Why Google Cloud?

Most businesses that start on Heroku or their own servers end up moving to a managed cloud service like Google Cloud.

Your own servers

Your own VPS or Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean, AWS, Linode, etc.

Hosting complexity

Can your servers handle fluctuations in traffic? Are your servers protected against security breaches?

Regular downtime

Pay for over-provisioned servers that are idle most of the time or suffer downtime during peak periods.

Permanent stress

Your application goes offline in the middle of the night. Guess who's getting woken up? You.

Google Cloud

Fully-managed cloud services that run on Google's scalable infrastructure.

Focus on writing code

Outsource your server maintenance and 2AM wake-up calls to a team of experts.

Handle traffic spikes

Provide a seamless user experience at all times with on-demand auto-scaling.

Reduce hosting costs

Only pay for the exact hosting services you use, with pay-per-request billing.

Minimize downtime

Run your apps on one of the most secure and reliable clouds in the world.

Customize as you scale

Keep complete control over your infrastructure and customize whenever you need.

Hosting platform

Heroku, Render, Vercel, Fly, DigitalOcean App Platform, etc.

Expensive

Up to 6 times as expensive as Google Cloud once you need some scale.

One size fits all

There is no way to customize your hosting infrastructure.

No control

The reputation of your business lies in the hands of someone else.

Why Shipmate?

Deploy full-stack applications in minutes

Instead of spending weeks learning all the ins-and-outs of the cloud, Shipmate lets you define your applications using high-level building blocks and then installs them on your Google Cloud account.

Your code

Run your own frontend and backend services built with PHP, JavaScript, Python, Go or Node.js.

Google Cloud Run

Your Dockerfile

If your service is built with a different technology, you can deploy it using your own Dockerfile.

Google Cloud Run

HTTPS endpoint

Expose your application through a secure HTTPS endpoint with a custom domain.

Google Cloud Load balancing

Database

Securely store and query data in a MySQL or Redis database.

Google Cloud SQL & Memorystore

Storage bucket

Store static assets and large files in an S3-compatible filesystem.

Google Cloud Storage

Job queue

Improve your application's responsiveness by queueing time-consuming jobs.

Google Cloud Tasks

Cron job

Schedule recurring jobs at regular intervals.

Google Cloud Scheduler

Message queue

Decouple your services with asynchronous event-based communication.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub

CDN

Deliver images, audio clips and videos lightning fast around the globe.

Google Cloud CDN

An interface for every type of developer

Deploy from our visual builder ...

Shipmate's visual web builder allows you to deploy your apps without any DevOps experience. All complexity is hidden behind simple forms and beautiful visualizations.

Configuration as code

... or from your beloved code editor

Shipmate stores its configuration in the Git repository of your application, hooks into your Git workflow and automatically deploys every change you make in your code editor.

.shipmate/backend.yml

.shipmate/frontend.yml

service:
  type: php:1.0
  variables:
    path_to_source_code: /backend
    php_version: 8.2
  environment:
    JOB_QUEUE_NAME: {{ job_queues.reporting.name }}
    JOB_QUEUE_URL: {{ job_queues.reporting.url }}
    DATABASE_URL: {{ mysql_databases.mysql.url }}

job_queues:
  - name: reporting
    timeout: 600

cron_jobs:
  - name: generate_reports
    schedule: 0 0 * * *
    command: php ./scripts/generate-reports.php

mysql_databases:
  - name: mysql