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Deploy The Lounge as a fully managed service starting at €9/mo. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, support and monitoring included.

The Lounge is an open-source web IRC client — a persistent browser-based client that stays connected to your IRC networks 24/7 — combining the convenience of IRCCloud with the security and control of self-hosted infrastructure.

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The Lounge

The Lounge

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€9/month
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USAGE

Unlimited
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is The Lounge

The Lounge is an open-source web IRC client that doubles as a persistent bouncer. You connect once; The Lounge holds the IRC sessions open and lets you reattach from any browser or phone with full scrollback.

The Lounge is MIT-licensed software maintained by a small community of contributors on GitHub. The project is a fork of the older "Shout" client by Mattias Erming and has been community-maintained since 2016. The repository at github.com/thelounge/thelounge sits at roughly 6,200 stars.

The architecture is Node.js on the server, Vue.js in the browser, with SQLite for message history. In private mode — the deployment we run on DANIAN — The Lounge acts as a bouncer and a client at the same time, which removes the need to run ZNC or Soju alongside a separate web client. Authentication options include local accounts with bcrypt hashing and LDAP for teams that already run a directory. Push notifications use the standard web push protocol with auto-generated VAPID keys. The Progressive Web App manifest lets users install the client on iOS, Android, and desktop home screens.

FEATURES

What The Lounge does

The Lounge bundles a persistent IRC bouncer and a modern web client into one process.
Below are the capabilities the project ships out of the box — every item verified against the upstream documentation.

Always-connected client

In private mode The Lounge stays connected to your IRC networks even when no browser is open. You get the full scrollback when you reattach — no missed messages, no rejoining channels.

Multi-device session sync

Open The Lounge on laptop and phone at the same time. Read state, scrollback, and channel list all sync in real time over the same socket.io connection.

SASL and CertFP authentication

Supports SASL PLAIN for password auth and SASL EXTERNAL for client TLS certificate auth (CertFP). The Lounge auto-generates per-network certificates so you do not shuffle PEM files.

Themes and plugin packages

Themes (Solarized, Dracula, and others) and plugins (giphy, shortcuts, closepms) install through thelounge install. The package system is the same as the upstream Debian and Docker builds.

Web and mobile responsive UI

The same Vue.js client works on desktop, tablet, and phone. Progressive Web App support means iOS, Android, and desktop home-screen installs without an app store dependency.

Push notifications

Standard web push with auto-generated VAPID keys. Configurable per channel — quiet busy channels, alert on highlights and direct messages without external services.

Multi-network support

Connect to Libera.Chat, OFTC, hackint, EFnet, Rizon, and any RFC-compliant IRC network simultaneously from one client. Each network has independent SASL credentials and channel lists.

LDAP authentication

Private-mode login can bind to an LDAP directory using searchDN, bindDN, and rootDN configuration. Useful for teams that already centralise password reset and provisioning through a directory.

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WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED

Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.

Every app you deploy includes the full managed service — security, backups, updates, and support from day one.

Automatic updates and patches

Apps run the latest stable version. Security patches applied silently, with rollback if needed.

Daily off-site backups

Multiple daily backups in redundant off-site locations. One-click restore if anything goes wrong.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Continuous monitoring with instant alerting. We respond before you notice.

SSL, firewall, DDoS protection

Auto-renewing SSL, hardened firewall rules, DDoS mitigation on every deployment.

Performance and scaling

We monitor resource usage continuously. When your app needs more headroom, we flag it and upgrade with your explicit approval.

Dedicated engineering support

Real engineers on chat. DNS, SMTP & migration help. All included in €9.

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WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed The Lounge

Running The Lounge means more than running The Lounge. The Node runtime needs to track upstream LTS, which moved from 18 to 20 to 22 in roughly two-year increments. The npm dependency tree — socket.io, express, cheerio, ldapjs, got, ua-parser-js — needs auditing after every supply-chain incident, and 2025 produced three of them: the qix/chalk-debug compromise in September, Shai-Hulud the same month, and Shai-Hulud V2 in November. The reverse proxy needs a long read timeout because the default sixty seconds silently kills idle IRC sessions, a footgun documented in the upstream reverse-proxy guide itself.

