AI can now build a working full-stack app in minutes. The awkward part has always been what comes next: an editor over here, hosting over there, a separate database, a separate domain, and an afternoon of DevOps to glue it together. Playcode Cloud removes that gap - it runs your app for real, in the same workspace where it was built.
What Playcode Cloud is #
Playcode Cloud is production hosting for the apps you build in Playcode. Instead of a throwaway sandbox, each project runs on its own dedicated machine with real backend processes, a persistent database, and file storage - the whole app, always on. You get a real backend, a real database, HTTPS, background jobs, WebSockets, snapshots, rollback, and a per-project git repository, all in one place.
What you get #
A dedicated machine per project. Hardware-level isolation on bare-metal hardware in an EU data center - not a shared sandbox. Your app, your database, your jobs, your files, all on one always-on machine.A real database. Tables, queries, transactions. It holds your users, your records, your content, and it survives restarts and redeploys instead of behaving like a toy in-memory store.Real backend processes. WebSocket servers, background workers, scheduled jobs, and common server frameworks - the real Linux process model, within plan limits.Custom domains with automatic HTTPS. Showyour-app.com
to your users, not a staging URL. SEO-friendly, mobile-ready, SSL handled for you.Per-project git. Full branches, merges, and commit history for every project, plus dev-to-prod sync.Private networking between your machines.
The part we are proudest of: rollback of code and data together #
Most platforms version your code. Playcode Cloud snapshots the app and the data inside it on the supported snapshot path - so when a change goes wrong, you can roll the whole project back with one click: code and database, restored together. Before a production change, Playcode can take a snapshot and use rollback as a safety net if the release misbehaves. You can also clone the environment - same code, same database shape - and try a risky change against a real fork before it ever touches production.
This matters because a bad migration is the scariest thing that can happen to a live app. Versioning the code alone does not save you if the data is now wrong. Snapshotting both, and restoring both, is the difference between a five-second undo and a very bad evening.
No DevOps required #
There is no DevOps engineer, no servers to rent, no Docker to learn, and no separate database provider to wire up. You build the app in Playcode, hit publish, and it is live at your custom domain with HTTPS. Production stays online 24/7 - signups come in while you sleep, and you iterate later, with snapshots and rollback if a change needs to be undone.
When Cloud is the right call #
If your project is just files - a landing page, a portfolio, a static site - you may not need Cloud at all; see where to host a static website. Cloud earns its place the moment your app needs a backend it owns: user accounts, a real database, uploaded files, background jobs, or real-time features. For a full comparison against Render, Railway, Fly.io, and running your own server, read where to host a full-stack app.
Pricing #
Playcode Cloud is included with paid plans - the hosting layer is already part of Playcode, not a separate bill to assemble. You build and run in the same place, on the same plan.
Give your app a real home. Open Playcode at playcode.io, build your app, and publish it on Playcode Cloud with a real backend, database, and custom domain. See the Playcode Cloud page for the full feature list.