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title: "About - Deplo"
description: "Who builds Deplo, why it exists and how it is funded: open source deployment for the servers you already own."
url: "https://deplo.build/about"
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updated: "2026-10-09"
---

# About

## Open source deployment for the servers you already own.

About Deplo

Deplo is built in the open by a small team of maintainers and everyone who sends a pull request, opens an issue or answers a question on Discord.

[Read the code](https://github.com/DeploCloud/deplo)

[Join the Discord](https://ds.deplo.build)

Why Deplo exists

Hosting an app should not mean choosing between a platform that bills by the request and a server you have to wire up by hand.

Deplo sits in between: push a repository, pick a server, and the app is built, deployed and served with HTTPS, on hardware you control and at the price of that hardware.

## What we hold to

### Open source, for real

Every line of Deplo is public under the GNU Affero General Public License v3. You can read it, run it and change it.

### Your servers, your bill

Run it on a VPS, a machine at home or a partner's server. Deplo itself costs nothing: you pay for the hardware, at the hardware's price.

### Nothing phones home

Nothing in the product waits for a licence key or a server of ours. Your installation keeps running whatever happens to us.

## The people behind it

Deplo was founded by Kevin Paratore in Italy and is run under the name DeploCloud. Kevin maintains it with Federico Valeri and Elia Frigerio, together with everyone below.

- [Kevin Paratore](https://github.com/IdraDev): Founder & Core Maintainer
- [Federico Valeri](https://github.com/PixelFederico): Maintainer
- [Elia Frigerio](https://github.com/Frig1): Maintainer

### Contributors

[Snox-dev1](https://github.com/Snox-dev1), [ldercoli](https://github.com/ldercoli), [sharktide](https://github.com/sharktide)

### How it is funded

Through GitHub Sponsors and through the hosting partners listed on the site: when you buy a server from one of them through our link we may receive a commission, and the price you pay stays the same.

[Sponsor the project](https://github.com/sponsors/IdraDev)

[Hosting partners](https://deplo.build/partners)

### Get in touch

For anything about the project, write to hello@deplo.build or find us on Discord. Security issues go to security@deplo.build: the security page explains how we handle them.

[hello@deplo.build](mailto:hello@deplo.build)

[Discord](https://ds.deplo.build)

[Security](https://deplo.build/security)

## Ten minutes from now, 
it's live.

Answer three questions and pick a host, or install Deplo on a server you already have. It's free, and leaving is as easy as arriving. What you do with the money you save is your business.

[Docs](https://deplo.build/docs)

[Get started](https://deplo.build/get-started)

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