The single operational gotcha that ends self-hosted Lounge deployments the fastest is the WebSocket timeout. Default nginx configuration closes the socket.io connection after sixty seconds of inactivity, which on a quiet IRC channel happens overnight. Users wake up to a disconnected client, miss notifications, and lose the very property that made The Lounge worth running — persistence. The fix is one line — proxy_read_timeout 1d — but the symptom only shows up in production and the documentation is two clicks deep.

REVIEWS

Hear from customers ​like you​​​​​​​

Successful businesses and professionals around the world rely on DANIAN every day
5 stars review

No more maintenance headaches!

Finaly, I can relax and not bother with maintenance. Each of the softwares that we run on DANIAN is automated and running stable for couple months already. They even assist us with modifying the DNS records. Once we needed to modify the config of Nextcloud so that we are able to upload higher than 5GB files and they assisted us fast. I also love their documentation!

Review from Kevin Blackwell

Kevin Blackwell

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Best managed service

I previously ran Peertube, Mastodon, Mattermost and Mirotalk on other providers before switching to DANIAN. I was tired of handling the updates and backups myself. Not only that the performance is "out of this world" fast, but their tech support is amazing. Since then I added 5-10 more Apps on my account. I also love how they add more softwares on their list constantly!

Review from William Northfield

William Northfield

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Love the personalized service!

I own an ecommerce startup. I knew that I need some softwares so that I add automations in my biz. I hopped on their livechat and I explained my needs. Albert recommended me couple softwares, each for a specific use-case. I signed up for the free trial and tested all. Ended up activating 6 apps. Everything is running smooth 2 months so far. I love the personalized service that I get with them!

Review from George Adams

George Adams

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

n8n runs excellent

We needed to add the ffmpeg functionality to our n8n instance. I contacted their support team. They made the required changes in couple minutes and notified me. Usually for this type of service I would need to hire a developer on a hourly basis. Love them!

Review from David Hartmann

David Hartmann

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Smooth experience

I needed a way to manage the projects and files for my company. This was the first time I learn about opensource. I asked their support and livechat and they assisted me immediately. I started with Openproject. Later I added Nextcloud. My team were able to get used to the apps fast.

Review from Levi Nilsso

Levi Nilsson

Review Origin Norway
5 stars review

Bye GA

I wanted to replace GA with something but I didn't know the options. I talked with Jack on the livechat. Couple minutes after that, I have a running Matomo Analytics. They even configured the tracking and connected it with my website. I have only words of appreciation and respect!

Review from Wyatt Mitchell

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Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Love the freedom

I wanted to use a crm for my startup. I signed up for the free trial. Tried out espocrm and dolibar and picked one. Their dashboard is very easy for a beginner. I recommend them and feel confident in choosing them.

Review from Elias Koch

Elias Koch

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Wow just wow

After discovering DANIAN, I wished I'd found them sooner — their solution is excellent and deserves wider recognition. Very good solution!

Review from Tyler Hollander

Tyler Hollander

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Professional tech support!

I thought that I knew what I was doing and I made changes in the Mattermost backend config file. Then it broke. I reached out to their tech and received an incredibly specific and fast response. They found the error fast and provided a clear solution.

Review from Bastian Engel

Bastian Engel

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Their support team is the best!

I had a problem with my card and the subscription could not be renewed in time. I notified their support and surprisingly, they showed much understanding. They basically left my apps run until I solved the card issue. Other providers would have deleted my data in a heartbeat. This is the way to build client-vendor trust!

Review from George Adams

George Adams

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Fair price and fast

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Review from Atanas

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Review Origin Macedonia
5 stars review

Vaultwarden 10/10

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Review from James Smith

James Smith

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Multiple locations options

I run an agency. The majority of our clients are in different countries. I love that DANIAN has 20+ countries and I can spin up any app in any location. This gives us the freedom to focus on our clients. Sure, I can employee a dev in my team, but honestly, I prefer to not have those headaches. With DANIAN everything is running 24/7.

Review from Edward Nelson

Edward Nelson

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Everything just works!

My focus is on my business, not running servers. I love that I can lauch any app without having to think about the tech behind it. Everything just works!

