Integrations
Sign up for accounts with the supported service providers.
Set up your own instance of Catalyst in seconds using Small Technology Foundation’s instance of Catalyst at small-web.org (scheduled to launch in 2026) or learn the technical details of how to deploy Catalyst to your own server.
Supported service providers
VPS
A Catalyst instance only has one required third-party service you must integrate, a Virtual Private Server (VPS) provider for settings up servers.
The VPS setup is handled via cloud-init. To debug any issues you might experience with the server setup, the following commands (executed on the server) should help:
cloud-init analyze dump
systemctl status cloud-final.service
cat /var/log/cloud-init-output.log
Payment (optional)
Optionally, if you want to take payments for servers, you can integrate a payment provider.
None: for private instances (e.g., families, internal use at organisations, etc.)
Tokens: for use in place of money by organisations running public instances (e.g., a city providing free Small Web Places to its citizens). (Under construction.)
Commercial payments: [To be decided] Either Stripe Managed Payments (if we can access the private programme) or Paddle – for commercial payments (e.g., for making your Catalyst instance financially sustainable within the capitalist system you find yourself living under)