Catalyst

Catalyst is under heavy development and not ready for general use.

We are aiming for a 2026 launch.

Integrations

  1. Sign up for accounts with the supported service providers.

  2. Set up your own instance of Catalyst in seconds using Small Technology Foundation’s instance of Catalyst at small-web.org 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.

DNS (optional)

If you want to be able to set up servers at domain names, you can also integrate a Domain Name Service (DNS) provider. When doing this, it is highly recommended that your domain is registered on the Public Suffix List.