Review from Tony Roy

Tony Roy

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Awesome support team!

I signed up for the free trial in order to test Chatwoot. I needed to put a livechat widget on my website but I don't have much tech experience. I contacted their support to see if they can assist. They went above and beyond by generating the livechat widget code for me and inserting it in my website. They answered all my additional questions. 

Review from Filip

Filip

Review Origin Austria
5 stars review

Very proactive!

Today couple of the videos on my Peertube got viral. Before I even noticed, their support have notified me via email that they proactively upgraded my app with more cpu & ram so that it continues to work without any downtime. They left the upgraded app with the added resources for couple days until the traffic stabilizes. After that I had the possiblity to stay on the same plan or keep the upgraded plan. Out of gratitude I stayed on the upgraded one.

Review from Luke Hall

Luke Hall

Review Origin Australia
5 stars review

Win-win!

I run a web design biz. After I perform the work for my clients, they constantly ask me for more software solutions. So I partnered with DANIAN. Not only I provide the requested softwares for my clients and get the increased revenue boost by delegating all to DANIAN, but also for those clients that wish to order directly from DANIAN, I send them an affiliate link. Win-win on all sides!

Review from Luke Walker

Luke Walker

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Flexible

For the past couple months I was running many apps with DANIAN for my clients. But one of my clients wanted a software that isn't on the current list. I talked with their tech support. They accomodated me and added the software the same day. The next day, I signed for their Partners program. We will go long way together!

Review from Jeffrey Johnson

Jeffrey Johnson

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Awesome customer service

I needed to add analytics on my website but I didn't know anything about DNS. Their team guided me at all phases and they performed the changes for me. Additionally they were transparent and notified me of every change applied and steps performed.

Review from Gabriele Marino

Gabriele Marino

Review Origin Italy
5 stars review

Good admin dashboard

Not only that I got Chatwoot, I also have access to the management dashboard. I love that I can view my hourly/daily usage and perform manual backups and restorations if needed. I don't need the level of control but it feels good to know that I have it if I need it.

Review from Matthew Turner

Matthew Turner

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Financially wise decision

Why install Chatwoot on a VPS that will cost me $20-25/month. Then worry about security, updates, backups, etc. Instead, I can activate it on DANIAN the same day for half the price. Plus, less headaches for maintenance. So happy I found out about this company!

Review from Andreas Schmitt

Andreas Schmitt

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Great service!

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Review from Jacob Turner

Jacob Turner

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Smooth experience

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Review from Elias Gustafsson

Elias Gustafsson

Review Origin Sweden
5 stars review

I love opensource software

2 days ago I haven't heard about opensource softwares. Today I'm running 4 apps and enjoying the trip. Hey, 1 month later I may become a developer, haha just kidding. Love you guys!

Review from Mason Hayes

Mason Hayes

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Its a great service

Its a great service. I love the performance of my Mastodon community. It keeps on growing and I don't have any worries about backups, secuirity, updates, etc.

Review from Vinícius Rocha

Vinícius Rocha

Review Origin Brazil
5 stars review

Very intuitive solution!

I wanted to use a nocode software for my company. A friend recommended them so I tried both Baserow and NocoDB, couple days later picked one.

Review from Haruto Hashimoto

Haruto Hashimoto

Review Origin Japan
5 stars review

Top-notch security

Honestly, I don't care much about performance and functionalities. I just wish to not bother with hacking attacks so that I can focus on my firm. I recommend them!

Review from Henrik Otto

Henrik Otto

Review Origin Germany
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USE CASES

Three teams who run The Lounge on DANIAN

These are representative team types we set up most often. Each starts with the same flat €9 plan.

OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT — 6 MAINTAINERS

Persistent presence on Libera.Chat without owning a Node host

One instance hosted in Germany covers the project's #main and #dev channels on Libera.Chat plus a sister channel on OFTC. Six maintainer accounts share the instance under LDAP, each with their own CertFP for SASL EXTERNAL. Daily backups capture the SQLite database that holds three years of scrollback.

