Managed app hosting
Deploy client sites behind automatic HTTPS and clean subdomains or custom domains.
For African agencies
One managed server for every client site.
Forge gives your agency hosting, Postgres, backups, SSL, storage, and managed operations without a new USD SaaS bill for every project.
Production sites already running Managed operations Regional hosting choices
The agency margin problem
Every new client should not create another infrastructure account.
Netlify here, Supabase there, storage somewhere else, monitoring on another card. It works when you have two clients. It gets messy when every launch adds a new bill, login, renewal, and failure point.
What you pay today — the old way: a separate bill per client, per vendor, every month.
Hosting$19per client
Database$25per client
Storage$9per client
Monitoring$8per client
SSL/CDN$12per client
Ops time???every outage
What Forge runs
The stack your client sites keep needing.
Forge is not another dashboard you babysit. It is a managed server with the common production pieces already wired together for small agency workloads.
Isolated Postgres per client
Each site can have its own database and credentials instead of sharing tables across clients.
Backups and recovery
Scheduled database backups make recovery part of the system, not a panic task.
S3-compatible storage
Uploads, assets, and media live with the rest of the stack instead of becoming another subscription.
SSL, routing, and monitoring
Caddy routes traffic, certificates renew automatically, and health checks keep the install visible.
Auth and OAuth
Login flows, identity projects, OAuth clients, and app wiring without adding another auth vendor.
LLM gateway
Centralise model keys, route OpenAI-compatible calls, and track usage across client apps.
RAG projects
Give apps managed document ingestion, embeddings, vector search, and citation-ready retrieval.
Mail, cron, flags, and Redis
Transactional email, scheduled tasks, feature flags, queues, caching, and session storage.
Identity
AI apps
Automation
Stateful services
One control plane
One API. Four ways to run it.
Nothing is locked behind the dashboard. The CLI, the REST API, and the embedded MCP server expose the same capabilities with the same auth, so scripts, CI pipelines, and AI agents are first-class operators of your infrastructure.
Web dashboard
Deploy, route, back up, inspect logs, and watch health across every client site from one place.
pgforge CLI
Everything the dashboard does, plus log streaming and scripted provisioning. Declare app wiring in forge.yaml.
REST API
Every capability under /api/* with JWT or scoped pgf_ API keys. If the UI can do it, curl can too.
MCP server
An embedded endpoint at /mcp lets approved AI tools — Claude, Cursor, and others — inspect and operate Forge with the same auth.
The economics
Predictable hosting changes the way you price retainers.
Forge is priced around one managed server instead of one bill per service per client. The exact saving depends on your current stack, but the direction is simple: more clients should improve your margin, not dilute it.
Separate services
~R4,500/mo
Five clients across separate hosting, database, storage, and monitoring accounts, often billed in USD.
~60% less in this example
One Forge server
R1,800/mo
Five client sites on one managed server, with room to add more without multiplying vendors.
Illustrative figures only. Final pricing depends on region, workloads, storage, and support requirements.
Why agencies trust it
A smaller surface area, with clear operational ownership.
Moving client infrastructure onto one managed server is a trust decision. Forge earns that trust by being specific about what runs, where the data lives, and how you get out if you ever need to.
- Clear operating model.One managed install carries the sites, databases, storage, routing, and recovery path.
- Production proof.Forge is already hosting live sites, including beesworx.co.za.
- Regional control.Choose infrastructure close to your clients and their users.
- Portable data.Your databases and backups remain yours to export, keep, and move.
- Managed or self-hosted.Run everything on our managed server, or host the same Forge stack on your own hardware — paid support contracts are available if you need guaranteed response times.
Migration call
Bring the current bills. We'll do the math.
A short call is enough to map your clients, current tools, and migration risk. If Forge does not make operational or financial sense, you will know quickly.
Prefer email? Write to brian@beesworx.co.za directly.