server as your sites
- Manage it in the Da8a dashboard
import { createClient } from '@supabase/supabase-js';
// URL + anon key of the linked Da8a backend (SUPABASE_URL / SUPABASE_ANON_KEY, mapped to VITE_ names for Vite)
export const db = createClient(
import.meta.env.VITE_SUPABASE_URL,
import.meta.env.VITE_SUPABASE_ANON_KEY,
);
const { data } = await db.from('posts').select('*');CLI & API
Script it
The avoca CLI deploys from your terminal or CI, and the REST management API underneath it is yours to call too.
avoca deployfor previews,--prodfor production- Upload a pre-built folder with
--dir, or build the repo on the server with--git - List deployments and roll back
- Bearer-token REST API for sites and deployments
$ avoca login
$ avoca sites list
$ avoca deploy --build --prodYour own servers
Data sovereignty without running ops yourself
On an own-server plan your sites build and run on a dedicated server provisioned for you. No other customer’s workloads share it, and your code, builds, logs and database stay on it.
- The server is included in the plan price
- No noisy neighbours
- Start on shared hosting and move over later
- Pair it with a Da8a backend on the same machine
- Shared hosting
- Free and low-cost plans on a shared pool, a fine place to start
- Your own server
- A dedicated machine for your projects, managed by Chapong
McManus assistant
An assistant that asks before it acts
McManus, the built-in AI assistant, can explain a failed build, suggest a fix or draft a configuration change. It works approve-first: it proposes the change and nothing happens until you click Apply.
- Proposes changes; you review and click Apply
- Explains what it’s suggesting and why
- Doesn’t change your site without your approval
- You ask
- “Why did my last deploy fail?”
- McManus proposes
- A change with an explanation
- You decide
- Apply it, or don’t