14-PERSON DISTRIBUTED ENGINEERING TEAM

Migrating off Slack to lower the noise floor and keep history

Instance in Singapore for an APAC-distributed team. The Lounge connects to a private IRC network the team runs separately, plus public Libera channels for upstream support. prefetchStorage is off — link previews go straight from the user's browser rather than proxying through the instance. Scrollback retained at 30 days.

OPEN-SOURCE SECURITY COMMUNITY — 3 ADMINS

Replacing a ZNC bouncer with a modern web UI

Instance in Netherlands for a community with channels across hackint and Libera. CertFP-only SASL where networks support it. prefetch disabled to avoid metadata leaks to third-party hosts. The bouncer that the community used to share went down once a month; DANIAN's monitoring restarts on crash and a human gets paged if it does not recover.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run The Lounge

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DIMENSIONIRCCLOUD (PROPRIETARY)SELF-HOST ON VPSHOME SERVERDANIAN MANAGED
Monthly cost — 1 user
$5$24 production VPS~$8 electricity€9
Monthly cost — 5 users
$25$24 production VPS~$8 electricity€9
Monthly cost — 10 users
$50$24 production VPS~$8 electricity€9
 Setup time Minutes 3–6 hours plus ongoing ops Half a day for hardware setup Minutes
 Lounge and OS updates N/A (closed source) Your job — including Node 22 jump Your job — and your power bill We handle it
 WebSocket reliability Vendor-managedYou tune proxy_read_timeout  You tune it on home network Pre-tuned to 1-day timeout
 Daily off-site backups Vendor-managed You build the cron and the destination You build the cron and a remote target Included
 Custom domain Not available You configure DNS and SSL You configure DNS, dynamic DNS, SSLYes (DNS assistance) & Let's Encrypt
 Control over data Vendor holds it Full Full Full — export anytime
 Open source client No — proprietary Yes — MIT license Yes — MIT license Yes — MIT license
Recommended forSingle users on a free tierOperators who enjoy Node opsTinkerers with a homelabTeams who want IRC to just work

VPS row assumes a $24/month production-class VPS plus your ongoing time for upgrades, security patching, backup verification, and incident response. Home-server row excludes the one-time hardware cost (a low-power mini PC or used ProLiant runs $200–400) and the network engineering involved in exposing port 443 from a residential connection.

BY INDUSTRY

The Lounge for specific industries

IRC's modern user base is specific. The verticals below are the ones that actually keep IRC alive in 2026 — open-source software, infosec research, academic systems work, sysadmin and DevOps communities, and ham radio. Each block covers a real configuration choice we make for that vertical.

Open-source projects host their community channels on Libera.Chat (formed in 2021 after the Freenode hostile takeover) and on OFTC, where Debian, the GNU project, Tor, postmarketOS, and many systems projects keep their dev channels. OFTC's published policy requires IRC operators to treat user privacy as default — a standard that matters when a project's bug-triage channel logs are public for archaeology but identities are not.

The DANIAN configuration for an OSS project enables private mode with multi-user accounts so multiple maintainers can share one instance. We pin SASL EXTERNAL where the network supports it, so per-maintainer CertFP credentials authenticate without password sharing. A typical maintainer workflow: triage incoming questions in #project from any device, switch to #project-dev for an ongoing patch review, and pick up at 7am from where the EU contributors stopped at 11pm UTC. Scrollback retention is set so a quarter of channel history survives even after the SQLite VACUUM, which uses around 2× current DB disk during cleanup.
Security communities keep IRC because the protocol is auditable end-to-end and the client source is inspectable. hackint and Libera both host security-research channels — disclosure coordination, CTF organisation, defensive engineering. The operational standard relevant here is the simple one: do not leak metadata to third-party hosts.

The DANIAN configuration for infosec turns off prefetch by default so link previews are not fetched server-side from arbitrary URLs that channel members post. prefetchStorage is also off — no proxied images cached on the instance. SASL is CertFP-only where the network supports it; password SASL is the fallback. A typical workflow: a researcher posts a disclosure draft link in a private channel, other researchers fetch it from their own browsers, the instance itself never touches the URL. The Lounge's logsMaxAgeDays can be set tightly here — some teams keep 14 days of scrollback on the instance, archive the rest off-site.
Systems research groups, free-software academic projects, and security labs maintain IRC presences on OFTC and Libera. The operational consideration is that group membership turns over (graduate students arrive and leave) and IT support is thin. The instance has to outlive any one person's tenure.

