We are not the cheapest
Coolify on your own Hetzner box is cheaper than us, full stop. Cloudflare is cheaper than us at high request volume. We sell the time and the knowledge, not the servers, and if you have both then you should keep your money.
About
A small company that owns its own servers.
cmdz is built and operated by a team that can reach the hardware. That is not a slogan; it is the constraint that produced almost every decision on this site.
How we make money
From hosting. That is the whole answer.
You pay a monthly amount and metered usage, capped at your limit. We do not sell your data, we do not run advertising, we do not take a referral fee from a database vendor, and there is no marketplace where a partner bills you separately for something we introduced you to.
That matters more than it sounds. A platform that makes its margin on egress has to want your traffic to grow faster than your revenue. A platform that makes its margin on a marketplace has to want you to buy add-ons. Our incentive is that you stay, which means our incentive is that your invoice does not surprise you.
We are profitable at a size where a hundred customers matters. That is a real constraint and it shapes what we build — we cannot afford to serve everyone, so we chose who to serve and wrote it down.
hosting subscriptions ✓
metered usage under the cap ✓
domain names (cost + 25%) ✓
selling data ✗
advertising ✗
marketplace referral fees ✗
egress margin ✗
per-seat pricing ✗Boundaries
Four things we are not
A positioning without a boundary is a slogan. These are on this page so you can disqualify us quickly if one of them applies to you.
We are not a global edge network
We have a handful of regions and more on the roadmap. If your users are spread across three continents and latency is your product, we are not the right platform yet.
We are not built for a compliance department
No SOC 2 attestation, no procurement process, no enterprise tier. If your purchasing requires those, we would rather tell you on this page than in the third meeting.
We are not an AI builder
We do not write your app and we have no ambition to. We host what your AI builds, and we make the platform something your AI can operate.
The uncomfortable ones
Questions you should ask any small host
What if you go under?
You get your data and we help you move. Everything here runs on standard technology — OCI images, PostgreSQL, S3-compatible storage, ordinary DNS — so there is no proprietary format holding you.
The export function is published and works today, not as a promise for that scenario. We would rather you could always leave and chose not to.
Who actually answers when something breaks?
Someone who can reach the servers — a person who can look at your build log, your metrics and the node your workload is on. We answer during business hours (CET) and do our best outside them, with no bot tier in front of them.
Are you going to get acquired and change the pricing?
We cannot promise what a future owner would do, and anyone who does is guessing. What we can do is publish every price change with a date and a reason in a log with an RSS feed, never apply an increase retroactively, and keep the export function working — so if it ever happens, you see it and you can act.
Why the Netherlands?
Because that is where the company is, where the racks are, and where the legal relationship sits. It also happens to be a good answer to a GDPR question, but it is not a marketing position we adopted — it is just where we are.
Ask us something.
You will get an answer from a person who can reach the machines.