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Short, step-by-step guides to every part of BuildPusher. For automation, see the API reference.

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Your account

Get started

Create a project, turn on the services it needs, and find your way around.

Your account

Invite your team and set access

Add people to the account, give them a role, and choose which services they can use.

Your account

Plans and billing

Choose a plan for each service; they’re all billed together on one subscription.

Your account

Keep your account secure

Two-factor authentication, passkeys, sessions and account-wide security rules.

Your account

Use the API

Automate deploys and more with API tokens.

Your account

Run client work (agencies)

Your branding on what clients see, a monthly report for each client, and costs passed on with your markup.

Your account

Ask the assistant

Ask about deploys, errors, checks, incidents, Analytics and servers in plain language, in the app or from your AI tools.

Your account

Webhooks

Send deploys, incidents, servers, backups, findings and billing changes to your own automation.

Your account

Claim your project’s domains

Add the hostnames a project serves and verify them, so no other account can claim them.

Your account

Download or delete your data

Get a copy of what we hold about you, or delete your user account.

Infrastructure

Connect a cloud provider

Let BuildPusher create servers in your DigitalOcean, Hetzner Cloud, Vultr, Linode, AWS (Lightsail or EC2), Google Compute Engine, Azure, OVHcloud, Scaleway or UpCloud account.

Infrastructure

Create a server

Provision a server in your cloud account and follow its setup live.

Infrastructure

Add a website

Host a website on a server, with a domain, TLS and a database.

Infrastructure

Cron jobs, processes, firewall and services

Schedule commands, keep workers running, open ports and install search or cache on a server.

Infrastructure

Web server, files, logs and CDN

Adjust how a website is served, look at its files and logs, and put it behind a CDN.

Infrastructure

Run commands and open a terminal

Run a one-off command on a server, or open a root shell in your browser to troubleshoot.

Infrastructure

Recipes and the recipe gallery

Your own scripts for new servers, and ready-made ones other accounts have shared.

Infrastructure

Storage buckets

Object storage for your apps, from S3, Spaces, R2, Google Cloud Storage and others.

Infrastructure

Move from Forge or Ploi

Read your servers and sites from Laravel Forge or Ploi and recreate them here, one site at a time.

Infrastructure

Costs and right-sizing

See what your servers cost and what your providers billed, set a budget, and size them to what they actually use.

Infrastructure

Back up and restore

Scheduled, verified backups to your own storage.

Infrastructure

Add a read replica

Copy a database server continuously to another one that serves reads, and promote it if the primary fails.

Infrastructure

Load balancers

Spread a hostname’s traffic across app servers, skipping any that fail a health check.

Deploy

Deploy from Git

Connect a repository and deploy it to a website on every push.

Deploy

Deploy from the command line

Deploy, follow logs and roll back from your terminal or CI with the BuildPusher CLI.

Deploy

Environments and variables

Configure each environment: variables, workers, how deploys run, and recipes.

Deploy

Autoscaling, maintenance mode and regions

Scale with demand, take the site down for planned work, and see where it runs.

Deploy

Preview pull requests

Give every pull request its own running copy.

Deploy

Roll back, compare and promote

Go back to a known release, see what changed, and move a tested build forward.

Deploy

Configuration as code

Describe environments in YAML, see exactly what would change, and apply it as a review.

Monitoring

Monitor uptime

Check your sites and jobs, and get told when something breaks.

Monitoring

Send errors, traces and metrics

Instrument your application so problems point at the release that caused them.

Monitoring

Alert rules

Open incidents from errors, latency, log lines, metrics and SLO burn, and keep alerts quiet enough to trust.

Monitoring

On-call schedules

Decide who gets paged, by rotation, and cover for people who are away.

Monitoring

Incidents and status pages

Respond to problems and keep your users informed.

Monitoring

Service level objectives (SLOs)

Promise how reliable a service is, and see how much room is left before you break it.

Monitoring

Dashboards

Bring telemetry, incidents, monitors and SLOs together on one page your team can share.

Security

Get started with Security

Turn on Security, read the findings and fix what matters first.

Security

Vulnerable packages, secrets and the deploy gate

Find known vulnerabilities and leaked credentials in what you deploy, and stop risky deploys.

Security

Harden and update servers

See how each server is set up, fix problems in a click, and install security updates on a schedule.

Security

Firewall, bots and attacks

Cloudflare protection for your zones, and automatic blocking of attackers.

Security

SSH keys and access reviews

Give people their own SSH access, and review who can reach the account.

Security

Compliance evidence

Download evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and security questionnaires.

Analytics

Add analytics to a website

Count visitors without cookies, and measure the goals that matter.

Analytics

Explore your traffic

Choose any period, compare it, save segments, and dig into paths, retention and sales.

Analytics

Funnels

See how many visitors take the steps you care about, in order, and where they drop off.

Analytics

Reports, alerts and sharing

Send regular reports and CSV exports, get told about spikes and unusual days, and share or embed a report.

Analytics

Import, export and your own domain

Bring your Google Analytics history, send raw data to BigQuery, and avoid ad blockers.

Audit

Run an audit of your site

Watch a simulated visitor try real tasks on your site and your competitors’, and see what to improve.

Audit

About the BuildPusher Audit visitor

What the BuildPusherAudit user agent is, what it does on your site, and how to stop it.

Still stuck?

Email us and a person will reply, or send feedback from inside the app.

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