One App to Manage Every Linux Server You Run
The servers, the logs, the files, the deploys, the keys, the backups. Ten jobs that live in five tools and forty terminal tabs, on one screen. Runs on your machine, so your credentials never leave it.
- 1 month free
- No credit card
- Unlimited servers
- #5 Product of the DayProduct Hunt - opens Product Hunt in a new tab
- 4.8 / 5on G2 - opens G2 in a new tab
- 80%less time on routine server work
- Local-firstcredentials never leave your machine
- Rust + Tauri0.4s launch, 16 MB install
- Data Resolve
- Atram
- Brands.live
- DI Solutions
- TechForce
- Olbuz
- Coherent
- Softnoesis
You already know how this goes.
None of this is hard. That is the problem. It is a hundred small frictions a week, and every one of them happens while you were trying to do something else.
~ $ ssh ???
- "bash (2)" is not a server name
- The wrong tab is a production incident
- Five tools, five bills, five logins
- Twenty minutes to find one log file
- Someone left. Nobody revoked their key.
~ $
“Most developer teams I know are still managing servers the same way they did 10 years ago: a spreadsheet of IPs, a bunch of SSH tabs, and one person who "knows the servers" and becomes a single point of failure the moment they're unavailable.”
The things that stop eating your week.
Each one is a job you already do. The only thing that changes is how long it takes and how sure you are when it is done.
You spend five minutes finding the server before you can start the work.
Every Server You Own in One Window
Save each server once, then find it by name instead of digging for an IP. Open several at a time, each in its own tab, so a long build never blocks you.
- One click to connect
- Independent tab per server
- Unlimited servers on every plan
Half a day of Nginx, PM2 and certbot to ship a small app.
Deploy like Vercel. On a server you own.
Connect GitHub, pick a repo, add a domain. CtrlOps builds it, runs it under PM2, configures Nginx and issues SSL while you watch. About five minutes.
- No CI/CD to configure
- SSL issued and wired up
- Every step visible while it runs
You find out the disk is full when something already stopped working.
Know Your Server's Health at a Glance
Colour-coded CPU, memory and disk gauges refresh every two seconds and turn red before something breaks. See the top processes eating your memory, then clear cache or reclaim disk space in one click.
- Live gauges, refreshed every 2s
- Top processes by CPU or memory
- Clear cache or disk in one click
Twenty minutes of hunting before you read one relevant line.
Every Log File, Found and Grouped for You
CtrlOps scans the server and lists every log it finds, from Nginx to PM2 to syslog, so you stop guessing at paths. Search inside one, follow it live, or download it without opening an SSH session.
- Every log found and grouped
- Search inside any log
- Follow it live, or download it
Half your commands you retype. The other half you Google.
Run Any Server Command in Plain English
Describe what you need and the AI writes the exact command, explains it, flags anything destructive, and waits for your approval. It can search the web for current docs first, and reach your own tools through MCP.
- Nothing runs without your approval
- Web search for up-to-date docs
- MCP servers built in
- Your own key, no markup on tokens
scp, wrong path, scp again, ssh in to unzip it.
Upload, Edit and Unzip Server Files by Dragging Them
Browse your server like a folder on your desktop. Drag files both directions, unzip in place, and edit a config without opening nano.
- Drag and drop both directions
- Unzip on the server
- Edit a config in the app
Offboarding means visiting every server by hand.
See Who Can Reach Every Server, Revoke in One Click
Scan your fleet for a table of every person, every server they can reach, and who has sudo. Remove them from all of it in one action.
- A readable table, not a base64 blob
- Sudo visible per person, per server
- Offboard the whole fleet in one action
A new dev's first day is spent waiting for server access.
Onboard a New Dev in Minutes, With the Right Access
Paste their public key once, tick the servers they need, and set the role per server. Full, read-write or read-only, without touching visudo.
- One key, many servers, one action
- A different role per server
- Read-only access without touching visudo
You are fairly sure the cron job is still working.
Scheduled Backups That Prove They Ran
Point it at a folder, test the connection, set a schedule. No rclone config, no crontab, and every run keeps a log with a file count.
- Schedule it, or run it now
- Your own bucket, six S3 providers
- A log and a file count per run
The usual way, and the CtrlOps way.
Seven jobs you did this week. Same servers, same work - read the middle column and see how much of your afternoon it costs you today.
Seven jobs. One app. One month free to find out whether it holds up on your fleet.
Six tools, or one.
We are not going to quote you someone else's price list. Just add up what you already pay for the stack on the left.
What you pay for today
Add up your own numbers.
- An SSH client
- An SFTP client
- A monitoring dashboard
- A deploy tool or CI pipeline
- A backup script nobody maintains
- A spreadsheet of who holds which key
One window covers connecting, files, metrics, logs, deploys, access and backups.
Every feature unlocked, and no auto-charge when it ends. Cancel anytime, and your price is locked on renewal.
Unlimited servers on every plan. Your 30th server costs the same as your 3rd. $70 a year, or $149 once for lifetime.
Built for people who run more than one server.
If a single box runs your whole world, you probably do not need this yet. It starts paying for itself somewhere around your third server.
Agencies
who run servers for a dozen clients and need to know, today, who can reach which one.
Technical founders
who are the entire infrastructure team right now and would like shipping to stay cheap.
DevOps engineers
who want the routine half of the job to stop eating the interesting half.
Backend developers
who own the deploy as well as the code, and debug production on a Friday.
Freelancers
juggling client VPSs that all have different keys, ports and quirks.
Small product teams
where "who knows the servers" is currently one person, and that person takes holidays.
The people already running it.
Engineering managers, CTOs, DevOps engineers and founders. Every quote below is a link to the original post.
"AI suggests, you approve" framing is strong, especially for something as sensitive as servers.
100% local and credentials never leave your machine positioning is doing a lot of trust work here and it's the right call.
CtrlOps Scripts feature is a huge DevOps productivity boost. Save, reuse & run scripts directly from the panel.
Each server has its own separate monitoring tool for things like CPU status and RAM status. This setup allows me to quickly navigate from one server to another.
I use CtrlOps to manage multiple servers with ease. Its GUI-based file manager saves me a lot of time, and the AI terminal helps me troubleshoot server issues quickly.
For months, deployments terrified me - I'm not a DevOps guy. Every push to production made my stomach drop, so I delayed, avoided, and shipped less.
What really stands out to me is the plain-English terminal idea. Lowering that barrier means developers can actually own their environment instead of depending on a single DevOps hero. That's a huge shift in team dynamics, not just tooling.
The preview step is the whole game when AI touches live infra. CtrlOps gets it right: ask in plain English, see the exact command before it runs, approve. Been running it alongside ClawMetry and the fit is natural.
The AI-assisted debug loop for Linux servers is something we've wanted at RetainSure for a while. Chasing down intermittent issues across multiple EC2 instances usually means a lot of context switching between logs, metrics, and SSH sessions.
The questions worth asking first.
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Stop juggling tools. Start managing fleets.
One app for every server you run, on your machine, with your keys. 1 month free, every feature unlocked, no credit card and no auto-charge when it ends.
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