Production cloud
for the apps you build with AI.
Real machines. Real databases. Snapshot the whole project, code and data together, and roll back any time.
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Counts registered accounts using corporate email domains from the companies above. Playcode is a self-serve product, not a contracted vendor to these brands.
Snapshot your whole project. Roll it all back - code and database - in one click.
Most platforms snapshot your code. We snapshot the whole machine - the application AND the data inside it.
- ●Made a database schema change you regret.
- ●A bad migration corrupted production data.
- ●A customer reported something broken three deploys ago.
- ●You want to experiment on a fresh fork without touching real data.
Pick a snapshot. Click Restore. Code and data return to that exact point together.
Automatic snapshot before every production deploy - so there's always a rollback point. Replit is the only other platform we know of that does this end-to-end. Almost nobody else.
Built the way serious infrastructure is built.
A look inside Playcode Cloud - the architecture, not the brand names.
Your code, your database, and your background jobs all live on the same always-on machine.
Your application, your database, your scheduled jobs, your uploaded files, your background workers, all running together on one dedicated machine. Always on. Nothing to glue together across separate services.
Dedicated CPU, memory, and disk per project. No noisy neighbors, no shared runtime sandbox. Hardware-level isolation.
Because it's all one machine, when you snapshot, you snapshot all of it together. Bare-metal on modern, reliable server hardware in a European data center. Conceptually similar to Fly.io for the machine model.
Your machines talk to each other privately.
Run your database on one machine and your application on another. They connect on a private network inside your workspace - never over the public internet.
Each project gets its own custom domain with HTTPS handled for you. The public gateway exposes only what you want exposed.
Continuously persisted to durable cloud storage.
Your database, files, and uploaded assets write to durable cloud storage every few seconds. Survives every machine restart, every host reboot, every crash.
You pay for what you actually use, not the disk size you reserve. A 50 GB disk with 2 GB written costs you 2 GB.
Clone your whole environment in milliseconds.
Snapshots are fast. Forks are instant.
Fast forks
Spin up a copy of your production environment in seconds - same code, same database, same machine spec. Test, throw away, repeat.
Fast snapshots
Take a snapshot any time. Restore from any snapshot any time. The data doesn't move - only the pointer does.
Disks that grow
Need more space? Disks expand without migration, without downtime. Conceptually similar to what Replit does for fast cloning.
Your dev machine and production machine, kept in sync by git.
We run our own git server, and every project gets its own private repository.
Each project gets a private git repository on our internal git server. Full branches, merges, commit history - the same workflow you already know.
Your dev machine and your production machine share that single repo. When you click Publish, production pulls the exact commit you intended. No drift between what you wrote and what's live. No "works on my dev" surprises.
Two ways to roll back: via git (commit-level precision) or via the whole-machine snapshots from above (code + data together). You choose the right tool for the failure.
Every production deploy comes with an undo button.
Before every deploy we snapshot live production - code, database, files, everything. If anything fails, we roll back automatically. If you change your mind later, one click does it.
What you can build.
Real apps for real users. Not toy demos.
SaaS app with user accounts and a database
Always-on production machine, real database, custom domain with HTTPS, automated backups via snapshot before every deploy. Roll back code AND data together if something goes sideways.
Real-time tool - chat, collaboration, live dashboards
WebSocket servers run as long as you need. If you split components across machines (database here, app server there), they talk on a private network - low latency, never over the public internet.
Internal tool for your team
Private custom domain, isolated from the public internet, full git history of every change. Snapshot before each deploy means you can always undo.
The questions prospects actually ask.
Straight answers - no hand-waving.
Will my backend services stay online continuously, or do they shut down when inactive?
Yes - production stays online 24/7. Your development machine auto-suspends after a period of inactivity to save compute, then wakes back up in under a second when you visit it or someone makes a request. Your data is never lost - only the running processes pause.
Can the backend handle real production traffic - multiple users, concurrent requests?
Yes. Each project runs on its own dedicated machine with full networking - real TCP/UDP ports, public domain, automatic HTTPS, custom domains. Suitable for a small to mid-sized app's traffic. We don't yet auto-scale a single app across multiple machines (manual horizontal scaling is supported); it's on the roadmap.
Is storage persistent? Will my database and files survive restarts and redeploys?
Yes. Your database, files, and uploaded assets write continuously to durable cloud storage. They survive every machine restart, every host reboot, and every crash. You pay only for the bytes you actually use, not the disk size you reserve.
Does the backend support long-running processes - WebSockets, queues, background workers?
Yes. Full Linux process model. WebSocket servers, background workers, scheduled jobs, any framework - anything a normal Linux server can run.
Do you sync bidirectionally with GitHub, with full commit history, branches, and merges?
Right now: we run our own private git server. Every project gets its own repository with full branches, merges, and commit history - the same workflow you know. Two-way mirror to a GitHub.com repository is on the roadmap. Today you can push and pull from our git server, and export your project as a ZIP any time.
Is Playcode Cloud a production hosting environment, or just a cloud IDE for prototyping?
Both. Your project has a development machine (browser editor + terminal) AND a production machine (always-on, custom domain, automated rollback on failed deploy). One codebase, two environments, one-click publish from dev to prod. Real users hit your production app at your custom domain.
We're in private beta. Here's what's not yet built - so you know.
- Auto-scaling across multiple machines. Manual horizontal scaling is supported today; we don't yet auto-grow a single app across a cluster.
- Multi-region failover. Single European region today (Germany). Multi-region is on the roadmap.
- Bidirectional GitHub mirror. Coming. Today our own git server handles full git semantics internally; ZIP export available any time.
Everything else above is live today. Cloud is available by request while we're in beta.
Ready when you are.
Playcode Cloud is included in Pro and Business plans. See the full pricing page for tier details and credit packages.