About
Infrastructure that gets out of your way
Caliber Node is a small, independent host. We run the hardware, we wrote the control panel, and we would rather explain how it works than hide it behind a tier list.
- Ours alone
- Tenancy
- Off-site
- Snapshots
- In-house
- Control panel
- 217
- One-click apps
Why we built it
Two bad options, and nothing in between
Hosting tends to arrive in one of two shapes. There is the budget end, where the specs are real enough on paper but the host is packed until it groans, the “control panel” is a billing portal with a restart button bolted on, and anything genuinely useful means opening a ticket and waiting. And there is the cloud end, where everything is possible, nothing is simple, and the bill is a surprise every month.
We wanted the middle: specs you can verify, a flat price you can predict, and a panel that assumes you know what you are doing. The panel came first, in fact — it is the tool we built to run our own machines, and the hosting grew around it. That is why logs, a shell, snapshots and the API are not premium features. They were the point.
Cloud Apps came from the opposite frustration. Self-hosting good software is mostly chores — a server, a Docker install, a reverse proxy, a certificate, a database, and a standing obligation to keep all of it patched. So we made that part disappear while leaving the resources yours: buy one pool of capacity, run as many apps inside it as it fits, updates and TLS handled, your files always a download away.
Inside the panel
This is what you actually get
The same panel we use to run our own infrastructure -- deploys, logs, snapshots and domains, all self-service.
Subscription headroom
Standard1.1 / 2 vCPU
2.8 / 4 GB
16 / 40 GB
Apps deploy into capacity you already own
Your subscription is a pool. Every app takes a slice, and the panel shows exactly how much is left before you deploy the next one.
- One subscription, as many apps as it fits
- Headroom shown before you commit
- Managed database, never exposed publicly
- Custom domain and HTTPS handled for you
What we hold ourselves to
The rules, written down
Easy things to claim and awkward things to be held to, which is rather the point of publishing them.
The specs on the page are the specs you get
CPU and memory are allocated to your subscription, not handed out on the assumption you will not use them. Placement counts what is already committed on a host rather than what happens to be idle at that moment -- that trick is what makes cheap hosting fast in week one and unusable in week six.
The price you sign up at is the price you renew at
Your term price is recorded when you order and billed unchanged at renewal. If we raise plan prices tomorrow, existing services keep theirs. Longer terms carry a stated discount rather than an introductory rate that quietly lapses.
You should not need us to run your app
Restarts, redeploys, logs, a shell, snapshots and your own domains are all self-service. Support is for problems, not for permission to restart your own app at 3am.
Security defaults, not security add-ons
Isolation happens outside your container, so it holds even when the app does not. Managed databases behind Cloud Apps are never published to the internet. None of it is an upsell.
Automate anything the panel can do
Everything in the panel is a documented REST endpoint, authenticated with scoped API keys you create and revoke yourself. Your CI can deploy apps without holding the credentials to your billing.
Leaving should be easy
Take a snapshot or a backup and download it. There is no export fee, nothing is stored in a format only we can read, and cancelling is a button in the panel rather than a support conversation.
Straight answers
Things worth saying plainly
How big are you?
Small and independent. No investors setting growth targets, and no support tier where paying more gets you a faster reply.
Whose hardware is it?
Servers we lease in two US datacenters -- a GTHost facility in Detroit, Michigan, and a second facility in Los Angeles, California -- and you pick which coast when you order. We lease capacity the way nearly everyone in this industry does -- what you are paying us for is everything on top of it: the panel, the API, the deployment recipes and the app catalog are ours, not a reseller's login to someone else's.
So are you just reselling?
No. A reseller hands you somebody else's panel and somebody else's support. We lease server capacity, and everything above it is ours: the platform, the control panel, the API, the app catalog, the billing, and the person who answers your ticket. Apps are reached by hostname rather than a raw address, so even a change of hardware underneath does not change how yours is reached.
Do you oversell?
Not on memory, ever -- what your subscription is sized for is reserved for it. CPU is shared, which is what lets the small plans be small. Disk is thin-provisioned: you get the size you chose and use only what you write, with the quota enforced so a neighbour cannot spend it. Placement counts committed resources rather than current idle capacity, which is the part most hosts skip.
Where do I get help?
Tickets in the panel, or support@calibernode.com. Answered by the people who built the thing you are asking about.
Company details
Caliber Node, LLC
Registered in North Carolina, United States
NC SOSID 3011683
Registered address
PMB 415, 1236 NC Highway 210, Sneads Ferry, NC 28460, United States
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Have questions?
Happy to talk through what you are building before you spend anything.