Run it yourself,
for free
Manager Self-Hosted is the same core as the hosted product. Not a trial, not a cut-down edition: every monitoring, findings, backup and notification capability is there, free to run for your own sites and your clients' sites.
What you take on
Manager is a security-sensitive service holding the keys to your clients' databases. Running one yourself is a genuine commitment, so here is the whole list rather than the flattering half.
| You provide | What that means |
|---|---|
| A server, kept patched | Docker Engine 24 or newer, a reverse proxy, and TLS certificates that renew themselves. |
| PostgreSQL and Redis | Postgres 15+ and Redis 7+, backed up and monitored. Redis failing closed means connectors stop being trusted. That is correct behaviour, and still an outage. |
| Two keypairs and APP_KEY | Backed up separately from the database. Lose the signing key and every site needs re-pairing. Lose the backup key and every stored backup is unreadable for good, deliberately, with no way back. |
| The backup store | A copy of every managed site's database. The most sensitive thing you will hold anywhere. |
| Upgrades and migrations | On your schedule, including reading the release notes before you run them. |
| Somebody on call | A monitoring system nobody watches is decoration. |
One thing worth knowing before you rely on it: self-hosted derives its backup wrapping key from APP_KEY, so whoever holds that can unwrap a backup. It is therefore not end-to-end encrypted, and we do not describe it that way.
Connect a site in a few minutes
- 01 Add the site in Manager.
- 02 Install the connector through Composer.
- 03 Enter the one-time pairing code.
- 04 Review the requested capabilities.
- 05 Receive the first heartbeat.
Pairing codes are single-use. Connector credentials can be rotated or revoked at any time.
$ composer require manager/craft-connector
Using version ^1.2 for manager/craft-connector
Package operations: 2 installs, 0 updates
$ php craft manager/connect
Pairing code: 7QF2-K91D
Requested capabilities:
· read craft & plugin versions
· read licence state
· read ssl & queue health
· backups (not enabled)
Paired. First heartbeat received.Or let us run it
Same core, same connector, same protocol. The difference is that the server, the keys, the storage and the on-call rota are ours. It is £9.99 a month for unlimited sites, and you can move between the two whenever you like: switching means re-pairing your sites, not rebuilding anything.