The sysadmin work, done.
You get to just build.
Thirteen things MaxPlane takes off your plate, in one panel and at one price.
Connect a server in one paste
Paste an IP, pick a user, click connect. MaxPlane hardens the box, installs the agent and starts streaming CPU, RAM, disk and network the same minute. Works with any Ubuntu server from any provider, and your first one is free forever.
You get a production-ready server without spending the afternoon on firewall rules, fail2ban and SSH hardening, and without wondering whether you missed a step. Buy the cheapest box from whoever you like, and the setup is the same every time.
Every stack, one wizard
WordPress, Laravel/PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, Docker and static sites all deploy through the same five steps. Whatever the app needs (PHP-FPM, PM2, Gunicorn, Puma, Compose) gets installed on the way, and different stacks live happily on the same server.
So a client's WordPress site, your Next.js frontend and a Python worker can share one $6 server instead of three, and picking a language for the next project stops being a hosting decision. Use whatever makes you fastest.
WordPress
Laravel / PHP
Node.js
Python
Ruby
Docker
Static / HTML
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDBPush to deploy, click to roll back
Link a GitHub repo once. Every push builds and goes live on its own. If a release misbehaves, the previous one is a single click away, so shipping on a Friday stops being a brave act.
Atomic deploys are available too. Each release builds in its own folder and the live symlink flips only when everything is ready, so a visitor never sees a half-finished deploy, and rolling back is just pointing the symlink at the last release that worked.
MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, managed from MaxPlane
The tools to run, view and manage your databases are already built into MaxPlane. Create databases and users, browse tables, run queries and export dumps from the same panel your apps live in. Nothing extra to install and nothing extra to secure.
That means no phpMyAdmin left exposed on a public URL, no juggling three different clients, and a quick "how many orders today" answered in the browser without opening a terminal.
One-click load balancing, same IP
A traffic spike, a launch day, or a single server that has simply run out of headroom should not mean downtime or a night of rewiring. Tick the servers you want to share the load, click once, and in under two minutes visitors are spread across all of them while the IP your DNS points at stays exactly where it was. No propagation wait, no cutover, no one notices.
Add a node when traffic climbs and remove it when things settle, at any hour, and a server going down stops being an outage. It just means the others pick up its share.
You choose how traffic is split: round robin, least connections or IP hash. Not sure which suits your app? The load balancing guide explains each in plain words.
HTTPS on every site, and you never touch a certificate again
An expired certificate takes a site down on a Sunday and costs you trust before anyone notices. On MaxPlane it can't happen. Every site gets a free Let's Encrypt certificate one click after deploy, HTTPS is on in about thirty seconds, and renewal runs on its own for as long as the site exists.
Need an EV, OV or wildcard certificate from DigiCert, Sectigo, GlobalSign or the like? Paste the certificate, key and chain and MaxPlane wires it up, or install it by hand if you prefer. The free one stays available for every site, on every plan.
Backups you set once
Choose a schedule and forget about it. Apps and databases are snapshotted on time, and restoring any of them is one click, not an evening.
Where they go is up to you. Add a CloudCenmax object storage bucket in any of its 17 regions and there is nothing to configure, MaxPlane creates it, connects it and starts shipping snapshots to it on its own. Already keep things in your own S3 or an SFTP box? Point at that instead, both are supported.
Either way the copies live off the server, so a dead disk or a bad update never takes your only backup with it. Set how many to keep and older snapshots are pruned on their own. A client's 6pm mistake becomes a two-minute restore, and you get your evening back.
A WAF and malware scanner, built in
Every request passes through a heuristic firewall that blocks SQL injection, path traversal and session hijacking before it reaches your code. A daily malware scan cleans out anything that slips into the codebase. Included with the Business and Scale plans, and subscribable individually, per server, on any plan that does not.
The rules are yours to shape. Whitelist a path your app needs, switch off a rule that gets in the way, and add rules from your own threat feed or a third-party one, all running alongside the rules from our threat network. When a zero-day lands, a premium rule set is available as a monthly add-on, and the base protection is included on Business and Scale.
Monitoring that tells you before your customers do
Live CPU, memory, disk and network graphs for every server, and alerts on the thresholds you set. High load, a filling disk, an SSL certificate about to expire, you hear about it first.
Most outages announce themselves an hour early to anyone who is looking. MaxPlane is the one looking, so you fix a disk at 91% on a Tuesday afternoon instead of explaining a crash on a Sunday night.
A real terminal, in the browser
Full interactive SSH from any device, no keys to copy around, no PuTTY, no config. Open a server, open a shell, do the thing.
Handy when you are on someone else's laptop, or on your phone, and a log needs reading right now. Access is tied to your MaxPlane login, so removing a teammate removes their shell too.
Files and SFTP, sorted
Browse, edit, upload and download straight from the panel. Need to hand a client access to just their site? Create a scoped SFTP account and nothing else on the server is reachable.
A quick fix to a config no longer needs an FTP client and a saved password, and a client or a freelancer can upload their own assets without ever seeing another customer's files.
Built for agency teams
Invite your developers, designers and account managers into one workspace and decide, per person, which servers and sites they can see and what they can do there. A junior gets deploy rights on the staging box and nothing on production. A freelancer gets one client's site for one project. The account manager sees status and backups without a shell.
Every action is tied to a named login, so you always know who deployed what and when. Onboarding a new hire is an invite, offboarding is a toggle, and their SSH, SFTP and terminal access all go with it. No shared root passwords floating around Slack.
Migrate a site in one wizard
Moving from another host? Give MaxPlane the source, and it brings the files over with rsync and the database with it. Zero downtime, no manual dumps.
The old site keeps serving until you flip DNS, so the switch happens on your schedule and nobody sees a maintenance page. Bring one site to try, or fifty, the wizard is the same.