Start with a Layover

A Layover is a temporary managed server strackt runs for you, so you can get an app live without bringing your own server first. It's a place to start, not a place to stay — you have 30 days to move to a server of your own.

Starting one

In the Add Server flow, choose Start a Layover. You'll see a short summary of what you get, and one click sets it up — no cloud account, no VPS, nothing to configure. strackt provisions the server, and your first app is reachable at a strackt address ending in .layover.on-strackt.dev. Its overview page shows the live link and how much time is left.

A workspace can run one Layover at a time. It's meant for trying things out, so it runs a single application across up to three environments.

The 30-day clock

A Layover lasts 30 days from when you start it. strackt emails the workspace owner as the end approaches, so it never expires on you by surprise:

• In the last week — three reminders, each with the date the Layover ends.
• When it ends — a notice that deploys are paused and when the Layover is scheduled for removal, a week later.
• Shortly before removal — a final notice, within two days of the Layover being removed.
• After removal — a confirmation that it's gone.

The same notices appear in your notifications. These emails always go to the workspace owner, whatever your email preferences, because only the owner can keep a Layover. If someone else manages servers in your workspace, the emails suggest forwarding them. Each one names both ways forward, and if your workspace doesn't have a server of its own yet, it points you to connecting one first.

When the 30 days are up, your app keeps running. What changes is that you can no longer deploy new changes to it until you do one of two things:

• Move it to your own server (recommended), or
• Keep the Layover for €10/month.

If you take neither and leave it, the Layover is removed about a week after it ends, together with the data stored on it — so don't leave anything on it you want to keep past then.

Moving to your own server

This is the intended next step. On the Layover's overview, Move to my server takes you to your application, where Move to another server lets you pick a server you've connected and moves your environment onto it — your data comes across and there's only a brief switch-over. See Move an environment to another server for how a move works. Once everything has moved off, strackt tidies the Layover away for you.

Keeping the Layover

If you'd rather keep running on the Layover for now, Keep on standby — €10/mo excl. VAT turns it into a paid server and stops the clock. Only the workspace owner sees this button. This is a separate subscription from your apps — keeping a Layover never affects billing for anything else in your workspace. If you cancel it later, the 30-day clock simply starts again from that point.

Good to know

• The Layover is reachable through a strackt address, so you don't set up DNS for it — custom domains are something you add once you're on your own server.
• The clock is calendar time: a Layover reaches 30 days whether or not you deployed to it, so start it when you're ready to use it.