The DANIAN configuration uses LDAP binding to the group's existing directory, so user provisioning follows the lab's account lifecycle rather than living in a Lounge-specific user file. Storage retention is tuned to survive grant cycles — a research group publishing a protocol-analysis paper at year 4 of a 5-year grant wants the channel logs from year 1 still queryable. The SQLite database hosts that without needing an external indexer. Around 50 GB of scrollback covers most groups of 20 users running across 6 channels over multi-year horizons; we tune up from there.
The big sysadmin channels — #nginx, #bash, ##linux, #postgresql, #nixos — live on Libera and have for years. The relevant operational standard is the one that matters to anyone running infrastructure: backups have to actually restore. We have published incident notes from the day we tested backup restore on a customer's Lounge instance after a database corruption; the SQLite database came back cleanly in under 4 minutes.

The DANIAN configuration for sysadmin teams pins channel join lists in config.js so a fresh user account joins the team's default operational channels without manual setup. maxHistory is set generously because operational channels generate volume — a busy on-call rotation can produce 10,000+ lines per week in a single channel. The instance runs identd on port 113 for networks that require it; we handle the privileged-port binding so it does not need a rootful container.
Ham radio communities use IRC because they have used IRC since the 1990s and the migration cost to any other platform is higher than the gain. Channels for amateur packet radio, software-defined radio (#gnuradio on Libera), and regional ham clubs run on long-lived IRC networks. The operational consideration is small budgets and small operator counts.

The DANIAN configuration for a ham community is the simplest possible — one instance, public mode disabled, private mode with a handful of accounts. We disable image prefetch (radio communities post a lot of QSL card images that we do not need to proxy) and enable file uploads with a 5 MB cap for log file exchange and screenshot sharing. SASL is mostly PLAIN here because networks frequented by ham communities have not all adopted CertFP. The €9 monthly cost is at the threshold of what a small ham club's treasury can absorb without a fundraiser, which is exactly where DANIAN's pricing model lands.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything teams ask before signing up — answered straight, without sales speak.

Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.

01

Technical and configuration

Yes. The Lounge supports SASL PLAIN (password) and SASL EXTERNAL (client TLS certificate, often called CertFP) and auto-generates per-network certificates. We surface these in the network settings without requiring you to copy PEM files into the instance. LDAP authentication for the Lounge login itself is also supported and gets configured during onboarding when a team already runs a directory.
We run The Lounge behind a reverse proxy following the project's own guide. Both polling and websocket socket.io transports are enabled. The proxy_read_timeout is set to one day rather than the default sixty seconds — the default silently kills idle IRC sessions, which is the single most common self-host footgun documented in the upstream reverse-proxy guide. Connection: upgrade and X-Forwarded-Proto headers are set per the upstream template.
Yes. Themes (thelounge-theme-solarized, thelounge-theme-dracula-official) and plugins (thelounge-plugin-shortcuts, thelounge-plugin-giphy, thelounge-plugin-closepms, and others) install through the standard thelounge install command. We run these as the thelounge system user with the package cache pinned per instance, so a plugin install on one customer's instance does not affect another. Plugin upgrades follow the same cadence as The Lounge itself.
Persistent storage for the SQLite history database is included. Retention is tuned through storagePolicy, the cleanup mechanism The Lounge added in v4.4.3. Practical sizing depends on how many networks and channels you join and how long you want scrollback to survive. We tune defaults per customer rather than capping at a fixed number of megabytes — IRC databases grow slowly compared to media-heavy apps.
We handle the runtime bump and the application upgrade. When v4.5.0 raised the Node floor from 18 and 20 to 22, customers running on DANIAN saw no migration work — we cut Node 22 on the host, restarted the service, and verified the WebSocket path was still healthy. We do not push major upgrades blindly: each release is staged on an internal instance first so the SQLite schema migration and reverse-proxy headers are checked before rollout.
Yes. The Lounge supports message IDs (msgid tracking landed in v4.5.0), STATUSMSG indication, CHGHOST styled messages, echo-message handling, CertFP via SASL EXTERNAL, and WebIRC client IP forwarding for networks that issue WebIRC passwords. Network capabilities are negotiated automatically on connect; what works depends on what each network advertises.
The Lounge ships with a deep npm dependency tree. 2025 saw the qix/chalk-debug compromise (eighteen packages, 2.6 billion weekly downloads), Shai-Hulud (the first self-replicating npm worm, 500+ packages), and Shai-Hulud V2 in November. We pin the dependency manifest, run installs against locked versions, and patch the runtime when upstream advisories land — so customers do not own the supply-chain audit on a Sunday morning.

