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# Yaeris Launchpad: Strapi Hosting Platform

Vercel-style Strapi hosting with push-to-deploy, zero-downtime releases, and bring-your-own-database — you keep full control of your CMS data.

Launchpad is Yaeris's Vercel-style hosting platform for headless CMS projects (Strapi at launch). Connect a GitHub repo, and every push builds and deploys automatically to a live URL -- no servers to manage, no Docker knowledge required.

**What makes Launchpad different:**

* **Bring your own database (BYODB).** Launchpad never stores your CMS content. You connect your own Postgres database (Supabase, Neon, or any provider you choose) via an environment variable, and Launchpad only ever runs your application code against it. This keeps your data entirely under your own control.
* **Push-to-deploy.** Connect a GitHub repository once, and every push to your tracked branch builds and deploys automatically. Pull requests get their own preview URL.
* **Zero-downtime deploys.** A new version is built and health-checked *before* traffic is switched over -- your site never goes down mid-deploy, and a bad deploy never takes down what was already working.
* **White-label ready.** Agencies can host CMS instances for their own clients under a fully branded dashboard and custom domain.

This section covers everything from your first deploy to advanced features like branch deploys, monorepo support, and the `launchpad-cli` command-line tool.

### In this section

* **Getting Started** -- sign up, connect GitHub, and deploy your first project
* **Deploying Your Project** -- push-to-deploy, manual deploys, rollback
* **Environments & Branch Deploys** -- production, PR previews, and optional branch deploys
* **Environment Variables & Your Database** -- BYODB setup and secrets management
* **Custom Domains & White-Label** -- your own domain, agency branding
* **Billing & Plans** -- Personal, Pro, and Team/Agency pricing explained
* **Firewall & Security** -- IP blocking, path rules, deployment protection
* **Analytics & Logs** -- traffic dashboards and runtime logs
* **The Launchpad CLI** -- deploy, view logs, and manage env vars from your terminal
* **Team & Roles** -- inviting teammates and managing permissions
* **Monorepo Support** -- deploying a project that lives in a subdirectory