Forge-grade control,
without the fragility.
Sproobo provisions and runs your sites, apps and databases on Linux servers you own — everything in Docker, your data on your box. The whole class of “an OS update broke my server at 2am” failures is deleted by design.
Runs on any Debian- or RHEL-family server
You’ve paid it before. Probably at 2am.
Forge, Ploi and hand-rolled VPS setups install PHP, Node and your database natively, coupled to the host OS. One unattended upgrade, one PPA drift, one library bump — and production is down while you SSH in and pray.
Native coupling
An apt upgrade nudges your system PHP or OpenSSL and takes three unrelated apps with it. Versions you never chose, changing on a schedule you don’t control.
Data held hostage
Metrics and logs get shipped to someone else’s cloud. Your database lives in a volume you can’t inspect. Leaving the platform means leaving your data behind.
Inbound attack surface
Control planes that need an open SSH port or a poked firewall hole. One more thing to lock down, one more way to get locked out when an automation misfires.
Everything runs in Docker. On your box.
Apps and backing services run as pinned, choosable containers. App data lives on owner-inspectable bind-mounted host paths — it survives docker volume prune. Nothing native to break; nothing you can’t see.
Control without the caretaking.
Pinned versions
Choose exact versions for apps and services — Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, MongoDB. They change when you change them, never on an OS timer.
Data on your box
Bind-mounted host paths you can open, back up and reason about. Survives volume prune. No hidden volumes, no lock-in.
Outbound-only agent
A single static Go binary dials home over WSS/443. No inbound firewall holes, nothing to expose to the internet.
Reliable deploys
Off-box build, blue-green swap, health gate, atomic proxy switch, auto-rollback. Reliability you can name, not just adjectives.
AI-native, safely
Connect claude.ai or ChatGPT, teach your coding agent the CLI, and drive infra through the same audited API a human uses — plan-first, approval-gated.
No lock-out, ever
Break-glass SSH is never severed. Lock-out is impossible by design — the platform can’t wall you off from a server you own.
Your logs and metrics never leave home.
Sproobo reads logs and metrics live from your server, on demand — and stores none of it. When data is stale, we say so, plainly. We never fake “live.”
- liveStreamed straight from the box when you open the panel.
- stale“Last seen 14m ago — showing the last known snapshot, not live.”
- storedNothing. Sproobo keeps only what it needs to reach your agent.
Let an agent run your infra — on the same rails you do.
Connect claude.ai or ChatGPT as a connector, install the Sproobo skill in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, or script it with the CLI — they all call the exact same audited API a human uses. Destructive changes come as a plan you review and approve — diff first, apply second.
Same control surface. Different foundation.
Migrate one server at a time — no big-bang cutover. Here’s the short version; the full matrix is fair and factual.
| Sproobo | Forge | Ploi | Coolify | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps & services in Docker | Everything | Native | Native | Yes |
| Pinned service versions | Apps + DBs | Host-tied | Host-tied | Partial |
| Data on inspectable host paths | Yes | — | — | Volumes |
| Outbound-only agent (no open ports) | Yes | SSH in | SSH in | SSH in |
| AI connectors (claude.ai / ChatGPT) | Built-in | No | No | No |
Architecture facts, not vanity metrics — these are true by construction.
Questions engineers actually ask.
Keep the control. Drop the fragility.
Enroll a server with one command and watch it bootstrap live. Your box, your data, your call.