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BuildPusher is the all-in-one alternative to Ploi

Ploi is a server management panel: it sets up servers in your cloud accounts and deploys sites to them. BuildPusher puts deploys, servers, monitoring and analytics in one account.

No card to start. Every service has a free tier.

Ploi is a capable server panel. BuildPusher is servers, deploys, monitoring, security and analytics together.

BuildPusher and Ploi at a glance
BuildPusherPloi
FocusDeploy, run, monitor, secure and analyseManage servers and deploy sites
Where your apps runServers in your own cloud accountServers in your own cloud account
How you payPer service, with a free tier on eachA subscription for the account
Errors and tracesBuilt in (Monitoring)Bring your own
Visitor analyticsBuilt in (Analytics)Bring your own

Who should choose which?

Choose BuildPusher if…

You want deploys, the servers they run on, monitoring and analytics to work together, on one bill.

  • Uptime checks, errors, traces, incidents, on-call and status pages are in the same place as your deploys.
  • Previews per pull request (optionally with a copy of a database), approvals and automatic rollback when a release fails its health checks.
  • Cookieless Analytics shows each release beside the traffic.

Choose Ploi if…

You want a server panel on its own and are happy to bring separate tools for monitoring and analytics.

  • A long-established panel with a wide range of server and site settings.
  • If you only want a server panel, there’s less to learn.

3 reasons teams choose BuildPusher over Ploi

  1. 1

    Deploys you can see the effect of

    Each release is marked in Monitoring and Analytics, so errors, slow requests and traffic changes point at the deploy that caused them.

  2. 2

    Previews and safe releases

    A preview for every pull request (optionally with a copy of the database), approvals and automatic rollback when a release fails its health checks.

  3. 3

    Security built in

    Vulnerable packages, leaked secrets, server hardening and attack blocking, with deploys stopped when a critical vulnerability ships.

Try BuildPusher: deploy without the busywork

Deployment #1841

Storefront · production

Health verified

A release record with revision, rollout and verification in one place.

  1. Approve

    Recorded

  2. Release

    Recorded

  3. Verify

    Recorded

Revision
a71c8ef
Strategy
Blue-green
Recovery
Available

Illustrative interface with sample data.

Sample data, for illustration.

What’s included in each

FeatureBuildPusherPloi
Servers in your own cloud accountYesYes
Domains and automatic TLSYesYes
Databases, cron jobs and daemonsYesYes
BackupsYesYes
FeatureBuildPusherPloi
Git deploysYesYes
Zero-downtime deploysYesYes
Preview per pull requestYes—No
Approvals and automatic rollbackYes—No
FeatureBuildPusherPloi
Error tracking and tracesYes—No
Privacy-friendly analyticsYes—No
Package and secret scanningYes—No

What’s alike

  • Servers stay in your own cloud account.
  • Sites get domains, certificates, databases, cron jobs, daemons and Git deploys.

Also in BuildPusher

  • Security checks your packages, code, servers and domains, blocks attackers, and stops deploys with known critical vulnerabilities.
  • Moving is guided: connect a Ploi API token and each site is recreated with its environment file, cron jobs and daemons.

Switching is easier than you think

Three steps, with nothing to rebuild by hand.

  1. Step 1

    Paste a Ploi API token under Move from Forge or Ploi

  2. Step 2

    Move each site to one of your servers here: its environment file, cron jobs and daemons come with it

  3. Step 3

    Connect the repository, deploy, copy the database and point DNS at the new server

Read the step-by-step guide

Run deploy without the overhead.

Every service has a free tier. Paid tiers: Deploy from $9 a month, Infrastructure is included. The free tiers of every other service come with it, on one bill.

What else you should know

Ploi is a trademark of its owner. This page is based on their public information as of September 2026; products change, so check their site for the latest.

Paste a Ploi API token under Move from Forge or Ploi. Move each site to one of your servers here: its environment file, cron jobs and daemons come with it. Connect the repository, deploy, copy the database and point DNS at the new server. Nothing changes at Ploi until you point DNS at the new server, so the old site keeps serving until then.

Servers stay in your own cloud account. Sites get domains, certificates, databases, cron jobs, daemons and Git deploys.

You want a server panel on its own and are happy to bring separate tools for monitoring and analytics. A long-established panel with a wide range of server and site settings. If you only want a server panel, there’s less to learn.

Every service has a free tier. Paid tiers: Deploy from $9 a month, Infrastructure is included. Each is a line on the same bill, and servers are billed by your cloud provider.