02

Migration and onboarding

We can activate your app on your own custom domain/subdomain. Examples: mydomain.com, anyword.mydomain.com.
Or, on our randomized free subdomain. Example: 963.apps.danian.cloud
If you wish to use a custom domain/subdomain, select that option when ordering your app (or notify us later). We will send you the required DNS records and if needed, our tech team will modify them for you.
21 datacenter locations across six continents. You choose the region at provisioning. Application data sits in the region you choose; pick whichever is closest to your users or matches your data-residency preference.
Yes. Request a region migration from the dashboard and we run the move in the background. The system emails you when the migration completes; total transfer time depends on data volume but typical instances finish in a few hours. There is no extra charge for a region change.
Yes. Full data export is available at any time, in a portable format you can bring to any infrastructure.
Yes. Reconnect The Lounge directly to each IRC network using your existing NickServ or SASL credentials. ZNC's per-network buffers do not migrate automatically — the log format is different — but ongoing scrollback starts the moment The Lounge connects. Most users run both in parallel for a few days, then turn ZNC off. The win is the modern web and mobile client without losing the persistent bouncer behaviour.

03

Billing, support, and platform

€9 covers everything we do for that app: hardware in the region you choose, daily off-site backups with one-click restore, automatic security patches and version upgrades, 24/7 monitoring, SSL and firewall, and engineering support on Email/LiveChat. There are no setup fees or hidden line items. For more info see our Pricing page.
If you decide to continue, we charge €9/app/month from day 8. If you don't, the trial ends and you can export your data. No card is required for the trial, and we never auto-charge you without explicit consent.
No. The €9/month is flat regardless of how many users log into your app. Add 5 users or 50; the price doesn't change.
24/7 Live chat and email support, both staffed by engineers who run the systems. We handle DNS configuration, SMTP setup, app integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and migration help. Response time is typically under an hour. There is no tier system — every customer gets the same support.
Yes. Cancel from the dashboard. We don't charge a cancellation fee, we don't lock data, and we will export your data to you on request before deletion. data to you on request before deletion.
Every customer instance is backed up daily to a separate region from the primary. We test restores. You can request a restore at any backup point within the retention window — usually 7 days for daily backups.
Your application data sits in the region you choose at provisioning — 21 datacenter locations across six continents. Account-level data (billing, account email, support ticket history) is processed centrally. Application data region is picked by you, per app.
99.9% uptime SLA on every app, every tenant. Service credits are documented at danian.co/service-level-agreement. The status page is located at status.danian.co.
When your tenant approaches the resource ceiling — the base tier holds 1 vCPU/RAM, 30 GB storage — we notify you. Resource upgrades happen with your explicit consent; we will not upgrade your tenant or charge you without it.
We wait. We don't suspend the app or delete your data on the first failed charge. We email you, you fix the card on file, and we continue.
Invoices can be downloaded from the billing dashboard in PDF the day each charge succeeds. EU VAT is added where applicable and the VAT-reverse-charge regime applies for VAT-registered businesses with a valid number.
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Yes. Every instance comes with a web-based terminal and a file manager in your DANIAN management dashboard. Useful for managing your data and customizations.
Resources scale with your usage. If your app needs more vCPU, RAM, or storage, we add it — and we ask first before any change to your plan. €9 is the floor; resource-heavy workloads may price higher, but you'll always know in advance.
Yes. We have both a Partner program and an Affiliate program available. Anybody can sign up.
No contract. No minimum commitment. Cancel anytime from the dashboard with one click. The 7-day free trial requires no credit card. After the trial converts to paid, you can still cancel at any month without notice or penalty.

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